Full title: Guide-Chaix. Bibliothèque du voyageur. Nouveau guide de Paris à Strasbourg, et à Bâle. Classic 19th-century French travel guide, published by Napoléon Chaix circa 1852. It served as a practical handbook for travellers journeying from Paris to Strasbourg and Basel (Bâle) by rail or coach during the early era of European railway expansion. Chaix was a prominent Paris-based printer and publisher of railway timetables (Indicateur Chaix), and this book provided detailed itineraries, stage-by-stage route descriptions, local curiosities, relay stations, accommodations, currency conversions, and practical tips for a trip. In hardback embossed percaline boards, with gilt titles to front board and spine. Under protective clear wrapper. Inside, are 8 lithographic plates, a folding frontis map, plus many advertisements and extra information to the rear. Some sporadic foxing throughout, but in a very good condition. This guide captures the excitement of France's rail boom connecting Paris to eastern frontiers, and aided bourgeois tourists and businessmen who were visiting industrial Strasbourg and Swiss Basel. 188, [iv] [34] pp. 16.5 x 10.5 cm.