THE RHINE INCLUDING THE BLACK FOREST & THE VOSGES, HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS

KARL BAEDEKER

Published by Charles Scribners' Sons, NEW YORK, 1911

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TERRIFIC BOOK. ALL MAPS INTACT, MANY FOLDOUT. SPINE HAS BEEN TAPED WITH RED TAPE BY LIBRARY, DONE VERY NICELY. VERY GOOD CONDITION RED BOOK, THERE ARE 69 MAPS AND 59 PLANS. THIS IS THE GERMAN ORIGINAL OF THE HANDBOOK TO THE RHINE, FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1928. BASED ALMOST ENTIRELY ON THE PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE EDITOR. WOW! GREAT PIECE OF HISTORY. MAP LOVERS WILL BE THRILLED. The Rhine is one of the major European rivers. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German border, then flows in a mostly northerly direction through the German Rhineland and the Netherlands and eventually empties into the North Sea. The Black Forest (German: is a large forested mountain range in south-west Germany Karl Ludwig Johannes Baedeker (German: 3 November 1801 4 October 1859) was a German publisher whose company, Baedeker, set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists. Karl Baedeker was descended from a long line of printers, booksellers and publishers. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN. WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE RHINE INCLUDING THE BLACK FOREST & THE VOSGES, HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS
• Publisher: Charles Scribners' Sons, NEW YORK
• Publication Date: 1911
• Language: English
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: SEVENTEENTH REVISED EDITION
• Condition: Good
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