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Continent. Handbook for the Continent: being a guide through Holland, Belgium, Prussia, and Northern Germany,
MURRAY, John.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00Written by John Murray III. The title-page refers to railways for the first time. Early Murray handbooks in this condition are rare. Fourth editio...
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Allemagne. Le Rhin de Bale a Dusseldorf
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00The first true French Baedeker in original yellow Biedermeier boards. This rare early Baedeker was translated by Professor Klein from the fifth Ger...
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Deutschland. Schlesien, Riesengebirge, Grafschaft Glatz.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £0.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00This is the second and last edition of this title covering Silesia, which was given to Poland in 1945. A rare regional titleIssued 1938Second edit...
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Egypt and the Sudan.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00Last and most comprehensive edition in English. This volume includes descriptions and details of the recent Tutankhamen excavations (1922). A clas...
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France. Paris and its Environs with routes from London to Paris
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £80.00 - Original price £80.00Original price £0.00£80.00£80.00 - £80.00Current price £80.00Olympic Baedeker. This edition was published on the occasion of the seventh modern Olympic Games in Paris in 1924 and the International Exhibition ...
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Germany. Rhine from Switzerland to Holland.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £0.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00First English edition. First English edition.'Rhine' was the first English Baedeker title to be published and there were eighteen subsequent editio...
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Great Britain.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £120.00 - Original price £120.00Original price £0.00£120.00£120.00 - £120.00Current price £120.00Last edition published in series just before the outbreak of World War II. Issued c.1937.Ninth edition. lxxii, 696pp, 96 maps and plans, and a pan...
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India. Handbook for India, Burma and Ceylon
MURRAY, John.Original price £120.00 - Original price £120.00Original price £0.00£120.00£120.00 - £120.00Current price £120.00Last edition before World War II. Maps include Calcutta, Ceylon, Dacca, Karacchi and Madras.Fifteenth edition. cxxviii, 792 pp, 75 coloured maps, ...
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Indien.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Rare War Issue in dust-wrappers.. First and only edition of this title. " Indien " was only published in German and covers Burma, Java and Ceylon a...
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Italy. Handbook for Northern Italy.
MURRAY, John.Original price £130.00 - Original price £130.00Original price £0.00£130.00£130.00 - £130.00Current price £130.00Last edition in the series.Endpapers dated "May 1900".Sixteenth edition.pp. [62], [ii] 542, 52 adverts dated 1903-1904 at rear, 33 maps and plan...
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Russia with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00With original dust-jacket. The first and only English edition of this title and the most comprehensive volume on Russia. Poland and Finland are inc...
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Spain. Handbook for Spain.
MURRAY, JohnOriginal price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £0.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00Written by Richard Ford.. The unusual one volume edition written by Richard Ford.Ford's work on Spain is considered to be one the great works on Sp...
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Switzerland. Handbook for Switzerland
MURRAY, John.Original price £600.00 - Original price £600.00Original price £0.00£600.00£600.00 - £600.00Current price £600.00First edition. A rare first edition written by John Murray III. Part two on the Savoy and Piedmont was produced in conjunction with William Brocked...
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Deutschland. Generalgouvernement.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £0.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00The first issue. The first and only edition of this title which describes those parts of occupied Poland that were not annexed by Greater Germany. ...
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Konstantinopel und Kleinasien, Balkanstaaten, Kleinasien archipel, Cypern.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £0.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00This second and last edition has been extended to include the Balkans and Cyprus. This title was only published in German. Issued c.1923.Second ed...
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