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The Traveller's Handbook to Venice and Venetia Including The Dolomites and Istria
Roy Elston
1925
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. : London
7" by 5"
viii, 264pp
SUMMARY
A first edition of this travel guide to Venice and its surrounding environs. With five folding maps.
First Edition,Folding Maps,Publishers' Original Binding
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs 0.5 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
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DESCRIPTION
A first edition of Cook's Traveller's Handbook for Venice and Venetia. With five folding maps, collated and complete.
In this travel guide, Roy Elston offers travel routes incorporating the cities of the Plain and the Lagoons, before providing practical guidance on how to navigate the the Dolomites and Istria. As well as providing a list of hotels, and a description of the region's attractions, Elston also provides a historical sketch of Venice.
With twenty one pages of adverts for Venetian merchants to the rear.
With a sticker from the Times Library to the front board.
CONDITION
In the publisher's original red cloth binding. Externally, rather smart. Lightly rubbed to the boards and spine, with some light bumping to the head of the spine. A little more rubbed to the joints. , with a little more rubbing to the joints. Lightly bumped to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned but clean throughout.
Overall Condition: Very Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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