FERRARIO (Giulio). - Lot 72

FERRARIO (Giulio). Il 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. Firenze [Florence]: Vincenzo Batelli, 1823-1825. - 8 volumes in-8, 216x142: 8, XXIV pp, (1 f.), 220, 10 pp, 43 plates, 3 maps; 282 pp, 41 plates; 339 pp, 63 plates; 286 pp, (1 blank f.), 29 plates; 344 pp, 40 plates; 306 pp, 35 plates; 319 pp, 45 plates; 344 pp, 52 plates, 1 map. Rooted basane, smooth spine decorated (period binding). Colas, 1054. Set of the first 8 volumes of the second Italian edition of Giulio Ferrario's collection on ancient and modern costume. These are all the volumes devoted to Asia, covering successively China, India, the island of Ceylon, the Maldives, Indochina, Burma, Laos, Tonkin, Cochinchina, Cambodia, Siam, the Malacca peninsula, Phoenicia, Syria, Palestine, Judea, Arabia, Asia Minor, the Kingdom of Pontus (Turkey), Cappadocia, Albania, Armenia, Assyria, Media, Persia, Afghanistan, Tibet, the Caucasus, Georgia, Tartary, Siberia, Mongolia, etc. The final volume is devoted to Oceania (Sumatra, Java, Philippines, New Zealand, New Caledonia, New Guinea, etc.). THE ILLUSTRATION COMPRISES 352 PLATES, THE GREAT MAJORITY IN COLOR, not all of which depict costumes, but also views, furniture, monuments, coins, musical instruments, sometimes fauna and flora, and 4 are folding maps. Some of the maps, depicting architectural details, are in black. Some sections are headed by an interesting bibliography of the main works published on the region concerned. A good copy in contemporary binding. Small worm gallery on two covers. Some foxing. The last two leaves in volume III have been interchanged.