SANTA CLARA, Abraham A. (1644-1709)

Lot 185
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ID 993055
Lot 185 | SANTA CLARA, Abraham A. (1644-1709)
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£ 12 000 – 18 000
SANTA CLARA, Abraham A. (1644-1709)

Neu-eröffnete Welt-Galleria. Worinnen sehr curios und begnügt unter die Augen kommen allerley Aufzüg und Kleidungen unterschiedlicher Stände und Nationen. Nuremberg: Christoph Weigel, 1703.

An exceptional, finely-coloured copy of Luyken’s celebrated gallery of international costume. Compiled to show the people of the world congratulating Emperor Joseph I on his military victory at Landau, the detailed engravings depict the Emperor himself, and male and female dress of different ethnicity and levels of society, including Sultan Mustafa II, Turks, Persians, East and West-Indians, Gypsies, Jews, Hussars, merchants, and peasants, all shown in a local setting. Copies are also known without a dated title-page and without the address to the reader and plate list, and with numbered plates. Bobins V, 1481; Brunet V: 1429 (the 1708 edition only); Colas 2189; Faber du Faur 1123; Lipperheide Ac 2.



Folio (339 x 230mm). 4 lvs. of letterpress, comprising title, dedication to Emperor Joseph, preface and plate list, and 100 copper-engraved plates by Caspar Luyken after Christoph Weigel, all finely coloured by a contemporary hand (occasional small spot, minor repaired marginal tears, extending into image in 2 plates). 18th-century sheep, spine gilt in compartments with 2 leather lettering-pieces (rubbed, neat repairs, endpapers renewed).





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