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RARE seventh edition of Baedeker travel guide to Palestine and Syria from the period of Ottoman Empire`s decline. Contains 21 maps, 56 plans and a large fold-out photographic panorama of Jerusalem. 157x105mm. 432 pages. Red cloth Hardcover with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Text block edges marbled. Cover and spine rubbed. Cover corners bumped/wrinkled and peeling. Glue stains on front cover and spine upper edge/corner. Spine taped with three stripes of transparent adhesive tape. Spine edges peeling. Inner cover yellowing. Binding Most pages slightly dog-eared. Ex-libris sticker on page 432. Pages 9-12 have tattered edges with slight damage to text (not to plates). Binding slightly loose and visible between pre-title and title-pages, pages XCVIII-1, 18-19, Judea desert map detached from binding. Some maps wrinkled/creased. Few maps have slightly tattered edges/corners. Few pages/maps slightly age-stained. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare 7th edition of the legendary Baedeker travel guide to Syro-Palestine from the beginning of 20th-century is otherwise in good condition.