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GALERIE THEATRALE, COLLECTION DE 144 PORTRAITS EN PIED DES PRINCIPAUX ACTEURS ET ACTRICES QUI ONT...
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GALERIE THEATRALE, COLLECTION DE 144 PORTRAITS EN PIED DES PRINCIPAUX ACTEURS ET ACTRICES QUI ONT ILLUSTRE LA SCENE FRANCAISE DEPUIS 1552 JUSQU'A NOS JOURS

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Paris: Chez A. Barraud, 1873. Limited to 99 copies, this no. 8 (text volume numbered 54). Some of the text and about 10 of the plates are foxed, all else fine and bright. A lovely wide-margained copy. Limited to 99 copies, this no. 8 (text volume numbered 54). Folio. Three volumes in two. Unpaged. Illustrated with 144 magnificent hand-colored plates, many highlighted with gold and silver. Several of these plates are supplied from the first edition which was published serially 1812-34 (Colas 1164). This new edition is further embellished with 84 copper-plate engravings in the text, including 18 especially prepared for this work. Newly rebound by the Harcourt Bindery in half scarlet morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and panel ornaments. One of the most beautiful books on theatrical costume ever published. Colas 1165; Hiler & Hiler p. 350.
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Grace: Thirty (30) Years of Fashion at Vogue - Signed By Grace Coddington

Grace: Thirty (30) Years of Fashion at Vogue - Signed By Grace Coddington

by Coddington, Grace (Signed); Roberts, Michael; Fielden, Jay; Labosky, Russell

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Paris: Edition 7L (Edition7L), 2002. Book. Illus. by Bruce Weber, Steven Klein, Irving Penn, Alex Chatelain, Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon, Peter Knapp, Annie Leibowitz - a Total of 30 Contributing Photographers. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 408 pages. Signed and inscribed by fashion icon Grace Coddington upon title page, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with light external wear. Reviews the life and prolific fashion accomplishments of Ms. Coddington during her thirty year tenure with Vogue magazine. Sumptously photo-illustrated in colour and black and white. Binding tight and square. Decorated black boards protected by attractive clear glossy acetate protector. Slipcase not included. A high-quality copy of this magnificent work..
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Album d'Articles de Voyages d'après les Modèles de Messieurs Godillot Père et Fils, Brèvetès...
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Album d'Articles de Voyages d'après les Modèles de Messieurs Godillot Père et Fils, Brèvetès Malletiers du Roi

by GODILLOT

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Paris: Fabrique Générale d'Articles de Voyages, 1840. First Edition. Alexis Godillot (1816-1893) was a contemporary of Louis Vuitton (1821-1892) and first achieved renown in Paris for his beautiful hand-made luggage. With a workshop situated just a few blocks away from Vuitton's, this catalogue comes from this very early period of Godillot's life before he had revolutionised footwear by differentiating the moulding of the left shoe from the right and become the famous shoemaker who would go on to equip over one hundred thousand French soldiers for The Crimean War. 'Godillot' remains a slang French term for 'boot' to this day. The album features superb hand-coloured lithographs with an original sketch showcasing nearly one hundred accessories including bags, picnic baskets, apparel, wonderful old trunks, tents, and hammocks- true 'objets nomades' - many of which are in surprisingly bold and modern designs. A beautiful, rare, and precious catalogue of the articles a traveller might require for… Read More
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Falbalas and Franfreluches

Falbalas and Franfreluches

by Barbier, George

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Paris: Meynial, 1925. First Edition. George Barbier. A complete and excellent set of the five annual issues illustrated with a total of sixty beautiful pochoir plates, complete with decorated pochoir title pages. 'Falbalas and Franfreluches' (Frippery and Finery: Fashion Diaries) represents a literary and artistic collaboration of unusual elegance and sophistication. French illustrator, George Barbier (1882 - 1932) spared no effort in the making of this beautiful collection, using the finest pigments and up to thirty stencils per print to create images of the highest quality reflecting fashionable themes of the day. The plates portray romance amidst exotic lands and ages past, including a native American idyll on the Missouri, a languid mistress cocooned in a hammock in the tropical Antilles, high baroque debauchery, and, of course, a myriad of lovers depicted in Paris at the height of the chic 1920s. Each annual includes twelve pages of fine writing by Barbier's contemporaries in the Parisian scene… Read More
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The Woman In White
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The Woman In White

by Collins, Wilkie

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The Woman In White (1860 Harper & Brothers 1st Edition) BY WILKIE COLLINS. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1860.[2], 260, [4, ads] pp. States 1860 on the title page. In-text illustrations by John McLenan. Publisher's dk. brown stamped heavy cardboard boards with elaborate blind-stamped Harper and Brothers cartouche on front and back boards. Ads state B. Miss Mulock spelled correctly. Ads list eleven titles, and verso advertising The Mill on the Floss [Gasson p. 160.]Used. Good- Condition: Our copy lacks its spine, otherwise in good condition and a good candidate for rebinding. Chocolate brown endpapers are in good shape. Please see our photos. Will ship from Oregon. We consider offers.
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Nice Et Savoie, Sites Pittoreques, Monuments, Description Et Histoire; Des Departments De La...
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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)

by Benoist, Felix

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Used - Publisher brown leather spine and brown cloth. Aeg. Near fine. 3 vols
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Paris: Henri Charpentier, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. Publisher brown leather spine and brown cloth. Aeg. Near fine. 3 vols. 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. Title pages printed in red and black. Second volume with some foxing, offsetting to text, apparently the set scarcely opened with interior contents fresh and clean overall. Front cover decorated in blind and gilt, latter bright and sharp, raised bands, spine richly gilt decorated, panels design in gilt florets, white silk moire endpapers, light wear to spine bottoms.
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A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England
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A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England: from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the Present Time

by Joseph Strutt, J. R. Planche

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Very good + copy of the second edition (first with hand-coloured lithographic plates) of Strutt's monumental work on the costume of England, first published with 143 copperplate engravings in 1796.The classic study of English costume illustrated with numerous examples from illuminated manuscripts held in the British Library, the Bodleian, and Harleian collections. Complete with 153 hand-colored plates, 10 more than the first edition, of people, costumes, armour, seals, and everyday objects from the time of the Saxons to the end of the 17th century. With 2 hand-coloured frontispieces, 8 hand-coloured plates of Egyptian, Greek and Roman costumes in the introduction, and 143 hand-coloured lithographic plates of English costume.New improved edition with critical and explanatory notes by James Robinson Planche, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Joseph Strutt (1749-1802) was an English engraver, artist, antiquary and writer famous for his work on the history of English costume and sports. Starting with… Read More
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L'Art du Travestissement
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L'Art du Travestissement

by Leon Sault

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Rare set of 20 parts from the first four series of Leon Sault's fancy-dress or cos-play magazine. Each part (or livraison) with 3 hand-coloured lithographs and 3 lithographs on a particular theme for a total of 118 plates, 58 hand-coloured (missing two plates, Jeune Homme 1:5 and Polonaise 2:5).The designs can be split into allegorical and traditional costumes. Allegorical includes games, the four seasons, the elements (fire, air, snow), winged creatures, fruits and flowers, etc. Traditional includes national costumes of China, Japan, England, Scotland, Scandinavia, Alsace and Brittany as well as French historical costumes from the reign of Henri III, Henri IV, Louis XVI, the French Revolution, Napoleonic, etc.With the popularity of masquerade balls at the court of Empress Eugenie in the Second Empire, demand for unique fancy dress costumes increased. Sault published his fancy dress designs in the magazine L'Art du Travestissements from the 1880s and began selling his unique stage costumes to the… Read More
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Le immagini di alcuni uomini per pietà illustri della congregazione de cherici regolari in...
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Le immagini di alcuni uomini per pietà illustri della congregazione de cherici regolari in lingua latina espresse e tradotte nell’italiana; accresciute et illustrate con fragri documenti; coll’aggiunta di santi esemplari delle vergine teatine.

by Bianchi, Ignazio Lodovico.

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Engraved front. with letterpress Latin title in red and black within an engraved figural frame, 5 unnumb. leaves including title with woodcut vignette framed by ornamental typographical border, 132 engraved plates showing members of the congregation in emblematic images relating to important events in their life; accompanied by 132 unnumb. leaves with letterpress Latin and Italian text on recto, framed by varying typographical borders, closing with an engraved extra-plate, a half-length portrait within an architectural frame of Innocent-Raphael Savonarola (1680-1748) signed Joseph Oraly Romanus sculp. facing last text-leaf with Italian and Latin letterpress protestatio - protesta. Cont. richly gilt Italian red morocco on five raised bands with red morocco gilt lettering label in second compartment and green morocco label with intertwined gilt initials OL in third compartment. All others with richly gilt ornamentation. Endpapers lined with block printed paper with a repetitive pattern of flowering… Read More
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Costumes: The Fashion of London & Paris During the Years 1804, 1805 & 1806
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Costumes: The Fashion of London & Paris During the Years 1804, 1805 & 1806

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London: Richards Phillips, 1810. Beautiful and incredibly scarce collection of Regency fashion plates from subscription magazine illustrated with 185 engraved plates, 181 hand-colored and an additional hand-colored allegorical vignette on title page.Rare to find such a large grouping of plates, bound in a single volume, although bound rather haphazardly (several plates out of order, issues run from issue no. 88, May 1805 – no. 142 followed by a number of undated plates from 1810-11).Octavo, half-calf paneled binding with marbled paper inset matching marbled endpapers. Original wrappers not bound in. Also included is one issue of 'La Belle Assemblee', March 1808 with Lady in a Parade Dress in Hyde Park. Internally a little foxed, repairs in inner hinges to (unconvincingly) match the marbled endpapers. Plates in remarkably bright condition. Scarce.
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[«One of the most famous carousels of the European courts of the Ancien Régime»] 'Relation du...

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8° (mm 175x110); cc. (4), 608, (24). Dopo le prime quattro carte, splendida tavola calcografica ripiegata - firmata "J. Ziarnko" e datata Paris 1612 - fuori testo (mm 265x300, margini inclusi), raffigurante il torneo di cavalieri che si volse presso la Place Royale. Legatura coeva in pergamena, titolo manoscritto al taglio-piede del volume. Alcuni fascicoli naturalmente bruniti, tuttavia buon esemplare.

The third 'annata' of what is considered the first French magazine hosts the description and the (first?) iconographic witness of the tournament entitled 'Le Romant des Chevaliers de la Gloire', organized by the Queen Regent, Maria de' Medici, to celebrate the wedding of Louis XIII with Anne of Austria. At the pages 331-58 of the volume there is the report of the celebrations and, above all, of the carrousel, with a detailed legenda of the large plate. A description of the festival was published in the same year - Le Romant des chevaliers de la gloire containing plusieurs hautes et fameuses… Read More
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The Repository of Arts
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The Repository of Arts: 190 Fashion Plates

by [Rudolph Ackermann] Publisher

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Collection of 190 fine hand-coloured stipple and line-engraved fashion plates from two decades of Ackermann's influential Repository of Arts.Plates date from January 1809 to December 1828 and include examples of outfits for all times of the day and social occasions: morning dress, walking or promenade dress, full evening dress, opera and ball gowns, carriage or travel clothes, dinner, garden, mourning and wedding dresses. Some of the clothes and hats were designed by famous London dressmaker Miss Pierpoint of 9 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, tailor and habit-maker Mr Barry of 55 New Bond Street, milliner and dressmaker Mrs Elizabeth Gill of 1 Cork Street, Burlington Gardens, Mrs Charlotte Bean of Albemarle Street, Mrs Griffin of Rider Street, St. James, and the notorious serial bankrupt Madame Ann Margaret Lanchester.The elegant ladies are shown dancing at balls, sitting on chaise longues, walking on beaches, reading love letters while strolling, playing the piano, looking at etchings, reading music… Read More
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Encyclopedie Des Voyages
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Encyclopedie Des Voyages: contenant l'abrégé historique des moeurs, usages, habitudes domestiques, religions, fêtes, supplices, funérailles, sciences, arts, et commerce de tous les peuples

by J. Grasset Saint-Sauveur

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Suite of 109 fine plates illustrating native costumes from around the world, copied from 18th century travel books.All copperplates within gold-lined frames under tissue guards, engraved by J. Laroque after a design by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur. This is an early prospectus with 36 parts and 109 plates showing samples from all volumes of the proposed set: Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. The prospectus or "Programme et Plan de l'Ouvrage" appears at the front, and the title page midway through the volume. The complete set was to comprise 48 parts with six plates each in four volumes (288 plates) beginning from 1 August 1792. It was eventually published in 1795-96 in Paris and included some 433 plates in four volumes.The literary part was to be written by Jean-Francois Cornu. The images were copied from 18th century travel books, most notably Captain James Cook's Voyages. There is an element of charming fantasy about many of the images along with the remarkably accurate details. The dancing… Read More
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Costumes des Femmes de Divers Pays
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Costumes des Femmes de Divers Pays: Costumes des Femmes de Hambourg, du Tyrol, de la Hollande, de la Suisse, de la Franconie, de l'Espagne, du Royaume de Naples, etc.

by Louis-Marie Lanté, Pierre de la Mésangère

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Very good copy of the rarest of Louis-Marie Lanté's costume books
Complete with all 100 fine fashion plates of the women of Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Franconia, Kingdom of Naples, etc.
First edition in a contemporary binding by A.-F. David of Courtrai (Kortrijk, West Flanders).
Most plates signed by Lanté and engraver Gatine, a few unsigned credited to Horace Vernet.
Explanatory text by Pierre de la Mésangère, editor of the long-running Parisian fashion magazine Journal des Dames.
A fascinating collection of European fashion plates including pretty servant girls, milkmaids, cooks, chambermaids and fisherwomen, ladies and peasants, fruit sellers and florists. Many in bonnets and aprons, carrying baskets and other tools of their trades, many dressed in their finest clothes or festival costumes. The Spanish plates are particularly fine, with ladies in lace mantilla veils from Madrid, bolero or fandango dancers from Seville, a lady in mourning from Majorca, etc.
Louis-Marie Lanté, 1789-1871, was… Read More
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Catalog of manuscript jewellery designs
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Catalog of manuscript jewellery designs

by Wilhelm Jung

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198 numb. leaves (recte 200 ; leaf 137 numbered twice and one unnumb. leaf) with hundreds of original designs in pen, pen-and-ink and wash colours of a wide range of jewellery on rectos, but including a certain number of designs on versos also. Each leaf with manuscript date on verso with indication of day, month and year. 6 leaves lacking (nos. 78 ; 114 ; 128 ; 155 ; 156 ; 174), 1 leaf torn in half. Cont. black half calf over cloth boards, manuscript paper label to front cover titled " Wilhelm Jung – angefangen 2. August 1905 – 28. Januar 1907). Endpapers lined with fancy paper. Oblong folio (340 x 260 mm). Label chipped, spine rubbed.
A fascinating manuscript catalogue by a German jewellery designer with an almost unbelievable variety of pieces of jewellery of all sorts including rings and earrings, pins and brooches, necklaces with pearls and with pendants, bracelets, cuff links, seals, ribbons, tiaras and barrettes. The majority of designs handcoloured with added wash colours, quite a number… Read More
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