[Rarebooks] The DeSoto Hotel, Savannah--unrecorded? 1896 booklet

[Bob Petrilla]

Georgia, Savannah. THE DE SOTO [HOTEL] . Savannah: Watson & Powers, (1896).
First Edition. (16)pp; illustrated throughout from photographs and
drawings, printed in blue and red duotone. Pasted inside the cover is a
DeSoto letterhead, showing the hotel and dated by hand "Mch. 1896." Cream
wrappers, embossed coat-of-arms on cover. Printed by Loughead & Co. Art
Press, Philadelphia. 4.5" x 6"  Very Good.
The DeSoto is billed here as the Queen of Resorts. Topics include:
Savannah; Social Life; Beautiful Drives; Superb Bonaventure; Yachting and
Fishing; and Routes to Savannah. Illustrations show: exterior views;
Drawing Room; Main Dining Room; Bull Street Entrance and Porch; Liberty
Street Entrance; Old Slave Quarters, Hermitage Plantation; Jasper Monument
and Harris Street Side; Avenue at Hermitage and Overseer of Slaves
Residence; Negro Cabin on Bonaventure Drive; etc. [World Cat does not
record this title.]     $75.00

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