London: Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-Street, by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, 1814. First edition. Well executed and precisely colored series of plates illustrating the costumes of the constituent nationalities of the Austro-Hungarian empire, including representatives of Upper Austria, Tyrolia, Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, Sclavonia, Dalmatia, Transylvania, Bukowina, etc., etc., as..... Read More about Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Austrians. Illustrated in 50 Coloured...

Basel: Johann Froben, 1541. Second edition (first printed 1537). De Re Navali. Lazare de Baïf (1496-1547) was a French humanist, classical scholar, translator of Sophocles' Electra, and ambassador to Venice, who flourished in the enlightened reign of François I, to whom his delightfully illustrated book on captivities and the naval..... Read More about Annotationes in legm II. De captivis & postliminio reversis, in quibus tractatur de re...

Parma: Franco Maria Ricci publisher, 1970. First edition. Title Number 10 in " i segni dell'uomo" Read More about Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).testo di Roland Barthes seguito dai ricordi di Erté

Leipzig: In der Weygandschen Buchhandlung, 1797. First German edition. History of the Beard, with a Theory of Hair. Fangé's anonymously published work, Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire de la barbe de l'homme (Liège, 1774), here translated into German by Schelle. Read More about Geschichte des Männlichen Barts unter allen Völkern der Erde bis auf die neueste Zeit ... mit...

N.p. [Hollywood]: n.d. [ca. 1952?]. Most probably inscribed when Booth was in the limelioght for her Academy Award winning performance in COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA. She writes for the famous LIFE photojournalist: "'Relax and the world in beautiful' and who can make you relax better than Mr. Eisenstaedt! Thank you..... Read More about Autograph Inscription Signed ("Shirley Booth") to LIFE photographer ALFRED EISENSTAEDT

Munich: Braun & Schneider, nd. Coliierte Ausgabe. Read More about Zur Geschichte der Costüme

Hutchinson & Co. Number 72 of 100 copies of the Edition De Luxe, signed with her signed card laid in. Mrs Patrick Campbell (February 9, 1865 – April 9, 1940) was one of the most successful British stage actresses of her generation. Her first marriage, from which she took the..... Read More about My Life and Some Letters

n.p: n.d. Original John Clay Watercolor Greeting to Carrie Donovan. A delightful card, the front showing the watercolor of a rural-clad child gazing a group of mannikins; the verso showing a number of eyes which look down upon two young (Parsons?) art students, the drawings suggesting Donovan's progress in the..... Read More about Original watercolor greeting card to Carrie Donovan, signed and inscribed by fashion artist John...

New York: Beautician Publications, 1935. “Second Edition. Partially Revised by Members of the Staff of Inecto, Inc.” Seventh Printing. TheArt & Science of Dyeing Hair — Author’s Own Copy. Signed on the flyleaf: Florence Ernestine Wall Personal Copy”, and with her marginal notes thorughout. Inscribed on p. iv: “To Miss..... Read More about Canitics. The Treatment of Canities (The Art and Science of Hair Dyeing), Reduced to a Science...

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1907. First single-volume edition. Read More about English Costume Painted & Described by …

New York: Foreign Publications, [1922-3]. Read More about The History of French Masculin Costume

Marburg: Elwert, 1901. Hessian Costumes. Read More about Hessisches Trachtenbuch. Zweite Lieferung [Part Two ONLY