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THE BOOK CAUSED A SENSATION IN GERMANY WITH ITS HIGH-QUALITY ILLUSTRATIONS AND ITS ACCOUNT OF LITTLE-VISITED PLACES
TITLE: Des Prinzen Waldemar Von Preussen Nach Indien
VOLUME: 1
AUTHOR: Alexander von Humboldt
PUBLISHER: Gedruckt in der Deckerschen Geheimen Ober-hofbuchdruckerei
PLACE: Berlin
YEAR: 1853
BINDING: Original brown cloth by Leisegang of Berlin, upper covers decorated in gilt with large Prussian eagle and lettered in gilt
SIZE:
Height: 59 cm
Width: 45 cm
Depth: 4.5 cm
TITLE: Des Prinzen Waldemar Von Preussen Nach Indien
VOLUME: 2
AUTHOR: Alexander von Humboldt
PUBLISHER: Gedruckt in der Deckerschen Geheimen Ober-hofbuchdruckerei
PLACE: Berlin
YEAR: 1853
BINDING: Original brown cloth by Leisegang of Berlin, upper covers decorated in gilt with large Prussian eagle and lettered in gilt
SIZE:
Height: 59 cm
Width: 45 cm
Depth: 3 cm
4 parts in 2 volumes (as published, each partseparately paginated), large folio, tinted lithographed portrait of Waldemar, 2 pictorial tinted lithographed additional titles by Bellermann after Kretzschmer after Prince Waldemar, 4 divisional half-titles, 9 hand-coloured engraved maps and plans on 6 sheets and 104 fine tinted lithographed plates by Bellermann and others. A. Haun and others after sketches and drawings by Prince Waldemar and others (one double page).
An impressive work that records and illustrates the travels of PrinceWaldemar of Prussia across Sri Lanka, India and Nepal in the years 1844-46. Views include scenes from Egypt as well as the Indian subcontinent and Himalayas
Friedrich Wilhelm Waldemar followed the usual Prussian aristocratic career path intothe military. By 1838 he had risen to simultaneously become Major in the Guard-Dragoons and commander of the 3rd Guard Militia. In 1842 he transferred to the Guard Artillery Brigade, and was promoted Colonel in 1844. Later that same year, the Princejoined a former captain on the General-staff, Eduard Graf von Oriola, and Lieutenant Albrecht Wilhelm von der Groeben on a tour of India. There, the Prince was an observer in the First Anglo-Sikh war, witnessing the battles of Mudki (18 December 1845), Ferozeshah (21 and 22 December 1845) and Sabraon (10 February 1846). The names of these battles are stamped in gilt on the lower covers of the present work. During the battle of Ferozeshah, his travel companion and childhood friend, Dr. Werner Hoffmeister, was killed. Hoffmeister's letters home and his 'Memoir of the Author' are the principal biographical sources for Prince Waldemar's life and travels. The present work caused a sensation in Germany with its high-quality illustrations and itsaccount of little-visited places.
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