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Russia, with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking: Handbook for Travellers (Baedeker's Russia)

Baedeker, Karl

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914.

First edition. lxiv, 590pp. with 40 maps, 78 plans. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering, marbled edges. Near Fine with small tear near joint at folding map frontis, name written on half title, in a Poor dust jacket (not pictured), incomplete with gaps between panels and archival mending tissue on the verso, chip at head.

An uncommon travel guide to WWI-era Russia before the revolution including Finland, Poland, and Persia; the first and only English language edition. Complete in eight detachable sections. Item #140946355

Price: $1,000