London: Published for the Proprietors. Printed by J. M'Creery, Black Horse-Court, 1817. Later issue with 48 instead of... Read More about Etchings of Remarkable Beggars Itinerant Traders and Other Persons of Notoriety in London and...
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Boston: S.W. Tilton, 1879. Tilton Needlework Series No. 4. Read More about Plain Needlework, Knitting and Mending, for all, at Home and in Schools: giving Instruction in...
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Lillian Hellman's Copy. Signed on front pastedown by Lillian Hellman Kober. Read More about Dandies and Don Juans Concerning Fashion and Love Among the Great. Translated from the German by...
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Alahabad: A. H. Wheeler, 1922. First edition of Told in the Den and Bluff; reprint of Told in the Verandah. Tall tales of sport and adventure in India, including the theft of the Koh-i-noor, accounts of wild elephants, were-tigers, and more. Told in the Verandah, a collection of 14 stories chiefly..... Read More about Told in the Den [bound with:] Told in the Verandah [and:] Bluff
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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...
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London: Debenhams & Freebody, [c 1896]. Sixth edition. Read More about Fancy Dress Described, or What to Wear at Fancy Dress Balls
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Paris: Armand Guérinet, n.d. [ca. 1890]. Read More about Le Costume les Armes, les Bijoux, la Céramique, les Utensiles, Outiles, Objets Mobiliers, Etc.,...
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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...
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Paris: Debure l'aîné ; N. Tillard à Sint Benoit, 1753. First French edition, translated by Chappotin S. Laurent, of the Royal Library, Paris. First edition in French of a book originally published in English in 1750, describing "how diamonds and pearls can be evaluated on the basis of the factors..... Read More about Traité des diamants et des perles où l'on considère leur importance, on établit des règles...
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New York: French & European Pub. Inc 49 West 46th Street, nd. Read More about The Costumes of France
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Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Freres, 1875. First Edition. Paul Lacroix (April 27, 1806 - October 16, 1884), French author and journalist, was born in Paris, the son of a novelist. He is best known under his pseudonym of P.L. Jacob, bibliophile, or Bibliophile Jacob, suggested by the constant interest he took..... Read More about XVIIIe Siecle Institutions Usages et Costumes France 1700-1789
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London: E. Henderson, 1838. Read More about The Ladies Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance. Vol XIV
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London: Geo. Henderson, 1843. Read More about The Ladies Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance. Vol. X
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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
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Parma: Franco Maria Ricci publisher, 1977. First edition, #1147 of 3000 bcopies, signed by the publisher. Title Number 20 in series " i segni dell'uomo" Tamara de Lempicka (1898 – 1980 ), was born Maria Górska in Warsaw,. She was a art deco painter whose fame came back partially through..... Read More about Tamara de Lempicka. Introduzione di Giancarlo Marmori con il diario di Aélis Mazoyer governante...
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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”
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London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928. First edition. Read More about Robes of Thespis. Costume Designs by Modern Artists. Edited for …
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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 a...... Read More about Das deutsche Bundesheer in characteristischen Gruppen entworfen und gezeichnet in Verbindung...
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Stockholm: P.B. Eklund, n.d. [1900-1905]. First edition. Nice color plates of Swedish military uniforms, grouped by regiments, each plate showing the uniforms from the regiment’s founding (often ca. 1750s) through the turn of the twentieth century. This does not correspond to the only Eklund title in Lipperheide, dated 1890, which calls..... Read More about Svenska Krigsmaktens forna och nuvarande Munderingar
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New York: printed and sold by Samuel Wood & Sons, 261 Pearl Street, 1817. Read More about Costumes of Different Nations in Miniature from drawings by Alfred Mills with descriptions
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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
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Venice: Tipografia di Commercio, 1831. First edition, with half-title. Read More about Del Costume Veneziano sino al Secolo Decimosettimo
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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 and..... Read More about Autograph Inscription Signed ("Floyd B Odlum") to LIFE photographer ALFRED EISENSTAEDT
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Rome: per Antonio Fulgoni; and Francesco Bourlié, 1807. A Rare History of Papal Shoes. Read More about Dissertazione sopra l'anteriorità del bacio de' piedi de' sommi pontefici, all'introduzione...
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