[JESSEN, Heinrich].
[Trachten aus Alt-Hamburg].
[Hamburg, B.S. Berendsohn, Wilhelm Jowien, and others], [ca. 1850]. 8vo. With 50 hand-coloured full-page plates (ca. 20 x 12.5 cm) highlighted with egg-white, (44 lithographs, 3 engravings, 3 wood-engravings), including 33 after drawings by Heinrich Jessen. Contemporary blind-stamped decorated red cloth, front board with title lettered in gold. [50] plates.
€ 1,250
Charming colour plate book with mainly military costumes. The plates depict messenger boys, maidservants, a police officer, several military men on horseback, etc. Some were published earlier in F.G. Buek's Album hambürgische Costüme, 1843-1847.
Hinges weak, head and foot of spine damaged. Coloured costumes in good condition. Colas 1547; Hiler, p. 479; Lipperheide 809.
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