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Views from D11 and others

23 Feb 2009

One of our correspondents has written in with a query:

I happen to have the D11 which is from 1862 and has 13 views (not 8 as the title page says in German nor 12 as apparently has E1). I have always wondered about who was the author of these elaborate views as it is neither stated on them nor in the foreword. My guess is that they may be by someone called P[aul] Ahrens who is the author of some other similar views (on sale in the internet) dating since 1845 to 1865. On top of that he is the author of a beautiful panorama of the Rhine from Coblenz to Mainz which I found loose inside that D011 when I bought it - but does not belong to the Baedeker.

Is it known who the author really was?

Well, I don't know - do any of you, dear readers?

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