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Holland Notausgabe

29 Jun 2008

This is very rare: a copy of Holland (1914) - the so-called emergency edition. It is an extract from the 1914 Belgien und Holland, with just the pages concerning Holland. It is not clear to me why it was decided to reprint just this section, when there was a current edition of the whole of "Benelux". But that's the way it was done, and this looks like a particularly nice example of this very rare edition.

UPDATE:

As more than one reader has pointed out, it is not that hard to work out why there was an 1914 emergency edition of Holland: Germany was at war with Belgium - famously ignoring the "scrap of paper" ("Fetzen Papier") which guaranteed Belgium's neutrality, a.k.a. the Treaty of London 1839. Consequently there was no chance of either selling Baedeker guidebooks in Belgium, or of Belgium in Germany. However, The Netherlands remained neutral throughout the war, so when a reprint of the Belgium and Holland edition was required, some savings could be achieved by just printing the Holland part.

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