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Baedekers of Argentina and Chile

16 Apr 2008

There are a couple of "Baedeker de la Republica Argentina" on eBay at the moment - this book belongs to a category one might call pseudo-Baedekers, i.e. books published by other publishers but made to look like the real thing, in order to take advantage of its reputation. There are several others - the Argentine one is perhaps the most frequently appearing. It also looks very like the real Baedekers - just check the font of the gold lettering on the cover.

Today I also saw a "Baedeker de la Republica de Chile" from 1910 - which I hadn't seen before. These pseudo-Baedekers are interesting and could be the subject of a whole separate collection - as long as you don't get confused with the real thing!

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