Fashion and Costumery

Amsterdam: P.G. van L'Om, 1850s approx). Hardcover. Very Good-. Hand colored lithographs (16) heightened with gum on buff ground. . Duodecimo white moire covers printed in blue and red the lower cover having a lady in costume carrying a basket (rubbed and spine worn and damaged to head and foot but still together) 16 leaves in two leporellos of 8 attached to each cover. These include couple in a horse drawn carriage Noord-Hollandsche chais + Eiland-marked + Amsterdam Weeskinderen + Vlaardingen Zuid-Holland + 2xFriesland + 2xScheveningen Vishkar (fish sellers in a dog cart) & fisherman leaning on a boat + Milkmaid from Utrecht + young ladies from Brabant + Groningen + Zeeland + Amsterdam + Friesland. One hinge repaired. A nice concertina folding costume book of 165 x 110mm page size with a little light foxing and the image in a domed ground of approx 11 x 7 cm. Well colored and parts made shiny with gum arabicum.

Streamline Press, 2001-04-01. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. excellent condition

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Houghton Mifflin Co, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x1. Collectible first edition, first printing of Polish born author Alexandra Orme's debut novel, Paris Original, a tale of a poor receptionist at one of the greatest fashion houses in Paris mingling behind the scenes with world class designers. Bound in black cloth with pink lettering to front and spine panels. Pictorial dust jacket included with $3.50 price intact. Per Houghton Mifflin's practice of designating first editions, a date of publication (1954) is stated at the bottom of the title page. Precedes the 1955 UK first edition. Orme's first book, the non-fiction Come's the Comrade, was a huge success and a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, but her star soon faded, and Paris Original suffered through a small first printing and even smaller second printing. Thus its scarcity, especially in the original, stunningly fashionesque dust jacket. Includes 10 1/4" x 7" copy of original 1954 Birmingham News review… Read More

Set of five volumes on the costumes and customs of China, Turkey, Russia, Austria and England bound in one. [Also published under the title Costumes, Moeurs et Usages de tous les Peuples.]120 finely hand-coloured engravings based on [uncredited] illustrations by William Alexander (China, Austria, England), Johann Gottlieb Georgi (Russia) and Octavian Dalvimart (Turkey).A collection of exotic trades people from some of the most famous travel books of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Images of Chinese Mandarins, actors and punishments, Turkish soldiers, harem guards and dervishes, Russian shamans, Bohemians and Romani peoples, and English fisherwomen and Scottish soldiers.Title page and 16 introductory text pages to China volume only, but all other volumes with 24 hand-coloured plates and 2 pages of explanatory text to each plate.Text in French.Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyries (1767-1846), was a French geographer, author and translator. One of the founders of the French Geographic Society.Bound in brown… Read More

Very good copy of the fourth and best edition of this famous Renaissance collection of world costumes.With 513 costume plates printed on fine vellum paper, with each plate facing a page of descriptive text in Italian and French.This new edition has all the original costume plates corrected by Gerard Seguin and engraved on wood by Etienne Huyot. The decorative frames to both costume and text pages were engraved by H. Catenacci and Fellmann.A panorama of world costume from European nobility and peasants, Venetian senators, prostitutes, Turkish pirates and dervishes, ancient Roman soldiers, fanciful Japanese and Nestorian costumes, Native Americans from Virginia and Peru taken from travel books, etc. Cesare Vecellio (c.1521-1601) was an Italian artist, cousin and assistant to Titian, active in Venice and Augsburg. In 1590, he published his collection of costumes of all nations with woodcuts copied from Christoph Krieger. Despite many fanciful and imaginary costumes, it became an iconic source in the… Read More

A collection of finely engraved plates illustrating the Regency vogue for neo-Classical dress29 delicate line engravings showing Empire-style costumes and furnishings, as well as scenes from literature (Alexander Pope's Belinda) and antiquity (Pericles, Pan and Syrinx, Echo and Narcissus)Henry Moses (1782-1870) was a sought-after engraver who worked for James Barrie, William Opie and Benjamin West. He enjoyed a great reputation for his outline plates, which are distinguished for the purity and correctness of the drawing. Among his other works are A Collection of Vases 1814, Picturesque Views of Ramsgate 1817, Vases from the Collection of Sir Henry Englefield 1819, Sketches of Shipping 1824, Marine Sketch Book 1826, etc.This collection was also issued under the imprint of at least two other London publishers in 1823 (McLean and Miller).Leather spine solid, paper boards soiled, bookplate of Walter and Edith Wiggin on front endpaper, hinges repaired, all 29 plates present, but as often, with varying… Read More

Wilder, Laura Ingalls. By The Shores Of Silver Lake,1953 Harper & Brothers Uniform Edition. Pictures by Garth Williams Little House on the Prairie series. Used. VG-/G- unclipped $2.95 dust jacket. 1 inch loss at top of dj spine. The family moves from Minnesota and Laura and Mary take a thrilling train ride during which an attempted payroll robbery takes place.

Very good set of a complete year of this influential magazine, Second Series, Volumes I and II, 12 monthly issues from January to December 1816 bound in two volumes. A fascinating view of the taste of London high society in the year after Wellington's victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Includes a handcoloured plate of Napoleon's carriage from Waterloo, and an engraved plan of the newly built Waterloo Bridge.Complete with all 55 handcoloured engravings of fashion, landscapes, architecture and furniture, 12 engravings of needlework patterns, and 4 miscellaneous engravings.Each issue typically with two handcoloured architecture plates, two handcoloured London fashion plates, one handcoloured interior plate (furniture, curtains, etc.) and one needlework pattern.The fashion plates unsigned but attributed to the Arbiter Elegantiarum (Thomas Uwins), and depicting designs by London milliners and dressmakers such as Mrs Charlotte Bean of Albemarle Street, Mrs Griffin of Rider Street, St. James,… Read More

Very good set of a complete year of this influential magazine, Second Series, Volumes III and IV, 12 monthly issues from January to December 1817 bound in two volumes. A fascinating view of the taste of London high society in the years after Wellington's victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. With 54 handcoloured engravings of fashion, landscapes, architecture and furniture, 12 engravings of needlework patterns and an early example of lithography. Two missing fashion plates and text pages 364/365 from the December issue provided in facsimile.Each issue typically with one handcoloured architecture or landscape plate, two handcoloured London fashion plates, one handcoloured interior plate (furniture, etc.) and one needlework pattern. This year contains nine plates by popular caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson illustrating Sentimental Travels to the South of France, later published by Ackermann.The fashion plates unsigned but attributed to the Arbiter Elegantiarum (Thomas Uwins), and depicting… Read More

Steig, William The Lonely Ones. Copyright 1942, First Edition. Duell Sloane and Pearce, NY. USED. VG/VG Original dust jacket. QUITE RARE THUS. Now protected in a mylar wrap. Cartoons by New Yorker Magazine contributor and author and illustrator of SHREK!, WILLIAM STEIG. 102 pages, 5 3/8 X 7 ¾.

Abdullah, Achmed. The Thief of Bagdad. Readers Library Publishing Co. Ltd., London Film Edition, 1924. USED. TONED. Good Condition/ Good- DJ. QUITE RARE IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET Front dj panel states "Film Edition" Actor Douglas Fairbanks photo on back panel. DJ Spine is chipped. Now protected in a mylar wrap. Summary: The Thief of Bagdad is a 1924 American silent swashbuckler film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks, and written by Achmed Abdullah and Lotta Woods. Freely adapted from "One Thousand and One Nights", it tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Baghdad.

Doyle, A. Conan. The Lost World.1912 Hodder And Stoughton/George H. Doran First U.S. Edition. THE FIRST PROFESSOR CHALLENGER ADVENTURE. RARE. Used. Good condition/ no DJ included. Maroon cloth-covered boards. Titling on spine worn off. Bright pages. Sixteen ochre and white plates (five by 'Maple White' and eleven by Joseph Clement Coll). All plates in nice condition and affixed to binding. 309 pages. 5 3/8 X 8. Summary: "The Lost World"chronicles the adventures of four men who travel to the jungles of South America. There they discover a plateau inhabited by dinosaurs and ape-men. It was Conan Doyle's ambition to write a popular "boy's book", a tale of suspense and adventure.

Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. Longmans Green & Co., London. No copyright date. States New Impression 1921 on the title page. USED. VG/ No DJ Included. Blue boards withdark red- orange titling. 274 pages plus adverts. 5 1/8 X 7 5/8. Summary "King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is one of the first English adventure novels set in Africa and is considered to be the genesis of the lost world genre."

Carrie Fisher. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Postcards from the Edge. 1987 Simon and Schuster. NY. EXLIB. Stated 1st Printing. Number line starts with 1. VG CONDITION/ VG Unclipped original dust jacket protected in a mylar wrap. 223 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "Postcards from the Edge is a semi-autobiographical novel by American actress Carrie Fisher, first published in 1987. It was later adapted by Fisher herself into a motion picture of the same name, which was directed by Mike Nichols and released by Columbia Pictures in 1990."