List of Baedeker Guides explained
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
1860s
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- Part 2 (Central Italy and Rome)
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1870s
1871
1872
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- Part 3 (Southern Italy and Sicily)
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1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880s
1880
1881
1883
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- Part 3 (Southern Italy and Sicily, with Excursions into the Liparia Islands, Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and Corfu)
1884
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890s
1890
1891
1893
1894
1895
- Egypt edited by K. Baedeker, Part First: Lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the Peninsula of Sinai, Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1895
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1896
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- Part 1 (Northern Italy, including Leghorn, Florence, Ravenna, and routes through Switzerland and Austria)
1897
1898
1899
1900s
1900
1901
1902
1903
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- Part 1 (Northern Italy, including Leghorn, Florence, Ravenna, and routes through Switzerland and Austria)
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
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- Southern Italy and Sicily, with excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis and Corfu (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1908
1909
- Northern France, from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire, excluding Paris and its environs (15th ed.), Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1909
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- + Index
1910s
1930s
- Note: the 15 editions before this were published as Belgium and Holland
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.
1970s
List of Baedeker guides by geographic coverage
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
- In German only: Dalmatia, Western Yugoslavia, Albania viz. Dalmatien und die Adria, Westliches Südslawien, Istrien, Budapest, Albanien, Korfu. Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1929.
Algeria
See Mediterranean
Andorra
See Spain
Austria
Belgium
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
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
Hungary
See Austria
Iceland
See Norway
India
In German only: Book: Indien: Handbuch für Reisende . Google Books . Karl Baedeker . Leipzig . 1914 . de. (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:
- 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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- Part 2 (Central Italy and Rome)
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- Part 3 (Southern Italy and Sicily)
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- Part 3 (Southern Italy and Sicily, with Excursions into the Liparia Islands, Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and Corfu)
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- Southern Italy and Sicily, with excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis and Corfu (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1908
- (+ via HathiTrust)
- (+ via HathiTrust; Index)
Jordan
See Palestine for Petra.
Latvia
See Russia.
Lebanon
See Palestine
Libya
See Italy (Southern) and Palestine
Liechtenstein
- 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
See Russia.
Luxembourg
See Belgium
Madeira
- 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
See India (Indien).
Malta
See Italy (Southern)
Mediterranean
Mexico
See United States
Monaco
See France (Southern France editions)
Montenegro
- Austria-Hungary including Dalmatia, Bosnia, Bucharest, Belgrade, and Montenegro (10th ed. 1905) and (11th ed. 1911), Karl Baedeker, Leipzig.
Morocco
See Mediterranean
Netherlands
See Belgium
Norway
Palestine
Poland
See Russia and Germany
Portugal
See Spain
Romania
- Austria-Hungary including Dalmatia, Bosnia, Bucharest, Belgrade, and Montenegro (10th ed. 1905) and (11th ed. 1911), Karl Baedeker, Leipzig
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
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Syria
See Palestine
Trans-Siberian Railway
See Russia (1st ed, 1914), Karl Baedeker, Leipzig.
Tunisia
See Mediterranean
Turkey
- 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 .
- Also see Mediterranean - only English edition with Constantinople.
United States
- 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
- Karl Baedeker - the founder of Verlag Baedeker, the Baedeker publishing firm.
- Baedeker - for the history of the House of Baedeker.
External links
- BDKR On-line catalogue to all guides with English translations of parts of Hinrichsen's book.
Notes and References
- 'What Ought to Be Seen': Tourists' Guidebooks and National Identities in Modern Germany and Europe . Rudy Koshar . Journal of Contemporary History . 33 . 3 . 323–340 . July 1998 . 261119 .
- Local Modernity, Global Modernism: Bloomsbury and the Places of the Literary . Sara Blair . English Literary History . 71 . 2004 .