Along with modern first editions, guide books are one of the most accessible places to start a collection of rare books. The classic guide books (Baedeker’s, Murray’s and Thomas Cook handbooks) were published at the beginning of the industrial revolution. As transport became easier, the nouveau riche sought to undertake grand tours of Europe and the Baedeker was an invaluable accompaniment, just as Lonely Planet guided young gap year students in the 80s and 90s.
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Guidebooks
As one of the internationally preeminent dealers in guidebooks we welcome all enquiries about such books; please contact Lucinda Boyle for more information.
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Second edition. 8vo (20 x 14 cm); 208pp. adverts; publisher's printed wrappers, red cloth spine , staples rusty; otherwise a good solid copy.
£375 -
Seventh edition. [vii], viii-xvi, 671 pp; with 3 maps on 2 plates; illustrations, plans, and hieroglyphs printed with the text throughout. Publisher's cloth gilt, marbled edges, marbled end-papers. Contemporary ink inscription to title, very slight spotting to half-title, binding a little bumped, otherwise a very good copy.
£70 -
8vo ( 17 x 12 cm). 48pp, numerous black and white photographs, one sketch map, original pictorial paper wrappers, slightly worn and marked; overall a good copy.
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Small 8vo; (16.5 x 12.5 cm), 62 pp, illustrations, folding plan of Cairo at rear; publisher's printed pictorial covers; a good firm copy.
£35 -
![COOK [and] BUDGE, Sir E[rnest] A[lfred] Wallis.](http://beta.shapero.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1bbe0f863922f091e1b357048c86d01e/1/0/106735.jpg)
Fourth edition. [vii], viii-xv, 439pp; one map, illustrations, plans, and hieroglyphs printed with the text throughout; publisher's cloth gilt, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, ink stamp to front free endpaper, inner hinges cracked but holding, binding slightly bumped and marked; overall a very good copy.
£150 -
![[Guide Bleus]](http://beta.shapero.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1bbe0f863922f091e1b357048c86d01e/1/0/106414.jpg)
8vo ( 18 x 12 cm). 80pp, numerous illustrations and maps; publisher's orange printed cloth wrappers; a very good copy
£100 -
8vo, (16.3 x 10.5 cm), original blind tooled and gilt illuminated boards, depicting holy sights in Jerusalem, edges gilt, 4 full colour lithographic illustration plates, 224 pp. A fine copy.
£150
