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The unpublished editions

5 Sep 2009

There are three numbered editions which never in fact appeared. These are Mittel und Nord Deutschland 8 (1858), Südbayern 8 (1858) and Österreich-Ungarn 18 (1880). The two 1858 editions were planned for a period when Karl Baedeker was already seriously overworked - it was just a year before he died. But I'm not sure why the 1880 Österreich-Ungarn edition never was published. Perhaps it was withdrawn because errors were found - the Baedeker house was very particular about the accuracy of its publications - or perhaps the demand wasn't there, though the Austria-Hungary editions were very popular and were constantly updated up until 1914.

Anyway, you will not find any of these books and so they are not only rare, but non-existent.

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