Lot 121
  • 121

[Stackelberg, Otto Magnus von.

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

  • Costumes et usages des peuples de la Grèce moderne. Paris: P. Marino, c.1830]
  • paper
Folio (345 x 255mm.), 30 hand-coloured lithographed costume plates with captions in French, unbound, [cf. Blackmer 1591 (footnote); Colas 2791; Lipperheide 1449], no title-page (plates only), plate 18 discoloured (and plate 26 also, to a lesser extent), some slight browning, spotting or soiling elsewhere

Catalogue Note

This is one of the pirated editions that Blackmer suggests drove Stackelberg in 1831 to reprint his work in a German edition: Trachten und Gebräuche der Neugreichen, though Colas suggests a date of publication of c.1835.