Erinnerungen an meine Reise nach Indien.

£300 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Photographic account of a trip undertaken by the Kaiser’s eldest son to India in 1910-11. An interesting range of images, from the purely touristic to those covering official engagements and hunting trips undertaken on the sub-continent. The Crown Prince and his wife travelled out on the North German Lloyd ship Prinz Ludwig via Egypt. Several tourist images show the pyramids and other sites in Egypt, the Crown Princess on a donkey, also the First Officer of the ship and a group of Chinese stewards. The Royal party seem to have travelled widely in India, from Ceylon to the North West Frontier, visiting Delhi, Benares, Allahabad, Agra, Jaipur, and undertaking a river-trip on the Ganges. The Crown Prince was a keen sportsman, he published Aus meinem Jagdtagebuch , selections from his hunting diaries in 1912, and there are pictures here from a tiger hunt in Mirazpur and a leopard hunt in Hyderabad. One of the coloured plates is of the Crown Prince with two leopards shot on the 23rd January 1911. Wilhelm’s connections with the British Army are also represented. He was Victoria’s great-grandson and in 1911 was made Colonel-in Chief of the 11th (Prince Albert’s Own) Hussars, images present of a parade in Sucunderabad, Dragoons in Muttra, and an English sentry at Abbotabad. Also two coloured plates, one of the Khyber Pass - “which carries traffic from India to Afghanistan” - and a group of sentries of the Khyber Rifles. Wilhelm apparently asked to be made Colonel-in-Chief of the Regi

• Year: 1912

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