Egypt. Handbook for Travellers Edited by... Part First: Lower Egypt and the peninsula of Sinai
by BAEDEKER, Karl
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About This Item
Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1902.. Fifth edition, small 8vo, cxcii, 498 pp. 23 maps, 66 plans, 7 views and 59 illustrations in the text, endpapers slightly grubby with pencil calculations, first and last leaves browned, trivial cracking to the rear hinge. Original gilt titled cloth, spine slightly rubbed. Hinrichsen E250. Originally published as Upper and Lower Egypt in separate volumes, this is the second single volume edition.
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- Bow Windows Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46106
- Title
- Egypt. Handbook for Travellers Edited by... Part First: Lower Egypt and the peninsula of Sinai
- Author
- BAEDEKER, Karl
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Leipsic: Karl Baedeker
- Date Published
- 1902.
- Keywords
- Travel
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