List of Baedeker Guides

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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]

Contents

List of Baedeker guides by year of publication

1850s (in German)

1860s

1870s

1871

1872

1873

1874

1875

1876

1877

1878

1879

1880s

1880

1881

1882

1883

1884

1885

1886

1887

1888

  • 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

1890s

1890

1891

1892

1893

1894

1895

1896

1897

1898

1899

1900s

1900

1901

1902

1903

1904

1905

1906

1907

1908

1909

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

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

1960s

1970s

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

See Canada and United States

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

Albania

Algeria

See Mediterranean

Andorra

See Spain

Austria

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

See Austria

Burma

See India (Indien).

Canada

Ceylon

See India (Indien).

China

See Russia for Peking.

Croatia

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

Cuba

See United States

Czechoslovakia

See Austria

Cyprus

See Turkey and Palestine

Denmark

See Norway

Egypt

Estonia

See Russia.

Finland

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

See also Russia

France

Germany

1870s-1880s
1890s-1900s
1910s-1920s
1930s-1950s

Gibraltar

See Spain

Great Britain

Greece

Hungary

See Austria

Iceland

See Norway

India

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

See India (Indien) for Java.

Iran

See Russia for Teheran.

Iraq

See Palestine for Babylonia.

Ireland

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

Isle of Man

See Great Britain, in particular:

Italy

Jordan

See Palestine for Petra.

Latvia

See Russia.

Lebanon

See Palestine

Libya

See Italy (Southern) and Palestine

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

See Russia.

Luxembourg

See Belgium

Madeira

Malaya

See India (Indien).

Malta

See Italy (Southern)

Mediterranean

Mexico

See United States

Monaco

See France (Southern France editions)

Montenegro

Morocco

See Mediterranean

Netherlands

See Belgium

Norway

Palestine

Poland

See Russia and Germany

Portugal

See Spain

Romania

Russia

San Marino

See Italy *Rome and Central Italy.

Serbia

See Yugoslavia

Siam (Thailand)

See India (Indien).

Slovenia

See Croatia

Spain

Sudan

See Egypt

Sweden

See Norway

Switzerland

Syria

See Palestine

Trans-Siberian Railway

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

Tunisia

See Mediterranean

Turkey

United States

Yugoslavia

See also

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