Jean Baptiste Joseph BRETON DE LA MARTINIÈRE
L'Espagne et le Portugal, ou Mœurs, usages et costumes des habitans de ces royaumes, précédé d'un précis historique
A. Nepveu|Paris 1815|8.5 x 13 cm|3 volumes reliés en 6
Illustrated edition comprising 54 plates depicting twelve views and over sixty different costumes, along with monuments and picturesque scenes (including bullfights), most of them based on drawings executed in 1809 and 1810 (cf. Colas, 439; Lipperheide, 1214; Brunet, I, 1226, no. 3; Quérard, I, 506).
Contemporary half blond calf bindings, spines with four false raised bands adorned with triple gilt and black fillets, gilt rolls at head and foot, marbled paper boards with minor surface losses along the fore-edges, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges. Unsigned bindings, yet attributable to Thouvenin.
Scattered foxing, small tear on page 63 of volume 5.
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€4,200