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Voyage en Orient. Traduit de lAllemand. Illustrations daprès les dessins originaux de Franz von Pausinger.
1885ref. K3NAZ0R8AJUJVienna: Imprimerie Imperiale et Royale de la Cour et de lÉtat 1885. Contemporary calf richly gold-tooled front board spine label gilt edges. Folio. With 37 etched plates. First and only edition in French. Archduke Rudolf set out on his tour of the Middle East in 1881 travelling first from Vienna to Miramar Corfu Alexandria and Cairo. From there the group sailed up the Nile to Aswan and Memphis then journeyed on to Port Said the Suez Canal the Red Sea and the Holy Land returning to Vienna from Haifa via Cattaro Kotor Ragusa Dubrovnik and Trieste. This outstanding and unique copy in a sumptuous Viennese binding in immaculate condition was created for Anton Ritter von Beck 1812-95 then director of the governments Imperial printing office in Vienna.With a long inscription by the translator the Baron de Montandin to "Monsieur le Hof Rath Anton Chevalier Von Beck" on the flyleaf dated Vienna 28 February 1885. Some slight stains in the guards of the etchings otherwise a very clean copy.l Hamann Habsburger-Lexikon pp. 415 ff.; ÖBL IX pp. 315 ff.; Wurzbach VII pp. 145 ff. Imprimerie Imperiale et Royale de la Cour et de lÉtat, unknown
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