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Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, With Excursions to Iceland and Spitzbergen

Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, With Excursions to Iceland and Spitzbergen

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Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, With Excursions to Iceland and Spitzbergen

by Karl Baedeker

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Leipzig; London; New York: Karl Baedeker; T. Fisher Unwin; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 6.5" by 4.5". Various. The popular Baedeker travel guide to Northern Europe, a lavishly illustrated work with many colour folding maps. The tenth edition.Illustrated with a colour folding map to the frontispiece, thirty-four folding maps, twenty-two plate maps, and in-text illustrations, as well as maps to the rear endpapers. The majority of the maps are in colour.Collated, complete.Baedeker's important travel guide to Northern Europe at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, a revised an augmented edition. This 'Norway and Sweden' was first published in 1879.Looking in particularly at Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and Spitsbergen.Baedeker was a pioneering publishing house of worldwide travel guides, founded in 1827 and still being popular today.Including 'Sketch of Norwegian and Swedish Grammar, With Vocabulary and List of Phrases' to the rear. In the original publisher's limp cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is a little faded. Minor rubbing to the joints. A few light marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the occasional spot. Prior owner's ink inscription to the title page. Very Good Indeed

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Bookseller
Rooke Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
830P15
Title
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, With Excursions to Iceland and Spitzbergen
Author
Karl Baedeker
Illustrator
Various
Format/Binding
Cloth
Book Condition
Used - Very Good Indeed
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Karl Baedeker; T. Fisher Unwin; Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication
Leipzig; London; New York
Date Published
1912
Size
6.5" by 4.5"
Keywords
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, With Excursions to Iceland and Spitzbergen baedeker norway sweden baedeker iceland spitzbergen

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