Souvenirs De La Basse Bretagne
Paris: Np, ca. 1860. Hardcover. 14 x 10.5 cm. 25 hand-coiored lithographed plates in accordion (leperello) format. Plates bright and sharp. More
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Picturesque Representations Of The Dress And Manners Of The Austrians; Illustrated In Fifty Coloured Engravings With Descriptions
London: W. Lewis for James Goodwin, [1813]. leather_bound. Unpaginated. 24 x 17 cm. 36 (of 50) hand-colored aquatints plates (watermarks to 1830) Lacks plates 1-7, 11-15, 21,30. Alexander worked at the British Museum, where he illustrated catalogues of the institution's collection through an appointment as assistant librarian and the museum's..... More
Picturesque Representations Of The Dress And Manners Of The Chinese; Illustrated In Fifty Coloured Engravings With Descriptions
London: W. Lewis for James Goodwin, [1829]. leather_bound. Unpaginated. 24 x 17 cm. 50 hand-colored aquatints plates (watermarks to 1829). A comprehensive overview of Chinese contemporary costume and culture, including street scenes, tradesmen, military, entertainers, and the fashionable upper class. The volume's combination of superb draftsmanship and interest in a...... More
L'Art Decoratif De Leon Bakst
Paris: Maurice De Brunoff, 1913. Bakst, Leon. First edition. Hardcover. 49 pages in text. Folio, 41 x 28 cm. Fifty tipped-in color lithographs, and twenty-seven tipped-in black and white plates, mounted on gray paper. Notes on the Ballet by Jean Cocteau. Lev Samoylovich Rosenberg (Bakst), painter and stage designer realized..... More
1937/38 Saison d'Hiver
Aussig, C.S.R. C. Wolfrum, 1938. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 16 page catalogue. 34.5 x 27 cm. Each page with a mounted color lithograph illustration printed recto only, of a woman attired in a dress, suit or coat, with an array of mounted fabric samples in various sizes and colors accompanying..... More
Journal Des Dames Et Des Modes; 1912 -1914
Paris: Aux Bureaux du Journal des Dames, 1912-1914. First edition. Wraps. 25 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copies 14 & 15 of twelve examples numbered 6-17 on Japan Imperial with illustrations in two states -- monochrome and color (from total of 1270 copies). 184 pochoir plates, plus two supplemental unnumbered..... More
Nice Et Savoie, Sites Pittoreques, Monuments, Description Et Histoire; Des Departments De La Savoie, De La Haute-Savoie Et Des Alpes-Maritimes (Ancienne Province De Nice)
Paris: Henri Charpentier, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. 64, 62, 42 pages. 19 x13 inches. 90 color lithographs (with descriptive text) and two tinted color maps: all present per Indices in the rear of each volume. Plates after Felix Benoist and Joseph Dessaix, with text by Xavier Eyma and Joseph Dessaix..... More
Les Rois Et Reines De France En Estampes, Ou Abrege Historique Et Chronologique De Chaque Regne, Suivi Du Tableau Des Moeurs Et Usages Des Francais Sous Chaque Race
Paris: Alexis Emery, 1825. Second edition. Hardcover. 139 pages. Landscape octavo, 13 x 22 cm. 28 hand-colored plates, all with multiple images per plate, depicts the history of the French monarchy in costume, beginning with the reign of Pharamond through to Louis XVIII. Chronological Table of the Monarchy -- the..... More
Art De Confectionner Les Fleurs Artifcielles; Nouvelle edition orne de figures et dediee aux Dames
Paris: Delarue, 1850. Original Wraps. 272 pages in text. 15 x 10 1/2 cm. 25 numbered full-page plates (some double-paged), plus 32 supplemental plates numbered A-Z, AA-FF, with additional plates and illustrations within the text - all in black and white. Text in French, interior clean, initial decorated letters, Glossary..... More
A History Of Madeira. With A Series of Twenty-seven coloured Engravings, Illustrative Of The Costumes, Manners, And Occupations Of The Inhabitants of that Island
London: R. Ackermann, 1821. First edition. Hardcover. 118 [2] pages. 28 x 19 cm. Hand colored title vignette and 27 aquatint full page plates (all vignetted, except No. 27). This is the earliest work on Madeira listed in [ABBEY189] with the note, "Originally published in half roan, latter remaindered by..... More
Theatre Serge De Diaghilev Les Facheux; Georges Braque * Jean Cocteau * Louis Laloy * Georges Auric
Paris: Editions Des Quatre Chemins, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Approx. 22 pages in text. 28 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 193 of 425 on Arches from a total edition of 500. Two volumes in one. Volume I: 23 color lithographs with tissue guards of set and costume designs by..... More
Ett Ar I Sverge.; Taflor af Svenska Almogens kladedragt, lefnadssatt och hemseder, samt de for landets historia markvardigaste orter
Stockholm: Johan Horberg, 1827. First edition. leather_bound. 137 pages. 27 1/2 x 22 cm. Forty-seven hand-colored engraved plates with tissue guards, plus hand-colored vignette title, and two engraved plates of music. Grafstrom, poet and historian wrote the text, and Forssell made the engravings. Index. List of Plates and errata. Costumes..... More
Costumes Civiles Atuels De Tous Les Peulples Connus, Desines D'Apres Nature, Graves Et Colories. VOLUME ONE ONLY
Paris: Chez Pavard, 1788. First edition. leather_bound. 5 pages in text. 22 x 17 cm. Seventy-four full-page hand-colored aquatint plates, all with tissue guards. Born in Canada, Grasset removed to France in 1764, serving there as writer, diplomat and publisher with a bent toward Republicanism and enlightenment ideals. Set complete..... More
The Book Of Royalty. Characteristics Of British Palaces; The Drawings By W. Perring And J. Brown
London: Ackermann and Company, 1839. First edition. leather_bound. 42 pages in text. Folio, 37 x 27.5 cm. Twelve full-page chromolithographs, plus half-title chromolithograph (Coronation of Queen Elizabeth printed by C. Hullmandel) -- all printed recto only. Plates are clean save for the first three with light marginal toning only, plate..... More
Histoire Du Costume Antique; D'Apres Des Etudes Sur Le Modele Vivant
Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honore Champion, 1922. First edition. leather_bound. 308 pages. 29 x 20 cm. Five color plates, 142 illustrations, and 8 plates hors texte. Preface by Edmond Pottier. Text in French. Indicies. Partly unopened, original wrappers bound-in, interior contents clean and fresh, housed in an exquisite modern binding. More
An Introduction To The Study Of Costume From Nudity To Raiment
London: W. & G.Foyle, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 303 pages. Introduction by Sisley Huddleston. Elaborately illustrated in color and black and white -- more than 150 in total.Bibliography. Index. An in depth study by a well-respected scholar into the origins of clothing, utilitarian and otherwise. More
High Victorian Design
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 300 pp. Square 4to, 344 illustrations, each with descriptive text. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Covers the years 1850 to about 1870, the most productive period for Victorian architects, and the age during which a whole range of arts, including furniture, metalwork, ceramics..... More
Seduction; Milla Jovovich/Gary Oldman Paris 2000
New York: Donna Karan, 2000. First edition. Cloth. One page seductive note by Donna Karan. 32 x 25 cm. Twenty-seven full page color photographs. Handsome, over the top fashion show without the walkway, and scarce. Lovely copy. More
Costume
London: Cassell, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 135 pages. 4to, profusely illustrated in black and white and in color from contemporary sources, and reproduced from authentic documents. The author traces the history of fashion from primitive times to the present, and presents answers to the question: what is fashion? More
The Brigade of Guards on Ceremonial Occasions
London: Macdonald, 1952. First edition. More
Bakst: The Story Of The Artists Life
London: Bayard Press, 1923. Bakst, Leon. First edition. leather_bound. 240 pages. 37.5 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 136 of 315. Half title, 68 plates [mostly by Bakst] with printed tissue guards, 52 are color lithographs and mounted, plus illustrations, eleven colored and mounted, some printed in russet, host of..... More
Townsend's Monthly of Parisian Costumes
London: Townsend, ca 1830. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 15. x 12.5 cm. Lacks title. 184 hand colored plates numbered 493-676 with numerous examples of Empire fashion styles per plate. There is also one dress pattern plate; plates interleaved with descriptive text. The Empire style had a fitted bodice just below..... More
Hard-A-Port Cut Plug
Np: MacLin-Zimmer-McGill, ca 1890. Stiff Boards. Complete deck of 53 chromolithographic playing cards, 9.5 x 5.5 cm., including the "Little Joker." The Aces and numeral cards have the suit symbols superimposed over the costumes. Backs in blue and white depicting a sailor at the helm with the advertising line, "Smoke..... More
The Costume Of The Hereditary States Of The House Of Austria
London: William Miller, 1804. First edition. leather_bound. IV pages in text. Folio, 37 x 27 cm. 50 hand-colored aquatint plates, two title pages in French and English with text describing the individual plates also in both languages. English text translated by R.C. Dallas, the commentary on the ethnic background of..... More
Almanach Des Spectacles for the Year 1818
Paris: Chez Janet, 1818. First edition. Hardcover. 144 pages. 13.5 x 8.5 cm. 11 engraved color fashion plates, plus color title page. Eight page events calendar for the year 1818 at rear. Interior contents generally clean. Where to go and what to see in France for the year. Text in..... More