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Typically Dutch View picture(s) 1 AA, Abraham Jakob van der. Ons vaderland en zijne bewoners; beschrijving van de steden, dorpen en verdere merkwaardige plaatsen in Nederland, en van de zeden en gewoonten, waardoor zich in sommige streken de bewoners onderscheiden. Amsterdam, J. C. Loman Jr., 1857. 4to. Contemporary half red morocco, decorated gilt spine with title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. With a chromo-lithographed frontispiece and 45 plates (41 full-page, mostly tinted lithographs of which some finished by hand, 4 wood-engravings) several wood-engraved illustrations in the text (of which one full-page). XIV, [2], 344 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Costumes  Dutch  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Human behaviour View picture(s) 2 BAUMEISTER, Joseph Edlem von. Die Welt in Bildern, vorzüglich zum Vergnügen und Unterricht  der Jugend. Fünfter Band. Wien, Seb. Hartl, 1793. 4to. 19th century half calf, with orange title-label. With large engraving on title and 50 full-page engraved plates by Cl. Kohl after Sollerer. (4), 200, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Costumes  Discovery & Exploration  Education  German  Schoolbooks  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Egyptian cities and their surroundings View picture(s) 3 BIDA, Alex. and Prosper BARBOT. Souvenirs d'Egypte. Paris, Lemercier, (1850). Large folio. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with red title-label. Lithographed title and 24 tinted lithographs of which the first 12 depict costumes, designed and lithographed by Bida and the last 12 depict views, designed by Barbot and lithographed by Cicéri. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Cartography  Costumes  Middle East  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Maps and costumes from all over the world View picture(s) 4 BLANCHARD, Pierre. Reisje rondom de wereld; geschikt om jonge lieden tot de Aardrijkskunde op te leiden. Naar het Fransch. Rotterdam, J. Immerzeel, 1821. Sm.8vo. Orig. yellow boards, uncut. With 6 full-page fine engraved maps and plates. VI, 201, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Costumes  Education  Geography  Imaginary Voyages & Utopias  Maps  Travel & Voyages  World Maps  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two great print series by Claes Jan Visscher depicting beggars and tramps View picture(s) 5 CALLOT, Jacques. Capitayn van de bende. Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher, [ca. 1640-1650]. With 24 engraved plates by Claes Jansz. Visscher after Jacques Callot. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Costumes  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Scenery design for the Royal theatre at Naples View picture(s) 6 CANNA, Pasquale. [Scene del real teatro di S. Carlo]. Raccolta di designi alla Sacra Real Maestà Donna Maria Cristina Borbone Regina di Spagna ed delle Indie. [Naples, 1830]. Large oblong folio. Contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt, with title label pasted down on front cover. With 18 beautiful hand-coloured lithographs all depicting original scenic designs, each mounted on black paper and embossed in a gold brocade border. The caption below each lithograph is hand-written in gold. 19 leaves (1 with pastedown dedication and 18 with lithographs). Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Costumes  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Ottoman Empire from a beautiful French miniature perspective View picture(s) 7 CASTELLAN, Antoine Laurent. Moeurs, usages, costumes des Othomans, et abrégé de leur histoire. Avec des éclaircissemens tirés d'ouvrages orientaux, et communiqués par M. Langlès. Paris, Nepveu, 1812. 6 volumes. 18mo. Contemporary black morocco, spines gilt, sides with blind tooled floral border and gilt corner ornaments, gilt inner dentelles over marbled endpapers, g.e. 75 hand-coloured engraved plates: a frontispiece to each of the 6 volumes and 17, 17, 9 and 26 plates to resp. volume 3, 4, 5 and 6. Most plates depict costumes, but also tools and instruments are shown. All plates are very detailed and beautifully coloured by hand, in very fresh contemporary colouring, some even finished with gold. 20, XXXI, (1), 120; (4), 225, (3); (4), 251, (1); (4), 282, (2); (4), 231, (1); (4), 235, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Engravings  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On Afghanistan View picture(s) 8 ELPHINSTONE, (Mountstuart). Tableau du royaume de Caboul et de ses dépendances dans la Perse, la Tartarie et l'Inde; offrant les moeurs, usages et costumes de cet empire, traduit et abrégé de l'anglais par M. Breton. Paris, Nepveu, 1817. 3 vols. 18mo. Original printed wrappers, richly engraved on all sides, preserved in a modern green morocco gilt box. With 14 full-page copper engraved plates depicting different costumes, all beautifully coloured by hand. XLIV, 189 (3) pp; (4), 222, (2) pp; (4), 223 (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Costumes  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare manual on knotting a tie - printed by Balzac View picture(s) 9 EMPÉSÉ, Émile de l' (= SAINT-HILAIRE, Marco de). L'art de mettre sa cravate de toutes les manières connues et usitées, enseigné et démontré en seize leçons, précédé de l'histoire complète de la cravate, depuis son origine jusqu'a ce jour; de considérations sur l'usage des cols, de la cravate noire et l'emploi des foulards. Ouvrage indispensable a tous nos fashionables. Paris, H. Balzac for the author, 1827. 12mo. Contemporary half brown pigskin, spine gilt, marbled endpapers, yellow painted edges. With 2 full-page lithographed portraits of the author, of which one coloured by hand, and 4 folding lithographed plates (A-D) comprising 32 figures. 122 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Costumes  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From India overland to London, by the son of the Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV View picture(s) 10 FITZCLARENCE, George Augustus Frederick. Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818. London, Thomas Davison for John Murray, 1819. 4to. Contemporary calf with blind-tooled border and gilt fillet along the edges, edges marbled, marbled endpapers. With a large folding partly coloured map of the seat of war in India, a full-page map of Egypt with the route through the desert and down the Nile taken by Fitzclarence to reach Alexandria, 12 full-page aquatints (9 coloured, 2 uncoloured) and 5 full-page plans (4 partly coloured plans of battlefields in India; 1 of a temple). XXIV, 502 [including p. 168-169*] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Discovery & Exploration  Egypt  England  India  Militaria  Piracy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Vivid illustrations of military life in the 16th century View picture(s) 11 FRONSPERGER, Leonhardt. Kriegsbuch, erster [- dritter] Theil ... Jetzt von neuwem mit sonderm Fleiß ubersehen, und an vielen Örtern gemehrt und gebessert, auch mit schönen neuwen Figuren vnd Kupfferstücken geziert, sampt ordenlichen Registern. Frankfurt am Main, heirs of Sigmund Feyerabend, 1596. 3 volumes bound as 1. Folio. Contemporary blind-stamped vellum on wooden boards with portrait of Emperor Charles V, and 2 brass clasps. With large woodcuts on 3 title-pages, the title-page printed in red and black, woodcut author's portrait, large woodcut publisher's device on penultimate blank leaf, 3 folding woodcut plates, an extra folding engraved plate at the end of the second volume, a series of 21 folding engraved plates, and 334 large woodcuts by Jobst Amman in text, (several repeated). [6], CLXVII, [1 blank], [3], [1 blank]; [4], CLXIII, [3], [1 blank]; [6], CCLXVI, [4], [2 blank] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  Costumes  Cultural History  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first ethnographic survey of the Russian Empire View picture(s) 12 GEORGI, Johann Gottlieb. Rußland. Beschreibung aller Nationen des rußischen Reiches, ihrer Lebensart, Religion, Gebräuche, Wohnungen, Kleidungen und übrigen Merkwürdigkeiten. Leipzig, Dyk, 1783. 2 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf, speckled boards. With 2 etched hand-coloured frontispieces by Schoenberg (coloured by Capieux), and several delicate engraved head- and tailpieces in the text by C.M. Roth. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Costumes  Ethnography  Russia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Magnificently contemporary coloured copy of De Gheyn's famous military manual. From the library of the last margrave of Bergen op Zoom, the grand son of Leopold Philippe, Duke of Arenberg View picture(s) 13 GHEYN, Jacob II de. Waffenhandlung von den Rören. Musquetten. und Spiessen. Gestalt nach der ordnung dess Hochgebornen Fursten und Herrn herrn Moritzen Printzen zu Oranien, Graffen zu Nassaw und Guvernatorn und Capitein General uber Gelderlandt, Hollandt, Zeelandt, Utrecht, Overijssel etc. The Hague, [1607-] 1608. 3 parts in one volume. Folio. 18th-century marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt with initials 'BP' in top compartment, spine with red and green title labels lettered in gold, gilt armorial centrepieces with crowned two coat of arms on sides (see below), marbled endpapers, blue marbled edges. With engraved title with the coat of arms, engraved title and imprint on three separate pieces of paper mounted, and 117 full page engraved plates of ca. 26 x 19 cm: 42 numbered plates in the first part (the first plate signed in ms. 'Jacob de Gheijn in,'), 43 plates in the second part (nrs. 3-24, 28, 30, 32-34 and 36-43 numbered by hand, and the first plate signed in ms. 'Jacob de Gheijn in,'), the third part with 32 numbered plates (the first plate with printed signature), all magnificently coloured and lavishly heightened with silver and gold by a strictly contemporary hand, showing exercises with the firelock, the musket, and the pike. [10], [8], [11] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Militaria  Netherlands  The price of this book is only available on request, it cannot be ordered online. Please contact us for more information. E-mail a Friend

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One of the very few copies entirely printed in red View picture(s) 14 GOEZ, Joseph Franz de. Exercices d'Imagination de differens Charactères et formes humaines. Augsburg, 1783-1784. 4to. Contemporary half calf. With 100 full-page engraved plates of city characters and professions at Augsburg, all the plates printed in red, and all plates signed by the artist and engraver, the first 84 engraved by R. Brichet, the last 16 engraved by the artist himself. (100) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two fine works on Dutch costumes View picture(s) 15 GREEVEN, Hendrik. Collection des costumes des Provinces Septentrionales du Royaume des Pays-Bas. Verzameling der kleederdragten in de Noordelijke Provincien van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden. Amsterdam, Paris, Frans Buffa et Zoonen, Engelmann et Cie., 1828 (-1829). 4to. Contemporary marbled boards, title ' Collection de Costumes des Pays-Bas' lettered in gold on red morocco label on frontcover. With lithographed title in French and Dutch, leaf with lithographed index in Dutch & French, and 20 full-page lithographed plates of Dutch costumes by Vallon de Villeneuve after designs by Hendrik Greeven, all with title in French and Dutch underneath and all richly and beautifully coloured by hand. (24) lvs. text in French and English. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Lithographs  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch views and costume-plates engraved by Willem van Senus View picture(s) 16 GREEVEN, Hendrik. Tableaux des Costumes, Moeurs, Coutumes et Vues, de la Nord-Hollande, de Zaandam, Broek, Alkmaar, Assendelft et de lîle de Marken. Amsterdam, E. Maaskamp, (ca. 1816). Oblong folio. Original green boards, with lila title-label on front cover. With engraved map of Holland on title, by C.H. Koning after E. Maaskamp, and 11 full-page engraved views and costume-plates, 10 in aquatint, by W. van Senus after H. Greeven. 1 leaf index. Full description >> Related Subjects: Costumes  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Well illustrated popular description of exotic Turkey View picture(s) 17 GUER, Jean Antoine. Moeurs et usages des Turcs, leur religion, leur governement civil, militaire et politique, avec un abrégé de l'histoire Ottomane. Paris, Widow Delatour, for Coustelier, 1746-1747. 2 vols. Large 4to. Contemp. marbled calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, with red title-labels, gilt tripple fillet borders on sides, gilt binding edges, marbled endpapers, g.e. With 2 engraved frontispieces, engraved vignette on 2 titles, beautifully engraved head- and tailpieces, most of them illustrating the text, interesting engraved initials. Large folding view of the Serail in Constantinople (280x920mm, mistakingly bound in vol. 1),  folding view of the city of Constantinople, 4 double-page engraved views and plates, and 22 full-page engraved plates, all within decorative borders, and all engraved by Cl. Duflos, several after F. Boucher and N. Halle. XXIV, 453, (19); VIII, 537, (2, 3 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Costumes  Engravings  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A trip to German Frisia View picture(s) 18 HETTEMA, Montanus de Haan & Rinse R. POSTHUMUS. Onze reis naar Sagelterland, benevens deszelfs geschiedenis, eene beschrijving van den aard, de zeden, de gewoonten enz. van deszelfs bewoners en een korte schets en woordenlijst van hunne taal. Franeker, G. Ypma, 1836. Large 8vo. Contemporary red morocco, spine richly gilt with green title-labels, with richly gilt decorative borders, center-piece and floral cornerpieces on sides, gilt binding edges, marbled endpapers. With folding lithographed map of Sagelterland, and 2 lithographed costume plates of the women of Sagelterland, one showing the usual dress and one the special Sunday dress, both finely coloured by hand. VI, 415, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Costumes  Friesland  Germany  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Hand-coloured swiss costumes View picture(s) 19 KOENIG, Franz Niklaus. Neue Sammlung von Schweizertrachten, nach Zeichnungen von F. N. Koenig - Nouvelle collection de costumes suisses. Zürich, Orell, Füssli & Compagnie, 1811. 12mo. Contemporary red half roan. With 50 hand-coloured aquatint costume plates; with tissue guards. 201, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Swiss fashion in the early nineteenth century View picture(s) 20 KÖNIG, Franz Niklaus & Gabriel LORY & OTHERS. Nouvelle Collection de Costumes Suisses de XXII Cantons.- Neue Sammlung von Schweizertrachten aus den XXII Cantonen. Zürich, Orell, Füssli und Comp., (ca. 1818). Small 8vo. Contemporary red boards, spine gilt, g.e. With 60 engraved plates of Swiss costumes, all beautifully coloured by hand. 223, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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