Em face de documentos autenticos e das mais recentes viagens. Publicado por Augusto Wahlen Cavalleiro de diversas ordens. Traduzido por Francisco Ludovino de Sousa Freitas Sampaio. Imprensa Lusitana. Lisboa. 1872, 1873, 1874, 1876, e 1878.

Obra em 5 volumes. De 15x23 cm.

Com 421, [i]; 439, [iv]; 539, [xi]; 538, [viii]; e 473, [vi] pags.

Encadernações da época com lombadas em pele (nervos e ferros a ouro) e pastas em percalina estampada.

Ilustrado com belas gravuras (algumas gravadas por F. Monteiro) intercaladas em extratexto, nomeadamente: 1º e 2º volumes: ASIA ilustrados com 19 e 34 gravuras; 3º volume: ÁFRICA E AMÉRICA ilustrado com 34 gravuras; 4º volume: EUROPA ilustrado com 35 gravuras; e 5º volume: OCEANIA com 30 gravuras (índice com 31 gravuras, no entanto são 30 lâminas).

O primeiro volume sobre a Asia continental, contém as seguintes gravuras: Jesuíta missionário na China; Bonzo chinês; O Imperador da China; Mandarim Chinês; Juncos chineses, Rapariga chinesa, Tipos chineses; Comerciante chinês; Coreano; Habitante de Lou-Tchou; Formosano [Taiwanês]; Tibetano; Soldado conchinchinês [vietnamita]; Natural e soldado conchinchinês [idem]; Rapariga conchichinesa [idem]; Siamês [Tailandês]; Koriano; e Dourianis.

Inocêncio não menciona.

Segundo referência da BNP: "Duarte de Sousa 2, 749 (refere apenas o vol. 4)".

 Antropological, ethnographical and geographical survey of the 18th Century. A collection of reports on the peoples of the world superbly ilustrated with lithographic coloured stamps hors-text. The first volume has beautiful stamps made from life skechts taken from China and Southeast continental Asia. The 5th (and last volume on «Oceania») depicts the non-continental Southeast Asia, such as the Indonesia; (Timor; Solor; Java and Malay Peninsula; etc) Polinesia; Melanesia (Tahiti, Mariannas, Guan, Sandwish, etc); Philippines; New-Guinea; Australia; New Zeeland, etc. (5th volume has an index with 31 entries of plates, although there are physically 30 plates).

Rare Portuguese edition of Wahlen"s Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les peuples du monde (Brussels, 1844). Wahlen"s is a scarce and beautiful work on the costumes of the world, finely illustrated with a wonderful series of highly-finished handcoloured full-page plates. This Portuguese edition is not recorded by Ferguson, although there are 30 plates of Oceania; it includes the Aborigines of Jervis Bay and Kangaroo Island, and the exotic peoples of Pitcairn Island, New Guinea, Timor, Java, New Zealand and Hawaii. As with the earlier Brussels edition, the plates are drawn from published voyage accounts. The startling portraits of the Aborigines of Jervis Bay and Kangaroo Island are copied from De Sainson"s studies made on Dumont D'Urville"s voyage on the Astrolabe. Other images come from Krusenstern, while the Tahitian dancer is after John Webber from the account of Cook"s third voyage. Portrait profiles of Maoris are based on Sydney Parkinson's images published in the official account of Cook's first voyage, and a native of New Guinea is adapted from P. Van Oort"s "Native of Dourga Strait , New Guinea, which appeared as the frontispiece to Earl"s The Native Races of the Indian Archipelago.