Stackelberg, Otto Magnus von.

first edition, folio (348 x 234mm.), engraved title, and 30 fine hand-coloured engraved plates (numbered 1-29 and one unnumbered, all with captions in French), extra-illustrated with 8 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Muller, contemporary half morocco, title spotted, plate 12 cut out and mounted, very slight occasional spotting or soiling, binding very slightly rubbed and soiled

not in Blackmer, but cf. 1591 (and footnote describing first edition as per this copy); cf. Droulia 720 (differing from this copy, describing "40 planches en couleurs, avec sous-title en italien") ; not in Colas or Lipperheide (citing lithographed editions only)

These plates of costumes represent Stackelberg's first published work on Greece, where he travelled during 1810-1814. He was in Athens with Byron and he travelled and worked with Cockerell, Haller von Hallerstein, Gropius, Linckh and Foster in excavating various archaeological sites, especially Bassae.

this first edition was printed by stackelberg himself in rome and is rare. Pirated lithographed versions of the plates appeared soon afterwards in Italy, England and France which led Stackelberg to proceed with a German edition in 1831 (see Blackmer 1591, which lists the plates found in this edition, excepting no.30).

The additional plates, which are lithographed by Muller, are as follows: La Fruttajola; Il Calessino di Napoli; Il Venditor di Olio; Costumi di Capri, Ischia, Procida; La Comitiva di Briganti; Il Giuoco della Morra; Il Maccaronaro; Lazzaroni Napoletani. [cf. Colas 2159 "Costumes populaires napolitains" and cf. Lipperheide 1301 "Neapolitanische Volkstrachten", both c.1840]