STACKELBERG (Otto Magnus von). - Lot 10

STACKELBERG (Otto Magnus von). Costumes and customs of the peoples of modern Greece. Paris, P. Marino, [ca 1830]. In-4, half red cloth, gilt title. Extremely rare. First lithographic edition of this extremely rare suite. Engraved title and 22 numbered plates of Greek costumes, lithographed by Levilly and delicately colored at the time. Only one copy in the CCFr (INHA). The drawings were made by the archaeologist Baron Otto de Stackelberg (1787-1837), during a trip to Greece with the archaeologists Hallerstein and Brøndsted between 1810 and 1814. His drawings were first engraved and published in Rome in 1825, then republished in Berlin in 1831, under the title Trachten und Gebräuche der Neugriechen. Lipperheide, 449. Colas, 2791. Some foxing and spotting. Wear.