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Good news in Cumbria

20 Sep 2005

According to the North-West Evening Mail, a charity shop in Ulverston (that's in the Lake District, in the NW of England) has been given a large number of antiquarian books, including what is described as a "Baedeker's guide to Palestine and Syria, from 1900". This, the shop is selling for £150.

Now, if it is the Palestine and Syria 3 (1898), then that's about right as a price. But if it should happen to be Palästina und Syrien 5 (1900), then a Lakeland inhabitant is about to make a jolly good bargain... :-)

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