Sales catalogue 581: Maggs Bros

Date:
1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/125
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 581: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CostuME: BritishH—continued. [557] ———— YORKSHIRE. ‘Tue Costume oF YorxsHire. Illustrated by a Series of 40 coloured engravings, being facsimiles of Original Drawings by R. and D. Havell after Geo. Walker. With Descriptions in English and French. First Issuz. Folio. Original half morocco. London, 1814. £22 10s Comprising :— The Horse Dealer. Thirty-Third Regiment. The Collier. Teasel Field. Fishermen. Grenadier or the First West York Militia. Lowkers. Woman Spinning. Woman making Oat Cakes. North York Militia. The Fool Plough. East York Militia. The Cranberry Girl. Leech Finders. Rape Threshing. Bishop Blaize. Sea Bathing. Sheffield Cutler. Farmers. Cloth Makers. The Preemer Boy. Line Swinglers. The Dog Breaker. Riding the Stang. Cloth Dresser. Peat Cart. Stone Breakers in the Road. The Cloth Hall. The Ruddle Pit. Hawking. Nor and Spell. Alum Works. The Milk Boy. Midsummer Eve. The East Riding or Wolds Waggon. Factory Children. Whalebone Scrapers. Wensley Dale Knitters. Moor Guide. Jockies. [558] COUTUMES pers Nations plus CELEBRES DU Monpg. Part I. Hongrois- Suisses, Allemands, Anglois, etc. Part II. Espagnols. Part III. Russes, Tartares, Lapons, etc. 176 charmingly coloured engravings on 22 double pages. Three parts, 4to. Original wrappers. Paris (circa 1800). £18 18s [559] COUTUMES pes Nations pus CELEBREs DU MonpE. Comprising Coutumes de Etats de Venise, de Toscane, de Rome, de Naples, etc.; Othomans, Morlaques, Grecs, Egyptiens, etc.; Hongrois, Suisses, Allemands, Aabisie! etc. A Series of 216 engravings of costumes on 27 double plates (plain). Three parts, 4to. Original wrappers. Paris (circa 1800). £7 10s [560] FRENCH. PEAKE (R. B.). THe Cuaracreristic CostuME OF FRANCE; from Drawings made on the Spot. A Series of 19 finely coloured aquatint plates, etched by R. B. Peake, with descriptions. 4to. Half morocco. London, 1819-22. £14 148 Comprising :— Landing of English Travellers at Calais, Low Water. Fishermen and Women of Dieppe. A Paris Diligence. Introduction of English Travellers to a French Inn. A Group at Calais. Peasants Returning from Abbeville Market. Figures at St. Denis.
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