np. Extracts. Read More about Observations on Female Head-dress in England, chiefly subsequent to the date of Mr. Strutt's...

n.p: Jan. 21, 1986. Carrie Donovan, one of the fashion world's great figures, graduated in 1950 from the Parsons School of Design, and went on to become an editor for Vogue, Harper's Baazar, and the New York Times Magazine, where her style and verve brought her a legendary celebrity during..... Read More about TNS to Carrie Donovan on the actress's stationery: "Great book. Am enjoying--All my tribe...

London: Debenhams & Freebody, [c 1896]. Sixth edition. Read More about Fancy Dress Described, or What to Wear at Fancy Dress Balls

Paris: l'auteur, rue Royer-Collard, n.d. [1863-1869]. First edition. Read More about Iconographie Général et Méthodique du Costume du IV au XIX siècle. (315-1815). Collection...

New York: French & European Pub. Inc 49 West 46th Street, nd. Read More about The Costumes of France

London: E. Henderson, 1838. Read More about The Ladies Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance. Vol XIV

Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1863. First edition, printed at the author’s expense at the Academic press, Berlin. Early work on Old Testament translation issues from the German biblical scholar and orientalist Paul de Lagarde (1827-1891), professor at Göttingen, and a fine association, from the library of the chief translator of the Jewish..... Read More about Anmerkungen zur griechischen Übersetzung der Proverbien

n.p: 1941. Original Portrait by Fashion Artist Reynaldo Luza. Reynaldo Luza (1893-1978), pre-eminent fashion artist, was born in Lima, Peru. He began training as an architect at the University of Louvain, Belgium, but returned to Peru at the outbreak of World War I, where he changed his studies from architecture..... Read More about Portrait of a man: pencil, gouache and watercolor on board, signed, right, and dated “'41”

Wurzburg: H. A. Eckert et Christian Weiss, n.d. [1838-43]. Rare Military Costume Series. Extensive grouping of plates of the uniforms of northern German states from this complex work of outstanding beauty. The hand-colored lithographic plates are striking, and the deatil provided on regional variation in uniform is outstanding. Colas gives..... Read More about Das deutsche Bundesheer in characteristischen Gruppen entworfen und gezeichnet in Verbindung...

London: Printed by and for James Appleton, Queen's Row, Walworth, [1823]. First edition, Appleton imprint. Delicate Flaxonesque engravings displaying Empire-style costumes and furnishings and scenes from literature (Pope's Belinda) and antiquity (Pericles) by Henry Moses (1782?-1870). He enjoyed "a great reputation for his outline plates, which are distinguished for the..... Read More about A Series of Twenty-Nine Designs of Modern Costume; Drawn and Engraved

N.p. [Hollywood?]: 15 December 1951. From the Onwer of RKO. Floyd B. Odlum, international financier, Hollywood producer, was at one time the Chairman and owner of Hollywood's RKO Pictures. His wife was the world-famous aviatrix Jackie Cochran. Odlum writes to Eisenstaedt: " ... I had a smile in my heart..... Read More about Autograph Inscription Signed ("Floyd B Odlum") to LIFE photographer ALFRED EISENSTAEDT

Paris: Chez Chaillou, n.d. [ca. 1830]. A scarce work, published as an aid to artists for correctly representing historical and foreign military costumes. With finely hand-colored plates after Benoît Pécheux (1779- d. after 1831). Read More about Cover title:] Recueil de Trophées Militaires Anciens et Modernes …

Philadelphia: Lindasay & Blakiston, 1867. Second American from the Third London Edition. Read More about The Art of Perfumery and The Methods of Obtaining The Odors of Plants, The Growth and General...