Search Results: Titles starting with V from Florilegius

A very good, near-complete set of the first German-language history of costume, one of the most extensive and detailed encyclopedias of costume, which has long been notoriously hard to find complete.
Complete in 10 octavo volumes and 2 oblong folio volumes.
With 626 hand-coloured copperplates (423 in the 10 octavo text volumes and 203 in two oblong-folio plate volumes).
A fine uniformly bound set of the 10 octavo volumes, with mixed editions of the oblong folio plate volumes and index volume. Includes the often-missing volumes Annotations and supplements (Ammerfungen und Erganzungen) by Leopold Ziegelhauser published in 1837.
As early as the mid-19th century, it was described as "rare and difficult to find complete" (Bulletin du bouquinist, 1859).
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.) The first volumes edited by Ignaz Albrecht were published in… Read More

Oblong-folio plate volume from Robert von Spalart's multi-volume series on the costumes of ancient civilizations to medieval and modern times.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… Read More

Military and religious life in Europe in the middle ages and the Renaissance by noted French bibliographer and author, Paul Lacroix or Bibliophile Jacob (1807-1884). Chapters include Military Orders, Charitable Orders, the Crusades, Chivalry, Heresies, the Inquisition, Graves and Funeral Rites. Profusely illustrated with 14 chromolithographs by Franz Kellerhoven, Felix Elie Regamey and E. Allard, and 410 woodcuts, many full page, in the text by Etienne Huyot and his son Jules Huyot.Bound in red buckram with intricate gilt embossing on the covers and spine, decorative black and gilt endpapers, AEG. Text in French. v, 577pp. 4pp. of publisher's advertisements. Condition: spine repaired, rear board starting, interior fresh and clean with very slight foxing. Heavy book, additional shipping charges required.

Lovely copy of this infamous and rare botanical by a woman artist.Henrietta Maria Moriarty turned to botanical illustration to support her four children after being left in debt by her no-good, late husband in 1804.Complete with all 50 hand-coloured copperplate engravings, dedication to Dowager Lady de Clifford, preface, list of subscribers, index.While Moriarty claims to have "delineated" the plants, the "plates are in almost every case adapted with slight alteration and no acknowledgement from Curtis' Botanical Magazine" (James Briteen, Journal of Botany, 1917.)The list of 174 subscribers includes many aristocrats, ladies and Army officers, perhaps introduced by the dedicatee, Sophia Southwell, Lady de Clifford (1743-1828), who was a keen amateur gardener and botanical artist herself. She collected many rare and exotic plants at her glasshouses in Kings Weston, Nyn Park and Dudley Grove.Mrs. Henrietta Maria Moriarty (1781-1842), widow of Col. Matthew Moriarty, turned to writing and book illustration… Read More

Set of 3 volumes of this finely illustrated review of the manners, lifestyles and costumes of all the peoples of the world.Complete with 3 handcolored title pages and 365 handcolored illustrations on 184 lithographic plates of native costumes, customs, weapons, views, etc. (Missing the volume on Europe.) Text in German. Vol. 1, Asia, engraved title page, 278pp, 68 plates; Vol. 2, Africa, engraved title page, 256pp, 52 plates; and Vol. 3 North and South America, Australia and the South Sea Islands, engraved title page, 136pp and 36 plates (Americas), 134pp and 28 plates (Australia). Rare to find even partial sets with handcolored plates.Condition: Cloth spines frayed and repaired, marbled boards scuffed, stamp of Carl Schmidt on fep and title pages, interior clean and unfoxed, lithographic plates with fine handcolor. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. The volumes were self-published from 1830 to 1839.Heavy set, extra shipping charges apply.