Spallart - Historical Table Of The Costumes, Customs And Usages Of The Principal Peoples. 1804.

SPALLART (Robert de) - Historical table of costumes, customs and customs of the main peoples of antiquity and the Middle Ages. Metz, Chez Collignon, year XII (1804); in-8, 299 + 27 pl. + 319 + 40 pl. + 390 + 43 pl. + 216 + 35 pl. + 166 + 35 pl. + 232 + 57 pl. + 262 pp. + 47 plates + 1 frontispiece and 210 oblong quarto plates, modern half-chagrin bindings signed Ghiradossian. fawn with bands, decorated ribbed spine and old green cardboard for the two oblong quarto volumes. Colas 991, 2784. The 9 volumes. Very rare set and superb work on the costume. With 284 plates in-8 and 210 plates in-4 oblong plates mostly in color and accompanied by printed serpentines, a set of 495 plates including the frontispiece of the first volume in-4. Slight wetting in the first volumes. Beautiful, very complete copy.