The Standard Guide. St. Augustine

CHARLES B REYNOLDS

Publication: EH Reynolds, 1892, St Augustine

9 7/8" x 7 1/4" brown pictorial wrappers. (viii), 91, (17) pp., frontispiece, illustrations, advertisements, contents, map. This guide to St. Augustine, Florida was intended to "give such practical information and intelligent descriptions as it is hoped may add to the convenience and pleasure of the tourist in St. Augustine." Includes chapters on the Hotel Ponce de Leon, the Plaza, Fort Marion, the sea wall, St. Francis Barracks, St. Anastasia Island, the floral calendar, hunting and fishing, etc. 58 beautiful illustrations of places around St. Augustine, including four fold-out illustrations of the Hotels Ponce de Leon, Alcazar, and Cordova, and the Memorial Presbyterian Church. Guide map of St. Augustine, numerous photographs of various hotels and lodging in St. Augustine that provide, "sanitary accommodation and excellent service for ladies and gentlemen wishing to escape northern winters." Recommendations for short excursions with much information on and pictures of hotels in Asheville, North Carolina. Numerous advertisements with large ads for Norfolk & Western Railroad, Georgia Southern & Florida Railroad, the Merchants and Miners Transportation Company, Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax River Railway, South Florida Railroad, the Bay Line, the Kamaret camera, Thompson's Bromine and Arsenic Springs Water, etc. Much chipping to spine and with chip missing to bottom of front wrapper as well as to top corner of rear wrapper. Wrappers with water stains, wear to extremities, and with some soiling throughout. Good. Much practical information for tourists.

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