1911 The Mediterranean: Seaports and Sea Routes Including Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Coast of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia

Description

First Edition, Folding Maps, Publishers' Original Binding

The first English edition of this Baedeker handbook covering the seaports and sea routes of the Mediterranean. First published in German in 1909. 

In the publisher's red cloth binding, with gilt. 

With a folding frontispiece map of the Mediterranean, thirty-seven maps (a number of which are dual-spread) and forty-nine plans (seventeen folding). Collated, complete. 

These 'Baedeker' handbooks, from the company of German publisher Karl Baedeker, set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists. They contain, among other things, maps and information regarding routes, travel facilities, noteworthy sights, attractions and museums, written by specialists. 

This volume, comprising eighty-five routes, covers Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Coast of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. This is also the only Baedeker handbook in English containing a description of Constantinople.