114 HAND-COLOURED COSTUME AQUATINTS.⠀

"Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Russians [WITH] Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Austrians".⠀ °⠀ WILLIAM ALEXANDER⠀ °⠀ Publication date:1814⠀°⠀ °⠀ Two volumes bound in one. These two esteemed volumes contain 114 full-page, fine plates & include people of Finnish origin, the Tartars, people from Siberia, Mongolia, the Tyrol, Hungary, Poland and Dalmatia. The books were published a year before the battle of Waterloo when Europe and Russia were still in a state of of flux following the exploits of Napoleon Bonaparte. °⠀ 16.5 X 24 cm. Contemporary half straight grained green Morocco.