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

£3,000 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

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 .

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