Karl Baedeker - Palestine and Syria: With the Chief Routes Through Mesopotamia and Babylonia

Leipzig , Karl Baedeker, Publisher , 1906. Cloth. A smart fourth edition of this traveller's guide to Palestine and Syria, from popular German publisher Karl Baedeker. Fourth edition, remodelled and augmented. In the publisher's original cloth binding.With the publisher's rare slip bound-in warning the owner of Turkish censorship leading to the confiscation of guide books. "The traveller is therefore advised to place this volume in his pocket before crossing the Turkish frontier or entering a Turkish port". Illustrated with twenty maps (three folding), fifty-two plans (two folding) and a folding panorama of Jerusalem. Collated, complete. Comprising fifty-three routes around Jerusalem and its environs, Samaria, the Lebanon, central Syria, Mesopotamia and Babylonia. Preceded by hints on modes of transport, the Arabic language, population, religions, history and art. These 'Baedeker' handbooks, from the company of German publisher Karl Baedeker, set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart, with faint scattered dark spots to the boards and slight fading and rubbing to the spine. Bookplate of the Gayer-Anderson Hostel for Art Students to the front pastedown. Internally, plan facing page 374 detached but present, otherwise firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with scattered spotting largely concentrated to the first and last few leaves. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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