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Moeurs, usages, costumes, arts et metiers.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003eBotfield copy, superbly bound\u003c\/h4\u003eRare. A superbly bound copy of La Chine by Malpiere, a work which is seldom found complete, and which consists 'of a huge collection of attractively lithographed copies of scenes from Chinese life of the mid-Ch'ing period' (Lust).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIssued in 30 parts, each containing 6 hand-coloured lithographic plates, copied from the engraved plates in William Alexander's Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Chinese. In calling for 97 rather than 96 plates in volume II, Colas appears to be including the illustration 'L'union des sarcelles,' which is included on the plate list. In this copy, the plate 'L'hommage des Sarcelles', which accompanies the music, has no descriptive text, making the unnumbered leaves of text 94 in total rather than 95 as called for by Lipperheide or 96 by Colas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition; 2 volumes, 4to (34.5 x 24.7 cm.). 2 hand-coloured lithographed titles, 179 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Deveria, Regnier, Schaal, Schmit, and Vidal after Castiglione, Pu-Qua, W. Alexander, Chambers, and others, including a hand-coloured plan of Peking, 4 leaves of engraved music in vol. 2 with a hand-coloured title illustration: some spotting and browning as usual, 3 plates in vol. II with large splash marks; contemporary nineteenth-century red morocco gilt, covers panelled with foliate roll-tool borders gilt, spines gilt in compartments, green morocco lettering-pieces, gilt edges; spines sunned, a fine set.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eColas 1957; Cordier (Sinica) I, 69; Lipperheide 1532; Lust 60.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"MALPIERE, D. Bazin de.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49902032486705,"sku":"113552","price":17500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/113552.jpg?v=1780918160"},{"product_id":"stackelberg-trachten-gebrauche-neugriechen-berlin-1831-113949","title":"Trachten und Gebräuche der Neugriechen.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003ewith Royal provenance\u003c\/h4\u003eThe second authorised edition of Stackelberg's beautifully illustrated work, but the first in German, published in Germany, where he lived from 1829-1833. It had first appeared in 1825 in Rome, and this edition is Stackelberg's response to the pirated editions which had begun to appear after the Rome edition. This is the only edition to contain his text and an extra plate (no. 30, Femme de Missolonghi). This is part one of an intended two-part work; the second part, the 'Gebräuche' or 'Usages', was started in 1935 but was unfinished at the time of Stackelberg's death in 1837.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStackelberg published a number of works on both ancient and modern Greece, having travelled in the area from 1810 to 1814. 'He was in Athens with Byron and travelled and worked with [Charles] Cockerell, [Carl] Haller von Hallerstein, [Georg] Gropius, [Jacob] Linckh and [John] Foster on various archaeological excavations, particularly at Bassae' (Bobins I, p.159).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the library of Queen Victoria's uncle, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland who, as the firth son of George III, became King of Hanover in 1837 on the death of his brother William IV. Since Salic law prevented women from inheriting the throne of Hanover, Victoria became Queen of the United Kingdom, but the kingdom of Hanover went to her Uncle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst German edition; folio (37.3 x 25 cm); hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 30 hand-coloured engraved plates numbered 1-30, captioned in French and German, minor spotting to prelims, else unmarked internally; original blue boards, split to lower joint, some spotting and staining to covers; housed in card chemise within brown cloth slipcase, green morocco spine tooled in gilt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlackmer 1591; Droulia 1956.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"STACKELBERG, Otto Magnus (Baron von).","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54920551203191,"sku":"113949","price":25000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/113949_0ca5b50f-f1ec-4727-829b-6d2eb5f6dd17.jpg?v=1780921584"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/collections\/FIXED_CATAGORY_BUTTONS_24.png?v=1777563164","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/collections\/from-mayfair-to-melbourne-curated-by-bernard-j-shapero.oembed","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}