Central Italy and Rome : handbook for travellers / by Karl Baedeker ; with 19 maps, 55 plans and views, and the arms of the popes since 1417
by Baedeker, Karl
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Leipzig New York: Kar; Baedeker ; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. 15th edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth with a poor, torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Uncommon dust-wrapper edition, dust-wrapper damaged but present. Slight suggestion of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; lxxxii, 527, [2], 23, [1] pages folded frontispiece, illustrations, maps (some folded) plans (some folded), plates (somje folded) 17 cm. Notes: Appended: Indexes of streets and plan of Rome (23 p. 4 fold plans). Map on lining paper. Includes bibliographical references (pages lxxxi-lxxxii) and index. Subjects: Italy ; Guidebooks. Rome (Italy) ; Guidebooks. Italy. Italy Rome. Italy Description and travel ; Guidebooks. Rome (Italy) Description and travel ; Guidebooks. Italy ; Guidebooks. Rome (Italy) ; Guidebooks. Rome (Italy) Description Guidebooks. Italy. guidebooks
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 381617
- Title
- Central Italy and Rome : handbook for travellers / by Karl Baedeker ; with 19 maps, 55 plans and views, and the arms of the popes since 1417
- Author
- Baedeker, Karl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 15th edition
- Publisher
- Leipzig New York: Kar; Baedeker ; Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date Published
- 1909
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