European Health and Pleasure Resorts. A European Itinerary: Specially Compiled as an Impartial, Independent, and Trustworthy Compendium to the Prettiest Spots and Health Resorts of Europe.
Cologne: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1900. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2308490
Second edition. Lightly soiled.
xxiv, 589 pp. A European travel guide written by an executive working in the telegraph industry (he was president of Commercial Cable Company at the time of publication, and later the director of German Atlantic Cable Company). The book includes advertisements and blank telegraph forms for both of these companies, as well as an ad for Halifax-Bermuda Telegraph Company. An interesting piece combining the history of communications, travel literature, and the history of health resorts focusing on holistic remedies like the 'water cure,' which were popular in this era. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, cable communications map on rear endpaper.
Price: $250.00