Baedeker and Other Travel Guides from Shapero Rare Books
Shapero Rare Books has published their third recent catalogue of Baedeker & General Travel Guides. For those seeking to tour the world, Europe in particular, but the Middle East, America, and occasionally even Asia, these are the guides you needed in the 19th and much of the 20th century. Baedeker published in Germany, but their guides were not limited to those visiting Germany, or those from Germany looking to tour the world. They published guides in German, French and English that were useful for visiting foreign countries or even your own, depending on where you lived. Of course, the...