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)

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  • [|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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  • Southern Italy and Sicily, with excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis and Corfu, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1908

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  • Northern France, from [|Belgium] and the English Channel to the Loire, excluding Paris and its environs, Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1909
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  • * Note: the 15 editions before this were published as Belgium and Holland

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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

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  • 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]

See Austria

Burma

See [|India].

Canada

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  • Ceylon

See India.

China

See [|Russia] for Peking.

Croatia

  • Austria-Hungary including Dalmatia, Bosnia, Bucharest, Belgrade, and Montenegro and, Karl Baedeker, Leipzig.

    Cuba

See United States

[Czechoslovakia]

See Austria

Cyprus

See [|Turkey] and [|Palestine]

Denmark

See [|Norway]

Egypt

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  • Estonia

See Russia.

Finland

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

[|France]

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  • Germany

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  • Gibraltar

See Spain

Great Britain

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  • Greece

  • Hungary

See Austria

Iceland

See Norway

India

In German only: .
In 2013, Michael Wild, the Baedeker historian, published his translation of the 1914 Indien edition into English.

Indonesia

See India for Java.

Iran

See Russia for Teheran.

Iraq

See Palestine for Babylonia.

Ireland

Ireland appeared only in the German editions of Great Britain viz. , Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1906.

Isle of Man

See Great Britain, in particular:
  • Great Britain, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910
  • Great Britain, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1927
  • Great Britain, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1937

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  • Southern Italy and Sicily, with excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis and Corfu, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1908

  • Jordan

See Palestine for Petra.

Latvia

See Russia.

Lebanon

See Palestine

Libya

See Italy and Palestine

Liechtenstein

  • Tyrol and the Dolomites, Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1927
  • Switzerland, 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, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1934.
  • Madeira, Canary Islands, Azores, Western Morocco, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1939.

    Malaya

See India.

Malta

See Italy

Mediterranean

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    Mexico

See United States

Monaco

See France

Montenegro

  • Austria-Hungary including Dalmatia, Bosnia, Bucharest, Belgrade, and Montenegro and, Karl Baedeker, Leipzig.

    Morocco

See Mediterranean

Netherlands

See Belgium

Norway

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  • Poland

See Russia and Germany

Portugal

See Spain

Romania

  • Austria-Hungary including Dalmatia, Bosnia, Bucharest, Belgrade, and Montenegro and, Karl Baedeker, Leipzig

    Russia

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    San Marino

See Italy *Rome and Central Italy.

Serbia

See Yugoslavia

[Siam] (Thailand)

See India.

Slovenia

See Croatia

Spain

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    Sudan

See Egypt

Sweden

See Norway

Switzerland

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  • Syria

See Palestine

Trans-Siberian Railway

See Russia, 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, 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

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    [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 and, Karl Baedeker, Leipzig.