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ASPIN, Jehoshaphat.
Cosmorama. The Manners, Customs, and Costumes of All Nations of the World.
The unlikely name of the author is in fact, a pseudonym that hides a professional woman writer, who, according to custom, could hardly write under her real name, "a Lady who published works on astronomy, history, sports, manners, trades calculators, and naval exploits for child readers."
- Published
- London: John Harris, St Paul's Church-Yard. 1834.
- Plates
- 24
- Binding/Size
- Xs=12mo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: John Harris, St Paul's Church-Yard. 1834.
- Ref
- 607
New Edition. Illustrated with engravings. Crown 8vo pp. viii 232 [32] John Harris catalogue; 24 hand-coloured engraved plates; original purple moire cloth (variant binding) with gilt paper label on upper board; head of spine; chipped joints a little cracked; from the estate of His Royal Highness Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester (bookplate on front pastedown). Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. Danes / Icelanders. 2. Swedes / Finlanders. 3. Laplanders / Samoiedes. 4. Cossacks / Russians. 5. Saxons / Austrians. 6. Londoners / English Peasants. 7. Scottish Highlanders / Hollanders or Dutch. 8. Parisians / French Peasants. 9. Swiss Peasants / Corsicans. 10. Greeks / A Turk & his Wife. 11. Albanians or Arnauts / Circassians. 12. Tartar Murses or Nobles / Tatars or Tartars. 13. Kamtschatales / A Norwegian killing a Bear. 14. Arabians / East Indians of Distinction. 15. Persian Ladies / A Persian. 16. Chinese Pedlar with Rats & Puppies for Pies / Birman Woongee & Lady. 17. Birman... & Trooper / Birmese Man & Woman. 18. Negroes / Algerines. 19. Egyptian Peasants / Ashantees. 20. Esquimaux / Inhabitants of Norton Sound. 21. American Indians / Brazilian Hunters. 22. American Indian Chefs / Mexican Gentleman. 23. Chilese / Natives of Terra del Fuego. 24. Taheitans / Sandwich Islanders.
