Appletons' travel guides explained

Appletons' travel guide books were published by D. Appleton & Company of New York.^{[1] [2]} 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

• Book: Appletons' General Guide to the United States and Canada . 1879–1901 . D. Appleton & Co. . New York .
  • Book: Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore . Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore. Appletons' Guide-Book to Alaska and the Northwest Coast: including the Shores of Washington, British Columbia, South Eastern Alaska, the Aleutian and the Seal Islands, the Bering and the Arctic Coasts . 1893 . D. Appleton and Co..

Europe

• • • • • • • 1886 ed.: p.1-421 + Index
• . p.399-815
  • 1881 ed.: p.425-950
  • 1888 ed.: p.423-916; index

Latin America

• • • 1893 ed. + Index
• Book: North Brazil . South American Handbooks . D. Appleton & Co. . New York . 1914 . E.C. Buley .
• Book: Colombia . South American Handbooks . D. Appleton & Co. . New York . 1914 . V. Levine .
• Book: Peru . South American Handbooks . D. Appleton & Co. . New York . 1914 . E.C. Vivian .
• Book: South Brazil . South American Handbooks . D. Appleton & Co. . New York . 1920 . E.C. Buley . + Index

United States

• • ^[3]
• .
  • 1865 ed.
• . Index
  • • 1893 ed. + Index
• Book: Appletons' General Guide to the United States and Canada . 1879–1901 . D. Appleton & Co. . New York .
  • Book: Appletons' General Guide to the United States and Canada . 1893 . D. Appleton & Co. . New York . 24928392M . Index
    • 1894 ed. + Index

North & East USA

• • • • 1853 ed.; 1872 ed.
        • • 1903 ed.
  • 1904 ed.
• Book: Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore . Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore. Appletons' Guide-Book to Alaska and the Northwest Coast . 1893 . D. Appleton and Co..

South & West USA

• • • + Index
• . Index
• Book: Florida for Tourists, Invalids and Settlers . 1882 . D. Appleton and Co. . New York . 7111225M . ^[4]
  • • Book: Appletons' General Guide to the United States and Canada . 1889 . D. Appleton & Co. . New York . Western and Southern States . + Index

See also

• Picturesque America

External links

• Web site: Princeton University Library . USA . LibGuides . Travel: Literature and Guidebooks .

Notes and References

1. Book: Appletons' Guide-Book to Alaska . Appleton's Guide-Books . https://books.google.com/books?id=i4t-eao3nacC&pg=PA162 . 1893. D. Appleton and Co..
2. Literary Era . Philadelphia . 1896 . Appletons' Guides .
3. Book: Appletons' National Railway and Steam Navigation Guide for the United States and Canada . WorldCat . 702614642 .
4. Who Wrote 'Barbour's Florida' . Thomas S. Graham . Florida Historical Quarterly . 51 . 4 . 431–435 . 1973 . 30145874 .