PERROT (Aristide Michel).

Tableau comparatif des races et des costumes des principaux peuples des cinq parties du Monde.

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD

Lithograph broadside with contemporary colour measuring 450 by 600m. Old repair to closed tear, otherwise very good. Paris, Basset, nd but c, 1840.

£3,000.00

A lovely example of mid-nineteenth-century lithography. This piece depicts seventy figures from Europe, Asia, the Pacific (Oceania), Africa and America, all in national costume.

The Pacific is represented by an Australian, two New Zealanders, a Hawaiian, a Polynesian (Nuka Hiva), and an Indonesia (from Sunda). America is more wide-ranging and includes Inuit, Sioux and Pani, Osage, Californian, a Mexicna, a Patagonian, and even a Greenlander.

Aristide-Michel Perrot (1794-1877) was a French geographer and cartographer, who specialised in making miniature maps. This image makes a nice companion to his later print of New World flora and fauna: Acclimatation Tableau représentant les Animaux, quadrupèdes, oiseaux, poissons, insectes …

Rare. OCLC locates a single copy at NLA (Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK6244).

Not in Forbes; not in Ferguson.

Stock No.
245428
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