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50 (mostly military) costumes in colour

[JESSEN, Heinrich]. [Trachten aus Alt-Hamburg].
[Hamburg, B.S. Berendsohn, Wilhelm Jowien, and others], [ca. 1850]. 8vo. With 50 hand-coloured full-page plates (ca. 20 x 12.5 cm) highlighted with egg-white, (44 lithographs, 3 engravings, 3 wood-engravings), including 33 after drawings by Heinrich Jessen. Contemporary blind-stamped decorated red cloth, front board with title lettered in gold. [50] plates. Full description
€ 1,250
Costumes, Fashion & Uniforms Germany Military History (19th Century) Prints & Print Series
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Swiss fashion in the early nineteenth century

KÖNIG, Franz Niklaus & Gabriel LORY & OTHERS. Nouvelle collection de costumes Suisses de XXII cantons. Neue Sammlung von Schweizertrachten aus den XXII Cantonen.
Zürich, bey Orell, Füssli und Comp., [ca. 1818]. Small 8vo. With 60 engraved plates of Swiss costumes, separated by tissue paper guards, all beautifully coloured by hand. Contemporary gold-tooled red paper 223, [4] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Costumes, Fashion & Uniforms Switzerland
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Important description of the South Africa interior, with 9 hand-coloured plates (7 showing indigenous Africans)

LE VAILLANT, François. Voyage de Monsieur Le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique.
Paris, Leroy (colophon vol. 2: printed by Lottin l'aîné & Lottin), 1790. 2 volumes. 8vo. With the publisher's woodcut device on each title-page, engraved frontispiece, 2 folding engraved views and 9 numbered engraved plates (7 costume figures of indigenous Africans and 2 illustrations of giraffes).With the 9 numbered plates coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary half calf, richly gold-tooled flat spines. XXIV, 383; 403 pp. Full description
€ 1,950
Anthropology & Ethnography Costumes, Fashion & Uniforms Travel & Voyages Africa
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Gorgeous Dutch costume book coloured for the publisher by the painter Jan Willem Pieneman

MAASKAMP, Evert. Afbeeldingen van de kleedingen, zeden en gewoonten in Holland, met den aanvang der negentiende eeuw. ... Tableaux des habillements, des moeurs et des coutumes en Hollande, au commencement du dix-neuvième siècle. ...
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, [1811?]. Imperial 4to (30 x 25.5 cm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece dated 1805, and 20 numbered engraved plates of Dutch costumes, all dated 1811, frontispiece and plates coloured for the publisher by the painter Jan Willem Pieneman. Contemporary boards, orange paper sides edged with a gold-tooled roll. Rebacked in red morocco (ca. 1900?). [28] ll. (15 printed on both sides) plus 21 plates. Full description
€ 2,500
Amsterdam Costumes, Fashion & Uniforms Netherlands Women History
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Illustrated travel guide to Belgium, with 3 engraved folding maps

[MAASKAMP, Evert]. Reis door België in het jaar 1814.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp; Brussels, P.J. de Mat, 1815. 8vo. With a lithographed title-page, 3 folding engraved plates (1 hand coloured in outline), 3 aquatint plates printed in sepia, 2 engraved plates printed in sepia (1 double-page) and 2 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin. XX, 200, [2 blank], [10] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Antwerp Belgium Costumes, Fashion & Uniforms Travel Low Countries
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Famous series of Dutch city views and costumes plates

MAASKAMP, Evert, and others. Tableau des principales vues des palais et edifices; representations et des coutumes et usages, dans les Provinces Septentrionales du Royaume des Pays-Bas.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, [ca. 1825]. Oblong folio. With 68 hand-coloured engraved plates and aquatints by different artist, some of them in proof-state with manuscript captions, depicting Dutch city views and Dutch costumes. Contemporary boards covered with dark-brown paper with a gilt border along the edges and a gilt-stamped title on the front board; preserved in a grey modern cloth box. 69 ll. Full description
€ 25,000
Amsterdam Architecture Castles, Gardens & Mansions City Plans, Topography & Views Costumes, Fashion & Uniforms Netherlands Prints & Print Series
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Belgian and Dutch military uniforms, civil dress and clerical garb from antiquity to 1830,
in 124 hand-coloured plates

[MADOU, Jean Baptiste and Jean Louis van HEMELRYCK]. Costumes Belgiques anciens et modernes, militaires, civils et réligieux.
Brussels, Lithographie Royale de J.B.A.M. Jobard, 1830. Folio. With a hand-coloured lithographed title, and 124 hand-coloured full-page numbered lithographed plates, of which some heightened with gold, all protected by tissue paper guards. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter polished calf. II, 26, [27-198], IV pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Belgium Costumes, Fashion & Uniforms Military History (19th Century) Netherlands
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Unique collection of Paris fashion photographs from the 1910s, possibly modelled by the famous actress Régina Badet

MANUEL, Henri. [Collection of 33 Paris fashion photographs from the 1910s].
Paris, Henri Manuel, [ca. 1910/20]. 33 albumen prints , 3 oval (ca. 19 x 15 cm) and 30 rectangular (ca. 27 x 16 cm), including 5 duplicates (with tint variations). The faces on two of the photographs are lightly tinted. Each photograph is mounted on a sheet of paper and signed in pencil "Henri Manuel Paris". Three photographs are also signed in the plate. Full description
€ 3,950
Costumes, Fashion & Uniforms France Photography
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