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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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.

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.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paris, Typographie de Firmin Didot Frères Fils & Cie, Typographie de Firmin Didot Frères Fils & Cie, 1859-1860. 2 vols. 8vo (23x15 cm). Contemporary halfleather, with cornerpieces. Spines with ribbons, gilt title on spines; top edges gilt, uncut. Marbled endpapers. (Superficial tears in hinges; corners sl. bumped; ribbons dented). Tome I: (iv) pp., p. 5-9, (i:blank) p. 234 leaves, 18 pp. (P.5-9: Amb. F. Didot, Avis sur la IVe édition du Recueil). Tome II: (iv)pp., leaves 235-513, 19 pp. - 2 engraved titles and 513 engraved plates by Huyot, with explanatory text in French and Italian opposite. The plates are reproduced from the 3 editions by Vecellio: 1590, 1598 and 1664. All the plates and texts have different decorative ornamental borders in woodcut: flower ornaments and architectural ornaments. The 18 and resp. 19 pages at the end: "Tables des Matières". - Some brown spots, mainly in the first quires of each volume, but a good set.

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