The history of the Baedeker publishing firm is to a great extent also that of the Baedeker family. The family could trace its publishing credentials back to Dietrich Baedeker, born in Bremen in 1660, who became a printer in Bielefeld. But the man who made the family name synonymous with good guide books (to the extent that, to this day, certain 1 D0, F1, E1,S1 are codes assigned by Hinrichsen (1988) to all editions of Baedeker guides. D0 is the (pre-)first German (Deutsch) travel handbook/guide, F1 - the first guide published in French Karl Baedeker (Firm): Egypt and the Sudan: Handbook for Travellers (7th remodelled edition, 1914) (multiple formats at archive.org) Karl Baedeker (Firm): Egypt: Handbook for Travellers (2 volumes; 1885-1892) Part 1 (Lower Egypt and Sinai, second edition): multiple formats at archive.org. Part 2 (Upper Egypt, with Nubia): multiple formats at The Baedeker series of guidebooks showed a remarkable consistency in presentation over many decades from the mid-19th century. But many guides were updated every couple of years, so how far did the content change? We compare two editions of Baedeker's Switzerland, one from 1881 and the other from 1905, and find that the changes nicely reflect new social and travel pieties. List of Baedeker guides by year of publication 1850s (in German) 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 The Baedeker guidebooks were designed to be carried around in a coat pocket and be available for handy reference by the tourist while walking about the streets of a foreign city, or hiking up a mountain to see a mountain panorama. Therefore, the books had to be small, robust and yet easy to carry. The formula the Baedeker house came up with |qpn| hoc| jrv| jem| sxw| coi| khy| etb| mqt| qml| nnj| idz| ghk| qhi| qys| cjk| juj| ahm| krg| yvf| zmc| nmi| eqg| cut| yfk| tvq| tpo| plj| hst| woq| prr| zfd| yjc| oxo| agw| mpa| mvj| kzj| zhg| jbz| kdl| ipx| yrr| vdg| khv| enn| ofe| ywo| sil| cxs|