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Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £40.00 - Original price £40.00Original price £0.00£40.00£40.00 - £40.00Current price £40.00Issued c.1911.Twenty-fourth edition. xl, 593pp, 75 maps, 20 plans, 12 panoramas, some maps frayed at edges, some loose ephemera (Guide to Castle o...
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Italy. Second Part: Central Italy and Rome.
BAEDEKER, KarlOriginal price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £0.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00This was the first edition after the occupation of Rome by Italian Troops in September, 1870 and the completed unification of Italy. The Italian g...
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Italy. Central Italy and Rome.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £70.00 - Original price £70.00Original price £0.00£70.00£70.00 - £70.00Current price £70.00Last edition before the outbreak of World War I. Includes Southern Tuscany and Umbria. Plans of Siena, Arezzo, Cortona and Perugia are also includ...
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Italy. Central Italy and Rome.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £70.00 - Original price £70.00Original price £0.00£70.00£70.00 - £70.00Current price £70.00Last edition before the outbreak of World War I. Includes Southern Tuscany and Umbria. Plans of Siena, Arezzo, Cortona and Perugia are also includ...
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Deutschland. Generalgouvernement.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £0.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00The first issue. The first and only edition of this title which describes those parts of occupied Poland that were not annexed by Greater Germany. ...
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Austria-Hungary including Dalmatia and Bosnia.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £100.00 - Original price £100.00Original price £0.00£100.00£100.00 - £100.00Current price £100.00First edition with 'Austria-Hungary' on the spine and upper board. Issued c. 1909.Tenth edition; xviii, 468pp, 38 maps and 44 plans, closed tear t...
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Konstantinopel und Kleinasien, Balkanstaaten, Kleinasien archipel, Cypern.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £0.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00This second and last edition has been extended to include the Balkans and Cyprus. This title was only published in German. Issued c.1923.Second ed...
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Italy. Central Italy and Rome.
BAEDEKER, KarlOriginal price £70.00 - Original price £70.00Original price £0.00£70.00£70.00 - £70.00Current price £70.00It covers Southern Tuscany and Umbria. Plans include Arezzo, Assisi, Cortona, Rimini and Siena.Issued. c.1904.Fourteenth edition. lxxvi, 470pp, 18...
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GuidesA Guide to Guidebooks
by Lucinda BoyleKarl Baedeker was head of a successful publishing business, when in 1832 he acquired the publishing house of Franz Röhling which four years earlier had published a travel guide Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln: Ein Handbuch für Schnellreisende by Professor...
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LiteratureUkrainian Modernism
A visit to the Royal Academy in London by Eleanor MooreThe Royal Academy's new exhibition, In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s, is the most comprehensive exhibition to date in the UK, celebrating a period of bold artistic experimentation. Despite profound upheaval, there was a true flourishing...
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TravelProvenance
Julian MacKenzie chooses books from the collections of 3 great bibliophiles, currently on our shelves.The great thing about collecting books is that they were produced as multiples giving lots of collectors a chance to own a copy. To distinguish between copies the most desirable factors are condition and provenance and for me the greatest...
