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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
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- Seller
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Item Price
£4,898.40£4,163.64
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
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 few signatures with heavy discoloration to text, some slight water-staining to two volumes but outside of text and image area.
Giulio Ferrario (1767-1847) was librarian at Braidense Library in Milan, scholar and author of historical and literary works.
Heavy set, extra shipping charges apply.
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 few signatures with heavy discoloration to text, some slight water-staining to two volumes but outside of text and image area.
Giulio Ferrario (1767-1847) was librarian at Braidense Library in Milan, scholar and author of historical and literary works.
Heavy set, extra shipping charges apply.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Florilegius
(JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Flo120
- Title
- Costume Antico e Moderno
- Author
- Giulio Ferrario
- Illustrator
- Landriani, Sanquirico, Pelagio Pelagi, Bramati, etc.
- Format/Binding
- Black half-leather bindings with marbled boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Vincenzo Batelli
- Place of Publication
- Florence
- Date Published
- 1826-1847
- Size
- Octavo, 22 x 14cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- illustrated, costume, anthropology, Ferrario, engraving,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Florilegius
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Florilegius
Biblio member since 2019
Tokyo, Tokyo
About Florilegius
Tokyo-based bookseller specializing in European illustrated books from the 18th to 19th century, mainly botanical, zoological, costume and travel. Also Japanese ukiyo-e and woodblock botanicals, flower arrangement, etc.
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