Moeurs, usages et costumes de tous les peuples du monde [...].

4 vol., 8vo; 211 (of 212) pl. (some foxing).

Contemp. purple sheep, same colour buckram on boards, gilt-orn. flat spines, a.e.g. (spines faded and part. some boards, rubbed, damp stains on two lower boards).

First edition of this monumental work of 19th-c. Belgian book printing, richly ill. with 211 (of 212) hand-coloured pl., and part. heightened with Arabic gum, by artists such as Duverger, Doms, Mercier, Vermorcken, Pannemacker etc.: 83 (of 84) pl. on Asia, 36 pl. on Oceania, 49 on Europe and 43 on Africa and America. With 4 diff. hand-coloured title-vignettes
Ref. Van der Marck 154-155. - Chadenat 1507. - Colas 3041.