The Theatre of women / designed by Jobst Ammon ; edited by Alfred Aspland.

Gynaeceum
Frauentrachtenbuch.

Gynæceum, or, The theatre of women : wherein may be seen the female costumes of all the principal nations, tribes, and peoples of Europe

Manchester : For the Holbein Society by A. Bros., 1872.

Latin

In Latin; with an English introduction and dedication.

1 online resource (xl, [131] p.) : ill., port., facsims.

Facsimile reprint of the Latin edition of the "Frauentrachtenbuch" (Frankfurt, 1586) with title: Gynæceum, siue Theatrvm mvliervm, in qvo præcipvarvm omnivm per Evropam in primis, nationvm, gentivm, popvlorvmqve ... fœmineos habitus videre est, artificiosissimis nvnc primvm figuris ... expressos à Iodoco Amano. Additis ad singvlas figvras singvlis octostichis Francisci Modii Brvg. ... M.D. LXXXVI. Francoforti, impensis Sigismundi Feyrabendij.
"Index of illustrations": p. [xxvii]-xxxii.
"To the Most Serene Lady Isabella of Austria, queen of France" (translation of Sigmund Feyerabend's "Epistola nvncvpatoria," introductory to the Lation ed.): p. [xxxiii]-xl.
Reproduction of the original from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University.

"List of Ammon's works": p. [xiii]-xxvi.

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