Habitus Variarum Orbis gentium. Habitz de Nations estra:ges. Trachten mancherley Völcker des Erdskreyss

Jean-Jacques Boissard 1528-1602.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

05/1336

Author

Jean-Jacques Boissard, 1528-1602.

Variant Title

Habitz de nations estra:ges
Trachten mancherley Völcker des Erdskreyss

Imprint

[S.l.:]: Cum privilegio Cæsareo. Cum Privilegio Regio., 1581.

Physical Description

[3] f., 61 [i.e. 62] pl.: [3] illus.; 265×435 mm.

General Note

Bis pl. 20 ('20B'). Pl. 9 is misnumbered as '6'.

Contents

[T.p.] - In Effigiem Ioannis Iacobi Boissardi Vesuntini - Jan de Gardesy Montalbanois a Jan Jacques Boissard Bisontin - [Plates].

Responsibility Note

No plate is signed. According to the British Library catalogue some engravings are by Julius Goltzius.

References

R. Colas, Bibliographie Générale du Costume (1933), no. 366, col. 121-3; Katalog Der Freiherrlich von Lipperheide'schen Kostümbibliothek (repr. 1963), no. 14, p. 15.

Summary Note

The plates are captioned in Latin, French and German and show costumes of various nations. The first plate is a portrait of Emperor Rudolph II; the three in-text illustrations are portraits - of 'Io Iac. Boissardus', 'Nicolea A Vienna' and 'Loyse de Vienne'. The title is printed within an elaborate engraved border.

Reproductions

A microfilm was made in 1994 (London: British Library).

Copy Note

Each leaf has been pasted in.

Binding Note

19th-century half red morocco, marbled-papered boards; gilt-decorated spine lettered 'Boissard Costumes. 1581'.

Subject

Costume - Clothing and dress - Dresses - History
Pictorial works - 16th century