UNRECORDED EDITION with eighteen additional plates not found in the first edition of 1850 and preceding the second edition of 1890 noted by Hiler, Colas, and Lipperheide. Small folio (10 3/4" x 7 1/4"; 273 x 185 mm). Lithograph title, list of plates, and thirty stub-mounted, exquisitely hand-coloured lithograph plates with very detailed backgrounds, some heightened with gum arabic, four of which are signed and dated 1861. Captions in Danish and French. Only one copy has come to auction within the last thirty-five years, at Christie's South Kensington, in 1993 (a condition nightmare.) OCLC /KVK note only two copies, at Yale and the Boston Athenaeum. There are, incredibly, no copies at Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Denmark. Original blue cloth, boards decoratively stamped in blind, upper board with a single gilt fillet, title lettered in gilt, spine ruled in gilt with flat bands. Original 'watered silk' endpapers and paste-downs. An excellent copy of a scarce and beautiful colour-plate costume book. "This Danish Civil War (1848-50) was part of a nationalist movement that developed throughout Europe following the end of the Napoleonic wars and was mainly centered on Schleswig-Holstein. Frederick Lund volunteered for service in his country, taking with him a sketchbook. He was keenly interested in the country people of Denmark and their traditional dress...this is perhaps the most important work on Danish Costume". (Bobins) Coloured plates in order: 1. Habitant de l'isle d'Amack. 2. Paysan de Seelande. 3. Pecheur de Skovshoved. 4. Jeune fille de l'isle d'Amack. 5. Paysanne de Seelande. 6. Jeune fille de Skovshoved (Marchande de Poisson). 7. Femme mariee d'Ostenfeldt en Slesvic (costume de dimanche). 8. Femme mariee de l'isle d'Amrom Slesvic (costume de dimanche). 9. Femme mariee de l'isle de Fano Jutland. 10. Jeune fille de l'isle de Fohr Slesvic (costume de dimanche). 11. Femme mariee de l'isle de Romo (Slesvic). 12. Jeune fille de Blaavands Huk (Jutland). 13. Femme mariee de l'isle de Bornholm. 14. Femme mariee de l'isle d'Avernako ( La Fionie). 15. Homme de Fuur (Jutland). 16. Une fille de l'isle de Laeso. 17. Femme mariee de Salling (Jutland). 18. Une fille des environs de Ringkjobing (Jutland). 19. Jeune fille de Valby. 20. Femme mariee de Haudrup. 21. Jeunne fille de Refsnaes (Seelande). 22. Paysan de Randers (Jutland). 23. Paysan de Mors (Jutland). 24. Femme mariee de Falster. 25. Femme mariee de l'isle de Dreio (La fionie Habit d'eglise). 26. Jeune fille de l'isle d'Aero. 27. Jeune fille d'Ofjord (Islande). 28. Habit d'eglise (Bornholm). 29. Jeune fille de Dannevirke. 30. Jeune fille de Modrevallis (Islande Habit d'eglise).