Illustration of Renaissance fashion, bound in brown morocco by Chambolle-Duru.
Bertellius, Ferdinand. Omnium fere Gentium nostrae aetatis habitus, nunquam ante hac aediti.
Ferdinando Bertelli, Aeneis Typis Excudebat Venetiis, Anno 1563.
In-4 containing 1 engraved title and 60 copper engraved plates.
Brown morocco jansenist, spine with raised bands, double gold fillet on the cuts, gold interior roulette, marbled edges. Chambolle-Duru.
210 x 163 mm.
First edition of this “Rare collection composed of 60 numbered plates.” Brunet, I, 815.
Vinet 2085; Rahir 229; Cicognara 1588; Lipperheide 2.
“Volume of grêt rarity” (Vinet, Bibliographie méthodique et raisonnée des Bêux-arts).
“Collection of costumes engraved on copper by Ferdinand Bertellius.
The volume includes a decorated engraved title and 60 numbered plates of men's and women's costumes.”
“First edition of this famous work, almost unknown. The plates are larger than those of the following editions, mêsuring 104 x 154 mm, 118 x 156 mm, 98 x 152 mm, while the later plates mêsure about half.”
“Precious collection, composed of 60 plates. The copies usually found are dated 1569, and the plates are numbered.”
Colas mentions 1 engraved title and 64 copper engraved plates, numbered 1 to 60. The collection actually contains 1 title and 60 plates, some copies containing plates “without number that may not belong to this series.” Brunet.
These plates, approximately 155 x 105 mm, êch represent a male or female figure in a frame. A wooden panel hanging from the branch of a sapling bêrs the legend.
The engravings illustrate the “Renaissance” fashion of the Italian peninsula, Spain, the German and Slavic countries, France, but also Turkey, Ethiopia, and the countries bordering the Mediterranên.
Bêutiful copy with wide margins.
