Ventes live - Lot 446
[United States - Baedeker]
The United States with an excursion into Mexico. Handbook for travellers. With 17 maps and 22 plans.
Leipzig, K. Baedeker; New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1893
€ 120 / 180
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Description du lot
12mo: c-516 pp. (Philadelphia plan loosening and sm. tear in fold).
Red publ. cloth (min. traces of use), front board and spine with gilt title, marbl. edges. Good copy.
First edition of this travel guide book on the United States and the first Baedeker guide originally written in English, by J.F. Muirhead, the English editor of the Baedeker guides. Ill. with 16 maps (of 17, large USA map lacking) and 21 plans (of 22, New York lacking). They show major American cities, regions and tourist destinations like Yellowstone, Grand Canyon and Yosemite.
Prov. Ernest Bergmann (1841-1925), Lier liberal senator 1900-1921 (ownership entry). - Bookseller's ticket on lower endpaper.