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Lot of three original antique Karl Baedeker travel guidebooks for Italy:
1. Baedeker’s Southern Italy and Sicily – 15th Revised Edition, 1908. With 30 maps & 28 plans. Includes fold-out maps of Southern Italy & Sicily.
2. Baedeker’s Central Italy – early edition, red cloth binding, gilt title, with marbled edges. Includes maps and city plans.
3. Baedeker’s Rome and Central Italy – 16th Revised Edition, 1930. With 28 maps, 62 plans & diagrams, plus the Arms of the Popes. Original red cloth binding with dust jacket.
These handbooks are richly illustrated with fold-out maps and plans, providing a rare glimpse into early 20th-century European travel. Highly collectible for bibliophiles, historians, and lovers of Italy.
Condition Notes:
Overall: Good – expected wear for age. Clean text. Binding intact. Marbled edges still visible. Includes fold-out color maps (some with light wear/tears at folds). Owner inscriptions inside covers. Dust jacket present on Rome & Central Italy.
Special Notes:
• All books in red cloth binding with gilt lettering.
• Marbled page edges intact.
• Some inscriptions and bookseller’s labels present.
• Fold-out maps complete (some with minor edge wear).
• Scarce as a complete lot.
