OTTO MAGNUS VON STACKELBERG (1786–1837). Costumes et Usages des Peuples de la Grèce Moderne. Rome: 1825. 2° (345 x 240mm). Engraved title, and 21 (of 30) hand-coloured plates, numbered 1-21. (Occasional faint marginal spotting.) Contemporary red half roan (extremities rubbed, joints cracking).
STACKELBERG'S RARE FIRST PUBLISHED WORK ON GREECE, printed by the artist himself in Rome. Pirated lithographed versions of the plates appeared soon afterwards in Italy, England and France. Stackelberg had travelled in Greece during the period 1810-1814, and was in Athens simultaneously with Byron. He excavated several archaeological sites, concentrating on Bassae. Not in Blackmer, but cf. 1591 (and footnote describing this first edition); not in Colas or Lipperheide.
OTTO MAGNUS VON STACKELBERG (1786–1837). Costumes et Usages des Peuples de la Grèce Moderne. Rome: 1825. 2° (345 x 240mm). Engraved title, and 21 (of 30) hand-coloured plates, numbered 1-21. (Occasional faint marginal spotting.) Contemporary red half roan (extremities rubbed, joints cracking).
STACKELBERG'S RARE FIRST PUBLISHED WORK ON GREECE, printed by the artist himself in Rome. Pirated lithographed versions of the plates appeared soon afterwards in Italy, England and France. Stackelberg had travelled in Greece during the period 1810-1814, and was in Athens simultaneously with Byron. He excavated several archaeological sites, concentrating on Bassae. Not in Blackmer, but cf. 1591 (and footnote describing this first edition); not in Colas or Lipperheide.
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