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[VOYAGES] MOEURS ET COUTUMES des peuples, ou collection de tableaux, repré

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[VOYAGES] MOEURS ET COUTUMES des peuples, ou collection de tableaux, représentant les usages remarquables, les mariages, funérailles, supplices et fêtes des diverses nations du monde.
Paris: Mme Vve Hocquart, 1811-1814. Two volumes in one in-4, multiple pagination, plates, dark-green Russian half-leather with small period corners, richly decorated smooth spine, red title page, marbled edges (spine a little faded, slight rubbing at corners and edges| some plates in one volume).
(spine a little faded, slight rubbing to corners and edges| some plates a little yellowed, some digital marks in margins).
First edition of this work published in issues, illustrated with 144 copper-engraved and colored plates.
The first volume ([2] f., [156] p., [74] plates) covers Europe (22 plates) and Asia (52 plates). The second volume ([2] f., [150] p., [70] plates) covers Africa (23 plates), America (33 plates) and Oceania (14 plates) (Colas 2109).