[Traditional costumes, folk festivals and characteristic activities in the Grand Duchy of Baden in XII pictorial representations.] Oblong folio (302 x 391mm) Contemporary red pebble-grain cloth with green mottled boards lettered in gilt on upper board, and ruled in gilt. Minor rubbing to the extremities. 12 aquatint plates, coloured by a contemporary hand and mounted on grey thick paper, each with a leaf of descriptive letterpress (annotation to title in pencil), light spotting throughout, small repaired tear to leaf 18. A fine example of Aloys Schreiber's descriptive and illustrative account of the costumes, folk festivals and typical occupations of the Grand Duchy of Baden. The German author was a writer of many talents and his interests varied from aesthetics, court history, theatre and travel. These wide-ranging and culturally encompassing concerns are exemplified in this present publication, which sought to promote and explore the identity of the German Duchy. The Grand Duchy of Baden was at the time a newly established independent state of the German Empire (1806) following the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire that same year. Schreiber was appointed to the position of court historian to Karlsruhe in 1813 and through his illustrated books, such as this, he helped to establish not only the cultural validity but equally the political legitimacy of the region. Coloured plates in order: 1. Das Innere Einer Hauensteiner Wohnung. 2. Einer Hochzeit im Kirchzarter Thal. 3. Der Hahnentanz in der Baar. 4. Das Strohflechten auf dem Schwarzwald. 5. Der Holzapfeltanz in der Pfalz. 6. Der Hammeltanz in Hornberg. 7. Glasmacherei bei Neustadt. 8. Uhrenmacherei in Neustadt auf dem Schwarzwalde. 9. Die Hanfbereitung bei Lahr. 10. Weinlese zu Mullheim. 11. Das Holzflozen bei Wolfach. 12. Die Rheingoldwascherei.