Travel Guides
From Baedeker: Ein Name wird zur Weltmarke
Karl Baedeker's list :
1828: Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln; Ein Handbuch für Schnellreisende
- This was the travel guide written by Klein that Karl Baedeker inherited when he bought the firm of Röhling. Baedeker reissued the guide in 1832. In 1835 he published a revised edition but in 1839, he brought out a comprehensively revised and augmented edition, which bore little resemblance to Klein's original work. Many regard this to be the first true Baedeker which set the standards for what lay ahead.
1829: Extract from 'Rheinreise'.
1829: Voyage du Rhin de Mayence à Cologne
1829: Coblence; an extract from 'Le Rhin'.
1839: Moselreise von Trier bis Koblenz mit geschichtlichen Bemerkungen
1835: Holland
1835: Belgien
1842: Handbuch für Reisende durch Deutschland und den Oesterreichischen Kaiserstaat
1844: Schweiz
- This edition was Baedeker's pièce de résistance and the turning point in his career as a publisher of travel guides. One of the most popular Baedeker handbooks, it ran into 39 revised editions until 1937. La Suisse, its French counterpart, appeared in 1852 and ran into 20 editions until 1928. The English edition (Switzerland) appeared, after Baedeker died, in 1863 under Karl Baedeker II and ran into 28 editions until 1938.The founding father's guides and handbooks are only in German and French.
1847: Bad Bertrich im Uesbachthale an der Mosel
1851: Handbuch für Reisende in Deutschland, Erster Theil: Oesterreich, Süd- und West-Deutschland
1852: La Suisse
1853: Handbuch für Reisende in Oesterreich
1855: Südbayern, Tirol und Salzburg, Oberitalien
1855: Paris und Umgebung. nebst Rouen, Havre, Dieppe, Boulogne und den Eisenbahn-Strassen vom Rhein bis Paris
- Paris became another highly popular title.
1859: La Hollande et la Belgique
1860: Allemagne et quelques parties les pays limitrophes jusqu'à Strassbourg, Metz, Luxembourg, Coprnhague, Cracovie, Bude-Pesth, Venise, Milan, etc.
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