Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy,Savoy and Tyrol

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in Publisher's original flexible red cloth with gilt title lettering to both spine and upper cover.A little dulling to spine.No Dust-Jacket.Illustrated with 47 maps and 12 plans and 12 Panoramas vignettes.With original ribbon bookmark tag in place.One previous owner's name is present to the ffep.All page edges marbled.12mo 500pp Sixteenth Edition.Founded by Karl Baedeker in 1827, the company relocated in 1872 to Leipzig under his third son Fritz Baedeker, who took over control of the company following the death and disablement of his older brothers. With the widespread advent of mechanical transportation, it was Fritz who managed an explosive growth in the line of travel guides, also producing international guides.In World War II, Germany launched a series of revenge attacks against English cities featured in the Baedeker Guide to Britain, known as the Baedeker raids.The Baedeker company's premises and files perished in a December 1943 air raid, but Baedeker's great grandson revived it, restarting, in 1948, publication of tourist guides . Very Good. Hardcover. Sixteenth Edition. 1895.