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Who is this Baedeker, then?

14 Jul 2009

Here is an interesting old book, published 1822 by G. D. Bädeker in Essen, i.e. Karl B's father's publishing house. It is cheerfully called "Kurzer und faßlicher Unterricht in der einfachen Obstbaumzucht für die Landjugend" ("short and comprehensible instructions for easy pruning of fruit trees for rural youth" - I guess it would have been called "Pruning for Dummies" if published today) by Franz Gotthilf Heinrich Jacob Bädeker. Typical sort of useful stuff published by the Baedeker family as a mainstay, before the travel guides took over. But who was this alphabetically initialled F. G. H. J. Baedeker?

Apologies for slow posting recently - am up to my eyeballs in work at the moment - sorry!

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