Identifier: palestinesyriawi00karl (find matches)
Title: Palestine and Syria with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia; handbook for travellers;
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm) Socin, Albert, 1844-1899 Benzinger, I. (Immanuel), 1865-1935 Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921
Subjects: Palestine -- Guidebooks Syria -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker New York, C. Scribner's sons (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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