HAND- UND REISEBUCH FÜR AUSWANDERER UND REISENDE NACH NORD-, MITTEL- UND SÜD-AMERIKA
Bamberg: Buchner, 1866. Achte Auflage. Octavo, xii, 740 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in quarter leather and brown marbled paper boards with gilt lettering to spine. General shelf wear. Spine cocked. Heavier rubbing to hinges. Splotching to leather at tail of spine from a previously adhered sticker. Library markings to front pastedown and verso of title page, and a sticker to rear free endpaper. Staining to top corners from half title page to page 89. Foxing throughout interior. Delicate fold-out map attached in rear of textblock, repaired with non-archival tape by a previous owner. Shelved in Case 9.
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Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $1,000
NOTES
Traugott Bromme (1802-1865) was a German immigrant to the United States. Later in life, he returned to Germany and published handbooks and maps to assist other German emigrants in adjusting to their new lives. [Source: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps]