Lot 448
Dalvimart, Octavien
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 31 August 2016 at 12:00 BST
£750
Description
The Costume of Turkey. London: William Miller, 1802 [but c.1818], folio (370 x 270mm.), printed title with hand-coloured engraved vignette, 60 hand-coloured engraved plates, additional title in French, accompanying text in English and French, (some plates watermarked 1817 & 1818, one leaf of text 1811), blue full straight grained morocco gilt, spine with raised bands gilt in compartments, gilt title direct to spine, boards with elaborate gilt floral border enclosing border in blind and gilt, gilt dentelles, a.e.g., frontispiece offset onto title, most plates offset onto text, extremities rubbed