F E Gailer (1 results)

Condition: Good. Lithograph illustrations (322, two per plate (except for frontis & last illustration which are single plates). Octavo Victorian blind stamped ribbed cloth (rebacked/ tips worn) Frontis + TP + xvi + 788pp + 162 plates with 322 illustrations. Some foxing, though mainly marginal and 2 plates with some staining while towards the end there is a marginal brown stain not touching the plate area but for the last few text pages just touching the letters. The yellow glazed endpapers are brown mottled. Illustrations 1-80 show nature mostly as groups of animals and plants. Illustrations 81-241 depict trades incl. several cooking scenes, miners, textile weaving, wig-makers etc. 243-256 cosmography & geography showing different religions, virtues. 269-282 show children playing, men playing billiards, wrestling, circus & theatres, lessons in fencing, dancing, balloon rides, fireworks, bullfights, horse racing, a marvellous train with a postillion blowing a horn & open coaches and a chimney like a barber's pole, later we see deep sea diving bells being used to salvage cannons. There is an example of slave traders, a summer fair and Christmas celebrations, finally a few more trades, eg. forging steel, the file maker, carpets being made, nightwatchman, messenger and post with finally a grave-side scene. Each illustration is accompanied by a 5 language text - English, German, French & Latin and, newly added for the first time in this edition, Italian. These describe the animals and the trades etc. This Gailer reworking of the Orbis Pictus is nearly a new book and makes one of the most complete book of trades (cf. Seebass 398 Wegehaupt I 697). 1 volume. Hardcover.