SYLVAIN MARÉCHAL - 1750-1803 Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus dessinés d’après nature, gravés et coloriés, accompagnés d’une notice historique sur les moeurs, usages, coutumes, religions, fêtes, supplices, funérailles, sciences et arts, commerce, etc. de chaque peuple.- [tome second, troisième & quatrième).- Seconde édition, revue et corrigée.- A Paris: Chez Deterville, s.d. (ca. 1805).- 3 vols.: il.; 22 cm.- E. A Set consisting of volumes II, III and IV of this classic work in the iconography of fashion and costume. The second volume contains 87 of the 88 hand-coloured engravings (engraving 23 is missing); the third volume is complete with 70 engravings but has two worm holes that run through the entire volume; the fourth volume, very incomplete, only includes 19 engravings of 60 (?) that should contain. The total number of engravings is thus of 176 (the total engravings of the four volumes is 298). The colouring is poor and irregular. Entire calf binding of the 20th century.