List of Baedeker Guides

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

List of Baedeker guides by year of publication

1850s (in German)

1860s

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Part 2 (Central Italy and Rome) (or )

1870s

1871

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Part 3 (Southern Italy and Sicily) . .

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1879

1880s

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1881

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1882

1883

Part 3 (Southern Italy and Sicily, with Excursions into the Liparia Islands, Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and Corfu)

1884

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1887

1888

1889

1890s

1890

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1895

Egypt edited by K. Baedeker, Part First: Lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the Peninsula of Sinai, Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1895 .

1896

. Part 1 (Northern Italy, including Leghorn, Florence, Ravenna, and routes through Switzerland and Austria)

1897

1898 .

1899

1900s

1900

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1901

1902

1903

. Part 1 (Northern Italy, including Leghorn, Florence, Ravenna, and routes through Switzerland and Austria)

1904 . .

1905 + Index

1906

1907 .

1908

+ index 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

. + Index

1910s

+ Index

+ index

+ Index

Berlin und Umgebung, 1910, Karl Baedeker

1920s

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, pp. 189–199, cited in T. Snyder, Blood Lands, Vintage, 2010, p. 145.

1950s

1960s

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

. .

+ Index + index

+ Index

Belgium . . . .

+ via HathiTrust

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 .

+ Index

Estonia See Russia.

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

See also Russia

France

+ Index + via HathiTrust

+ via Internet Archive

Germany 1870s-1880s

+ index

. .

1890s-1900s . .

1910s-1920s + index Berlin und Umgebung, 1910, Karl Baedeker

+ Index

1930s-1950s

Gibraltar

See Spain

Great Britain

+ Index

+ index

Greece

Hungary See Austria

Iceland See Norway

India In German only: (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

Part 2 (Central Italy and Rome) (or ) .

Part 3 (Southern Italy and Sicily) .

Part 3 (Southern Italy and Sicily, with Excursions into the Liparia Islands, Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and Corfu ) .

. (+ Index)

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 + index

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

. .

+ Index

Palestine . .

. (Index)

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

. (Index).

San Marino See Italy *Rome and Central Italy.

Serbia See Yugoslavia

Siam (Thailand) See India (Indien).

Slovenia See Croatia

Spain

+ index + index

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

. Index

Yugoslavia 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.

References

List of Baedeker Guides

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