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Item #29947 Das Tägliche Leben in Kopenhagen oder Characteristische Figuren. Gerhardt Ludwig LAHDE.
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Das Tägliche Leben in Kopenhagen oder Characteristische Figuren
Das Tägliche Leben in Kopenhagen oder Characteristische Figuren
Das Tägliche Leben in Kopenhagen oder Characteristische Figuren
Das Tägliche Leben in Kopenhagen oder Characteristische Figuren

Das Tägliche Leben in Kopenhagen oder Characteristische Figuren

Copenhagen: C. Steen, [circa 1820]. 4to. (11 x 8 1/2 inches). Letterpress title and list of plates. 35 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates.

19th century red morocco, by Charles de Samblanx, covers elaborately panelled in gilt, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges

Provenance: Jules Albert Baudoin Marie Ghislain, Vicomte de Johnghe (armorial bookplate).

Lovely example of a rare Danish color plate costume book of the local trades and military.

"Civil and military costumes of Denmark, street vendors, small merchants. Colas states there was an edition dated 1818 [the present edition undated] ... The plates in this work were also issued as part of Lahde's Kjobenhavns Klaederdragter" (The Exotic and the Beautiful). The present example in a lovely binding by noted Belgian binder Charles de Samblanx.

Colas 1721; Lipperheide 1044; Bobins, The Exotic and the Beautiful II:407.

Item #29947

Price: $4,800.00

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