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Costumes Américains
Galerie Royale, 1840s
Galerie Royale de Costumes. Costumes Américains (caption title). Paris: Chez Aubert, c.1842-1848.

Complete set of the American plates from the Galerie Royale. This series comprised 14 parts, each devoted to a different region, the majority in Europe and the Middle East. This American part depicts costumes from the mid-19th century around the Rio de la Plata: Buenos Aires, Montevideo, La Plata.

Folio (550 x 360mm). 10 hand-colored lithographed plates by Comte, after drawings by A. d'Hastrel (light foxing to margins and a few spots within 3 plates). Loose as issued and laid into lithographed wrappers (original, but for a different part, creased, backstrip renewed); modern solander box.

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