231 - HACQUET (Balthasar) & BRETON DE LA MARTINIÈRE (Jean-Baptiste). Illyria and Dalmatia, or the Customs, Traditions, and Dress of Their Inhabitants and Those of Neighboring Regions. Translated from the German by Mr. Breton de la Martinière. Paris, Nepveu, 1815.

HACQUET (Balthasar) & BRETON DE LA MARTINIÈRE (Jean-Baptiste). Illyria and Dalmatia, or the Customs, Traditions, and Dress of Their Inhabitants and Those of Neighboring Regions. Translated from the German by Mr. Breton de la Martinière. Paris, Nepveu, 1815. 2 volumes in-16, red morocco, smooth spines richly decorated, wide gilt border framing the covers, gilt roulette on the edges and inside, gilt edges (contemporary binding). First French edition, illustrated with 32 finely colored plates printed separately at the time. It has been expanded by the translator, Breton de la Martinière, with a treatise on military Croatia. (Brunet I, 1226; Colas 1371.) Balthasar Hacquet (1739–1815) traveled on foot through much of the Austrian Empire and made numerous significant geological, petrographic, paleontological, botanical, and ethnological observations. He traveled to Constantinople in 1763. A fine, period morocco-bound copy signed by R. P. Chilliat. A few small, light foxing spots.