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Title: The Hotels of Europe with Maps and Railway and Steamship Routes
Description: London, Henry Herbert & Co. 1883. First edition. Cloth. Scarce 1883 edition of this survey of European hotels and railway and steamship routes. A beautiful travel guide to Europe, with information on hotels, railway routes, and steamship routes from 1883. With sixteen coloured maps on double page and lovely decorations in gilt and green to margins, titles in red. Featuring a complete directory of hotels and numerous leaves of trade advertisements with useful information for the tourist of European countries. A stunning work. Institutionally there is only one copy of the same work for the year 1882 at Trinity College Library.Publisher's bookplate to front pastedown 'Copies of this work will be sent, carriage paid, on receipt of Post Office Order for Twenty-one Shillings, or can be had through any Bookseller, by giving our address.' In the original publisher's full cloth binding with decorative gilt to front board and spine, gilt to edges. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear, light bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities, boards only lightly bumped. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

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