Ecclesiastical costume 1666, 31 engraved plates.

Claude Du Molinet:
Figures des differents habits des Chanoines reguliers en ce siecle. Avec un discours sur les habits anciens et modernes des Chanoines tant seculiers, que reguliers.

Paris, Simeon Piget, 1666. 4to. (23 x 16 cms.) [6] + 148 pp.
With engraved title, engraved initials and head- & tailpieces, and 31 full-page costume plates engraved by Le Doyen.

Contemporary calf, spine and edges richly gilt, spine ends chipped and corners worn. Swedish bookplate (M. Flinck). Slight worming to lower margin of first half of the book.

Literature

Colas 911. Lipperheide 1856.

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First and only edition of this attractive illustrated work on ecclesiastical costume and habits. The plates depict costumes of the Regular Canons, especially in France and Italy in the 17th century.

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