BAEDEKER, Karl. The Traveller's Manual of Conversation in Four Languages, English, French, German, Italian. With Vocabulary, Short Questions etc. Stereotype Edition. Leipzig, Baedeker, [n.d. c. 1900].
Small 8vo. Original flexible cloth, ornamented in blind, lettered in gilt; pp. ix [1], 331, [1]; a beautifully preserved copy, with early ownership inscription to front fly-leaf.
Stereotype edition. 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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