Category: Clothing / Costumes

Collection des Costumes de la Suisse et de Ses Pays Limitrophes

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Zurich, Keller et Fussli

Seller ID: 034690

Condition: Good+

No date, though circa 1830. A charming complete collection of 24 hand colored lithographs, each measuring approx. 3 1/2 x 4 inches, and depicting the traditional costume and dress of various regions and occupations within Switzerland. All sheets, along with a colored decorative title sheet are laid into their original paper folder which then slides into a stiff paper slip-sleeve. The images are generally very good or better in condition, though there are a couple with small spots and foxing. The title sheet remains bright and clear, though is darkened and smudged around the edges, and has ...
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Costumes de la Bretagne par Darjou

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Paris, Bureau Du Journal Les Modes Parisiennes et Du Journal Amusant

Seller ID: 040579

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Poor+

No date of publication, though circa 1865. 20 colored plates each protected with tissue guard. Covers are severely torn with some paper loss. Institutional stamp at the top of the first tissue guard, as well as at the top of plate number 1. There are NO other library/institutional markings. Penciled name on first tissue guard with the date of January 23rd, 1862. Stains on front cover also affecting first tissue guard. Most corners of the plates are curled, creased, and a little worn, with plate number 1 being the worst. Scattered, mostly light, foxing only very slightly affecting pages...
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Image for Göttingischer [Gottingischer] Taschen-Kalender Fur Das Jahr 1806 [with] Göttingischer Taschenbuch zum Nutzen und Vergnügen Fur Das Jahr 1806

Göttingischer [Gottingischer] Taschen-Kalender Fur Das Jahr 1806 [with] Göttingischer Taschenbuch zum Nutzen und Vergnügen Fur Das Jahr 1806

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Gottingen, Bei Heinrich Dieterich

Seller ID: 034691

Binding: Cloth - Hard Cover

Condition: Good

No date of publication, though circa 1805. Two titles separately paginated and bound together in one volume. 60 pages, plus engraved frontispiece and four plates; 272 pages, plus index, and nine plates. Red cloth covers. All edges of text block are gilded. Marbled end leaves. Volume remains tight, though much of spine covers are missing. Institutional book plate on front paste down and inked number on recto of frontispiece. No other library markings. Scattered light smudges and just a little foxing. There is some offsetting opposite most of the engraved plates in the second title.
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Men's Fine Shoes, with 5 Months Wear Guarantee

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, J. C. Moench Shoe Co.

Seller ID: 039988

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

No date of publication, though circa 1933. 40 pages, saddle stapled, and including several color illustrations. Covers show moisture stains. There is a surface tear and inked number on the first page. Volume remains tight and contents are otherwise clean and intact.
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Image for Weldon's Fancy Costumes for Fancy-Dress Balls and Tableaux-Vivants Including Full Details as to Colours, Materials, Arrangement And Making-up of Each Character

Weldon's Fancy Costumes for Fancy-Dress Balls and Tableaux-Vivants Including Full Details as to Colours, Materials, Arrangement And Making-up of Each Character

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers

Seller ID: 040577

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fair

114 pages, plus ads. Ex-Library, now taped into a stiff paper library binding. Original covers are mostly lacking. Text block with a couple of inked institutional stamps is detached from covers. Contents are otherwise clean and intact.
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Philosophy in Clothing

By: Crawford, M. D. C.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Brooklyn Museum / Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences : 1940

Seller ID: 040575

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

19 pages, plus plates. Saddle stapled. Ex-Library with usual markings, etc.
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The Missouri Guerrilla: Clothing and Accoutrements

By: Crowson, Noel and Mary Ann Crowson

Price: $25.00

Publisher: N/P, Self Published : 2002

Seller ID: 036083

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

General very light wear. Overall tight, and contents are very clean.
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Bibliography of Costume: A Dictionary Catalog of About Eight Thousand Books and Periodicals

By: Hiler, Hilaire and Meyer Hiler

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Mansfield, CT, Maurizio Martino

Seller ID: 035094

Binding: Cloth - Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

911 pages. Later reprint limited to 250 copies.
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Costume Design and Home Planning

By: Izor, Estelle Peel

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Boston, New York, Chicago Dallas, Atkinson, Mentzer and Company

Seller ID: 040525

Binding: Cloth - Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Copyright is 1916. 210 pages. Cloth covers are a little rubbed and show a few small tears on edges. Penciled name and an old price are seen on the blank front fly leaf. Inked number at lower edge of last page. Volume remains fairly tight and contents are generally clean.
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L'Antiquite Expliquee et Representee En Figures., Tome Troisieme, Les Usages De La Vie. (Volume Three, Parts I and Parts II, in Two Volumes)

By: Montfaucon, Bernard De

Price: $1,200.00

Publisher: Paris, Florentin Delaulne, Hilaire Foucault, Michel Clousier, Jean-Geoffroy Nyon, Etienne Ganeau, Nicolas Gosselin, & Pierre-Francois Giffart : 1722

Seller ID: 034704

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Fair

Volume Three (ONLY), complete in two parts. Part one: "Les Habits, les Meubles, les Vases, les Monoyes, les Poids, les Mesures, des Grecs, des Romains, & des autres Nations (The clothes, the furniture, the vases, the monies, the weights, the measurements, the Greeks, the Romans, and the other Nations)" and Part two: "Les Bains, les Mariages, les grands & les petits Jeux, les Pompes, la Chaffe, la Peche, les Arts, &c. (The Baths, the Weddings, the Great and the Small Games, the Pumps, the Hunting, the Fishing, the Arts, &c.)" Part I: 198 pages, plus 121 plates; Part II: pp 202-390, plus plat...
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Image for The Museum of Costume Assembly Rooms Bath: Guide to the Exhibition and A Commentary of the Trends of Fashion [with] Clothes of the Year, Spring 1971 to Spring 1972 / Acknowledgment to Donors, Spring 1970 to Spring 1971

The Museum of Costume Assembly Rooms Bath: Guide to the Exhibition and A Commentary of the Trends of Fashion [with] Clothes of the Year, Spring 1971 to Spring 1972 / Acknowledgment to Donors, Spring 1970 to Spring 1971

By: Moore, Doris Langley

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Bath, Museum of Costume

Seller ID: 040576

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

39 pages saddle stapled / four pages, folded. Light smudges and wear on cover of first title.
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Scaasi: A Cut Above

By: Morris, Bernadine

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Rizzoli : 1996

Seller ID: 036069

ISBN-13: 9780847819874

Binding: Cloth - Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Dust jacket is now in a clear protective sleeve. Due to weight, additional charges will apply for Priority and/or International shipping.
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Image for Woman's Institute Library of Dressmaking (Volume I): Sewing Materials: Textiles, Laces, Embroideries and Findings, Shopping Hints, Mending, Household Sewing, Trade and Sewng Terms

Woman's Institute Library of Dressmaking (Volume I): Sewing Materials: Textiles, Laces, Embroideries and Findings, Shopping Hints, Mending, Household Sewing, Trade and Sewng Terms

By: Picken, Mary Brooks

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Scranton, PA, Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences : 1924

Seller ID: 040592

Binding: Cloth - Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

267 pages, plus index. Light general wear, though overall a solid and intact copy.
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A Cyclopaedia of Costume or Dictionary of Dress, Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent... (Four Volumes)

By: Planche, James Robinson

Price: $7,500.00

Publisher: London, Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly : 1876

Seller ID: 040567

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Good

The very rare publisher's extra illustrated "Special Copy With Additional Plates." Published in four volumes, each dated 1876. Volumes I and II make up "The Dictionary," while Volumes III and IV make up "General History of Costume in Europe." Pp 527 & 448. Color frontispiece to each volume, plus 323 color plates of which seven are folding, and 123 black and white plates of which 30 are folding. Full burgundy dyed Moroccan leather covers, with exquisite gilt stamped lettering and decoration on spine, both covers, and inside edges of covers. Slightly raised spine bands create six compartme...
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Versuch über das Kostüm der vorzüglichsten Völker des Alterthums, des Mittelalters und der neueren Zeiten (Volume I ONLY of Five Volumes)

By: Robert von Spalart

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Weinheim, Joseph Ederische Kunstbuchhandlung : 1796

Seller ID: 040590

Binding: Half Leather

Condition: Good+

This is the first volume of what eventually became a five volume set over the following decades. 273, plus [5] pages, plus 27 hand colored plates. Leather over spine and corners, with raised spine bands creating six compartments. Two leather spine labels. Covers are scuffed, rubbed, and worn. Gilt stamped lettering on spine is a little affected, though remains fairly clear. There are a few inked names and notation on the the front end leaves. Contents show a little very light foxing. Volume remains tight and is otherwise clean. There are a few slight smudges and light foxing on edges ...
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Prager Volkstrachten (Prague Folk Costume)

By: Wolf, F. G. [aka Franti?ek Karel Wolf / Franz Karl Wolf]

Price: $2,500.00

Seller ID: 041259

Binding: Loose Leaf

Condition: Good

25 hand colored copper engravings identified as "Prag bey F. G. Wolf [aka Franti?ek Karel Wolf / Franz Karl Wolf, 1764-1836. Wolf was best known for his 1803-1809 series, Abbildungen sämmtlicher alten und neuen Schlösser in Böhmen, depicting Czech castles and chateaux, as well as contributions of a similar nature in other publications.] This series is believed to have been published circa 1800. The collection comes from the estate of Helen Waldes, whose father Jindrich Waldes founded Des Waldes Museums in Prague during the first half of the 20th century. All 25 illustrations have been prof...
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A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern. Particularly Old English Dresses. After the Designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar, and Others (Two Volumes)

By: [Jefferys, Thomas]

Price: $750.00

Publisher: London, Thomas Jefferys : 1757

Seller ID: 034703

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Fair

47 pages, plus 119 plates; [8] 56-83 [1], plus 120 (of 121) plates. Lacking plate CCXXXI (Aletes, in the Tragedy of Creusa). Complete at the time of publication, though two additional volumes were published in 772. French and English title pages and text with red and black letters. Adam and Eve motif engraving below title, with Milton quote. Full leather covers are significantly worn and pitted. All covers, except for bottom of Volume II, are detached. Blank end leaves are detached. Light to sometimes moderate foxing throughout. Due to size and weight, additional fees will apply for P...
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Category: Clothing / Costumes