Description:
Alexander, William (1767-1816) Costumes of Austria. Fifty Plates Coloured from the Original Drawings. London: John Murray, [n.d. circa 1830].
Quarto, illustrated with fifty full-page hand-colored illustrations, bound in full contemporary textured orange cloth, title tooled in gilt on front board; binding worn, fraying, tears, corners soft; some toning to plates; sewing structure beginning to fail, 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.
Estimate $300-500
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