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#91513 Viaggi Esplorazioni Guide

Where to stay? Official guide to the best hotels in the United Kingdom and abroad. Part one:United States of America and Canada. Part two:Great Britain,Europe,and General.

PublisherGordon Hotels.
Date of publ.
Details cm.12x18, pp.264, brossura cop.fig.a col.
AbstractLondon: Gordon Hotels Publicity Department, 1908. With an index of countries, including Australian cities Brisbane, Mount Victoria and Sydney, with b&w photographs of the Belle Vue Hotel, "opposite Parliament House"; the Hotel Imperial, Mount Victoria: "the nearest and best route to the Jenolan Caves is from Mount Victoria"; and the Hotel Australia in Sydney. With many advertisements for railway companies (includes a L. & N. W. Railway map); steam ship companies, and destinations: "New Zealand, Britain's Most Prosperous Colony"; "Boulogne Sur Mer, France, the Favourite Seaside Resort; Atlantic City, New Jersey, America's greatest all the Year Health and Pleasure Resort". With a twenty page section "Where to Shop in London", with many b&w photographs of shop facades and interiors; with a full page for Messrs. Liberty & Co., Regent Street: "the firm has largely aided the revival of the British Silk Industry". Sml 8vo, 272pp, profusely illustrated in b&w, teg. Color lithographic illustrated wraps. Front cover with title in deep yellow on off white banner, with vignettes of steam ship, train and destination cities. Rear cover with ad for "P & O" conveying his Majesty's mails. Passenger services to Egypt, India, China, Japan and Australasia", and full color illustration of sail boat and steam ship in tropical harbor. Very good condition. Item #17338.
ConditionsUsato, molto buono
EUR 40.00
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