Baedeker's Palestine
by Karl Baedeker
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1912. Raspberry cloth boards,blind stamped,with horizontal and vertical decorative bars, with gold title lettering on the spine and front.civ,462 pages With 20 maps, (lacking one map, 21 maps called for)56 plans and a two page panorama of Jerusalem.. The front pastedown carries ads for other Baedeker titles, whilst on the rear endpapers incorporate a 3 page folding map of Syria as an index to routes and special maps of the handbook.Central pages to three gatherings detaching from staples.Marker ribbons worn and faded,two names to front endpaper and pastedown. Externally rubbed to edges and corners, with the cloth worn and splitting along the sides of the spine.Missing the map of Syria,Mesopotamia and Babylonia from page 411.Reading copy, fair condition.. Fifth Edition, Remodelled and Augmented. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jacques Gander (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010184
- Title
- Baedeker's Palestine
- Author
- Karl Baedeker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Fifth Edition, Remodelled and Augmented
- Publisher
- Karl Baedeker
- Place of Publication
- Leipzig
- Date Published
- 1912
Terms of Sale
Jacques Gander
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About the Seller
Jacques Gander
Biblio member since 2004
Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
About Jacques Gander
Out of print, rare and used books. Internet and mail order.
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