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Des alten Nürnbergs Sitten und Gebräuche in Freud und Leid.
MAYER, Moritiz Maxmilian.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £1,500.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Rare German costume book of the Nuremberg carnival Hand-coloured illustrations of carnival scenes, the second volume also contains a facsimile of ...
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Gazette du Bon Ton
BARBIER, George & OTHERS (illustrators).Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00From 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...
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Le Vrai & Le Faux Chic.
SEM [pseud. of Georges GOURSAT].Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £1,250.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00La Belle Epoque. In this lively album Sem illustrates pre war fashion with numerous illustrations of fashionable ladies in fashionable hats.Georges...
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Les Masques et les Personnages de la Comédie Italienne.
BRUNELLESCHI, Umberto (artist); d'HOUVILLE, Gérard.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £7,500.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00Number 22 of a limited edition. A fine example complete with a full set of 12 engraved plates by Reidel after Brunelleschi, depicting theatrical ch...
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[A Group of 6 Watercolours of Courtly Ladies at Leisure].
[CHINA EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price £6,000.00 - Original price £6,000.00Original price £0.00£6,000.00£6,000.00 - £6,000.00Current price £6,000.00An exquisite group of interior scenes, exclusively of noblewomen and ladies in waiting, engaging in various genteel activities, such as flower arr...
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La Mode en mil neuf cent douze.
MARTIN, Charles (illustrator).Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £450.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00A beautiful and uncommon catalogue of hats created by the French milliner Marcelle Demay for her 1912 collection. She commissioned noted fashion i...
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Album of ink drawings.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £12,500.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Fine collection of original drawings showing Chinese ceremonies, scenes from the Imperial court, portraits of Chinese nobility, musical instrument...
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Falbalas & Fanfreluches: A Set of Six Pochoir Fashion Plates.
BARBIER, George.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £2,750.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00An exquisite series displaying fashion in magnificent and imaginative illustrations by George Barbier the noted early twentieth century French art...
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[A Group of 12 Watercolours of Deities.
[CHINA EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price £11,000.00 - Original price £11,000.00Original price £0.00£11,000.00£11,000.00 - £11,000.00Current price £11,000.00A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing Chinese deities and processional characters.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the inc...
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Tangoville sur Mer: A lithograph of Tango Dancing.
SEM [pseud. of Georges GOURSAT].Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00Every body is doing it now!. Tangoville sur Mer featured caricature portraits of well-known men and women in France, including Coco Channel; Octave...
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Tangoville sur Mer: A lithograph of Tango Dancing.
SEM [pseud. of Georges GOURSAT].Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00Every body is doing it now!. Tangoville sur Mer featured caricature portraits of well-known men and women in France, including Coco Channel; Octave...
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Tangoville sur Mer: A lithograph of Tango Dancing.
SEM [pseud. of Georges GOURSAT].Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00Every body is doing it now!. Tangoville sur Mer featured caricature portraits of well-known men and women in France, including Coco Channel; Octave...
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Tangoville sur Mer: A lithograph of Tango Dancing.
SEM [pseud. of Georges GOURSAT].Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00Every body is doing it now!. Tangoville sur Mer featured caricature portraits of well-known men and women in France, including Coco Channel; Octave...
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Die Schuhmode - Winter 1924/25
[SHOE DESIGN CATALOGUE]Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £2,000.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00This unusual album of shoe designs contains designs for both men and women. Landscape folio (30 x 21 cm),.pp 54, 25 chromolithographed plates (im...
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Tissus "olympic" indechirables.
[FASHION].Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00Four 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...
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[A Group of 12 Watercolours of Processions.
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price £11,000.00 - Original price £11,000.00Original price £0.00£11,000.00£11,000.00 - £11,000.00Current price £11,000.00A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing processions.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for small, inexpe...
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Habit d'Indienne du balet du Triomphe de l'amour.
BERIN, J. (artist) and Jean DOLIVAR (engraver).Original price £600.00 - Original price £600.00Original price £600.00£600.00£600.00 - £600.00Current price £600.00Copper-plate engraving. Inscribed in top margin, a very rich impression.
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Le Sabolier.
BONNART, N[icolas].Original price £600.00 - Original price £600.00Original price £600.00£600.00£600.00 - £600.00Current price £600.00Copper-plate engraving.
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Habit de Chapellier.
LARMESSIN II, N[icholas] de.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00Copper plate engraving from Album des metiers. The artisan is dressed in the accountrements of his occupation and set against a theatrical backdr...
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The Prodigal Son Feasted on his Return and The Prodigal Son in Excess.
[SMITH, John Raphael attr.].Original price £600.00 - Original price £600.00Original price £600.00£600.00£600.00 - £600.00Current price £600.00Attributed to John Raphael Smith, these satires comprise part of a set of six.Two uncoloured mezzotints, slight flaking to edges of sheets not aff...
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Marc-Antonio Romagnesi dit Le Docteur Balouard.
MARIETTE, J.Original price £600.00 - Original price £600.00Original price £600.00£600.00£600.00 - £600.00Current price £600.00Copper plate engraving. Repairs to verso, small wormholes, otherwise a rich impression.
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Habit d'Espicier.
LARMESSIN II, N[icholas] de.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00Copper plate engraving from Album des metiers. The artisan is dressed in the accoutrements of his occupation and set against a theatrical backdro...
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Habit de Vannier.
LARMESSIN II, N[icholas] de.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00Copper plate engraving from ALbum des metiers. The artisan is dressed in the accoutrements of his occupation and set against a theatrical backdro...
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Habit de Remouleur, Gaigne Petit.
LARMESSIN II, N[icholas] de.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00Copper plate engraving from Album des metiers. The artisan is dressed in the accountrements of his occupation and set against a theatrical backdr...
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