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MURRAY, John.

Continent, A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent,

being a Guide through Holland, Belgium, Prussia, and Northern Germany, and along the Rhine, from Holland to Switzerland, containing Descriptions of the principal Cities, their Museums, Picture Galleries, &c., the Railways and great High Roads, the mos

Stock Code
98697
London, John Murray, 1845
£500

The first edition to mention a Baedeker in a Murray Handbook.

Murray writes that he 'has also derived considerable benefit from a German translation of the handbooks executed by Mr Baedeker, an intelligent bookseller of Coblenz'.

Endpapers dated 'August 1845'.

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Description

Fifth edition. 8vo, xxxviii, [6 (tables)], 574, 24 (advertisements, partially unopened) pp., with linen-backed folding map; publisher's red cloth gilt, a little faded with a few small marks, otherwise a very good copy.

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