GEORGI, Johann Gottlieb. Opisanie vsiekh' obitaiuschikh' v' Rossiyskomb' gosudarstv' narodomb', St Petersburg: 1799. 4 volumes in 2, 4° (244 x 193mm). 100 hand-coloured engraved plates of costumes, all but a few on blue paper, a few engraved vignettes including a little music (some light spotting and staining). Contemporary half calf, gilt spines (rebacked preserving original spines and recornered with light red morocco (covers a little rubbed). Provenance: Mark Dineley (bookplate) -- RUDOLPH VALENTINO (large bookplate by William Menzies depicting a fight between a Crusader and a Turk). Probably the third Russian edition of this popular work on Russia and its peoples, translated into most European languages. Not in Colas or Lipperheide. (2)

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GEORGI, Johann Gottlieb. Opisanie vsiekh' obitaiuschikh' v' Rossiyskomb' gosudarstv' narodomb', St Petersburg: 1799. 4 volumes in 2, 4° (244 x 193mm). 100 hand-coloured engraved plates of costumes, all but a few on blue paper, a few engraved vignettes including a little music (some light spotting and staining). Contemporary half calf, gilt spines (rebacked preserving original spines and recornered with light red morocco (covers a little rubbed). Provenance: Mark Dineley (bookplate) -- RUDOLPH VALENTINO (large bookplate by William Menzies depicting a fight between a Crusader and a Turk). Probably the third Russian edition of this popular work on Russia and its peoples, translated into most European languages. Not in Colas or Lipperheide. (2)

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