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CHINA - COSTUME
MASON (GEORGE HENRY) The Costume of China [-Costumes de la Chine], William Miller, 1804

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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CHINA - COSTUME

MASON (GEORGE HENRY) The Costume of China [-Costumes de la Chine], text in English and French, 60 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates (watermarked 1819-20), plates 16 and 26 supplied from another copy and laid down, title browned and final text leaf torn at gutter, contemporary straight-grained red morocco gilt, upper joint split, worn [Abbey Travel 533; Colas 2009; Lipperheide 1520], 4to (365 x 255mm.), William Miller, 1804

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