MOLEVILLE, Antoine François Bertrand de.- The costume of the hereditary states of the House of Austria, displayed in fifty coloured engravings; with descriptions, and an introduction / translated by R. C. Dallas, Esq. = Costumes des états héréditaires de la Maison d’Autriche, constant en cinquante gravures coloriées; dont les description, ainsi que líntroduction on été redigées / par M. Bertrand de Moleville.- London: Printed for William Miller, by William Bulmer and Co., 1804.- [6], XXVIII p., L f.: 50 gravuras color.; 36 cm.- E. Bertrand de Moleville (1744-1818), a prominent French politician of the Ancien Régime, was minister to Louis XVI and head of the secret police in the early days of the revolution. Bilingual edition, with two title pages pages, two lists of prints, two publisher's notices, extensive introduction, with texts on opposite pages and 50 aquatints (the first one next to the title), coloured by hand, accompanied by the respective explanatory texts. The prints were engraved by engravers William Ellis and William Poole, from a collection of images published at the time in Vienna, Austria (Costumes des États de l’Empreur). First print and first title with small marginal stain; all the prints produced a slight off-set of contact with the opposite page. Otherwise, a very clean copy with large margins. Fully green morocco contemporary binding from the Levant, probably of English making, with gilt Greek meanders on the covers; very worn spine. Gilt edge.