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Baedeker's Paris, 1860

Baedeker Guides are travel guide books published by the Karl Baedeker firm of Germany beginning in the 1830s.[1][2]

List of Baedeker guides by year of publication

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1850s (in German)

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  • Die Schweiz. Handbuch für Reisende, nach eigener Anschauung und den besten Hülfsquellen bearbeitet (5th ed.), Coblenz: Karl Baedeker, 1854, OCLC 40530640
  • Handbuch für Reisende in Deutschland und dem Oesterreichischen Kaiserstaat, vol. 1 (6th ed.), Coblenz: Karl Baedeker, 1855, hdl:2027/hvd.hnnsed, OCLC 991880404
  • Die Rheinlande von der Schweizer bis zur Holländischen Grenze (9th ed.), Coblenz: Karl Baedeker, 1856, hdl:2027/hvd.hnnyc7, OCLC 793694443
  • Deutschland und das österreichische Ober-Italien: Handbuch für Reisende (8th ed.), Coblenz: Karl Baedeker, 1858, hdl:2027/hvd.hnnsec, OCLC 794648931
  • Die Schweiz, die italienischen seen, Mailand, Turin, Genua: Handbuch für Reisende (8th ed.), Coblenz: Karl Baedeker, 1859, hdl:2027/hvd.hnnsec, OCLC 29490441
  • La Suisse, les lacs italiens, Milan, Turin, Gênes et Nice: Manuel du Voyageur (in French) (4th ed.), Coblenz: Karl Baedeker, 1859, hdl:2027/uva.x001702608, OCLC 887682060

1860s

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1870s

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1871

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1872

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1873

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1874

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1875

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1876

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1877

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1878

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1879

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1880s

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1880

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1881

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1882

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1883

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1884

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1885

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1886

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1887

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1888

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  • Belgium and Holland (9th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1888, OCLC 05970948
  • The Eastern Alps, Including the Bavarian Highlands, the Tyrol, Salzkammergut, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Ithria (6th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1888, OCLC 02699377
  • Paris and its environs, with routes from London to Paris, and from Paris to the Rhine and Switzerland (9th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1888, OCLC 01464139.

1889

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1890s

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1890

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1891

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1892

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1893

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1894

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1895

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1896

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1897

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1898

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1899

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1900s

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1900

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1901

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1902

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1903

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1904

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1905

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1906

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1907

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1908

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1909

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1910s

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1920s

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  • Switzerland, Together with Chamonix and the Italian Lakes (26th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1922, OCLC 4248970
  • Canada (4th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1922
  • Berlin and its Environs (6th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1923
  • London and its Environs (18th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1923
  • Paris and its Environs (19th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1924
  • Northern Germany (17th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1925
  • The Rhine - From the Dutch to the Alsatian Frontier (18th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1926
  • Tyrol and the Dolomites (13th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1927
  • Great Britain (8th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1927
  • Italy from the Alps to Naples (3rd ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1928
  • Switzerland (27th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1928
  • Southern Germany (13th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1929
  • Austria, Together with Budapest, Prague, Karlsbad, Marienbad (12th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1929
  • Egypt and the Sudan (8th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1929

1930s

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  • Northern Italy (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1930
  • Rome and Central Italy (16th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1930
  • Southern Italy (17th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1930
  • London and its Environs (19th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1930
  • The Riviera. South-Eastern France and Corsica, the Italian Lakes and Lake of Geneva (1st ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1931
  • Belgium and Luxemburg (16th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1931
    • Note: the 15 editions before this were published as Belgium and Holland
  • Paris and its Environs (20th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1932
  • Germany (Olympic Games) (1st ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1936
  • Great Britain (9th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1937
  • Switzerland (28th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1938
  • Madeira, Canary Islands, Azores, Western Morocco (1st ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1939

1940s

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No English Baedekers published. This list otherwise contains several non English editions.

The list appears to avoid mentioning war years tourist guides about occupied territories which may have been published in the 1940s.

The first post-World War II old-style Baedekers in English were published in the 1950s by Karl Baedeker Verlag, Hamburg, after the firm was revived in 1948.

A guide to the General Government, the Polish land occupied by Germany,was published in 1943. Source: Marian Mark Drozdowski, 'The history of the Warsaw Ghetto in the Light of the Reports of Ludwig Fischer' Polin, Vol 3, 1988, 189-199, cited in T. Snyder 'Blood Lands' Vintage, 2010, p145.

1950s

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  • Munich and its Environs (1st ed.), Hamburg: Karl Baedeker, 1950
  • London and its Environs (20th ed.), Hamburg: Karl Baedeker, 1951
  • Northern Bavaria (1st ed.), Hamburg: Karl Baedeker, 1951
  • Frankfurt and the Taunus (1st ed.), Hamburg: Karl Baedeker, 1951
  • Frankfurt and the Taunus (2nd ed.), Hamburg: Karl Baedeker, 1953
  • Southern Bavaria with Excursions to Innsbruck and Salzburg (1st ed.), Hamburg: Karl Baedeker, 1953
  • London and its Environs (21st ed.), Hamburg: Karl Baedeker, 1955
  • Munich and its Environs (2nd ed.), Hamburg: Karl Baedeker, 1956

1960s

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  • Frankfurt and the Taunus (3rd ed.), Freiburg: Karl Baedeker, 1960
  • Cologne and Bonn with Environs (1st ed.), Freiburg: Karl Baedeker, 1961
  • Tyrol and Salzburg (1st ed.), Freiburg: Karl Baedeker, 1961
  • Berlin (7th ed.), Freiburg: Karl Baedeker, 1965
  • Great Britain, Vol. I - Southern England, East Anglia (10th ed.), Freiburg: Karl Baedeker, 1966
  • Great Britain, Vol. II - Central England, Wales (10th ed.), Freiburg: Karl Baedeker, 1968

1970s

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  • Great Britain, Vol III - Northern England (10th ed.), Freiburg: Karl Baedeker, 1970
  • Berlin (Abridged ed.), Freiburg: Karl Baedeker, 1971–1975

List of Baedeker guides by geographic coverage

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Baedeker's Paris, 1931

With a few exceptions, classic Baedekers were published in German, English and French. These lists enlist the English Baedekers only. Where geographical areas were not covered in English editions this is indicated.

Alaska

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See Canada and United States

Alaska became the 49th state of the United States on January 3, 1959.

Albania

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  • In German only: Dalmatia, Western Yugoslavia, Albania viz. Dalmatien und die Adria, Westliches Südslawien, Istrien, Budapest, Albanien, Korfu. Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1929.

Algeria

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See Mediterranean

Andorra

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See Spain

Austria

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  • Austria, Together with Budapest, Prague, Karlsbad, Marienbad (12th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1929

Belgium

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See Austria

Burma

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See India (Indien).

Canada

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Ceylon

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See India (Indien).

China

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See Russia for Peking.

Croatia

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Austria-Hungary including Dalmatia, Bosnia, Bucharest, Belgrade, and Montenegro (10th ed. 1905) and (11th ed. 1911), Karl Baedeker, Leipzig.

Cuba

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See United States

See Austria

Cyprus

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See Turkey and Palestine

Denmark

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See Norway

Egypt

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Estonia

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See Russia.

Finland

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In German title only; Schweden, Finnland und die Hauptreisewege durch Dänemark, Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1929

See also Russia

France

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  • The Riviera. South-Eastern France and Corsica, the Italian Lakes and Lake of Geneva (1st ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1931

Germany

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1870s-1880s
1890s-1900s
1910s-1920s
  • Northern Germany (17th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1925
  • The Rhine - From the Dutch to the Alsatian Frontier (18th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1926
  • Southern Germany (13th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1929
1930s-1950s
  • Germany (Olympic Games) (1st ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1936
  • Munich and its Environs (1st ed.), Hamburg: Karl Baedeker, 1950
  • Northern Bavaria (1st ed.), Hamburg: Karl Baedeker, 1951
  • Frankfurt and the Taunus (1st ed.), Hamburg: Karl Baedeker, 1951
  • Frankfurt and the Taunus (2nd ed.), Hamburg: Karl Baedeker, 1953
  • Southern Bavaria with Excursions to Innsbruck and Salzburg (1st ed.), Hamburg: Karl Baedeker, 1953
  • Munich and its Environs (2nd ed.), Hamburg: Karl Baedeker, 1956

Gibraltar

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See Spain

Great Britain

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Greece

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Hungary

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See Austria

Iceland

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See Norway

India

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In German only: Indien: Handbuch für Reisende (in German). Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. 1914 – via Google Books. (including Ceylon, Burma, Siam, parts of Malaya, Java; 1st ed.).

In 2013, Michael Wild, the Baedeker historian (see Karl Baedeker), published his translation of the 1914 Indien edition into English.

Indonesia

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See India (Indien) for Java.

Iran

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See Russia for Teheran.

Iraq

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See Palestine for Babylonia.

Ireland

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Ireland appeared only in the German editions of Great Britain viz. Grossbritannien (4th and last ed.), Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1906.

Isle of Man

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See Great Britain, in particular:

  • Great Britain (7th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910
  • Great Britain (8th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1927
  • Great Britain (9th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1937

Italy

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Jordan

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See Palestine for Petra.

Latvia

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See Russia.

Lebanon

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See Palestine

Libya

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See Italy (Southern) and Palestine

Liechtenstein

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  • Tyrol and the Dolomites (13th ed.), Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1927
  • Switzerland (28th ed.), Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1938
  • Only passing references to Vaduz in most of the other Switzerland editions.

Lithuania

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See Russia.

Luxembourg

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See Belgium

Madeira

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  • Madeira, Kanarische Inseln, Azoren, Westküste von Marokko (1st ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1934 (only German edition).
  • Madeira, Canary Islands, Azores, Western Morocco (1st ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1939 (only English edition).

Malaya

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See India (Indien).

Malta

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See Italy (Southern)

Mediterranean

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Mexico

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See United States

Monaco

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See France (Southern France editions)

Montenegro

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  • Austria-Hungary including Dalmatia, Bosnia, Bucharest, Belgrade, and Montenegro (10th ed. 1905) and (11th ed. 1911), Karl Baedeker, Leipzig.

Morocco

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See Mediterranean

Netherlands

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See Belgium

Norway

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Palestine

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Poland

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See Russia and Germany

Portugal

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See Spain

Romania

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  • Austria-Hungary including Dalmatia, Bosnia, Bucharest, Belgrade, and Montenegro (10th ed. 1905) and (11th ed. 1911), Karl Baedeker, Leipzig

Russia

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San Marino

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See Italy *Rome and Central Italy.

Serbia

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See Yugoslavia

Siam (Thailand)

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See India (Indien).

Slovenia

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See Croatia

Spain

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Sudan

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See Egypt

Sweden

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See Norway

Switzerland

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Syria

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See Palestine

Trans-Siberian Railway

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See Russia (1st ed, 1914), Karl Baedeker, Leipzig.

Tunisia

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See Mediterranean

Turkey

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  • In German only: Constantinople and Asia Minor viz. Konstantinopel und Kleinasien, Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1905
  • In German only: Constantinople and Asia Minor viz. Konstantinopel und Kleinasien, Balkanstaaten, Archipel, Cypern (2nd ed.), Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1914
  • In 2015, Michael Wild, the Baedeker chronicler, published his translation into English of the 1914 Konstantinopel edition in German (ISBN 9781326174477 ).

United States

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  • In German only: Dalmatia, Western Yugoslavia, Albania viz. Dalmatien und die Adria, Westliches Südslawien, Istrien, Budapest, Albanien, Korfu , Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1929.
  • Austria-Hungary including Dalmatia, Bosnia, Bucharest, Belgrade, and Montenegro (10th ed. 1905) and (11th ed. 1911), Karl Baedeker, Leipzig.

See also

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  • Karl Baedeker - the founder of Verlag Baedeker, the Baedeker publishing firm.
  • Baedeker - for the history of the House of Baedeker.

References

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  1. ^ Rudy Koshar (July 1998). "'What Ought to Be Seen': Tourists' Guidebooks and National Identities in Modern Germany and Europe". Journal of Contemporary History. 33 (3): 323–340. JSTOR 261119.
  2. ^ Sara Blair (2004). "Local Modernity, Global Modernism: Bloomsbury and the Places of the Literary". English Literary History. 71.

Further reading

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  • Alex Hinrichsen (1991), Baedeker's Reisehandbücher, 1832-1990 (in German) (2nd ed.), Bevern: U. Hinrichsen, ISBN 3922293190, OL 1519466M, 3922293190
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