(Chromolithograph plates, Costume.) Auguste Racinet: 'Le Cos...

Hammer

£650

(Chromolithograph plates, Costume.) Auguste Racinet: 'Le Costume Historique', Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1888, 20 portfolios, containing 285 chromolitho plates (of which 22 double page), mainly historic clothing and adornment various peoples around the world, plus some others houses, furniture, weapons, everyday objects, means of transport etc, including China, Japan, Korea, India (including Mughal dynasty), Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Persia (Iran), Polynesia, Oceania, Native America, Inuit, Mexico, Africa, Moorish, European, Russian etc, plus numerous other pale colour, sepia and uncoloured litho plates, original cloth backed printed paper covered boards portfolio's worn/as found, leaves loose, sold as a series of plates only, several portfolio's lacking cloth backstrips or rebacked, ribbon ties, bookplates to front pastedowns "Ex Libris M.G. & E.A. Abbey", being the American golden age illustrator, muralist and painter Edwin Austin Abbey (1852-1911) and his wife Mary Gertrude Abbey (née Mead, 1851–1931) (20)