MURRAy, John.

France. Hand-book for France:

being a Guide to Normandy, Brittany; the Rivers Loire, Seine, Rhone, and Garonne; the French Alps, Dauphine, Provence, and the Pyrenees: with Descriptions of the Principal Routes, Railways, the Approaches to Italy, the Chief Watering Places, etc.

Stock Code 102096

John Murray, London 1843

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This first edition, despite lacking its general map, is still considered a rarity and as with all handbooks to France, contains no description of Paris.

First edition. pp. xxxix, 595, 23 adverts at rear dated April 1843 on blue paper, 4 maps, lacks map at rear, inner hinges slightly cracked; publisher's brown cloth partly split otherwise a very good copy.

Lister 154.

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