Mayr, Heinrich von, and Sebastian Fischer

First edition in French, folio (483 x 367mm.), pictorial tinted lithographed title, 48 plates (33 tinted lithographs by J.B. Kuhn of Munich after P. Herweger, 15 engraved plates by P. Herweger) showing costume, interiors, street scenes and artefacts, plates and title with von Mayr’s and the publisher’s embossed initial blind stamps, contemporary (?publisher’s) morocco-backed boards, occasional light spotting, joints rubbed

Blackmer 1101; Gay 90 (36 plates only); Lipperheide 1598; not in Colas

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Only the Blackmer copy is recorded at auction. Maximilian travelled in the Levant in 1838, and was accompanied by von Mayr. This work, which contains different subjects from those in von Mayr’s earlier Malerische Ansichten aus dem Orient (Leipzig, 1839, see previous lot), contains many fine, often lively views in Cairo, Alexandria and Syria, including detailed costume studies and interiors.