Coup d'œil sur Alexandrebad et Louisebourg dans le cercle du Haut-Mayn en Bavière

Very rare first edition illustrated with a frontispiece and 5 hors-texte plates (cf. Quérard, IV, 424; Pfeiffer, 220).

Bradel binding in full grey paper-covered boards, smooth spine, longitudinal red morocco lettering-piece, original plain blue-grey wrappers preserved, modern binding.

Some foxing, lower cover soiled.

"Inventée à Munich par Aloys Senefelder (1772-1834) en 1796, la lithographie a fait son apparition en France au début du XIXe siècle et, dans l'édition, comme moyen d'illustration, peu avant 1820" (Galantaris).

This is therefore one of the earliest books illustrated by lithography, printed in the very city where the technique was invented.

In the same year, Senefelder's L'Art de la lithographie was published in France.

Dedicatory epistle to Maximilian Joseph, King of Bavaria.

Provenance: manuscript ownership inscription of G. Starhemberg on the wrapper and a partly faded stamp of the Starhemberg Library at Eferding Castle.