Clothing & Fashion
Clothing & Fashion
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Copper-Engraved Plates.
(Ancient
Dress). Lens, André Corneille. Le costume
ou essai sur les habillements et les usages de plusieurs peuples de l’antiquité,
prouvé par les monuments. Liege: Aux dépens de l’auteur, chez
J.F. Bassompierre, 1776. 4to (24.9 cm, 9.8"). xxxi, [1], 411, [1] pp.; 51 plts
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Illustrated Indigenous
Customs & Dress
FIRST Edition in ENGLISH Clavigero, Francesco Saverio. The history of Mexico. Collected from Spanish and Mexican historians, from manuscripts, and ancient paintings of the Indians ... translated from the original Italian, by Charles Cullen. London: Pr. for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1787. 4to (28.5 cm, 11.2"). 2 vols. I: [2], xxxii, [4], 440, (441–44), 441–76 pp. (pagination skips v/vi, with text complete); 1 fold. map, 25 plts., 1 table. II: [4], 463, [1 (blank)] pp.; 1 fold. map, 1 plt.
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The
two oversized, folding maps were engraved by T. Conder; a genealogical chart in vol. I shows the descent of the Mexican kings from the 13th century, while
numerous engraved plates depict Mexican artifacts, costumes, activities, flora and fauna, architecture, etc.
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Venus
— Candle-Snuffers?(English Political Satire PLUS). Venus attiring the graces. London: J. Dodsley, 1777. 4to
(24.8 cm, 9.75"). 11, [1 (blank)] pp. [with]
[Mason, William?] [Ode to Mr. Pinchbeck,
upon his newly invented patent candle-snuffers. London: J. Almon, 1776]. [5]–11,
[1 (adv.)] pp.
• Venus: ESTC T73277; Ode: ESTC T41985 (first ed.). Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Second work lacking half-title and title-page. Inner margins of two leaves reinforced; last line of advertising page shaved. Title-page and last few leaves with moderate foxing; one page (not the title) stamped by a now-defunct institution, with some offsetting to opposing page.
Greenaway's Lads & Lasses Greenaway, Kate. Mother Goose or the old nursery rhymes. London & New York: George Routledge & Sons, [1881]. 12mo (17.2 cm, 6.45"). 48 pp. (with contents pr. on front free endpaper).; illus.
• Not in Gottlieb, Early Children's Books & Their Illustration. Publisher's quarter rose and ivory cloth, covers with title stamped in brown surrounded by green latticework, dust jacket lacking; binding darkened and spotted. Front free endpaper with small inked ownership inscription. Sewing starting to loosen; light offsetting from facing images occasionally noticeable; some pages with tears at inner margins; a good copy only — yet, still, a charming thing! (27046)
The
Cabinet Cyclopaedia:
SILK
Porter, George Richardson, & Dionysius Lardner, eds. A treatise on the origin, progressive improvement, and present state of the silk manufacture. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. 12mo (18.7 cm, 7.4"). 276 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. • Goldsmiths'-Kress 27353.19; this vol. not in American Imprints. Publisher's quarter red cloth and tan paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label; binding lightly worn and faded, with paper chipped, spots of soiling, head of spine chipped and band of cloth tape extending across it. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page. No other markings. Uncut copy; pages generally clean. (26262)
For
a bit more about SILK &
“A Voyage to Abyssinia” — Good Lively & Readable AccountSalt, Henry. A voyage to Abyssinia, and travels into the interior of that country, executed under the orders of the British government, in the years
1809 and 1810; in which are included, an account of the Portuguese settlements on the east coast of Africa .... Philadelphia: M. Carey; Boston: Wells & Lilly (pr. by Lydia R. Bailey), 1816. 8vo (23.5 cm, 9.25"). 24, 454 pp.; fold. map.,
illus. 
dress,
cuisine, and music, along with the factual details of his diplomatic achievements
— or lack thereof, in terms of concrete agreements — followed by
an appendix comparing vocabulary words from various languages spoken along “the
Coast of Africa, from Mosambique to the borders of Egypt, with a few others
spoken in the Interior of that Continent” (p. 395).
This is an untrimmed copy in original boards, with 24
pages of advertising for Carey publications bound in at
the front of the volume. The preliminary map, engraved by John Bower, has
hand-colored border lines; this American edition does not call for the plates
found in the English first, but does include in-text depictions of several
“Ethiopic inscriptions.”
• Shaw & Shoemaker 33864; NSTC 2S3118. Publisher’s quarter tan paper over light blue paper–covered sides; front cover detached and back joint cracked, binding spotted, paper cracked and split along spine, spine label now absent and replaced with hand-inked title, spine with later paper shelving label. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1829. Half-title with portion of outer margin torn away (not touching text) and laid in. Map lightly foxed, with two short tears along folds. Pages age-toned, with occasional spots of foxing.
In
SOME
Cultures, Only
BAD
Women HIDE
Their Faces
Spain.
Sovereigns, 1621–1665 (Philip IV).
Prematica en que su magestad manda, que ninguna muger ande tapada, sino descubierta
el rostro, de manera que pueda ser vista, y conocida, so las penas en ella contenidas,
y de las demas que tratan de lo susodicho. Madrid: Pedro Tazo, 1639. Folio (28.2
cm, 11.1"). A4; 4 ff. 
Click the image for an enlargement. • Palau 87353 (for Granada printing). Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with shadow of pencilled numeral and faintly inked earlier numeral in upper margin. Pages creased but clean, with tiny hole along fold of last leaf.
Dress
Right!Vallejo, Fernando de. Pregon en que su magestad manda, que ninguna muger de qualquier estado y calidad que sea pueda traer, ni traiga guardainfante, ò otro instrumento, ò trage semehante, excepto las mugeres que con licencia de las justicias publicamente son malas de sus personas. Madrid: En la imprenta de Francisco Martinez, 1639. Folio (28.2 cm, 11.1"). [4] ff.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Palau 236212. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with small early inked numeral and shadow of pencilled numeral in upper margin; publication authorization leaf with small hole just touching letters, without loss of sense.
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Guys,
Cut YourRidiculous
HAIR!Vallejo,
Fernando de. Pregon en que
su magestad manda, que por quanto el abuso de las guedejas y copetes con que andan
algunos hombres, y los rizos con que componen el cabello ha llegado à hazer
escandalo en estos reynos, ningun hombre pueda traer guedejas ni copete.
Madrid: En la imprenta de Francisco Martinez, 1639. Folio (28.2 cm, 11.1"). [4]
ff.
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the image for an enlargement.
• Palau 236209. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages creased, with small areas of light waterstaining to upper and lower inner margins; title-page with early inked numeral and shadow of pencilled numeral in upper margin.
Social
THEATRICAL Pleasures
— A Social Club's
Copy
(What
does the “Sleeping Maiden” wear?). Head, James
H. Home pastimes or tableaux vivants. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1860. 12mo.
264 pp., lacks printed title-page.
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the images for enlargements.
costumes,
scenery, positions, lights, shades, etc., designed for public exhibitions and
the home circle.” An important work for the study of Victorian play, recreation,
social interaction — and, theater. Notes at the back explain how to achieve
fire effects, sound effects, etc.
The added title-page is printed in red and black and has a wood-engraved vignette of friends-and-family spectators rapt before a home stage.
Provenance: The German Society of Pennsylvania.
• Publisher's blue textured cloth stamped in blind; light discoloration to edges. Ex–social club library, as above: call number in a neat 19th-century hand on endpapers and fly-leaf, rubber- and pressure-stamp on title-page and rubber-stamp on a very few other pages. No other markings. Faint waterstain at front in some lower margins. With the handsome added title-page but without the printed “main” one. Withal, a good copy. (26283)
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