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La Chine, ou Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Chinois: Suite de Gravures Colorisees avec leurs Explications
by Jean-Baptiste Eyries
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/None
- Seller
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Item Price
A$1,859.28A$1,580.39
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About This Item
Set of five volumes on the costumes and customs of China, Turkey, Russia, Austria and England bound in one.
[Also published under the title Costumes, Moeurs et Usages de tous les Peuples.]
120 finely hand-coloured engravings based on [uncredited] illustrations by William Alexander (China, Austria, England), Johann Gottlieb Georgi (Russia) and Octavian Dalvimart (Turkey).
A collection of exotic trades people from some of the most famous travel books of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Images of Chinese Mandarins, actors and punishments, Turkish soldiers, harem guards and dervishes, Russian shamans, Bohemians and Romani peoples, and English fisherwomen and Scottish soldiers.
Title page and 16 introductory text pages to China volume only, but all other volumes with 24 hand-coloured plates and 2 pages of explanatory text to each plate.
Text in French.
Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyries (1767-1846), was a French geographer, author and translator. One of the founders of the French Geographic Society.
Bound in brown cloth library binding, perforated blind stamp of Queens Borough Public Library on title page only, bookplate of Hiler Paris on front endpaper.
Binding scuffed and worn, front hinge starting, all edges uncut, a few plates with some offsetting and spotting, chips to lower page edges, a few repaired tears, text pages with slight foxing.
[Also published under the title Costumes, Moeurs et Usages de tous les Peuples.]
120 finely hand-coloured engravings based on [uncredited] illustrations by William Alexander (China, Austria, England), Johann Gottlieb Georgi (Russia) and Octavian Dalvimart (Turkey).
A collection of exotic trades people from some of the most famous travel books of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Images of Chinese Mandarins, actors and punishments, Turkish soldiers, harem guards and dervishes, Russian shamans, Bohemians and Romani peoples, and English fisherwomen and Scottish soldiers.
Title page and 16 introductory text pages to China volume only, but all other volumes with 24 hand-coloured plates and 2 pages of explanatory text to each plate.
Text in French.
Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyries (1767-1846), was a French geographer, author and translator. One of the founders of the French Geographic Society.
Bound in brown cloth library binding, perforated blind stamp of Queens Borough Public Library on title page only, bookplate of Hiler Paris on front endpaper.
Binding scuffed and worn, front hinge starting, all edges uncut, a few plates with some offsetting and spotting, chips to lower page edges, a few repaired tears, text pages with slight foxing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Florilegius
(JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FLO165
- Title
- La Chine, ou Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Chinois
- Author
- Jean-Baptiste Eyries
- Illustrator
- William Alexander, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Octavian Dalvimart
- Format/Binding
- Brown cloth library binding, gilt title on spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Libraire de Gide Fils
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1821
- Size
- Octavo, 27 x 18cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- JBB Eyries, Octavian Dalvimart, William Alexander, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, China, Turkey, Russia, Austria, England, costume, travel, engraving,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Costume;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Florilegius
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Florilegius
Biblio member since 2019
Tokyo, Tokyo
About Florilegius
Tokyo-based bookseller specializing in European illustrated books from the 18th to 19th century, mainly botanical, zoological, costume and travel. Also Japanese ukiyo-e and woodblock botanicals, flower arrangement, etc.
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