Moeurs, Usages Et Costumes De Tous Les Peuples Du Monde

First edition of this scarce and beautiful work on the costumes of the world. Written and compiled in four volumes by Auguste Wahlen, pseudonym for Jean Françios Nicolas Loumyer With 196 vibrantly hand-coloured plates, most heightened with gum arabic, and four handcoloured vignette title pages. Text in French. Loumyer completed his comprehensive survey of world culture and costume with the collaboration of Jacques Joseph… Saber más sobre este artículo

1844. Brüssel, Librairie historique-artistique 1844. 27 : 18 cm. 2 leaves, 361 pages, 1 leaf With coloured, engraved titlevignette and 34 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary half-vellum, two back lables. With extremly beautiful engravings of national costums in brilliant shining colours from Turkey, Greece, Russia, Alsace, Corsica, Brussels, Baviera, the black forest etc. - Binding a bit rubbed. - Lipperheide… Saber más sobre este artículo

Librairie Historique-Artistique, 1843-1844. Leather. Very Good. 1843-44 Librairie Historique-Artistique 4 volume leather bound set with numerous hand colored plates. Tight bindings but leather is dried and hinges are cracked. Text is in French. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos.

1844. Brüssel, Librairie historique-artistique 1844. 27 : 18 cm. 2 Blatt, 361 Seiten, 1 Blatt Mitkolorierter, gestochener Titelvignette und 34 kolorierten Kupfertafeln. Halbpergamentband der Zeit mit 2 Rückenschildern. Mit besonders hübschen nationalen Trachtenarstellungen in leuchtendem, zeitgenössischen Kolorit aus der Türkei, Griechenland, Russland, Elsass, Korsika, Brüssel, Bayern, Ulm, Schwarzwald u.a. - Einband etwas berieben. - Lipperheide 61; Colas 1090-1091.

Brussels, Librairie Historique-Artistique. 1843. 4to. Good. l Occas. foxed; corners bumped. With coloured engr. on titlepage, 36 handcoloured plates, depicting the Aborigines of Jervis Bay and Kangaroo Island, and the peoples of Pitcairn Island, New Guinea, Timor, Java, New Zealand, Hawaii and so on.

Brussels, Librairie Historique-Artistique. 1844. 4to. Good. l With handcoloured engr. on titlepage, 42 handcoloured plates, depicting Inuit, North-American Indians, South-American Indians, Africans. Occas. foxed; corners bumped. Split on inner hinge.

Brussels, Librairie Historique-Artistique. 1844. 4to. Good. l Occas. foxed; corners bumped. Worn along extremeties. With wooden engravings.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.