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PRINCE FRIEDRICH WILHELM WALDEMAR VON PREUSSEN (1817-1849)
Zur Erinnerung an die Reise des Prinzen Waldemar von Preussen nach Indien in den Jahren 1844-1846 Berlin: Gedruckt in der Deckerschen Geheimen Ober-hofbuchdruckerei, 1853. 4 parts in 2 volumes, 2° (579 x 429mm). Tinted lithographic portrait, 2 additional titles and 104 plates (one double-page), 9 engraved maps on 6 sheets, hand-coloured in outline. (Spotting throughout, heaviest to beginning of vol. I with most plates clean.) Original brown cloth by Leisegang of Berlin (binder's ticket), upper covers decorated in gilt with large Prussian eagle and lettered in gilt, lower covers with the names of the battles of Moodkee (Mudki), Ferozeshah and Sabraon encircling Waldemar's cypher in gilt (neat early 20th-century rebacking and recornering with black morocco, small patch of wear to upper cover of vol. I, extremities lightly rubbed).
Friedrich Wilhelm Waldemar followed the usual Prussian aristocratic career path into the military. By 1838 he had risen to simultaneously become Major in the Guard-Dragoons and commander of the 3rd Guard Militia. In 1842 he transferred to the Guard Artillery Brigade, and was promoted Colonel in 1844. Later that same year, the Prince joined a former captain on the General-staff, Eduard Graf von Oriola, and Lieutenant Albrecht Wilhelm von der Groeben on a tour of India. There, the Prince was an observer in the First Anglo-Sikh war, witnessing the battles of Mudki (18 December 1845), Ferozeshah (21 and 22 December 1845) and Sabraon (10 February 1846). The names of these battles are stamped in gilt on the lower covers of the present work. During the battle of Ferozeshah, his travel companion and childhood friend, Dr. Werner Hoffmeister, was killed. Hoffmeister's letters home and his 'Memoir of the Author' are the principal biographical sources for Prince Waldemar's life and travels. The present work caused a sensation in Germany with its high-quality illustrations and its account of little-visited places. (2)
Zur Erinnerung an die Reise des Prinzen Waldemar von Preussen nach Indien in den Jahren 1844-1846 Berlin: Gedruckt in der Deckerschen Geheimen Ober-hofbuchdruckerei, 1853. 4 parts in 2 volumes, 2° (579 x 429mm). Tinted lithographic portrait, 2 additional titles and 104 plates (one double-page), 9 engraved maps on 6 sheets, hand-coloured in outline. (Spotting throughout, heaviest to beginning of vol. I with most plates clean.) Original brown cloth by Leisegang of Berlin (binder's ticket), upper covers decorated in gilt with large Prussian eagle and lettered in gilt, lower covers with the names of the battles of Moodkee (Mudki), Ferozeshah and Sabraon encircling Waldemar's cypher in gilt (neat early 20th-century rebacking and recornering with black morocco, small patch of wear to upper cover of vol. I, extremities lightly rubbed).
Friedrich Wilhelm Waldemar followed the usual Prussian aristocratic career path into the military. By 1838 he had risen to simultaneously become Major in the Guard-Dragoons and commander of the 3rd Guard Militia. In 1842 he transferred to the Guard Artillery Brigade, and was promoted Colonel in 1844. Later that same year, the Prince joined a former captain on the General-staff, Eduard Graf von Oriola, and Lieutenant Albrecht Wilhelm von der Groeben on a tour of India. There, the Prince was an observer in the First Anglo-Sikh war, witnessing the battles of Mudki (18 December 1845), Ferozeshah (21 and 22 December 1845) and Sabraon (10 February 1846). The names of these battles are stamped in gilt on the lower covers of the present work. During the battle of Ferozeshah, his travel companion and childhood friend, Dr. Werner Hoffmeister, was killed. Hoffmeister's letters home and his 'Memoir of the Author' are the principal biographical sources for Prince Waldemar's life and travels. The present work caused a sensation in Germany with its high-quality illustrations and its account of little-visited places. (2)