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Usi e costumi sociali, politici e religiosi di tutti i popoli del mondo : da documenti autentici e dai viaggi migliori e più recenti

Wahlen, Auguste, 1785-1850, Dally, Nicolas, 1795-1862, Cibrario, Luigi, conte, 1802-1870 · 1844 · Torino : Stabilimento tipografico Fontana · 90 pictures

An Italian edition of Auguste Wahlen's illustrated survey of the manners, customs and dress of the world's peoples, issued in Turin by Fontana in 1844 for general readers of ethnographic compendia. Hand-coloured engravings show single standing figures in regional costume with weapons, tools and sketched landscape backgrounds, useful for costume detail, isolated figure silhouettes and flat period colour.

Ethnology · Manners and customs · Costume

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