(Harding, E.). The costume of the Russian empire. With descriptions in English and French. 9 Bl. With 73 coloured copper panels in puncture manner and sepia by J. Dadley, each with an explanatory sheet. 35 x 26 cm. Newly bonded leather band d. C. (back and corners restored using contemporary material). London, S. Gosnell for W. Miller, 1803. Lipperheide Kaa 18. Colas 702. Hiler 192. Abbey, Travel 244 – First edition. With costumes from the Baltics, Finland, Lapland, Eastern Siberia, Caucasus, Hungary, the Volga people, the Tartars, Kyrgyz, Yakuts, Turkmens, Circassians, the inhabitants of Kamchatka, the Aleutians, etc. Coppers are enlarged replicas according to J. G. Georgi Descriptions of all nations of the Russian Empire 1776-1780 (Lipperheide). – Internal joints indisputably reinforced with linen strips, mostly with abklatsch, otherwise well received.