Tourism in History: From Imperial Rome to the Present
by Feifer, Maxine
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0812830873
- ISBN 13
- 9780812830873
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Stein and Day, 1996. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Stein and Day, 1996. Hardback First American Printing. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. A solid, clean, attractive book in gray half cloth with rust colored paper-wrapped boards, tight & solid sewn binding, square with sharp corners. Three tiny dots on the top edge of the page block. Pages crisp, clean, unmarked, Glossy, clean, unclipped, jacket with rippling along top edge designed by C. V. Lichty. Jacket painting: Italian. Biago di Antonio: Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts (detail). Follow this apocryphal tourist on a package tour on his travels through each epoch, seeing the world through his eyes as if you were there-- what he ate, how he travelled, who he met, where he stayed: Italian Riveria in Imperial times; ethnic festivals; the medieval traveler in the Holy Land; the Elizabethan tourist; an 18th century Grand Tour and meet Addison, Boswell, and Walpole; the Victorian traveler climbing on Swiss glaciers and pyramids. Fun, informative, colorful and entertaining book. 288 pages with Sources and Index. 6.25 x 9.4 inches. Stein and Day Publishers, New York, 1996.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020705
- Title
- Tourism in History: From Imperial Rome to the Present
- Author
- Feifer, Maxine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0812830873
- ISBN 13
- 9780812830873
- Publisher
- Stein and Day
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- TOURISM; TOURISM TRADE; ADDISON; JOSEPH; ALPS; BYRON, LORD; CORYATE, THOMAS; FRANCE; ITALY; MORYSON, FYNES; KE,PE, MARGERY; PARIS; RENAISSANCE; ROME; SWITZERLAND; VENICE; TWAIN, MARK; WOTTON, HENRY; BOSWELL,; WALPOLE;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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