Italy Handbook for Travellers: Second Part Central Italy and Rome
Leipsig / London / New York [Leipzig]: Karl Baedeker, 1909. Wagner & Debes. Fifteenth Revised Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 16mo. Pp. lxxxii, 52, 23. Illustrated with 19 maps and 55 plans and views, several in colors and/or folding out. Index, appendix: Index of Streets and Plans of Rome. Publisher's textured red cloth over flexible boards, titles stamped in gilt on the cover and spine, blind stamped decorations, blue and red silk bookmark ribbons, edges marbled, publisher's advertising on front endpaper, railway map on back endpapers. Gilt titles somewhat darkened, edges rubbed and lower corner bumped, first leaves age toned, chipped and a tad worn. Laid in manuscript note card from Naples dated April 24th 1995. Good +. Item #6307 Carefully researched and frequently updated, with contributions from travelers, Baedeker's pocket guides were essential baggage for the savvy tourist. The thoroughness with which they describe a country now affords an informed glimpse of the place, the people and their customs at a specific time in history. The clear and beautiful lithographed maps, plans and panoramas created by the firm of Eduard Wagner & Ernst Debes were unequalled. Indispensable for researchers, a treat for armchair historians, and prized by collectors. The scarce dust jacket is preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
The first version of this travel guide was published in the late 1860s. This volume, the second of three on Italy, corresponds to the sixteenth German edition.
Price: $60.00