Tableau historique des costumes, des moeurs et des usages des Ordres religieux et des Turcs, au moyen âge

New edition illustrated with 47 engraved and hand-colored costume plates (cf. Colas 2784).

This is a reissue, under the Metz imprint, of a portion (volume IV) of the Tableau Historique des costumes, des moeurs et des usages des principaux peuples de l'antiquité et du moyen âge, originally published in Paris and Metz between 1804 and 1809.

Rare and attractive copy preserved in its original publisher’s wrappers, with the original plain waiting cover and a printed title label affixed at the head of the spine.

Following the suicide of Louis-Jean-Baptiste Devilly in December 1825, his widow Félicité-Constance Gentil (1797–1843) was granted her bookseller’s license on 10 October 1826, which helps approximate the date of this edition.

Plates XXX to XLVII depict Turkish costumes as they were reconstructed in the West at the time.