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SERIES OF 8 CIRCA EARLY 19TH CENTURY ENGRAVED HAND COLOURED PLATES DEPICTING SWISS COSTUMES OF THE CANTONS, BEARING RESEMBLANCE TO THOSE BY JOHAN CHRISTIAN REINHARDT OF SWISS COSTUMES FROM COLLECTION DE COSTUMES SUISSES, circa 1822, each mounted, tissue guarded and with accompanying printed number, caption and one printed page of letterpress, including “3 Mareily Schild…Vallee D’oberhasly, Canton De Berne; 3 Lucerne Helene Larky… canton de Lucerne”; “5 Schwiz Therese Schmidt… Canton De Schwiz”; “7 Genevieve Glutz… Canton De Soleure”; “15 Grisons Louise Tascher… Canton Des Grisons”; “18 Tessin Barber Tellegrini…”; “19 Vaud Baber Favrer… Pres de Lausanne”, + “Canton Vallais” (without printed caption or letterpress), sold as a series of plates only, housed loose in old cloth backed portfolio, ribbon ties