Canary Islands. Azores. Western Morocco. Handbook for travellers.
Leipzig, London, New York, 1939
Rare presentation copy of this scarce title. Rare presentation copy from the publisher Karl Friedrich Baedeker (1910-1979) dated 1953.
Karl Friedrich Baedeker (1910-1979), grandson of Fritz Baedeker, revived the famous publishing company in 1948. The Russians had refused to grant a licence to their business in Leipzig and Karl Friedrich had refused to sell to the British or Americans and he moved the company in 1956 to Freiburg. With the boom in air travel and package holidays in the 1960's the company survived.
This was the only edition of this title published in English and one of the last English editions published before the outbreak of World War II. Few copies were actually distributed and most were destroyed during the War. Extremely scarce.
First edition, xx, 128pp, 24 maps and plan, map of Lisbon detached, ink presentation from the publisher on half title, some pencil annotations inside; publisher's pictorial wrappers, title and date written in ink on spine; a very good copy.
Hinrichsen E243.
Karl Friedrich Baedeker (1910-1979), grandson of Fritz Baedeker, revived the famous publishing company in 1948. The Russians had refused to grant a licence to their business in Leipzig and Karl Friedrich had refused to sell to the British or Americans and he moved the company in 1956 to Freiburg. With the boom in air travel and package holidays in the 1960's the company survived.
This was the only edition of this title published in English and one of the last English editions published before the outbreak of World War II. Few copies were actually distributed and most were destroyed during the War. Extremely scarce.
First edition, xx, 128pp, 24 maps and plan, map of Lisbon detached, ink presentation from the publisher on half title, some pencil annotations inside; publisher's pictorial wrappers, title and date written in ink on spine; a very good copy.
Hinrichsen E243.
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