List of Baedeker Guides

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

Baedeker's Paris, 1860

List of Baedeker guides by year of publication edit

1850s (in German) edit

  • 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

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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.

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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 edit

  • 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 edit

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 edit

  • 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 edit

  • 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 edit

  • 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 edit

 
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 edit

See Canada and United States

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

Albania edit

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

Algeria edit

See Mediterranean

Andorra edit

See Spain

Austria edit

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

Belgium edit

Bosnia and Herzegovina edit

See Austria

Burma edit

See India (Indien).

Canada edit

Ceylon edit

See India (Indien).

China edit

See Russia for Peking.

Croatia edit

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

Cuba edit

See United States

Czechoslovakia edit

See Austria

Cyprus edit

See Turkey and Palestine

Denmark edit

See Norway

Egypt edit

Estonia edit

See Russia.

Finland edit

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

See also Russia

France edit

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

Germany edit

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 edit

See Spain

Great Britain edit

Greece edit

Hungary edit

See Austria

Iceland edit

See Norway

India edit

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 edit

See India (Indien) for Java.

Iran edit

See Russia for Teheran.

Iraq edit

See Palestine for Babylonia.

Ireland edit

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

Isle of Man edit

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 edit

Jordan edit

See Palestine for Petra.

Latvia edit

See Russia.

Lebanon edit

See Palestine

Libya edit

See Italy (Southern) and Palestine

Liechtenstein edit

  • 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 edit

See Russia.

Luxembourg edit

See Belgium

Madeira edit

  • 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 edit

See India (Indien).

Malta edit

See Italy (Southern)

Mediterranean edit

Mexico edit

See United States

Monaco edit

See France (Southern France editions)

Montenegro edit

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

Morocco edit

See Mediterranean

Netherlands edit

See Belgium

Norway edit

Palestine edit

Poland edit

See Russia and Germany

Portugal edit

See Spain

Romania edit

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

Russia edit

San Marino edit

See Italy *Rome and Central Italy.

Serbia edit

See Yugoslavia

Siam (Thailand) edit

See India (Indien).

Slovenia edit

See Croatia

Spain edit

Sudan edit

See Palestine

Sweden edit

See Norway

Switzerland edit

Syria edit

See Palestine

Trans-Siberian Railway edit

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

Tunisia edit

See Mediterranean

Turkey edit

  • 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 edit

Yugoslavia edit

  • 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 edit

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

References edit

  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 edit

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

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