Search Results: Authors starting with V from Florilegius

A new edition of Thomas Worlidge's etchings of antique gems reprinted from the original 18th century copperplatesComplete with engraved calligraphic title page and 108 fine etchingsThe gems were carved and engraved precious stones depicting figures from Greek and Roman myth, emperors, poets, philosophers, including Jesus Christ, Nero, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Sappho, Homer, Socrates, etc. The stones were from the collections of Duke of Marlborough, the Duchess of Portland, Lord Bessborough, Lord Montague, etc."The copperplates were formerly the property of the Grace Family but now belong to James Vallentin who publishes them for his Friends to whom they are respectfully presented."Sir James Vallentin (1814-1870) was a rectifier or distiller, Knight Sheriff of London and Master of the Worshipful Company of Distillers. He is buried in the church of St Mary the Virgin, Walthamstow. Thomas Worlidge (1700–1766) was a portrait painter and etcher who painted portraits of George II and David Garrick. Like… Read More

Scrapbook of copperplate engravings of London views and maps, mostly from the 18th century compiled by a Victorian lady.Title Old London Views and Maps in manuscript within an engraved border mounted on card, plus 74 views and two maps mounted on card. An interesting collection of views of famous London sites including St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Guildhall, Greys Hospital, the statue of a chained lunatic at Bedlam Hospital, a Lambeth pub circa 1830, Charles Hughes' equestrian circus and riding school in Southwark, Dulwich College, actor David Garrick's house with its Temple of Shakespeare, and many more fascinating places.Many bucolic landscapes of London suburbs along the Thames, taking in Kew, Richmond, Putney, Chelsea, Clapham, Hackney, Deptford and Gravesend. Large fold-out hand-coloured copperplate map of the city of London and county of Middlesex by Johannes Blaeu from Geographiae Volumen Quintum quo Angliae, Amsterdam, 1662, and another of London in the Anglo-Saxon era, circa 1000… Read More

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

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

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