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‎Costume of the Russian Empire, illustrated by a series of seventy-three (richly coloured) engravings. With descriptions in English and French. Costumes de l'Empire de Russie, représentésdans une série de soixante et treize planches superbement coloriées.‎

‎London, Printed for W. Miller, MDCCCIII, (1803), in-folio, 4 ff. (titres anglais / franç. + 2 ff. dédications / 4 ff. préfaces / 1 f. de Table + 73 planches en couleurs accompagnies de 73 ff. de descriptions,II + 140 pages of descriptions + 73 handcoloured engraved plates including the engraved title (by J. Dadley, published 1803 by E. Harding), Exlibris (Armorial bookpates:) F. H. Goodyear (devise: Possunt quia posse videntur) / + John Arden (devise: Patientia vinces), full red leather binding with gilt decorations on spine and covers. Light signes of use on extremites.‎

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‎First edition , a fne copy of this richly illustrated work, showing 73 fine handcoloured engravings of the different peoples within the large Russian Empire, dressed in their traditional costumes, male and female: a Laplander on skis, a peasant of Finland, a woman of Esthonia, a Tcheremhisian woman, a Mordvine, an Ostiak, a Tartar of Kazan, a Kabardinian, Mongolian etc., etc. Vinet, 2322 ; Colas 702 (73 planches gravées en couleurs au pointillé par J. Dadley.); Lipperheide Kaa 18 (1803 ed.). ‎