Middle East.- Mayr (Heinrich von) and Sebastien Fischer. Tableaux de Genre recueillis pendant le voyage de Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur de Duc Maximilien de Baviere, first edition in French, tinted lithograph pictorial title and 48 plates (33 tinted lithographs by J.B. Kuhn after P. Herweger and 15 plain plates by P. Herweger), foxing, occasionally heavy, hinges broken, contemporary green straight-grain morocco, gilt, worn, scuffed and with some remnants of paper adhered to lower cover, [Blackmer 1101; Lipperheide 1598; not in Abbey; not in Colas], folio, [Stuttgart, Ebner & Seubert], [c.1850].*** Rare at auction with only one other copy (2013) since the Blackmer copy. "Mayr had accompanied Archduke Maximilian of Bavaria on his travels through Egypt, Syria and Palestine in 1838...The genre plates are essentially scenes from eastern life, e.g. 'Aertzlicher besuch im Harem' but Mayr has also included detailed plates of furniture, clothing, musical instruments and decorative tiles. The costume plates include that of a Greek woman at her embroidery (no.23)." (Blackmer).