[Nicolas Bonnart]. Three volumes collecting nearly 300 copperplate engravings by Bonnart, mostly with coeval coloring, many also raised in gold, depicting French, Swiss, and European dress and costumes; one volume with figures of dancers, carnival masks, players and musicians, arts and crafts; fine ones depicting the royals of Europe, among the more unusual ones, however, those depicting French nannies and those of Eastern princes and high dignitaries from Algeria to Turkey, Siam to China. All in contemporary green half-morocco bindings with gold titles on the spines and manuscript indexes in Italian (a few tears, ink acid burns, slight browning.) (3)

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