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Quite a few interesting items...

26 Oct 2010

..on eBay now: one is a Rheinlande 11 (1860), which is not a frequently seen edition.

The other is not a Baedeker at all, though it certainly pretends to be: it can be seen here. as you can learn from this article, it is probably the very first Baedeker imitation to be published (in 1860). With the death of the founder, and the established success of the company, the time had obviously come to move in on the patch...

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