Antique Atlas Book Baedeker’s Eastern Alps Handbook for Travellors 1899

9th edition of Karl Baedeker’s Handbook for Travelers—The Eastern Alps, published in 1899 in Leipsic. Throughout the book there are 47 maps that unfold and expand from the pages, 10 plans, and 7 panoramas. Includes the Bavarian Highlands, Tyrol, Salzburg, Upper and Lower Austria, Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola.

Good condition for its 126+ years! Red leather bound exterior. Gold gilt lettering. Marbled paper edges. A loose map inserted in the front page. Minor folding and slits on a few pages. All pages in tact. Binding reinforcement exposed along the gutter of the front hinge endpaper.

Baedeker guides were known for their thorough research and were considered indispensable for serious tourists of the era.