Small 8vo. 272 pp., [4], lithograph frontis portrait, 1 plate of music sheet entitled: ‘Vespergesanf in St Johann in der Wuste iin Palastina’, new cloth spine with original printed boards, soiled and blotchy, scattered spotting, some water stains on lower margin, Georg Franz, Munich, first edition, 1839.

Synopsis

Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria, known informally as Max in Bayern, was a member of a junior branch of the House of Wittelsbach and a promoter of Bavarian folk-music. In 1838 Maximilian Joseph travelled to Egypt and Palestine and later published this work, which is an account of this trip. It was reprinted by Pfaffenhofen: Ludwig, 1978). While climbing the Great Pyramid he arranged for his servants to yodel as if they were climbing the Alps. He collected a number of antiquities which he brought back to Bavaria and displayed in his father’s home, Banz Abbey; they can still be seen there today. Among the items are the mummy of a young woman, three mummies’ heads, several animal mummies, and several stones from tombs or temples including one from the Temple of Dendur. He also bought some children in the Cairo slave market and later freed them. When Maximilian Joseph was in Jerusalem, he paid for the restoration of the Church of the Flagellation on the Via Dolorosa.
Bibliographic References: Ibrahim Hilmy II, 25; For second edition of 1840: Kainbacher 264; Lentner 3822; Pfister I, 173; Reed 389.