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Giulio Ferrario : Il Costume Antico e Moderno ovvero Storia del Governo, della Milizia, della Religione, delle Arti, Scienze ed Usanze di Tutti i Popoli Antichi e Moderni provata coi monumenti dell' antichitá e rappresentata con analoghi disegni / Dal Dottore Giulio Ferrario / Terza Edizione / Asia

Alessandro Fontana, Torino, 1829-30.

Contemporary ¼ morocco with speckled paper boards, flat spine in six compartments of gilt lines, with blind-tooled motifs and gilt titles on two and four and green labels on three., A fine set in contemporary binding, text and plates are generally clean and crisp., 8vo, Complete with 78 coloured plates, as called for in each volume, depicting costumes, views, and ruins of Asia., Volume : Five Volumes.

This set forms part of an even larger work first published by Ferrario between 1815 and 1827 that covers all the continents and peoples, ancient and modern, known at the time.
The complete set of the third edition comprises of 4 volumes of America, 5 volumes on Asia, 1 volume on Russia, 6 volumes on Europe, and 2 volumes on Africa.
, Lipperheide Ad 7; Hiler 311; Colas 1051; Cicognara 1648

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