Beschreibung:

MALPIERE, D. Bazin de. La Chine. Moeurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers . Paris: l'éditeur, Goujon et Mlle. Formentin, Firmin Didot 1825-1827. 2 volumes, 4° (344 x 240mm). 181 hand-coloured lithographic plates by Deveria, Régnier, Schaal, Schmit, and Vidal after Castiglione, Pu-Qua, W. Alexander, Chambers, Dadley and others, comprising 85 plates in volume I, and 96 plates in volume II including the hand-coloured plan of Peking at end. 4 leaves of engraved music in volume II with hand-coloured title illustration. (Some spotting and browning affecting plates and text, occasionally heavy, three plates in vol. II affected by large splash marks.) Early 19th-century red morocco, covers gilt-panelled, spines with green morocco lettering-pieces and floral ornament, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt over marbled edges (spines faded). A scarce work, issued in 30 parts, each containing 6 hand-coloured lithographic plates, copied from the engraved plates in William Alexander's Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Chinese . In calling for 97 rather than 96 plates in volume II, Colas appears to be including the illustration 'L'union des sarcelles,' which is included on the plate list. In this copy, the plate 'L'hommage des Sarcelles,' which accompanies the music, has no descriptive text, making the unnumbered leaves of text 94 in total rather than 95 as called for by Lipperheide or 96 by Colas. Brunet III, 1346; Colas 1957; Lipperheide Le 29; Lust 60: 'a huge collection of attractively lithographed copies of scenes from Chinese life of the mid-Ch'ing period'; Vinet 2360. (2)