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Colleccao dos costumes servis da cidade de Lisboa .. Com explicaçao em portugez, inglez e francez. Lisbon: 1806.
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[PORTUGAL] – GODINHO, Manuel.
Colleccao dos costumes servis da cidade de Lisboa .. Com explicaçao em portugez, inglez e francez. Lisbon: 1806.
The first edition of the first costume book printed in Portugal. An extremely rare collection beautifully hand-coloured with descriptive text in Portuguese, English and French, illustrating the everyday dress of various types of trades people in Lisbon, including tripe sellers, fishermen, sweet and cake sellers, ‘a vinegar man’ etc. Unrecorded in standard bibliographies. Bobins IV, 1229.
Oblong folio (240 x 325mm). Engraved title and 19 copper plate prints, coloured by a contemporary hand (occasional marginal finger-soiling, small oil stain to blank upper margin of a few plates, and plate 16 just within plate). Later half olive green morocco over marbled sides, by M. Lortic.
Colleccao dos costumes servis da cidade de Lisboa .. Com explicaçao em portugez, inglez e francez. Lisbon: 1806.
The first edition of the first costume book printed in Portugal. An extremely rare collection beautifully hand-coloured with descriptive text in Portuguese, English and French, illustrating the everyday dress of various types of trades people in Lisbon, including tripe sellers, fishermen, sweet and cake sellers, ‘a vinegar man’ etc. Unrecorded in standard bibliographies. Bobins IV, 1229.
Oblong folio (240 x 325mm). Engraved title and 19 copper plate prints, coloured by a contemporary hand (occasional marginal finger-soiling, small oil stain to blank upper margin of a few plates, and plate 16 just within plate). Later half olive green morocco over marbled sides, by M. Lortic.
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