Stackelberg, Otto Magnus von.

First edition, folio (358 x 254mm.), engraved title, and 30 fine hand-coloured plates (numbered 1-29 and one unnumbered, all with captions in French), nineteenth-century morocco-backed boards, [not in Blackmer, but cf. 1591 (and footnote describing the first edition); cf. Droulia (differing from this copy); not in Colas or Lipperheide], title slightly soiled and with modern inscription at head, binding slightly worn

A good clean copy of the rare first edition of this work, printed by Stackelberg himself in Rome. Pirated lithographed versions of the plates appeared soon afterwards in Italy, England and France.

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.