Germany. A Handbook for railway travellers and motorists
by BAEDEKER, Karl
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1936.. First edition thus, small 8vo, lxiv, 528 pp. Double sided folding map in a pocket at the end, plus 31 further maps and 71 plans, armorial bookplate. Original gilt titled red cloth, the gilt dull with sunning to the spine and slight wear to the ends of the joints. Hinrichsen E66. Originally published as northern and southern volumes from the 1870s onwards, this was the first combined edition.
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- Bookseller
- Bow Windows Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44617
- Title
- Germany. A Handbook for railway travellers and motorists
- Author
- BAEDEKER, Karl
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Leipzig: Karl Baedeker
- Date Published
- 1936.
- Keywords
- Travel Germany
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Bow Windows Bookshop
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Lewes, East Sussex
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Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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