Berlin and Its Environs (Fourth Edition)
de Baedeker, Karl
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good
- Librería
-
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Leipzig/London/New York: Karl Braedeker/T. Fisher Unwin/Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. Original red cloth with some wear to spine. Fourth edition. x, 250pp, 5 maps, 23 plans, previous owner's signature on front free endpapers. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. Karl Baedeker (3 November 1801 4 October 1859) was a German publisher whose company Baedeker set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists. The son of a book printer, Baedeker was born in Essen, Prussia, and started his publishing company in 1827 in Koblenz. Baedeker's company in 1832 bought another Koblenz publisher (Friedrich Röhling) which had in 1828 published a handbook for travellers by J. A. Klein, under the title Rheinreise von Mainz bis Köln (travelling the Rhine from Mainz to Cologne). This provided the basis for the first of the Baedeker travel guides. The red bindings and gilt lettering soon became the familiar hallmark of Baedeker's guides, and the content became famous for its detail and accuracy. While the travel guide was not a new form, Baedeker's innovation was to include specific details of transportation, accommodations, prices, and so forth. Starting in 1844, he augmented this with star ratings for attractions. Baedeker was famous for his careful work; when visiting Milan Cathedral in 1847, he was observed to drop a pea at every twenty steps of the staircase to the roof, so as to be able to report the number of steps accurately.. Fourth Edition. Full Cloth. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover.
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- Librería
- Ziern-Hanon Galleries (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 003359
- Título
- Berlin and Its Environs (Fourth Edition)
- Autor
- Baedeker, Karl
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Edición
- Fourth Edition
- Editorial
- Karl Braedeker/T. Fisher Unwin/Charles Scribner's Sons
- Lugar de publicación
- Leipzig/London/New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1910
- Tamaño
- 16mo - over 5¾" - 6&
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