Trachten aus Alt-Hamburg.
Hamburg, B. S. Berendsohn, Wilhelm Jowien, and others, 1850].
With 50 hand-coloured full-page plates (c. 200 x 125 mm) heightened with egg-white, (44 lithographs, 3 engravings, 3 wood-engravings), of which 33 are after drawings by Heinrich Jessen. Contemporary blindstamped decorated red cloth, front cover with title lettered in gold.
€ 1,250.00
Charming colour plate book mainly with military costumes. Some of these plates were published earlier in F.G. Buek's "Album hambürgischer Costüme", 1843-1847. The plates depict messenger boys, maidservants, a police officer, several military men on horseback, etc.
Hinges weak, top and lower part of spine damaged. Coloured costumes in good condition.
References
Colas 1547. Hiler 479. Lipperheide 809.