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Encyclopédie des voyages, : contenant l'abrégé historique des mœurs, usages, habitudes domestiques, religions, fêtes, supplices, funérailles, sciences, arts, commerce de tout les peuples; et la collection complette de leurs habillements civils, militaires, religieux et dignitaires, dessinés d'après nature, gravés avec soin et coloriés à l'aquarelle.

by: Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810

Publication date: 1795

Topics: Costume, Costume -- America

Publisher: [Paris] : Se trouve chez Deroy, libraire, rue du Cimetière-Andrè, no 15, près la rue Haute-Feuille, et chez les principaux libraires de la République. : De l'imprimerie des Sciences et Arts, rue Thérése, no. 6.

Collection: jcbfrench; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: French

[2], 4 p., [20] leaves of plates : 26 cm. (4to)

Prospectus for five volume work with same title. Paris, 1795-1796 (includes first issue of first volume on Europe, issued in 1795) or 1796 respectively (includes second issue of first volume on Europe, issued in 1796)

Title page used for the present prospectus identical with that of the first issue of first volume on Europe. Paris, 1795

Printer's imprint from colophon

Signatures: pi1 A² (pi1 verso blank)

Twenty handcolored plates, unnumbered, designed by the author, Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur

Twelve of the 20 plates illustrate costumes of native Americans