BAEDEKER, Karl
Palestine and Syria.
Karl Baedeker, Leipzig 1894
In this edition the views have been eliminated except for the attractive folding panorama of Jerusalem. This is the famous edition which gave rise to lawsuit brought by Howard ( a hotel owner in Jaffa and Jerusalem) against Baedeker with reference to some disparaging remarks in this volume about his hotels. Howard won the lawsuit and Baedeker were ordered to remove the critical comments. However in the next edition Howard's hotels were omitted and his business suffered greatly as a result. Issued c.1894 Second edition. cxx, 444pp, with 17 maps, 44 plans, and a panorama of Jerusalem; publisher's red cloth gilt, gilt lettering faded; previous owner's signature in ink on front free endpaper with the date "1896"; overall a very good copy Hinrichsen E254.
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