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Southern Italy and Sicily, with excursions to Sardinia, Malta, and Corfu : handbook for travellers / by Karl Baedeker ; with 30 maps and 28 plans
by Baedeker, Karl
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About This Item
Leipzig London New York : Karl Baedeker, publisher ; T. Fisher Unwin ; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Fifteenth edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: lvi, 498 pages, 49 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : maps, plans ; 16 cm ; illustrations (some in colour). Notes: Map on lining-paper. Includes bibliographical references (pages lxxxi-lxxxii) and index. Subjects: Italy ; Guidebooks. Sicily (Italy) ; Guidebooks. Sicile (Italie) ; Guides. Italy. Italy Sicily. Italy Description and travel. Sicily (Italy) Description and travel.
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- Title
- Southern Italy and Sicily, with excursions to Sardinia, Malta, and Corfu : handbook for travellers / by Karl Baedeker ; with 30 maps and 28 plans
- Author
- Baedeker, Karl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fifteenth edition
- Publisher
- Leipzig London New York : Karl Baedeker, publisher ; T. Fisher Unwin ; Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date Published
- 1908
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