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London, William Miller, Old-Bond Street; William Bulmer and Co., 1804. In 2nd. With 50 plates in original coloring engraved by W. Ellis and W. Poole and accompanied by as many text leaves in English and French, light burnishing on some leaves, coeval binding in blue long grain morocco, gold-embossed decoration, framed on the plates embossed in gold, spine with 5 raised bands with title compartments and geometric ferges in gold, gilt edges, peeling.
Specialist Notes
Fascinating illustrated book in elegant coeval binding in Moroccan. The plates depict popular characters in costume: peasants and villagers from Upper Austria, Upper Carniola, the Moravian plain, Tyrol, the County of Neutra, Hungarians, bohemians, and others . Abbey Travel 71; Lipperheide 831; Tooley 333.
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