[ALEXANDER, William]. Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Russians illustrated in sixty-four coloured engravings, with descriptions. Thomas M'Lean, London, 1823
8vo (24 x 17 cm). Title, vi pp. and 64 stipple engraved handcoloured costume plates each with a page of descriptive text, tissue guards. Modern red half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt lines to covers, spine with raised bands richly gilt in compartments, one lettered in gilt, top edge gilt.
AN EXCELLENT COPY of this celebrated work, based upon Miller's 'Costume of the Russian Empire' (itself based upon Georgi's 1776-1780 work). The first 12 plates depict people of Finnish origin and plates 13 to 35 describe the Tartars. Plate 36 to 50 cover people from Siberia and the East while the rest depict the Mongols and other small tribes from all over the Empire.
£1000
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