[Costumes]. - Lot 133

[Costumes]. [Collection of 41 lithographs]. (Paris, 19th century). In-4 oblong (26 x 36 cm), 41 plates mounted on period brown half-chagrin tabs, smooth mute spine (binding rubbed, some soiling, spotting and marginal foxing, on a number of plates the use of gum or paint still poorly dried before closing has caused, sometimes cut short). Album featuring 41 lithographed, hand-colored plates (some enhanced with gum arabic). They depict costumes from Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Greece, Armenia and China, as well as scenes of daily life in Switzerland and Asia Minor, Alexandria, Jerusalem... The plates are taken from the following works: -LASALLE (C.). Costumes pittoresques de différents pays. Paris, Chaillou-Poutrelle, [mid-19th c.] Lith. by Kaeppelin. Pls. 2 to 7, 10, 12 to 18, 22, 24 and 25. All with publisher's dry stamp. Finely watercolored. Absent from Colas. -Maison Suisse du Canton de Berne prez de Morà. engraved by Beumont and finely colored. On laid paper, engraved title, animated picturesque view. -ZWINGER. FOHN. La Suisse - Jeux & Usages. 6 pl. lithographed by Engelmann, Paris. Godefroy Engelmann. Set of 30 lithographs (37 x 28 cm.), enhanced in color from the album on Swiss costume (Suisse-Jeux et usages and Costumes modernes). -All from the Canton of Schwyz (auj Schwytz) (Le Jeu appelé Hacglen, La Demande en mariage, Les Taneurs, Vachers descendant le fromage des Montagnes (famous illustration), Intérieur d'un châlet fabrication du fromage et du beurre, Chasseur de chamois). ENGELMANN after WEBER, ZWINGER and Michael FRÖHN (1789-1853) Rare. Colas, 375-376 which gives 13 pl and 1827 -LE BLANC (Theodore). Life sketches made during a three-year stay in Greece and the Levant. Signature in image. Lithograph in black with coloring Paris, [c. 1833]. 13 pl. Colas, 670-671. -Lith. GIHAUT frères. 3 oblong animated scenes lithographed in black and colored. Arabs. Alexandria June 1872, Arab Sheikh. Jerusalem May 22, 1827; Turkish Customsmen. Asia Minor May 1828.