Very early and rare Baedeker travel guide to Belgium in its original illustrated cardboard cover ("Biedermeier Einband"). Fifth expanded and improved edition. Coblenz, Karl Baedeker 1853. xxxii, 212 pp With 3 engraved maps (Belle-Alliance/Waterloo, Maas Valley and Belgium) and 7 engraved plans (Liège, Leuven, Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges and Ostend) Former library copy with stamp ‘Kunst & Gewerbe Verein Coburg Volklsbibliothek’ on title page. Hinrichsen, D-266a, p. 134: "(...) very rare" Condition: Binding worn and chafed, pages slightly stained, water stain on top of the first pages, more pronounced at the beginning, then gradually decreasing, without endpapers