1905 Baedeker’s Belgium and Holland incl. Luxembourg with ANNOTATIONS For Sale

Baedeker’s Belgium and Holland, including the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg.
Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker.
Fourteenth Edition, Revised and Augmented.
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1905.

Classic red cloth Baedeker guide with gilt lettering to spine and front cover.

• 1905 publication

• Fourteenth Edition

• Includes 16 maps and 30 plans (as called for on title page)

• Published Leipzig; London: Dulau & Co.; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons

This is a well-used, heavily annotated travel copy.

Binding:

• Original red cloth worn and soiled

• Significant fraying and loss at spine head

• Cloth splitting along spine edge

• Corners bumped

• Structurally fragile but holding

Interior:

• Pages toned with age

• Extensive handwritten notes in ink and pencil throughout front and rear endpapers and title area

• Period inscriptions dated 1906

• Names visible (appears to read “Harold Wainwright” and additional notations; legibility varies)

• Travel time notes referencing Bruges, Ostend, Furnes, Brussels, etc.

• Latin quotations referencing Erasmus

• Dutch and French notes written in period hand

The annotations strongly suggest this was carried and actively used during travel in Belgium and Holland shortly after publication.

• Folding maps present

• The front folding map is detached from the binding, though present

• Interior folding maps appear intact in the photos

• Typical Baedeker multi-color cartographic detail

Baedekers were the gold standard of continental travel guides in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Copies with extensive contemporary travel notes can add historical character, particularly when dated close to publication.

This example documents a traveler’s 1906 journey through Belgium and Holland, with handwritten route notes, time references, and reflective commentary.

A 1905 Baedeker in worn but complete condition with detached front map and significant contemporary manuscript annotations. Sold as a well-used travel copy rather than a collector-grade example.

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