1868 Vienna Guidebook

Wiener Fremdenführer. Praktischer Wegweiser mit Hervorhebung der Sehenswürdigkeiten und grossem ausführlichen Plane [Vienna Guidebook. A Practical Directory Highlighting the Sights with a Large Detailed Map]. Wien: Beck’sche Universitäts-Buchhandlung (Alfred Hölder), 1868. Fifth greatly enlarged edition. 16.5 × 11 cm. Original cloth-backed printed boards. ca. 75 pp (approx.; includes index and advertisements). With a large folding lithographed city plan of Vienna (approx. 52 × 66 cm), printed in red and black, detached and laid in, together with additional attached plan including a plan of the Festhalle and shooting grounds for the Drittes deutsches Bundesschiessen in Wien, 1868. A comprehensive contemporary guidebook to Vienna issued for visitors, with alphabetical directory and detailed practical information. The table of contents includes sections on arrival, authorities and offices, hotels and cafés, beer halls, bankers, carriage tariffs and travel information, theatres, postal services, medical care, police regulations, charitable institutions, and more. A long alphabetical guide to sights and streets forms the bulk of the work, followed by schedules, fares, and city services — a remarkably complete portrait of everyday life in Vienna in the late 1860s. The supplementary section on the German Federal Shooting Festival of 1868 gives program details and includes a special plan of the festival grounds. Binding with light rubbing and edge-wear; inner hinges sound. Text clean throughout. Large folding map complete, with some handling creases and small tears at creases, and neatly laid in loose. Overall Good condition. A valuable Vienna guidebook in an appealing early edition, notable for its large coloured city plan and detailed period travel information. Inv. Ho10