BAEDEKER, KBiblio.com
Italy comprising I. Northern Italy including Leghorn Florence Ravenna and routes through France Switzerland and Austria; with II. Central Italy and Rome; and III. Southern Italy and Sicily with excursions to Sardinia Malta and Corfu; Handbook for Travellers
BB2281Leipzig: Karl Baedeker Publisher various. various. Stamped Cloth. Near Fine. An excellent 3-volume set each volume issued separately of early editions for the traveler wanting a handy panoramic survey of the entire country in matching bindings. Foolscap 8vo 158 x 99mm: lxviii698 with 36 maps 45 plans and panorama of the Alps; lxxvi470 with 14 maps 49 plans table of coats of arms of the Popes since 1417 panorama view of Forum Romanum and 14pp street index of Rome; lvi508pp with 30 maps and 34 plans. Publisher's red flexible cloth stamped in blind and gilt all edges marbled. Gilt lettering bright; bindings clean square and tight; maps properly folded and mostly free of tears. All are unusually well-preserved copies Fine fresh and bright but for owner's signature to front paste-down and title page of vol. 1; lightly rubbed spine ends of vol. III. Northern: Fourteenth Remodeled Edition 1913. Light underlining in pencil erasable to early pages else fresh and bright; one map with neat tape repair. Central: Fourteenth Revised Edition 1904. One map with short closed tear. Southern: Sixteenth Revised Edition 1912. Red and green page markers detached but laid in. A superb set and scarce thus. Baedekers were bought to be used under less than ideal circumstances; as such their condition is rarely if ever perfectly pristine. Hinrichsen E141 E156 E174. "The Romantic movement in Germany had given a new impetus to travel . . . In 1828 Karl Baedeker bought the rights to J. A. Klein's Rheinreise von Mainz bis Köln and after Klein's death Baedeker himself revised and updated the work recreating it for a new market. Using his own travel experiences he guided the tourist to the principal attractions in each place saving travellers the expense of hiring their own guide. He thus created a new type of guidebook which was widely copied throughout Europe and opened up tourism to a new class of visitor. The reliability of the information was ensured by annual journeys by Baedeker himself and by reference to respected published sources and expert scholars. . . . For the serious tourist a Baedeker was indispensable its tone especially with respect to southern Europeans assuring northerners of their superiority and suggesting ways of avoiding dangers. When Lucy Honeychurch finds herself ‘In Santa Croce with no Baedeker’ in Forster's A Room with a View she is entirely lost." ODNB Note: With few exceptions always noted we only stock Baedekers in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable polypropylene wrappers. Karl Baedeker, Publisher unknown
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