Lot 277
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Costume of the Russian Empire. London: E. Harding, 1803. 2° (359 x 260mm). Hand-coloured additional aquatint title, bilingual text in English and French, 72 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Without letterpress leaf for plates V* and XIV, as usual. (Plates lightly yellowed, occasional light spotting, occasional light soiling.) Recent full leather, spine and sides tooled in blind.
Costume of the Russian Empire. London: E. Harding, 1803. 2° (359 x 260mm). Hand-coloured additional aquatint title, bilingual text in English and French, 72 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Without letterpress leaf for plates V* and XIV, as usual. (Plates lightly yellowed, occasional light spotting, occasional light soiling.) Recent full leather, spine and sides tooled in blind.

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Costume of the Russian Empire. London: E. Harding, 1803. 2° (359 x 260mm). Hand-coloured additional aquatint title, bilingual text in English and French, 72 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Without letterpress leaf for plates V* and XIV, as usual. (Plates lightly yellowed, occasional light spotting, occasional light soiling.) Recent full leather, spine and sides tooled in blind.

FIRST EDITION, with the plates watermarked 1802. Abbey, Travel, 246 (for the second edition); Colas 703; Lipperheide 1342; Vinet 2321.

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