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Lot 00197 |

[Orient Express],Album du Touriste: De Paris a Constantinople.Paris [c.1900-1910] First edition,in 8vo oblong,contemporary publishers paper covers slightly rubbed,text clean with some light foxing and spotting in few pages,complete 155p.and 160 illustrations inside the text, overall in very good condition A very particular publication,exclusively for use by the early tourists travelling from Paris to Constantinople.It was specially designed to provide a picture of the Levant to the travelers with some useful information during their travel by train.It is a very early pictorial guide focusing as a light amusement reading,quite different than the Baedekers or other scientific guides.These guides were distributed on the Orient Express railways and,more rarely,on board the steamers. Unusual




SOLD // €263.00




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