Search Results: costumes anciens et modernes by vecellio cesare

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Paris, 1855. paperback. gebraucht, gut Altkolorierter Holzstich, auf Untersatzkarton montiert, Titel auf Darstellung montiert, Papier altersbedingt minimal lichtrandig, leichter Druckletternschatten, Papier altersbedingt wenig fleckig, sonst GUTES EXEMPLAR. 16 x 10,11 cm.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paris: M. Amb. Firmin Didot, 1859. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair; pp 234; grayish green spine with gilt text to dark green bands; no jacket; rebound; cloth has slightly soiled exterior; rubbing wear to edges and joints; ex-library label to spine; strong boards; text block shows some age toning to exterior edges; ex-library with markings inside; ex-libris plates; black circular stain to frontispiece; offset stain to verso to ffep; ex-library pouch to rear pastedown; slight foxing throughout; cracked front hinge; illustrated; text in Italian and French. Ancient and Modern Costumes [Ancient and Modern Habits]. 1335778. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardback. New.

Paris: Typographie de Firmin Didot Fils & Cie, 1860. 4th Edition . Cloth. Good. 8vo. Two volumes (1859, 1860). In Italian and French. Foreword, plates 1-234, 235-513, Indexes. Both volumes have slight lean to spine, chipping at crown and heel with some loss at crown, covers soiled and unevenly faded, corners of boards bumped, hinges tender or starting, previous owner name on front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked; Vol. I has more notable loss at crown and about 2" of backstrip missing at heel, front hinge cracked. 4th ed.

Paris: Typographie de Firmin Didot Frères, 1859. Hardcover. Fair (Boards are heavily worn and show some discoloration; bottom portion of the spine strip is missing; inner hinge is broken; text block edges is heavily foxed and shows shelfwear; pages are lightly age-toned and foxed.). Quarter-bound brown leather boards with five raised bands and gilt lettering; green cloth bookmark; 234, 18 pp.; richly illustrated in bw. Text in Italian and French. This is Volume I in a two-volume set.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paris: Firmin Didot, 1859. Hardcover. Octavo, Good condition hardcover; 1/4 bound in black leather and marbled boards, paneled spine with gilt lettering and tooling; top edge of text block gilt, marbled endpapers; some rubbing and wear to boards; Age-toning to fly leaves and faintly to margins of text; Text is in French and Italian; Shelved in Room G. 1245073. Special Collections.

Paris,: Didot,, 1859-1860.. In-8 p. (mm. 223x141), 2 volumi, mz. pelle con ang. coeva, dorso a cordoni con fregi e tit. oro, tagli super. dorati, pp. 9, cc.num. 234, c.nn. 1, pp. 18 (di Indice); p. (4), da c. 235 a c. 513, c.nn. 1, pp. 19 (di Indice). Le 513 tavole numerate che compongono l'opera sono tutte inc. su legno, con testi a fronte in italiano e francese, inquadrati in elaborata cornice. Il ns. esemplare ne contiene 509 (mancano i N. 263 - 264 - 265 - 266). Il primo volume (con 234 tavv.) è dedicato solo all'Italia. Questa importante opera, illustrata da disegni del pittore Cesare Vecellio (cugino di Tiziano), fu pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1590 e ristampata nel 1598 e nel 1664. Cfr. Colas,2980 - Graesse,VII,267: "Cette nouvelle edit. reproduit exactement tous les costumes figurés dans les trois premières, mais cette fois dessinés plus correctement par M. Seguin et gravés sur bois par M. Huyot". Con qualche alone al marg. infer. di un vol., tracce d'uso, ma buon esemplare.

Paris, Fimrin Didot, 1859.** . Relie, demi-maroquin (dos, coins), plats marbre, dos orne de fil. fleurisse dore et titre dore, dos a nerfs (4), dos jauni, 2 frontispices, page de garde marbre, 14,5x23cm, s.p. (+/-1026pp)(37), illustre n/b. Texte francais/ italienne. Precedes d'un essai sur la gravure sur bois par Firmin Didot. Illustre avec 513 planches hors-texte de costumes.

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… Read More

Paris: Typographie de Firmin Didot Frères Fils & Cie, 1860. Fifth edition. Extensively illustrated with woodcut illustrations, text in Italian and French. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Three parts bound as one volume. Later half-green morocco, front wrapper of each part bound in. Darkened, some rubbing especially of raised bands on spine, some light offsetting and light marginal discoloration, else very good. Fifth edition. Extensively illustrated with woodcut illustrations, text in Italian and French. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Hiler p. 873; Lipperhaide 25; Colas 2980