Travels in Circassia, Krim-Tartary, &c., including a steam voyage down the Danube, from Vienna to
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
The Author in the Circassian costume
Description:
In ink on title page: Friedrich Howard Vyse / Sepr 1854[?]. and Printed on frontispiece: Drawn by A.L. Molinari, from a sketch by the author.
Subject (Geographic):
Black Sea --Description and travel, Circassia (Russia), Circassia (Russia) --Description and travel, Circassia (Russia) --Social life and customs, Danube River --Description and travel, and Turkey --Socia
Manuscript on paper of eighty life-size pen-and-ink drawings, tinted with grey, of various styles of horse bridles and bits; apparently intended as a pattern book. Compiled by and/or for Carlo Filippo di Vuelden.
Description:
Acquired from the Sporting Gallery in 1967 with the Beinecke Rare Book Endowment Fund., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Cite as: Delle Imboccature De'i Cavalli. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Eighteenth- to nineteenth-century binding: Vellum case; stubs of two green ties., Manuscript on paper of Eighty life-size pen-and-ink drawings, tinted with grey, of various styles of horse bridles and bits; apparently intended as a pattern book. Followed by Descriptive index for drawings (incomplete). Compiled by and/or for Carlo Filippo di Vuelden whose name appears on f. 1r. Written in small neat italic., and Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Armoiries - Pomme de pin 2118, but with a majuscule M sitting on the top of left and right upper corners, and with four divisions for the tree base.
Subject (Topic):
Horses--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven, and Pattern books