[Costumes, World] Choix de Costumes Pittoresques

de Differents Pays par Lasalle. Paris, Chaillou. Lith. de Kaeppelin. [1840-'50]. Folio, halfleather, marbled endpapers, blue title with large vignette (10 persons in traditional costumes). Album with 50 beautiful handcoloured and lithographed leaves each with 4 lithographs per leaf and a small lithograph at the intersection of the other lithographs. All leaves with blotter. The first 2 leaves with mild browning; incidental stains. Costumes of European, Russian, Turkish, Chinese people and also historical figures. Incorrect numbering at 39. Complete series.

50 leaves with 200 larger lithographs and 50 small ones, all leaves with publisher's blind stamp. Invoice pasted to first leaf. Final 6 leaves blank.