Robert von SPALLART
Tableau historique des costumes, des moeurs et des usages des Ordres religieux et des Turcs, au moyen âge[Historical Tableau of the Costumes, Manners, and Customs of Religious Orders and of the Turks in the Middle Ages]
Veuve Devilly|Metz s. d. (ca 1830)|13.5 x 22 cm|Broché
Reissued under a new title and with the Metz imprint of the widow Devilly, this is the seventh and final volume of the Tableau historique des costumes, des mœurs et des usages des principaux peuples de l’antiquité et du moyen âge, published in Paris and Metz between 1804 and 1809 in the translation of the Comte de Jaubert. The text still carries the signature “Tome VII” from the original edition, while the plate captions retain their double reference to the Viennese edition and to “Moyen âge, tome IV” of the French version.
The 47 engraved and coloured plates give the volume much of its character: costumes of religious orders are followed, from plate XXX onwards, by a sequence devoted to the...
€3,000