BRETON DE LA MARTINIER, Jean Baptiste Joseph

BRETON DE LA MARTINIER, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1777–1852). La Russie, ou moeurs, usages, et costumes des habitants de toutes les provinces de cet empire… Paris: Nepveu, 1813. 6 volumes, 12mo in sixes. Half–titles, 111 engraved plates, most hand–colored (several folding frontispieces). Contemporary full speckled calf ruled in gilt, 2 red morocco lettering–pieces gilt, tooled centerpieces gilt of a man in costume, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers (spines and joints a bit rubbed). FIRST EDITION, of this work on Russian costume and customs with illustrations after original paintings or drawings by the French painter M.F. Damame–Demartrait (1763–1827). Brunet I:226; Colas 436; Fekula 3542; Lipperheide 1578.