THE GERMAN TOURIST FOR MDCCCXXXVII

by Wolff, O.L.B. & Doering, H.; H.E. Lloyd (trans.)

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London/Berlin:: Asher,, [1837]. Hardcover; embossed leather; gilt-stamped spine; all edges gilt; dry leather flaking on joints; spine ends & cover tips worn; engravings browned & foxed; but, remarkably little foxing on text pages.. With `seventeen engravings from drawings by A.G. Vickers.' Highlight Berlin; Dantzig (Danzig; later, Poland's Gdansk); Hamburgh (sic); Koenigsburg; Luebeck; & Marienburg--in North Germany, years after they left Hanseatic League, & a few years before `Iron Chancellor' Otto Bismarck began to forge a new German Empire dominated by ultra-conservative Prussian Junkers aristocrats. ||| For each city--Early History; Wars with Neighbors; Territories Seized; Religion; Public Buildings; Culture; Works of Art; Eminent Men; Cookery; Mausoleums; Political Events; Environs; etc.