1931 - Bader, J. (ed.).

Bader, J. (ed.). Badenia, or the Land and People of Baden. A journal of patriotic history and regional studies, featuring maps, lithographs, and colored illustrations of regional costumes. Published in collaboration with several friends of the fatherland. First through third volumes. 3 volumes in 2. Karlsruhe and Freiburg, Herder 1839–1844. 8°. VIII, [1] leaves, IV, [1] leaves, 20, 290 pp.; IV, [1] leaf, 320 pp.; [2] leaves, 300 pp. with 2 folded city maps (Karlsruhe and Konstanz), 6 folded maps, some partially hand-colored, 39 engraved or lithographed plates, including 30 views and 7 (6 hand-colored) plates of traditional costumes in aquatint etching. Contemporary half-leather bindings with Romantic-style gilding. Diesch 3992. Engelmann 296. Kirchner 7333. Lautenschlager I, 638. Lipperheide Dfb 6–8. — Complete first series of the most important journal on folklore and regional studies of the Grand Duchy of Baden. Three additional volumes were published from 1859 to 1866. — “The periodical, edited by Josef Bader, the Baden archivist at the General State Archives in Karlsruhe, initially saw itself—as the subtitle of the first three volumes indicates—as a journal of national history and regional studies, featuring maps, lithographs, and colored illustrations of regional folk costumes. The editor’s stated aim was to complement the “series of scholarly works” on “local history and regional studies” with a “popular treatment of the same.” According to the editor, the journal—which was initially numbered by volume on the title page—was successful with this concept, as evidenced by “an unusually high level of circulation and very encouraging acclaim among all classes of our population,” however, it had been “interrupted as a result of the years of famine and political turmoil that began in 1845” (Wikipedia). — J. Bader (1805–1883) was an archivist at the Grand Ducal General State Archives of Baden. “In addition to his archival publications, B. is credited with a series of short monographs on the history of Baden’s royal houses and the region, as well as a large number of works that straddle the line between scholarly rigor and an engaging popularization of scholarly topics. He had a very keen sense of what, among the fruits of scholarly research, is capable of captivating a wider readership” (F. v. Weech in ADB XLVI, 182 f.). - Covers slightly rubbed and bumped; spine covering has significant missing sections; some brown spots in places; otherwise a well-preserved copy with all plates and maps.