Live Auction 5428Travel, Science & Natural History
Costume of the Russian Empire. London: T. Bensley, 1810. 2° (370 x 270mm). Additional hand-coloured aquatint title, text in English and French, 70 hand-coloured aquatint plates (aquatint title lightly spotted, some light staining, without leaf of letterpress to plates V* and XIV as usual). Contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges (rubbed, a few scuff marks). Provenance: Robert Lionel Foster (armorial bookplate and signatures); John Ashton Fielder (pencil presentation inscription dated 1863 on aquatint title). "Second edition." Abbey Travel 245 (note); Colas 704: "Le tirage des planches de cette seconde édition paraît être aussi bon que dans le première"; cf. Lipperheide 1342; Vinet 2321 (attributing the work to Harding).
Lot 598

Costume of the Russian Empire. London: T. Bensley, 1810. 2° (370 x 270mm). Additional hand-coloured aquatint title, text in English and French, 70 hand-coloured aquatint plates (aquatint title lightly spotted, some light staining, without leaf of letterpress to plates V* and XIV as usual). Contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges (rubbed, a few scuff marks). Provenance: Robert Lionel Foster (armorial bookplate and signatures); John Ashton Fielder (pencil presentation inscription dated 1863 on aquatint title). "Second edition." Abbey Travel 245 (note); Colas 704: "Le tirage des planches de cette seconde édition paraît être aussi bon que dans le première"; cf. Lipperheide 1342; Vinet 2321 (attributing the work to Harding).

Closed23 April 2008

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Costume of the Russian Empire. London: T. Bensley, 1810. 2° (370 x 270mm). Additional hand-coloured aquatint title, text in English and French, 70 hand-coloured aquatint plates (aquatint title lightly spotted, some light staining, without leaf of letterpress to plates V* and XIV as usual). Contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges (rubbed, a few scuff marks). Provenance: Robert Lionel Foster (armorial bookplate and signatures); John Ashton Fielder (pencil presentation inscription dated 1863 on aquatint title). "Second edition." Abbey Travel 245 (note); Colas 704: "Le tirage des planches de cette seconde édition paraît être aussi bon que dans le première"; cf. Lipperheide 1342; Vinet 2321 (attributing the work to Harding).