Baedeker´s India 1914

INDIA. BAEDEKER, KARL. Indien. Hanbdbuch für Reisende. Leipzig (Verlag von Karl Baedeker) 1914..

Small 8:o (about 158x108 mm. ). 1 large folding coloured map (loose in rear pocket), coloured and other partly folding maps and plans, illustrations in text.

Original red cloth, marbled edges. First edition.

Provenance: Gustaf Oscar Ludvig (Gösta) Nobel (1886-1955), youngest son of Ludvig and Edla Nobel, was in Baku between 1914-17 and later took over as Managing Director over Branobel or "The Nobel Brothers Company". The oil company was founded in Baku by his father and the two brothers Alfred and Robert. He and his family had to flee Russia 1918 during the Russian revolution.

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