BAEDEKER, Karl

Title Russia: with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking. Handbook for Travellers. With 40 maps and 78 plans.
Publisher Leipzig Karl Baedeker. London: T. Fisher Unwin, New York: Charles Scribner.
Date 1914
Book ID 38788
First Edition  

Description

Usual red cloth, gilt. All maps and plans as called for. Two silk markers. lxiv+390pp.. Printed by Grimme & Trömel, Leipzig. A very nice copy indeed. Cloth bright, internally tight and clean. Small usual closed tear to general folding map before title, minor cracking to map joint. Map to South Siberia protruding but no loss, light unobtrusive stain to end matter, very light small ink blot to lower cover. With preface noting that “The contents have been divided into eight sections, each of which may be separately removed... by cutting the gauze backing...”I. General Government of Warsaw (Poland); II. Western Russia (Baltic Provinces); III. St Petersburg and Environs; IV. Grand Duchy of Finland; V. Central and Northern Russia; VI. Southern Russia; VII. The Caucasus; VIII. Teheran, Railways in Asiatic Russia, Port Arthur. Peking. Hinrichsen 244
Price: £750.00

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