Description: I have here for sale a book entitled GUIDES MICHELIN REGIONAUX VOSGES LORRAINE ALSACE. This is the Michelin Guide to Vosges, Lorraine and Alsace. It is a first edition published in 1930 by Michelin et Cie, Clermont Ferrand, France. It is written in French throughout and gives the usual advice on using Michelin tyres, all the information on travelling by car with 69 itineraries, 7 colour maps, 71 plans of localities, 12 plans of monuments, 3 panoramas, 158 illustrations, 21 b/w photos. Adverts here and there throughout.In 1900, there were fewer than 3,000 cars on the roads of France. To increase the demand for cars and, accordingly, car tyres, car tyre manufacturers and brothers Édouard and André Michelin published a guide for French motorists, the Michelin Guide. Nearly 35,000 copies of this first, free edition of the guide were distributed. It provided information to motorists, such as maps, tyre repair and replacement instructions, car mechanics listings, hotels, and petrol stations throughout France. In 1904, the brothers published a guide for Belgium similar to the Michelin Guide. Michelin subsequently introduced guides for Algeria and Tunisia (1907); the Alps and the Rhine (northern Italy, Switzerland, Bavaria, and the Netherlands) (1908); Germany, Spain, and Portugal (1910); the British Isles (1911); and "The Countries of the Sun" (Les Pays du Soleil) (Northern Africa, Southern Italy and Corsica) (1911). In 1909, an English-language version of the guide to France was published and so the series grew. Following the usage of the Murray's and Baedeker guides, the guide began to award stars for fine dining establishments in 1926 which is what it is best known for today.Please have a look at my other Michelin Guides on sale on Ebay either now or in the next week or so. Guide Michelin 1900 reimpressionGuide Michelin Belgique 1926Guide Michelin Belgique 1929Guide Michelin France 1912 1924 1950Guide Michelin Suisse 1908Guide Michelin Suisse 1914Guide Michelin Suisse Haute Italie 1926Guides Michelin Bataille de la Marne I L'Ourcq II Les Marais 1917 Vosges I II 1920Michelin Guide British Isles 1912Michelin Guide Holland Belgium 1912 Red hardboards with red Michelin image to the front board and an image of the region covered in this book. Black title lettering to the front and spine. Boards are in fine condition. Bookmarks still present. Pages clean and firm. 448 pages, 20 x 12 cm.We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy.Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if t is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.
Price: 19.99 GBP
Location: Whitegate, Cheshire
End Time: 2024-11-14T16:48:27.000Z
Shipping Cost: 38.78 GBP
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Binding: Cloth
Non-Fiction Subject: Travel Guides & Travel Stories
Language: French
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Region: Europe
Original/Reproduction: Original
Author: Michelin
Publisher: MICHELIN & CIE
Year Printed: 1930
Original/Facsimile: Original