LEONHARDI (Friedrich Gottlob). - Lot 81

LEONHARDI (Friedrich Gottlob). Costumes de tous les peuples connus; avec une notice succincte de leurs mœurs et de leurs religions. Leipzig : Au comptoir d'industrie, [1803-1804]. - in-4, 195 x 163 : (1 f.), 18 pp. 40 plates. Demi-basane with corners, smooth spine decorated, speckled edges (period binding). Colas, I, 1834. First French edition of this collection of costumes. This is an abridgement of the work that Leonhardi (1757-1814), professor of economics at the University of Leipzig, published from 1798 and which included 122 plates. This volume, published in Year XII (1803-1804), as attested by that year's Journal général de la littérature étrangère, contains 40 plates of costumes in color, relating to 31 nations. According to the Journal général: "several costumes have been omitted here, so that the text does not always agree with the plates, which are moreover illuminated with more care than those of the German edition." A second volume of 40 plates also appeared the following year. Good copy in contemporary binding. Some rubbing and spotting, small worm work at one hinge, corners slightly dulled. One freckle on pages 11 to 16. Provenance: J. B. Powis, with armorial bookplate.