1955 Baedekers Guide Automobile La Suisse Switzerland Maps Plans Sketch Tourism

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1955 Baedekers Guide Automobile La Suisse Switzerland Maps Plans Sketch Tourism:
$24.00

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Tourist guide book in French language, from 1955

Baedekers Guide Automobile

LA SUISSE

Guide officiel de l\'Automobile-club de Suisse

36 cartes et plans, 82 croquis

Hardcover, in French language.

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Published by:

Baedekers Autofuhre-Verlag, Stuttgart

Office Du Livre, Fribourg

1955.

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Pages:

Pp. 320 with 36 maps and plans, and 82 sketches +

6 maps + /2/ ads

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Dimensions:

13 x 22,8 cm.

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Condition:

very good condition, despite some very small wear

For conditions and details see the scans.

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Worldwide shipping and handling charges for this item $ 16.

Buyers from US pays $ 16.

Domestic shipping $ 4 refers to Serbia only.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Baedeker

Verlag Karl Baedeker is a Germany-based publisher and pioneer in the business of worldwide travel guides. The guides, often referred to as simply \"Baedekers\" (sometimes the term is used about similar works from other publishers, or in reference to any kind of guide), contain important introductions, descriptions of buildings, of museum collections, etc., written by the best specialists, and are frequently revised in order to be up to date. For the convenience of travellers, they are in a handy format and in small print.

Contents

1 History

1.1 World War II

1.2 Post-World War II

2 Influence

3 Purchasing a Baedeker

4 References

5 External links

History

Map of Switzerland, published in a 1913 Baedeker travel guide

Founded by Karl Baedeker in 1827, the company relocated in 1872 to Leipzig under his third son Fritz Baedeker, who took over control of the company following the death and disablement of his older brothers. With the widespread advent of mechanical transportation, it was Fritz who managed an explosive growth in the line of travel guides, also producing international guides. Prior to World War I, Baedeker\'s guides were famous enough that baedekering became an English-language term for the process of travelling a country for the purpose of writing a travel guide or travelogue about it.

World War II

Between April and June 1942, Germany launched a series of air attacks against English cities that had little strategic importance, but that were picturesque and historically important. This was called the \"Baedeker Blitz\" by the British as it was believed the towns had been targeted because of their three stars in the guidebook. The German raids followed the Royal Air Force\'s bombing of the historic, German city of Lübeck in March 1942, which had caused widespread destruction (see Bombing of Lübeck in World War II).

During the years of World War II, the Nazi government commissioned publication of several travel guides of occupied regions of Europe. Among these were travel guides of Generalgouvernement (General Government, part of occupied Poland), and the Alsace region of occupied France annexed by the German Reich.

The Baedeker company\'s premises and files perished in a December 1943 air raid, but Baedeker\'s great grandson revived the company, restarting publication of tourist guides in 1948.

Post-World War II

The publishing house joined with the insurance company Allianz Group in 1978, and many of the guides have been called \"Baedeker Allianz Travel Guides\" (Baedeker Allianz Reiseführer) since then. However, as of 2001, 64 titles in English and 24 in French do not carry the Allianz logo; Prentice Hall and Macmillan have published the English titles.

Influence

For 40 years (1878–1918) the Scottish brothers James and Findlay Muirhead published the English-language Baedekers. In 1918, they established the ongoing Blue Guides as heir to the great 19th century Baedeker tradition.

Purchasing a Baedeker

Internet sites regularly list old Baedeker guidebooks for sale. The guides of most historical and cultural interest span the period prior to World War II; describing Europe, the United States, Egypt, Canada, India and Russia in the context of the day.

Rarer books (e.g. Russia, India, Egypt, Palestine & Syria) regularly sell for quite significant sums.

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