Palestine and Syria with the Chief Routes Through Mesopotamia and Babylonia

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1906. Fourth edition, remodelled and augmented. Softcover. Very good- condition. Duodecimo. xcix 9i0, 436pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, blind-stamped ruling on covers and spine, protected by modern mylar. With 20 maps, 52 plans, and a panorama of Jerusalem, including folding map of Syria at inside back cover. Marbled edges. Two ribbon markers. With disclaimer bound in at front: "The excessive zeal of the Turkish censorship sometimes even extends to the confiscation of guidebooks, The traveler is therefore advised to place this volume in his pocket before crossing the Turkish frontier or entering (truncated) a Turkish port." Table of content with list of maps and plans at front. Binding with light wear along edges. Some water exposure to lower block near spine in middle of guide, more pronounced with light discoloration and waviness between pages 200 and 300. Ribbon markers frayed at ends. Lightly starting at inside back cover. Block lightly age-toned. (Inventory #: 54417)