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ERNST II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Reise des Herzogs Ernst von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha nach Aegypten und den Ländern der Habab, Mensa und Bogos.
A 19th-century journey to the Nile, Egypt, and Ethiopia when such a thing was still a grand adventure! Ernst, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, used his wife's diary to prepare the text. Robert Kretschmer accompanied them and lithographed his own drawings for the book. The series of plates are magnificent.
- Published
- Lepizig: Arnoldische Buchhandlung, 1864.
- References
- BL; Hilmy I, 349; Blackmer 554; not in Atabey; Bobins 139.
- Plates
- 19 + 1
- Binding/Size
- L=FOLIO
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Lepizig: Arnoldische Buchhandlung, 1864.
- Ref
- 5482
[Journey of Duke Ernst of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Egypt and the lands of Habab, Mensa and Bogos.] FIRST EDITION. Large oblong folio, chromolithographed title, 19 chromolithograph plates by Rober. Kretschmer, four mounted photographs on one leaf, two maps on one leaf, in original drab grey linen or canvas-backed 'dust-jacket,' preserving beautiful red cloth boards, which are ornately stamped in gilt and in blind, watered silk endpapers. An account of a journey to Egypt, Sudan, and Eastern Abyssinia in 1862 by German text. Coloured plates in order: 1. Title page. 2. Medinet Habu. Tempel Rhameses II. 3. Nilufer bei Luksor. Gebel el Kurnu mit den Konigsgraben. 4. Luksor. Besuch Sr. Konigl. Hoh. des Prinzen von Wales. 5. Massaua. 6. M'Kullo. Haus Ihrer Hoheit der Frau Herzogin. 7. Die Samhara. Vegetation der Steppe. 8. Amba Scheriffa. Flussufer der Steppe. 9. Dessert. Reiterzug des Naib von Arkiko. 10. Abhan Giurge. Besuch des Naib. 11. Waldcharakter. Vegetation am Flussufer. 12. Das Felsenthor. 13. Waldcharakter. Vegetation im höheren Gebirge. 14. Gebirgspass die höchsten Spitzen-des Beit Abrehe. 15. Beit Abrehe. Eingang zur Hochebene von Mensa. 16. Die Hochebene von Mensa. Lager Sr. Hoheit. 17. Mensa. Molot, Tanz der Bogos. 18. Mensa. Inneres einer Hütte. 19. Elephantenjagd. 20. Mensa. Osterfestfeier. [Four photograph 'type' plates] [Maps: Karte zur Übersicht der Reise [...] Nord, Ost Afrika / Karte der Nördlichen Grenzländer von Abessinien].
