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
Edition published in Paris by A. Nepveu in 1815, in six small octavo volumes, illustrated with 54 hand-coloured plates depicting twelve views, more than sixty different costumes, monuments and various picturesque scenes, including bullfights, most of them after drawings made in 1809 and 1810. Cf. Colas 439; Lipperheide 1214, the latter reference still requiring direct verification in the printed bibliography; Brunet I, 1226, no. 3; Quérard I, 506. The title itself calls for the 54 plates and records the recent origin of many of their designs.
Contemporary half blond calf, spines with four false bands...
€4,200