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guide book A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists". It will usually include information about sights, accommodation, restaurants, transportation, and activities. Maps of varying det ...
s were published by D. Appleton & Company of New York. The firm's series of guides to railway travel in the United States began in the 1840s. Soon after it issued additional series of handbooks for tourists in the United States, Europe, Canada and Latin America.


List of Appletons' guides by geographic coverage


Canada

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Europe

* * ** * ** 1886 ed.
p.1-421

Index
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p.399-815
** 1881 ed.
p.425-950
** 1888 ed.
p.423-916index


Latin America

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1893 ed.

Index
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Index


United States

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1865 ed.
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Index
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1893 ed.

Index
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1894 ed.

Index


North & East USA

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1853 ed.1872 ed.
** * * ** 1903 ed. *
1904 ed.
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South & West USA

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Index


See also

* ''
Picturesque America ''Picturesque America'' was a two-volume set of books describing and illustrating the scenery of America, which grew out of an earlier series in '' Appleton's Journal''. It was published by D. Appleton and Company of New York in 1872 and 1874 a ...
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* {{cite web , publisher=Princeton University Library , location=USA , work=LibGuides , title=Travel: Literature and Guidebooks , url=http://libguides.princeton.edu/content.php?pid=64128&sid=473653 Travel guide books Series of books Publications established in 1848 D. Appleton & Company books American travel books