Gastronomie

40401 — AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL ACCESSORY COOK & SON Thomas. COOK'S INTERNATIONAL TRAVELLING TICKETS. London: 1914. 12mo. 5 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches. Black cloth boards with accord pocket inside with three loose items inserted. Rare example of early twentieth-century auto travel accessories - a small pocket-sized carrier for documents and other papers for the traveller. Insid the two boards have printed endpapers with basic information about Thos. Cook Sons operations services and international offices. The accordion pocket includes three items presumably collected by the client who used this carrie a folding two-page printed flyer advertising insurance policies available to traveller with rates on the reverse; a tri-fold printed brochure "How to see principal cities of Europe" offered by Thomas Cook & Sons; and a folded sheet paper with hand written notes of personal expenses dated February and March 1914. unknown