Fashion and Costume
Step into the world of fashion and costume with our rare book collection. Explore rare editions featuring stunning illustrations and historical context. Add to your collection today.
-
Des alten Nürnbergs Sitten und Gebräuche in Freud und Leid.
MAYER, Moritiz Maxmilian.Original price $1,988.00 - Original price $1,988.00Original price $1,988.00$1,988.00$1,988.00 - $1,988.00Current price $1,988.00Rare German costume book of the Nuremberg carnival Hand-coloured illustrations of carnival scenes, the second volume also contains a facsimile of ...
View full detailsOriginal price $1,988.00 - Original price $1,988.00Original price $1,988.00$1,988.00$1,988.00 - $1,988.00Current price $1,988.00 -
Gazette du Bon Ton
BARBIER, George & OTHERS (illustrators).Original price $6,626.00 - Original price $6,626.00Original price $0.00$6,626.00$6,626.00 - $6,626.00Current price $6,626.00From the library of Duff Cooper, British Ambassador to France. It may have been short-lived but the Gazette du Bon Ton was hugely influential refle...
View full detailsOriginal price $6,626.00 - Original price $6,626.00Original price $0.00$6,626.00$6,626.00 - $6,626.00Current price $6,626.00 -
Le Vrai & Le Faux Chic.
SEM [pseud. of Georges GOURSAT].Original price $1,657.00 - Original price $1,657.00Original price $1,657.00$1,657.00$1,657.00 - $1,657.00Current price $1,657.00La Belle Epoque. In this lively album Sem illustrates pre war fashion with numerous illustrations of fashionable ladies in fashionable hats.Georges...
View full detailsOriginal price $1,657.00 - Original price $1,657.00Original price $1,657.00$1,657.00$1,657.00 - $1,657.00Current price $1,657.00 -
Les Masques et les Personnages de la Comédie Italienne.
BRUNELLESCHI, Umberto (artist); d'HOUVILLE, Gérard.Original price $9,939.00 - Original price $9,939.00Original price $9,939.00$9,939.00$9,939.00 - $9,939.00Current price $9,939.00Number 22 of a limited edition. A fine example complete with a full set of 12 engraved plates by Reidel after Brunelleschi, depicting theatrical ch...
View full detailsOriginal price $9,939.00 - Original price $9,939.00Original price $9,939.00$9,939.00$9,939.00 - $9,939.00Current price $9,939.00 -
[A Group of 6 Watercolours of Courtly Ladies at Leisure].
[CHINA EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price $7,952.00 - Original price $7,952.00Original price $0.00$7,952.00$7,952.00 - $7,952.00Current price $7,952.00An exquisite group of interior scenes, exclusively of noblewomen and ladies in waiting, engaging in various genteel activities, such as flower arr...
View full detailsOriginal price $7,952.00 - Original price $7,952.00Original price $0.00$7,952.00$7,952.00 - $7,952.00Current price $7,952.00 -
La Mode en mil neuf cent douze.
MARTIN, Charles (illustrator).Original price $597.00 - Original price $597.00Original price $597.00$597.00$597.00 - $597.00Current price $597.00A beautiful and uncommon catalogue of hats created by the French milliner Marcelle Demay for her 1912 collection. She commissioned noted fashion i...
View full detailsOriginal price $597.00 - Original price $597.00Original price $597.00$597.00$597.00 - $597.00Current price $597.00 -
Album of ink drawings.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price $16,565.00 - Original price $16,565.00Original price $16,565.00$16,565.00$16,565.00 - $16,565.00Current price $16,565.00Fine collection of original drawings showing Chinese ceremonies, scenes from the Imperial court, portraits of Chinese nobility, musical instrument...
View full detailsOriginal price $16,565.00 - Original price $16,565.00Original price $16,565.00$16,565.00$16,565.00 - $16,565.00Current price $16,565.00 -
Falbalas & Fanfreluches: A Set of Six Pochoir Fashion Plates.
BARBIER, George.Original price $3,645.00 - Original price $3,645.00Original price $3,645.00$3,645.00$3,645.00 - $3,645.00Current price $3,645.00An exquisite series displaying fashion in magnificent and imaginative illustrations by George Barbier the noted early twentieth century French art...
View full detailsOriginal price $3,645.00 - Original price $3,645.00Original price $3,645.00$3,645.00$3,645.00 - $3,645.00Current price $3,645.00 -
[A Group of 12 Watercolours of Deities.
[CHINA EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price $14,578.00 - Original price $14,578.00Original price $0.00$14,578.00$14,578.00 - $14,578.00Current price $14,578.00A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing Chinese deities and processional characters.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the inc...
View full detailsOriginal price $14,578.00 - Original price $14,578.00Original price $0.00$14,578.00$14,578.00 - $14,578.00Current price $14,578.00 -
Tangoville sur Mer: A lithograph of Tango Dancing.
SEM [pseud. of Georges GOURSAT].Original price $663.00 - Original price $663.00Original price $0.00$663.00$663.00 - $663.00Current price $663.00Every body is doing it now!. Tangoville sur Mer featured caricature portraits of well-known men and women in France, including Coco Channel; Octave...
View full detailsOriginal price $663.00 - Original price $663.00Original price $0.00$663.00$663.00 - $663.00Current price $663.00 -
Tangoville sur Mer: A lithograph of Tango Dancing.
SEM [pseud. of Georges GOURSAT].Original price $663.00 - Original price $663.00Original price $0.00$663.00$663.00 - $663.00Current price $663.00Every body is doing it now!. Tangoville sur Mer featured caricature portraits of well-known men and women in France, including Coco Channel; Octave...
View full detailsOriginal price $663.00 - Original price $663.00Original price $0.00$663.00$663.00 - $663.00Current price $663.00 -
Tangoville sur Mer: A lithograph of Tango Dancing.
SEM [pseud. of Georges GOURSAT].Original price $663.00 - Original price $663.00Original price $0.00$663.00$663.00 - $663.00Current price $663.00Every body is doing it now!. Tangoville sur Mer featured caricature portraits of well-known men and women in France, including Coco Channel; Octave...
View full detailsOriginal price $663.00 - Original price $663.00Original price $0.00$663.00$663.00 - $663.00Current price $663.00 -
Tangoville sur Mer: A lithograph of Tango Dancing.
SEM [pseud. of Georges GOURSAT].Original price $663.00 - Original price $663.00Original price $0.00$663.00$663.00 - $663.00Current price $663.00Every body is doing it now!. Tangoville sur Mer featured caricature portraits of well-known men and women in France, including Coco Channel; Octave...
View full detailsOriginal price $663.00 - Original price $663.00Original price $0.00$663.00$663.00 - $663.00Current price $663.00 -
Die Schuhmode - Winter 1924/25
[SHOE DESIGN CATALOGUE]Original price $2,651.00 - Original price $2,651.00Original price $2,651.00$2,651.00$2,651.00 - $2,651.00Current price $2,651.00This unusual album of shoe designs contains designs for both men and women. Landscape folio (30 x 21 cm),.pp 54, 25 chromolithographed plates (im...
View full detailsOriginal price $2,651.00 - Original price $2,651.00Original price $2,651.00$2,651.00$2,651.00 - $2,651.00Current price $2,651.00 -
Tissus "olympic" indechirables.
[FASHION].Original price $597.00 - Original price $597.00Original price $0.00$597.00$597.00 - $597.00Current price $597.00Four winter season examples of men's fashion.Folio. 4 full-page colour plates of men's fashion, 1 sheet with 4 original fabric samples, loose as i...
View full detailsOriginal price $597.00 - Original price $597.00Original price $0.00$597.00$597.00 - $597.00Current price $597.00 -
[A Group of 12 Watercolours of Processions.
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price $14,578.00 - Original price $14,578.00Original price $0.00$14,578.00$14,578.00 - $14,578.00Current price $14,578.00A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing processions.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for small, inexpe...
View full detailsOriginal price $14,578.00 - Original price $14,578.00Original price $0.00$14,578.00$14,578.00 - $14,578.00Current price $14,578.00 -
Habit d'Indienne du balet du Triomphe de l'amour.
BERIN, J. (artist) and Jean DOLIVAR (engraver).Original price $796.00 - Original price $796.00Original price $796.00$796.00$796.00 - $796.00Current price $796.00Copper-plate engraving. Inscribed in top margin, a very rich impression.
Original price $796.00 - Original price $796.00Original price $796.00$796.00$796.00 - $796.00Current price $796.00 -
Le Sabolier.
BONNART, N[icolas].Original price $796.00 - Original price $796.00Original price $796.00$796.00$796.00 - $796.00Current price $796.00Copper-plate engraving.
Original price $796.00 - Original price $796.00Original price $796.00$796.00$796.00 - $796.00Current price $796.00 -
Habit de Chapellier.
LARMESSIN II, N[icholas] de.Original price $1,127.00 - Original price $1,127.00Original price $1,127.00$1,127.00$1,127.00 - $1,127.00Current price $1,127.00Copper plate engraving from Album des metiers. The artisan is dressed in the accountrements of his occupation and set against a theatrical backdr...
View full detailsOriginal price $1,127.00 - Original price $1,127.00Original price $1,127.00$1,127.00$1,127.00 - $1,127.00Current price $1,127.00 -
The Prodigal Son Feasted on his Return and The Prodigal Son in Excess.
[SMITH, John Raphael attr.].Original price $796.00 - Original price $796.00Original price $796.00$796.00$796.00 - $796.00Current price $796.00Attributed to John Raphael Smith, these satires comprise part of a set of six.Two uncoloured mezzotints, slight flaking to edges of sheets not aff...
View full detailsOriginal price $796.00 - Original price $796.00Original price $796.00$796.00$796.00 - $796.00Current price $796.00 -
Marc-Antonio Romagnesi dit Le Docteur Balouard.
MARIETTE, J.Original price $796.00 - Original price $796.00Original price $796.00$796.00$796.00 - $796.00Current price $796.00Copper plate engraving. Repairs to verso, small wormholes, otherwise a rich impression.
Original price $796.00 - Original price $796.00Original price $796.00$796.00$796.00 - $796.00Current price $796.00 -
Habit d'Espicier.
LARMESSIN II, N[icholas] de.Original price $1,127.00 - Original price $1,127.00Original price $1,127.00$1,127.00$1,127.00 - $1,127.00Current price $1,127.00Copper plate engraving from Album des metiers. The artisan is dressed in the accoutrements of his occupation and set against a theatrical backdro...
View full detailsOriginal price $1,127.00 - Original price $1,127.00Original price $1,127.00$1,127.00$1,127.00 - $1,127.00Current price $1,127.00 -
Habit de Vannier.
LARMESSIN II, N[icholas] de.Original price $1,127.00 - Original price $1,127.00Original price $1,127.00$1,127.00$1,127.00 - $1,127.00Current price $1,127.00Copper plate engraving from ALbum des metiers. The artisan is dressed in the accoutrements of his occupation and set against a theatrical backdro...
View full detailsOriginal price $1,127.00 - Original price $1,127.00Original price $1,127.00$1,127.00$1,127.00 - $1,127.00Current price $1,127.00 -
Habit de Remouleur, Gaigne Petit.
LARMESSIN II, N[icholas] de.Original price $1,127.00 - Original price $1,127.00Original price $1,127.00$1,127.00$1,127.00 - $1,127.00Current price $1,127.00Copper plate engraving from Album des metiers. The artisan is dressed in the accountrements of his occupation and set against a theatrical backdr...
View full detailsOriginal price $1,127.00 - Original price $1,127.00Original price $1,127.00$1,127.00$1,127.00 - $1,127.00Current price $1,127.00
You've viewed of 81 items