1914 Russia with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking

Description

First Edition, Folding Maps, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition of this classic Baedeker traveller's guide to Russia. 

In the publisher's original cloth binding. 

Illustrated with forty maps and seventy-eight plans, fourteen of which are folding. Collated, complete.

Routes are preceded by a geographical and ethnographical sketch of European Russia by Prof. Alfred Philippson, a sketch of the political, economic and social history of Russia and a sketch of the Russian church, government and administration.

Comprising eighty routes covering western Russia (Baltic Provinces), St. Petersburg, Viborg, Warsaw, Moscow, Vienna, Odessa, and Peking. 

These 'Baedeker' handbooks (from German publisher Karl Baedeker) 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.