ARIF PACHA.

Les Anciens Costumes de l'Empire Ottoman depuis l'Origine de la Monarchie jusqu'à la Reforme du Sultan Mahmoud.

Paris. Lemercier. (1863). Folio. pp. 47. Illustrated with lithograph title, portrait frontispiece, description of plates and 16 lithographed costume plates printed in colours after Arif. Later green cloth, red leather label pasted to spine.

This copy with text in French, there was also a Turkish edition, published in the same year with a ... (more)

£8,000

ref: 24712

ARIF PACHA.

Les Anciens Costumes de l'Empire Ottoman depuis l'Origine de la Monarchie jusqu'à la Reforme du Sultan Mahmoud.

Paris. Lemercier. (1863). Folio. pp. 47. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece, description of plates and 16 lithographed costume plates printed in colours after Arif. This copy lacks the lithograph title. Contemporary quarter morocco, repaired.

This copy with text in French, there was also a Turkish edition, published in the same year with a ... (more)

£8,000

ref: 27324

ATKINSON, John Augustus.

A Picturesque Representation of the Naval, Military and Miscellaneous Costumes of Great Britain,... with a descriptive essay on the subject of each plate in English and French. Volume I. [All Published].

London. William Miller & James Walker. 1807. Folio. Half-title, title-page, 4 pp. dedication in ... (more)

First issue. 'It was originally intended to publish the work in three volumes, with 100 plates, but ... (more)

£12,500

ref: 27933

BAKST.

Feia Kukol / La Fée des Poupées.

St. Petersburg. Golike & Vil'borg. c.1904. 12 colour lithograph postcards after designs by Bakst, several heightened with gilt. Loose as issued in original printed envelope.

Bakst's designs for the costumes for Joseph Bayer's ballet Feia Kukol (The Dolls' Fairy) - first ... (more)

£3,000

ref: 34643

BIR COLLECTION. Seiwert, Wolf-Dieter.

Jewellery from the Orient. Treasures from the Bir Collection.

Stuttgart. Arnoldsche. 2009. 30.5 x 23.5cm. pp. 320. Over 750 pieces illustrated in on approx. 440 colour plates. Hardback in dust jacket. New.

£45

ref: 37046

BOCK, Dr. Franz.

Die Kleinodien des Heil-Romischen Reiches Deutscher Nation nebst den Kroninsignien Bohmens Ungarns und der Lombardei.

Vienna. Aus der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Hof-und Staatsdruckerei. 1864. 2 vols. folio. (text and ... (more)

A finely produced record of sacred objects, textiles, swords and decorative panels.

£1,600

ref: 39896

BOUCHARDON, E.

Etudes prises dans le bas peuple, ou les cris de Paris.

Paris. chez Joullain & chez Fessard. 1737-46. 60 plates. 5 suites each of 12 plates, unbound and stitched as issued. Completely uncut and untrimmed.

First printing of one of the most famous and beautiful of all the sets of Cries of Paris. This great ... (more)

£20,000

ref: 21032

BULGARI. Triossi, Amanda & Daniele Mascetti.

Bulgari.

London. Thames and Hudson. 2007. 33.5 x 25cm. pp. 320. 705 illustration, nearly all in colour. Hardback in dust jacket and matching slipcase.

Revised and updated version of the Italian edition of 1996.

£60

ref: 35696

DESPRÉS. Garbadi, Melissa.

Jean Déspres Jeweler, Maker and Designer of the Machine Age.

London. Thames and Hudson. 2009. 31 x 23.5cm. pp. 248. 341 illustrations, 234 in colour, Hardback in dust jacket. New,

Publishes on the occasion of the exhibition at the exhibition at the Bard Graduate Centre, New York.

£36

ref: 35701

Ein rheinischer Silberschatz- Schmuck und Gerat aus Privatbesitz.

Cologne. Kunstgewerbemuseum. 1980. 4to. pp. 352. Monochrome and colour illustration throughout. Hardback , dust jacket slightly frayed at the edges, otherwise vg. With the bookplates of Julius Bohler.

Exhibition catalogue.

£50

ref: 38473

FALIZE. Purcell, Katherine.

Falize. A dynasty of jewelers.

London. Thames and Hudson. 1999. 28.5 x 22cm. pp. 320. 414 illustrations, 157 in colour. Hardback in dust jacket. New.

£60

ref: 35699

FOLLOT, Paul.

Documents de Bijouterie et Orfeverie modernes.

Paris. Henri Laurens. c.1900. Folio. pp. iv. 24 coloured and tinted plates printed on rectos only. Loose, as issued, in the publisher's folder. Occasional foxing.

Rare portfolio of Art Nouveau jewellery and metalwork - candlesticks, cutlery, vases, umbrella handles, cafetieres, cigarette cases, etc. Paul Follot, who trained under Eugene Grasset, was chief designer for La Maison Moderne.

£900

ref: 38629

HOLLAR.

THEATRU MULIERUM, / sive / VARIETAS atq. DIFFERENtia / Habituum Foeminei Sexus di / uersorum Europae Nationum / hodierno Tempore vulgo in usu, / a Wenceslao Hollar, etc. Bohemo / delineatae et aqua forti aeri / sculptae / Londini A 1643.

London. Laurie & Whittle. 1795 (circa). 8vo. Engraved title and forty-eight engraved plates of costumes and habits, all but three of which are of women, each with title in English and Latin. Contemporary wrappers, contained in modern half-morocco book box.

A fine later example of Wenceslaus Hollar's 'Theatru(m) Mulierum', a depiction of the familiar ... (more)

£1,500

ref: 27937

LE PRINCE, J. -B.

Les Strelits, ancienne et seule milice de Russie jusqu'au temps de Pierre le Grand, qui les detruisit entierement a cause de leurs seditions. Ces habillements donnent en meme temps une juste idee de l'ancien costume de cette nation et sont encore en usage dans une grande partie de l'Empire.

(1764). Small folio. 8 etched plates. Bound in contemporary half vellum, torn on spine.

TOGETHER WITH: Divers Habillemens des pretres de Russie.....dessines en Russie d'apres nature ... (more)

£900

ref: 39354

LENS, Andre.

Le Costume ou Essai sur les habillements et les usages de plusieurs Peuples de L'Antiquite prouve par les Monuments.

Liege. J.F. Bassompierre. 1776. 4to. pp. xxxii, 411, (1). With 51 hors-texte engraved plates, engraved by Pitre Martenasie. Slight staining to upper margins of final plates. Contemporary full mottled calf, intricate gilt tooling to banded spine; hinges cracked, otherwise a good copy.

First edition. Starting with the Egyptians and then Greeks, Hebrews, Persians, Romans etc., this ... (more)

£1,250

ref: 21658