[Rarebooks] fa: AMERICAN INDIANS - Complete Set of All 23 COLORED COPPER PLATES from Jefferys, 1772

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

On eBay now, ending Sunday, April 15...

A COMPLETE SET of ALL TWENTY-THREE COPPER-ENGRAVED PLATES RELATING to 
the AMERICAS (vol. IV, plates 193-215) from "A Collection of the 
Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern (Recueil des 
Habillements, etc.)," Thomas Jefferys' monumental four-volume survey of 
the world's peoples and their costumes, published in London from 
1757-1772.

Divided into three separate lots:

NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS - 14 Plates

COLONEL [HENRY] BOUQUET and the OHIO INDIANS - 2 Plates (after Benjamin 
West)

INDIANS OF MEXICO and SOUTH AMERICA, etc. - 7 Plates

These engravings, when found at all, are almost always sold 
individually, usually uncolored, and virtually never (as far as we can 
tell) untrimmed. Each lot presents an extraordinary opportunity to 
acquire a superb set in near-original condition, and when combined with 
the other two lots, a truly rare, if not once-in-a-lifetime, chance to 
own a complete run of all twenty-three of Jefferys' plates relating to 
the Americas, North and South.

They can be found at the URL below, or by searching under the seller 
name arch_in_la.

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZarch_in_laQQhtZ-1

Many thanks,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.