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Costumes anciens et modernes: Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mundo
by Cesare Vecellio
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- Seller
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
Very good copy of the fourth and best edition of this famous Renaissance collection of world costumes.
With 513 costume plates printed on fine vellum paper, with each plate facing a page of descriptive text in Italian and French.
This new edition has all the original costume plates corrected by Gerard Seguin and engraved on wood by Etienne Huyot. The decorative frames to both costume and text pages were engraved by H. Catenacci and Fellmann.
A panorama of world costume from European nobility and peasants, Venetian senators, prostitutes, Turkish pirates and dervishes, ancient Roman soldiers, fanciful Japanese and Nestorian costumes, Native Americans from Virginia and Peru taken from travel books, etc.
Cesare Vecellio (c.1521-1601) was an Italian artist, cousin and assistant to Titian, active in Venice and Augsburg. In 1590, he published his collection of costumes of all nations with woodcuts copied from Christoph Krieger. Despite many fanciful and imaginary costumes, it became an iconic source in the history of costume and fashions.
In half red shagreen leather, four raised bands, gilt titles and tooling, marbled boards with bumping to corners, marble endpapers, interior clean and bright with good impressions of the woodblocks, slight offsetting and foxing to some plates and text.
With 513 costume plates printed on fine vellum paper, with each plate facing a page of descriptive text in Italian and French.
This new edition has all the original costume plates corrected by Gerard Seguin and engraved on wood by Etienne Huyot. The decorative frames to both costume and text pages were engraved by H. Catenacci and Fellmann.
A panorama of world costume from European nobility and peasants, Venetian senators, prostitutes, Turkish pirates and dervishes, ancient Roman soldiers, fanciful Japanese and Nestorian costumes, Native Americans from Virginia and Peru taken from travel books, etc.
Cesare Vecellio (c.1521-1601) was an Italian artist, cousin and assistant to Titian, active in Venice and Augsburg. In 1590, he published his collection of costumes of all nations with woodcuts copied from Christoph Krieger. Despite many fanciful and imaginary costumes, it became an iconic source in the history of costume and fashions.
In half red shagreen leather, four raised bands, gilt titles and tooling, marbled boards with bumping to corners, marble endpapers, interior clean and bright with good impressions of the woodblocks, slight offsetting and foxing to some plates and text.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Florilegius
(JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Flo192
- Title
- Costumes anciens et modernes
- Author
- Cesare Vecellio
- Illustrator
- Cesare Vecellio, Gerard Seguin, Etienne Huyot, Christoph Krieger,
- Format/Binding
- Half red leather, four raised bands, marble boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 4th
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Firmin Didot Freres
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1859-1860
- Size
- Octavo, 22 x 15cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Cesare Vecellio, Gerard Seguin, Christoph Krieger, costume, ancient, modern, fashion, travel, world, medieval, Renaissance, clothes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Costume;
Terms of Sale
Florilegius
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Florilegius
Biblio member since 2019
Tokyo, Tokyo
About Florilegius
Tokyo-based bookseller specializing in European illustrated books from the 18th to 19th century, mainly botanical, zoological, costume and travel. Also Japanese ukiyo-e and woodblock botanicals, flower arrangement, etc.
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- Fine
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