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JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH BRETON DE LA MARTINIERE
China: its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c., London: Howlett and Brimmer, 1824. 4 volumes in 2, 12° (56 x 99mm.). Half titles, 80 handcoloured engraved plates. (Light offsetting from plates, occasional spotting.) Contemporary crimson morocco gilt, gilt edges (lightly rubbed). Abbey Travel 535 (note); Colas 435; Lipperheide 1525. (2)
China: its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c., London: Howlett and Brimmer, 1824. 4 volumes in 2, 12° (56 x 99mm.). Half titles, 80 handcoloured engraved plates. (Light offsetting from plates, occasional spotting.) Contemporary crimson morocco gilt, gilt edges (lightly rubbed). Abbey Travel 535 (note); Colas 435; Lipperheide 1525. (2)
Provenance
Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) and thence by descent to the present owner.
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