VECELLIO, Cesare.- HABITI ANTICHI | Ouero | RACCOLTA DI FIGVRE | Delineate dal Gran Titiano, e da Cesare | Veccelio suo Fratello, diligentemente | intagliate, conforme alle Nationi | del Mondo. | LIBRO VTILISSIMO | A Pittori, Dissegnatori, Scultori, Architetti, & | ad ogni curioso, e peregrino ingegno...- In Venetia: Per Combi, & LaNoù. M DC LXIV. [1664].- [14], 415, [1] p.: il.; 18 cm.- E. Third edition of a work originally published in 1590, with a second edition in 1598. Cesare Vecellio (ca. 1521-1601), Italian painter and draftsman, born in Cadore (Veneto), was a cousin and compatriot of the great Titian, with whom he was a companion and probably an assistant in his workshop. The edition is illustrated in the text with 415 xylographic figures, accompanied by small captions, representing the costumes of European, Asian, African, Ottoman, and New World peoples. The work enjoyed considerable success and contributed to the formation of the imaginary representation that Europeans developed of the peoples of the then-known world. The copy is slightly trimmed (carmine edges), but complete, very clean, and retains good margins. Ex-libris of Victor d’Avila Perez (lot not located in the auction held in 1939/40). Recent binding, full sheepskin, with an old-fashioned patina. Lipperheide, 24. René Colas (Costume & Mode), 2978.