1876 Palestine and Syria: Handbook for Travellers

Description

First Edition, Folding Maps, Publishers' Original Binding

An uncommon first edition of this Baedeker guide. Second edition not issued until 1894. 

In the publisher's original cloth binding.

Illustrated with eighteen maps, forty-three plans, a panorama of Jerusalem and ten views. Of these, twelve are folding. Collated, complete.  

Provides information on mosques, dwelling-houses, climate, population, history of Palestine and Syria, customs, religion and more. With thirty-eight routes spanning across Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Gaza, Damascus and more.

These 'Baedeker' handbooks set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists, conveniently designed to be carried around in a pocket and available for reference on maps and information regarding routes, travel facilities, noteworthy sights, attractions and museums, written by specialists.

Edited by Karl Baedeker.