[Russian Costume]
Russiche Kostüm’s und Ländertrachten. In illuminirten Zeichnungen. [Germany: c. 1780].
Apparently unique album of original watercolour drawings depicting a wide variety of costume across the Russian empire, ranging from Russian clergy, inhabitants of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Strelitz, Kazan, Kuznetsk, Krasnoyarsk, Ulan-Ude and Mongolia, and Tungusic, Yakutic and Samoyed people, including several shamans. Bobins I, 217.
Folio (304 x 193mm). Letterpress title and 84 original drawings in watercolour of costume on 84 leaves, each with ruled frame and manuscript caption in German, 18th-century Dutch paper with Pro Patria (with pendant B) watermark countermarked D & C Blauw (c.1780) and C & I Honig watermark (neat repaired tear at top of first leaf, small stain in 2 leaves). Late 18th-century calf, sides ruled in gilt with armorial on front cover (rebacked, a little worn and repaired).
[Russian Costume]
Russiche Kostüm’s und Ländertrachten. In illuminirten Zeichnungen. [Germany: c. 1780].
Apparently unique album of original watercolour drawings depicting a wide variety of costume across the Russian empire, ranging from Russian clergy, inhabitants of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Strelitz, Kazan, Kuznetsk, Krasnoyarsk, Ulan-Ude and Mongolia, and Tungusic, Yakutic and Samoyed people, including several shamans. Bobins I, 217.
Folio (304 x 193mm). Letterpress title and 84 original drawings in watercolour of costume on 84 leaves, each with ruled frame and manuscript caption in German, 18th-century Dutch paper with Pro Patria (with pendant B) watermark countermarked D & C Blauw (c.1780) and C & I Honig watermark (neat repaired tear at top of first leaf, small stain in 2 leaves). Late 18th-century calf, sides ruled in gilt with armorial on front cover (rebacked, a little worn and repaired).
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