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George Barbier Vingt-cinq costumes pour le théatre. Préface par Edmond Jaloux.
Paris: Chez Camille Bloch & Jules Meynial, 1927.
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
Quarto, portrait frontispiece, introduction followed by twenty-five pochoir colour plates, each signed by the artist and mounted on tinted grey Arches paper; fine in polished half-calf with black lettering. A remarkable collection of elegant theatrical costume designs...
Price (AUD):
$7,500.00
Ref: #4504079
La Geografia en Laminas y Mapas…
Barcelona: por los herederos de D. Agustin Roca, 1834. Oblong octavo, engraved frontispiece, title and 32 plates; a fine copy in original printed boards. A very good copy of this very rare illustrated Spanish edition of the costumes of the world, after the original French publication La Géographie en estampes...
Price (AUD):
$3,850.00
Ref: #3605521
Nouvel Atlas des Enfans et des Commerçans…
Paris: Chez Saintin, 1811. Octavo, two hand-coloured plates and seven hand-coloured maps (four double-page, three folding), some loss to a few pages (seemingly original defects in the paper, and not affecting text); half calf, a little rubbed, bumped at corners, a handsome copy. A wonderful children's Atlas, with delightful depictions...
Price (AUD):
$4,500.00
Ref: #3702899
The International Exhibition of 1862. The illustrated catalogue…
London: Printed for Her Majesty's Commisioners, 1862.
Australian products on the world stage.
Three volumes, quarto, folding plan and steel engraved illustrations throughout; in original gilt decorated cloth. Official catalogue of the 1862 International Exhibition, a spectacle of vast proportions promoting the products and manufacturing of Britain and her colonies...
Price (AUD):
$1,600.00
Ref: #4403232
Voyage à Peking, à travers la Mongolie en 1820 et 1821. Traduit du russe par M. N., revu par M. J.-B. Eyriès
Paris: Dondey-Dupré père et fils, 1826-1827.
A Russian envoy to China
Two octavo volumes bound in one, and a quarto atlas with lithographic title page, large folding map, two folding plans and eight lithographic plates; matching later quarter crimson morocco. First French edition, recounting the experiences of a Russian envoy.....
Price (AUD):
$3,500.00
Ref: #4305434
Album of watercolours.
Probably Venice: variously dated from 1795 to 1825.
Fine Commedia dell'arte watercolours
Oblong small quarto album, 185 x 275mm, containing forty-six watercolours of various sizes and shapes ranging from delicate circular vignettes to larger scenes of urban and theatrical life, elegantly bound in nineteenth-century ochre morocco with ornate gilt decoration...
Price (AUD):
$47,500.00
Ref: #4504048
Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les peuples du monde…
Brussels: Librairie Historique, 1844.
One of the great works on the costumes of the world
Four volumes, large octavo, with a total of 204 finely handcoloured costume plates; contemporary half crimson roan, flat spines ornately gilt. Scarce and beautiful work on the costumes of the world, finely illustrated with a....
Price (AUD):
$4,850.00
Ref: #2802510
Costumes usos e trajos de Todos os Povos do Mundo…
Lisbon: Imprensa Lusitana Typographia Lisbonense, 1872-, 1873.
A scarce and beautiful work
Thick octavo, 153 highly-finished handcoloured engravings;red blind-panelled morocco, all edges gilt. Rare Portuguese edition of Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les peuples du monde… (Brussels, 1844), published well after Wahlen's death in 1850. Wahlen's is a....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #2708049
Almanach parfume: Les 5 Parties du Monde.
Munchen: Gebr. Obpacher, 1902. Duodecimo, four colour printed cards; loosely inserted in original wrappers. One of the cards depicts "Australie (Samoa)"
Price (AUD):
$275.00
Ref: #2903299