Pre-1917 travellers' guide books

[Vera Beljakova]

for pre-1917 travel guides go to 
http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/
and then to the subsection:

"Travel guides"
- I've seen St. Peterburg's Travel guide ;
- Train travellogues from Moscow to Siberia (TransSiberianRailway) ;
- Volga and Saratov travel guides

There are plenty of such pre-revolutionary guides on the internet,
but require digging around.  I see them, but don't 'save' them.
I've come across 19th c railways lines and their timetables (through a Finnish site).

Vera Beljakova
Johannesburg


 

 ----- Original Message ------
 From:Anna Reid
 Sent:Friday, April 03, 2009 10:52
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 The London Library in St James's Square - a private members' library, but 
I'd be surprised if they don't make provision for outside researchers - has 
a superb collection of nineteenth-century Baedekers and Murrays guides. Tel. 
44 207 930 7705 and you can browse the catalogue online - Anna Reid. 

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Sent: 02 April 2009 06:44 
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Subject: [SEELANGS] Pre-1917 travellers' guide books 

Are there research libraries outside the former USSR that would have 
collections of 
city guides from Russia and Eastern Europe pre-1917? I know that, 
e.g., Baedeker was 
already publishing such guide books before 1900, and for the major 
cities they were available 
in several languages. I assume that Library of Congress and Widener 
Library would have something, 
but perhaps someplace unexpected (to me!) happens to have a major 
collection. 
My interest is not limited to language or USA. 
Jules Levin 
Los Angeles 

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