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Palestine and Syria : with routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia and the island of Cyprus : handbook for travellers / by Karl Baedeker ; with 21 maps, 56 plans, and a panorama of Jerusalem.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Rare Books Collection DS103 .B3 1912
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karl Baedeker (Firm)
- Series:
- Baedeker's guide books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Palestine--Guidebooks.
- Palestine.
- Syria--Guidebooks.
- Syria.
- Cyprus--Guidebooks.
- Cyprus.
- Genre:
- Guidebooks.
- Travel literature.
- Bookplates (Provenance)
- Physical Description:
- civ, 462 p. : ill., fold. pl., maps (part fold.) plans (part fold.) ; 16 cm.
- Edition:
- 5th ed., remodelled and augm.
- Other Title:
- Baedeker's Palestine and Syria
- Place of Publication:
- Leipzig : K. Baedeker ; New York : Scribner, 1912.
- Notes:
- Map on lining-paper.
- "The first edition of the handbook appeared, in German, in 1875; its writer was Dr. Albert Socin ... The present is the fifth English edition and is based, like the two preceding editions, on the experience of Dr. Immanuel Benzinger ... The description of the island of Cyprus appears in the present edition for the first time. The section on Mesopotamia and Babylonia was revised and supplemened by the Rev. Dr. John P. Peters."--Pref.
- "Works on Palestine and Syria": p. c-civ.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum's copy bears bookplate: "Ex libris Boies Penrose II."
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of William B. Bassett.
- OCLC:
- 1648778
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