Live auction - Lot 796
[Costume]
Encyclopédie des voyages, contenant l'Abrégé historique des moeurs, usages, habitudes domestiques, religions [...] de tous les peuples : et la collection complette de leurs habillemens [...]. Europe. Tome second.
[Paris], by the author and Deroy, 1796
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160
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Lot description
4to; 87 pl. (text n.c., some browning, mostly on text ff.).
Contemp. quarter sheep, spine with raised bands (used).
Second vol. only of the first edition of this costume book. Complete with 87 hand-coloured pl. by Labrousse et Laroque after Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757-1810). This volume deals with Europe, e.g. Holland, Swiss, Bohemia, Russia, ...
Ref. Colas 1292. - Lipperheide 41.