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Costume Antico e Moderno
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Costume Antico e Moderno: O storia del governo, della milizia, della religione, delle arti, scienze ed usanze di tutti i popoli antichi e moderni provata coi monumenti dell'antichita e rappresentata cogli analoghi disegni.

by Giulio Ferrario

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Complete set of 29 volumes (10 on Europe, 8 on Asia, 4 on Africa, 4 on Asia, 3 supplements) bound in 34 of this monumental Italian work. Revised second edition in octavo following the first edition in folio of 1816-1834. 1,780 handcolored (some tinted or b/w) copperplate engravings by Sasso, Corsi, Giarre, Verico, Migliavacca, etc., after illustrations by Landriani, Sanquirico, Pelagio Pelagi, Bramati, Monticelli, and other artists. Includes 37 folding maps, engravings and tables. Multi-volume series with 11,863 pages on the customs and costumes of the people of the world compiled by Ferrario with help from Carlo Magnetti, Robustiano Gironi, Ambroglio Levati and Francesco Rossi. It offers a mine of historical, geographic, ethnological and anthropological information relating to parts of the world that were still barely explored at the time. Text in Italian.Condition: bindings solid, marble boards scuffed and wrinkled, interior mostly bright and fresh, tinted and handcolored plates clean and fresh. A… Read More
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The Manners, Customs and Conditions of the North American Indians
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The Manners, Customs and Conditions of the North American Indians

by George Catlin

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Very good set of Catlin's classic account of his travels and sojourns with the Native American peoples from 1832-1839.Second edition with colour illustrations featuring 312 full-colour engravings on 180 plates (not the "400 Coloured Plates" described on the title page and spines). Includes three maps in colour.The illustrations show portraits of chiefs, warriors, medicine men and women, buffalo and horse hunts, rituals, religious ceremonies, dances, war games, sports, etc. The Native American peoples described include Choctaw, Blackfoot, Ojibwe, Comanche, Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Sioux, Seminole, etc. There are several self-portraits of Catlin (Frontispiece, Plates 62 and 132). First published in 1841 with uncoloured plates, it was published with coloured plates for the first time in 1876. Although the title page lists "1841, Egyptian Hall," and there are no other dates printed in the book, it is believed this set dates from 1892-4.In publishers black cloth with gilt title on spine and gilt vignette… Read More
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Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen
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Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen: (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures)

by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche

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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.
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