1876 Palestine and Syria Handbook for Travellers

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon

First edition of Palestine and Syria Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker in the original publisher's cloth binding. 

Uncommon to find in the first edition. 

Densely illustrated with eighteen maps, forty three plans, a panorama of Jerusalem and ten views, many of which are folding and in colour. Collated, complete. 

Karl Baedeker was a German publisher whose company was the main authority on guidebooks for tourists in the nineteenth century. 

This work was chiefly written by Dr. Albert Socin, Professor of Oriental Languages and traveller. Many of the maps were drawn or revised by Professor H. Kiepert, a well known cartographer. In the preface, the author claims "The panorama of Jerusalem, based on the most recent photographic views, is probably the most complete and accurate yet published."

Slight loss to the first free endpaper.