Austria-Hungary - de Moleville (M. Bertrand), Dallas (R.C., ...

Hammer

£280

Austria-Hungary - de Moleville (M. Bertrand), Dallas (R.C., translator), & Ellis (William, illustrator), The Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria, Displayed in Fifty Coloured Engravings; with Descriptions, and an Introduction, large paper copy, London: Printed for William Miller, 1804, title and descriptive text in English and French, 50 hand-coloured aquatint plates, contemporary calf binding, the relayed Neoclassical covers gilt-tooled with a singular fillet with incurved angles, flanked by broad rolled tri-partite borders of entwined laureate garlands, a paterae and dart frieze, and graduating banding, the spine with raised bands enclosing seven-compartments, directly lettered in gilt in the second and dated in the seventh, the others enclosing meandering and scrolling foliate bosses, all-edges gilt, contemporary sage endpapers, folio (37cm x 28cm), [Abbey Travel 71; Colas 2112], [1]

Provenance: 1) W. Cary of Torre Abbey, Torquay, Devon, ink MS inscription noting that it was bought from his sale, June 1859; 2) bought by Egerton Leigh JP, DL, MP (1815 – 1876), of West Hall, High Leigh, Cheshire, his dated purchase inscription to front flyleaf and shield-shaped armorial bookplate, engraved by Pugh Bros, Lincolns Inn, to recto pastedown.