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, With Dustwrapper

The first English edition of this work. First published in German in 1909.

With the very scarce original unclipped dust wrapper.

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

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. 

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.