FS: 1874 Travel Guide

For Sale:

Fetridge, W. Pembroke. HARPER'S HAND-BOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN EUROPE AND
THE EAST: Being a Guide Through Great Britain and Ireland, France,
Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Greece,
Switzerland, Tyrol, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, and Spain. New
York, Harper, 1874. Thirteenth Year. With over one hundred maps and
plans of cities. In Three Volumes, bound as one. The American
Traveller's Guide. Included at the rear is a 24-page section "United
States. To tourists returning from Europe." Black leather with a
surround flap that tucks into a strap on the front cover, printed in
gilt on cover and spine, all edges marbled, pocket at rear containing
two maps of Switzerland, and of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, both of
which are replacements for the bound-in similar maps as explained on an
errata slip tipped-in at p. 650. xxviii, 29-968, 18 (Index), 132 (ads)
pp. The advertisements are for hotels, steamships, etc., many of them
illustrated with engravings. An excellent copy with some wear around
the edges, a repaired tear on the flap. Sound of binding and internally
pristine. Near fine. $275.00 U.S.

Postage $4.00


Stephen Longshore
Adjala Bookshop
Box 23025
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada N4T 1R9
519-539-3742