Versuch uber das Kostum: der vorzuglichsten Volker des Alterthums, des Mittelalters und neuern Zeiten
by Robert von Spalart
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
Title on spine reads Spalart Kostum, Foliotafeln 1-5, but collection contains all 112 folio plates to Antiquity parts 1-5, plus 43 plates illustrating the Middle Ages.
With allegorical frontispiece, and 154 fine handcolored copperplate engravings A to SSSSS (ancient world from Egypt to Rome including Pompeii and Herculaneum) and I to XLIII (Anglo-Saxon and Norman). Plates engraved by K. Ponheimer, Paul Weindl, after illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Julien-David Le Roy, Johann Just Winckelmann, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Antonio Jolli, Friedrich Justin Bertuch, Sir William Hamilton, Carsten Niebuhr, Jean Chardin, Cornelis Le Bruyn, Juan Bautista Villalpando, Alessandro Galilei, Antoine Augustin Calmet,Karl Gottlieb Guischardt, Gabriel Daniel, Johann Georg Graevius, Ferdinando Galiani, Jean-Claude Richard Abbé de Saint-Non, etc.
Robert von Spalart (died 1808) was chief of protocol at the Royal and Imperial Court of Vienna and co-editor of the Viennese Critical Theatre Journal. (Elke Gaugele ed., Fashion Knowledge, 2022.) He died in 1808, leaving editors Jakob Kaiserer and Leopold Ziegelhauser to finish three parts of Volumes 1 and 2. The proposed third volume on Neuern Zeiten (modern) costume was never started.
Condition: cloth binding solid but grubby, internally very good with vibrant hand colour on laid-paper engravings. Most plates with neat handwritten explanation in ink in German within plate-mark. Book plates of Czech artist Mojmir Helcelet (1879-1959), Dr. Cibor Helcelet and Prof. D.J. Helcelet on front endpaper.
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- Bookseller
- Florilegius (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Flo103
- Title
- Versuch uber das Kostum
- Author
- Robert von Spalart
- Illustrator
- Robert von Spalart
- Format/Binding
- Full cloth binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Joseph Eder
- Place of Publication
- Vienna
- Date Published
- 1800
- Size
- Folio, 24 x 35cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- illustrated, ancient, Roman, Norman, costume, Spalart, copperplate
- Bookseller catalogs
- Costume;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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