![Italian Trades and Costumes]. Filippo FERRARI, Giacomo LENGHI](/pictures/thumb/05068_1.jpg?v=1623701826)
Naples & Rome: , 1824. A Fascinating Album Containing Thirty Superb Hand Colored Lithographs of Italian Trades and Costumes FERRARI, Filippo. LENGHI, Giacomo. [Costumi No. XXX di Roma e di altri paesi dello Stato pontificio, designati ed incini all' acqua forte da Filippo Ferrari]. [Italian Trades and Costumes]. Naples & Rome..... More
London: Printed for John Murray… by W. Bulmer, 1814. With Fifty Hand-Colored Engraved Plates ALEXANDER, William. Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Austrians. Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings. With descriptions. London: Printed for John Murray… by W. Bulmer, 1814. Octavo (9 5/16 x 6 1/2 inches; 238 x 165..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840. A Scarce Little Sucker One of the Rarest of All Leeches Victorian Unisex Costumes - Lady-Like Gentlemen [LEECH, John, illustrator]. [LEIGH, Percival]. [The Fiddle Faddle Fashion Book. And Beau Monde à La Française enriched with Numerous Highly Colored Figures of Lady-Like Gentlemen. Edited by The Author of The..... More
Paris: Durand ainé, 1830. With 105 Beautifully Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates Depicting French Costume [LANTÉ, Louis Marie, Pécheux, and GATINE, George Jacques, illustrators]. Cent cinq costumes des départemens de la Seine Inférieure, du Calvados, de la Manche et de l’Orne. Paris: Durand ainé, Rue de la Paix 4, A Caen, chez Mancel..... More
London: Published by Rodwell and Martin, 1822. A Tall Copy and Rare With the Lithographic Title-Page [CHALON, John James, illustrator]. Twenty Four Subjects Exhibiting the Costume of Paris, The Incidents taken from Nature, Designed and Drawn on Stone by J.J. Chalon. London: Published by Rodwell and Martin, 1822. First edition. A Large Paper..... More
Paris: Chez Tessari et Cie., 1837. Extremely Scarce No Auction Records No Copies in Libraries Worldwide GAVARNI [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier]. Fashionables. Paris: Chez Tessari et Cie., [n.d., 1837]. Large quarto (13 1/8 x 10 1/16 inches; 333 x 255 mm.). Twelve hand-colored lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic, depicting couples..... More
London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1828. Ackermann’s “Characters in the Grand Fancy Ball” [ACKERMANN, Rudolph]. Characters in the Grand Fancy Ball Given by the British Ambassador Sir Henry Wellesley, at Vienna, at the Conclusion of the Carnival 1826; in Thirteen Highly Coloured Plates: with a Description of the Entertainments on..... More
London: Printed for John Murray… by W. Bulmer and Co., 1814. With Fifty Hand Colored Aquatint Plates Depicting a Huge Range of Social Types ALEXANDER, William. Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English. Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings, with descriptions. London: Printed for John Murray… by W. Bulmer and..... More
London: Printed for W. Miller, 1803. Seventy-Three Fine Hand-Colored Stipple Engravings of The Russian Empire With Descriptions Derived From Authentic Sources [ALEXANDER, William]. The Costume of the Russian Empire, illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings. With descriptions in English and French. London: Printed for W. Miller, 1803. First edition, later issue..... More
London: William Sams, [1828]. An Unusually Fresh & Clean Copy The Plates Superbly Hand-Colored SAMS, William. A Tour Through Paris, Illustrated with Twenty-One Coloured Plates, Accompanied with Descriptive Letter-Press. London: William Sams, [n.d., 1828]. [Second edition], identical to the first of 1824 but with subtitle added, and plates in different order. Folio..... More
London: R. Ackermann, 1809-18. A Presentation Run of Ackermann’s “Repository of Arts” With 747 Plates, including 45 Plates with Fabric Samples Affixed [ACKERMANN, Rudolph, publisher]. The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics. Series 1, Volumes I-XIV (January, 1809-December, 1815) and Series 2, Volumes I-VI (January, 1816-December, 1818). London: R...... More
![Findens' Tableaux of The Affections; [With:] Finden's Tableaux:. William FINDEN, Edward FINDEN,...](/pictures/thumb/03178.jpg?v=1478034772)
London: Charles Tilt, 1839; 1840. "Two of the Exceptionally Rare Hand-Colored Deluxe Issues for 1839 and 1840" FINDEN, William and Edward. Finden's Tableaux or the Affections; A Series of Picturesque Illustrations of the Womanly Virtues. From paintings by W. Perring. Edited by Mary Russell Mitford [With:] Findens' Tableaux: The Iris of..... More
Paris: n.p. [Chez Martinet], 1824. Exceedingly Scarce Familiar Scenes of Parisian Society Caught in the Wry [SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel]. J.S -, PIGAL, &c, &c. Recueil des Scènes Familiéres, et de Société de Paris. Paris: n.p. [Chez Martinet], 1824. First (only) issue, complete in three parts in one original printed wrapper (14 3/8..... More
London: William Sams, [1828]. An Unusually Fresh & Clean Copy SAMS, William. A Tour Through Paris, Illustrated with Twenty-One Coloured Plates, Accompanied with Descriptive Letter-Press. London: William Sams, [n.d., 1828]. [Second edition], identical to the first of 1824 but with subtitle added, and plates in different order. Folio (14 1/4 x...... More
London: R. Ackermann, 1820. Don't Cry For Me Argentina & Uruguay You Were One of Only Fifty Large Paper Copies VIDAL, E[meric] E[ssex]. Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, Consisting of Twenty-Four Views: accompanied with descriptions of the scenery, and of the costumes, manners, &c. of the inhabitants of..... More
London: Published by William Sams, 1824. In the Original Boards SAMS, William. A Tour Through Paris. London: William Sams, 1824. First edition. Oblong folio (9 7/8 x 13 in; 250 x 333 mm). Hand-colored engraved title-page and twenty-one hand-colored aquatint plates with accompanying unpaginated text to each. Plates watermarked 1824. Original printed..... More
Amsterdam: Frans Buffa, 1822. The Costumes of the Netherlands in Twenty Vividly Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates [GREEVEN, H., illustrator]. Collection des Costumes des Provinces Septentrionales du Royaume des Pays-Bas, Dessinés d’après Nature par H. Greeven et lithographiés par Vallon de Villeneuve. Amsterdam: Chez François Buffa et fils [and] Paris: Chez Engelmann et Cie...... More
London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1828. Ackermann’s “Characters in the Grand Fancy Ball” [ACKERMANN, Rudolph]. Characters in the Grand Fancy Ball Given by the British Ambassador Sir Henry Wellesley, at Vienna, at the Conclusion of the Carnival 1826; in Thirteen Highly Coloured Plates: with a Description of the Entertainments on..... More
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