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Costumes Historiques – Engravings by Paul Mercuri – Paris, 1860

Costumes Historiques des XIIe, XIIIe, XIVe et XVe Siecles, Camille Bonnard, Charles Blanc. Paris: A. Levy Fils, 1860.
Three volumes describing traditional costumes in the 12th to the 15th centuries. With 200 color engraving plates by Paul Mercuri, amongst them one engraving of a Jew (no. 50).
Volume I: [3], XXIV, 132 pp + [66] illustration plates; Volume II: [1], 152 pp + [67-142] illustration plates; Volume III: [1], 132 pp + [ 143 -200] illustration plates, 31 cm. Good condition. Foxing. Wear to edges of leaves. Damage to bindings.