Details

Subject(s)

• Costume—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Clothing and dress—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Clothing and dress—Europe—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Clothing and dress—Italy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Clothing and dress—Africa—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Clothing and dress—Asia—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Clothing and dress—America—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of North America—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of South America—Clothing—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Clothing and dress—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Women's clothing—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Women's clothing—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Engraver

Chrieger, Cristoforo, -approximately 1590 [Browse]

Translator

Gratilianus, Sulstatius [Browse]

Printer

Sessa, Giovanni Battista, active 1546-1602 [Browse]

Attributed name

Chrieger, Giovanni, active 16th century [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Woodcuts [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• woodcuts (prints) [Browse]

Contains

• Vecellio, Cesare, approximately 1521-1601. De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo. Latin. [Browse]
• Vecellio, Cesare, approximately 1521-1601. De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo. [Browse]

Medium/​Support

8vo rda

Notes

• Originally published in 1590 as: De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo
• Date of publication from colophon: In Venetia MDXCVIII appresso Gio. Bernardo Sessa.
• The original 1590 edition included some 420 woodcuts attributed to Christoph Krieger [Cristoforo Guerra], who died before completing the 450 cuts stipulated in his contract; this 2nd edition of 1598 contains 88 additional woodcuts; see Bayer. Woodcuts also attributed to Cesare Vecellio and Giovanni Chrieger.
• Verso of each leaf of text contains a woodcut (drafting sometimes attributed to Titian), in ornamental border, faced by descriptive text in Italian and Latin. Italian text printed in italic type in upper half of page; Latin text printed in roman type in lower half of page.
• Title within elaborate cartouche, featuring a figure in each corner in native dress from the four continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; the Sessa cat-and-mouse device in small oval cartouche in lower part of cartouche; a large version of the device appears on verso of last leaf within ornamental cartouche within architectural woodcut border, with Sessa's motto "Dissimilium in fida societas."
• Head-pieces; ornamental initials; text illustrated with 505 full-page woodcuts, most by Christoph Krieger, on the verso of each leaf, depicting the costumes of the people of Europe, Asia, and Africa; the illustrations in Libro XII ("De gli habiti dell'America," leaves 488-507) depict the local dress of inhabitants of Peru, Cuzco, Mexico, Virginia, and Florida, both men and women, especially interesting for the early depictions of Native Americans.
• Signatures: a-g⁸ A-3R⁸ 3S⁴.
• Last leaf blank.
• Includes indexes.

Binding note

Princeton copy 1 Bound in 20th century stiff parchment.

Language note

Parallel texts in Italian and Latin.

References

• Alden, J.E. European Americana, 598/112
• Bayer, A.J. Art and love in Renaissance Italy, numbers 64, pages 145
• Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.), volume 5, column 1104
• EDIT 16, CNCE 29586
• Hiler, H. Bibliography of costume (1. edition), pages 873
• Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1:368
• Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 98732
• Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum, page 713

Place name(s)

Italy Venice,

Other title(s)

Vestitus antiquorum recentiorumque totius orbis

LCCN

96189556

OCLC

36045650

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