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Le Rhin 1

30 Nov 2007

There's lots of interesting stuff going on eBay at the moment but this one has to be particularly worth looking at: Le Rhin 1 (1846) in apparently good state, Biedermeier covers and everything... It is the first French-language guide published by Baedeker to his own design and format (the Voyage du Rhin of 1832 was not much different from the publication he had bought from Herr Röhling).

UPDATE: This book seems to have disappeared off eBay, and been replaced by a Moliere volume. Nice though that may be, it's not what we're interested in. And I don't understand how the same auction number can apply? Somebody's not following the rules, I think.

Special thanks to Bernard Engholm for alerting me!

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