Travel, Atlases, Maps, Photographs & Natural History

Travel, Atlases, Maps, Photographs & Natural History

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Property from the Loverdos Collection

S. Fischer and H. v. Mayr | Genre-Bilder aus dem Oriente. Stuttgart, 1850, original cloth-backed printed card wrappers

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

September 21, 11:17 AM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Loverdos Collection


Sebastian Fischer and Heinrich von Mayr 


Genre-Bilder aus dem Oriente. Gesammelt auf der orientalischen Reise Sr. Konigl. Hoheit des Herrn Herzogs. Stuttgart, 1850


Folio (501 x 392mm.), lithographed pictorial title, foreword, 70 pages of text, and 33 (of 48) lithographed plates, original cloth-backed printed card wrappers, plates detached, staining and browning, binding worn


A rare publication on Archduke Maximilian of Bavaria's travels in 1838 to Egypt, Nubia, Palestine, Syria and Malta. This work contains different subjects from those in Mayr's earlier work, Malerische Ansichten aus dem Orient (Leipzig, 1839).


LITERATURE:

Blackmer 1101 (French edition, published simultaneously); Hilmy II, p. 26 (calling for 36 plates)

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