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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Habitus variarum orbis gentium. = Habitz de nations estra[n]ges. = Trachten mancherley völker des Erdskreytz.

Accession number
PML 76102
Creator
Boissard, Jean Jacques, 1528-1602.
Published
[Cologne?] : [Gaspard Rutz?], 1581
Credit line
Gift of Paul Mellon, 1979.
Notes
63 engraved plates, including fully engraved title page and dedication; additional leaf of letter press (in Greek and Latin) with engraved portrait of Boissard.
Captions in Latin (above) with French and German (below).
Engravings attributed to Abraham de Bruyn and Julius Goltzius, although other editions have plate 6 signed by Goltzius.
Title page with "Cum privilegio Regio" inscribed in ink at bottom-right corner of title space.
Not cited in Hollstein, New Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings, and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, vol. 31: Abraham de Bruyn.
Mellon no.: T 38A.
Description
[5], 61 leaves : illustrations (engravings) ; 30 cm
Provenance
From the collection of Paul Mellon.
Binding
16th-century Belgian or Dutch(?) blind- and gold-tooled calf.
Classification
Department