19th-century engravings of Islamic cultures and attire

Description

16 exquisite engraved steel plates on laid paper, featuring 32 steel engravings from the book 'Histoire des religions et des moeurs' (c. 1819). Depicts dervishes, santons, cadis, emirs, effendis, imams, Africans in traditional attire, Moors, desert Arabs, Persians, Persian women, selectars, the 'ibrie of Dar Aga, solaks, footmen, chenguis, Turkish lovers, Turkish children, Persian criminals in stocks, Edhemite religious, Indian dervishes, charitable Saka dervishes, priors of dervish convents, and delis.