Author: [JESSEN, Heinrich].
Title: [Trachten aus Alt-Hamburg].[Hamburg, B.S. Berendsohn, Wilhelm Jowien, and others], [ca. 1850]. 8vo. With 50 hand-coloured full-page plates (ca. 20 x 12.5 cm) highlighted with egg-white, (44 lithographs, 3 engravings, 3 wood-engravings), including 33 after drawings by Heinrich Jessen. Contemporary blind-stamped decorated red cloth, front board with title lettered in gold.
Description: [50] plates.Charming colour plate book with mainly military costumes. The plates depict messenger boys, maidservants, a police officer, several military men on horseback, etc. Some were published earlier in F.G. Buek's Album hambürgische Costüme, 1843-1847.Hinges weak, head and foot of spine damaged. Coloured costumes in good condition.l Colas 1547; Hiler, p. 479; Lipperheide 809.

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