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Item #236439 Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Austrians. Illustrated...

Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Austrians. Illustrated in 50 Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions.

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...

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Item #41930 Autograph Inscriptions Signed ("Best Always, Lauren Bacall" and "to Alfred Eisenstaed...

Young Man with a Camera: Bacall & Douglas

Autograph Inscriptions Signed ("Best Always, Lauren Bacall" and "to Alfred Eisenstaed / my best wishes/ Kirk Douglas") to LIFE photographer...

N.P. [Hollywood]: n.d. [ca. 1950]. Young Man with a Camera: Bacall & Douglas. Bacall & Douglas starred together in YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN (1950), in which Douglas plays a jazz trumpeter involved with the strange and beautiful (and possibly lesbian) Amy, played Bacall. The inscription is reproduced in EISENSTAEDT'S..... Read More about Autograph Inscriptions Signed ("Best Always, Lauren Bacall" and "to Alfred...

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Item #253975 Annotationes in legm II. De captivis & postliminio reversis, in quibus tractatur de...

De Re Navali

Annotationes in legm II. De captivis & postliminio reversis, in quibus tractatur de re navali, per authorem recognitæ. Eivsdem annotationes...

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...

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Item #212601 Geschichte des Männlichen Barts unter allen Völkern der Erde bis auf die neueste...

History of the Beard, with a Theory of Hair

Geschichte des Männlichen Barts unter allen Völkern der Erde bis auf die neueste Zeit ... mit einer Theorie der Haare...

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...

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Item #230717 My Life and Some Letters. Mrs Patrick Campbell, Beatrice Stella Cornwallis-West

My Life and Some Letters.

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

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Item #42893 Original watercolor greeting card to Carrie Donovan, signed and inscribed by fashion...

Original John Clay Watercolor Greeting to Carrie Donovan

Original watercolor greeting card to Carrie Donovan, signed and inscribed by fashion artist John Clay.

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...

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Item #11678 Canitics. The Treatment of Canities (The Art and Science of Hair Dyeing), Reduced to...

TheArt & Science of Dyeing Hair — Author’s Own Copy

Canitics. The Treatment of Canities (The Art and Science of Hair Dyeing), Reduced to a Science and Elevated to an...

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...

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Item #305802 The Costume of the Kingdom of Holland, At the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century....

Rare English issue of an Important Costume Book

The Costume of the Kingdom of Holland, At the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century.

London: printed by J. Barfield for Colnaghi and Co, 1810. First London edition. Rare English issue of an Important Costume Book. A rare English edition of this popular work on the costumes and customs of Holland, a fine copy. Originally published from 1803-05 with a total of 16 plates, the..... Read More about The Costume of the Kingdom of Holland, At the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

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