BAEDEKER, Karl. The Traveller's Manual of Conversation in Four Languages, English, French, German, Italian. With Vocabulary, Short Questions etc. Stereotype Edition. Leipzig, London, Baedeker, Dulau and Co.,, [c. 1900].
Small 8vo. Original flexible red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt and ornamented in blind; marbled edges; pp. ix, 331; spine slightly sunned, with light marks to boards; a few unobtrusive spots to text; a good copy.
A phrasebook in four languages containing useful words and phrases deemed critical to the ninteenth century traveller such as 'Well: I will first try on my nankeen pantaloons, and afterwards my trowsers and coat. But where are my waistcoats?' (p. 274).
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