1911 Paris Guide Offert Par L'Hotel St Petersbourg Antique Travel Guide w/Map

1911 Paris Guide Offert Par L'Hotel St Petersbourg Antique Travel Guide w/MapParis Guide Offert Par L'Hotel St PetersbourgPublished by Hotel St Petersbourg: Paris 1911General wear and fading to cover and spine as shown. Front cover detached. Prelim page cluster becoming loose. Map is in good condition and pages are generally clean and well presented. Please study photos to understand condition. Happy to provide more photos on request.Size 16cm x 11cm x 2cm - 360 Pages

Paris Guide Offert Par L'Hotel St Petersbourg

Publi shed by Hotel St Petersbourg: Paris 1911

" This charming early 20th-century travel guide was issued by the prestigious Hôtel St Petersbourg in Paris as a complimentary resource for its guests, offering a snapshot of the city during the glittering Belle Époque. The guide provides practical information for travellers—transportation routes, key landmarks, local customs, and recommended excursions—alongside concise cultural notes that capture the elegance, energy and modernity of pre-war Paris. Its pages present an accessible tour of the city's great museums, theatres, boulevards and monuments, reflecting the hotel's desire to assist foreign visitors in navigating the capital with confidence and sophistication.

Published in 1911, just three years before the world would dramatically change, the guide now serves as a wonderfully evocative relic of luxury tourism in the final years of the Belle Époque. It preserves not only the hotel's distinctive branding but also period advertisements, local insights and a visual sense of Paris at its cultural peak. This scarce promotional guide will appeal to collectors of travel ephemera, enthusiasts of Parisian history."