COLIN, Anaïs. La cour de France, suite de costumes historiques - The court of France. A set of historical costumes.
Paris, Gihaut frères, and London, Ch. Tilt, [ca. 1835]. Folio (ca. 47 x 30 cm). With a lithographed title with vignette, and 12 hand coloured full-page lithographed plates, highlighted with gum arabic and protected by tissue paper guards. Contemporary quarter gold-tooled red morocco. [13] ll. Full description

EDWARDS, George and Matthias DARLY. A new book of Chinese designs calculated to improve the present taste consisting of figueres, buildings, & furnitur, landskips, birds, beasts, flowers and ornaments, &c.
London, sold by the authors, 1754. Folio. With 76 engraved plates and an engraved title page. 19th-century, half beige leather, title lettered in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides. [4] pp. and an engraved title page and 76 engraved plates. Full description

GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR, Jacques. L'antique Rome ou description historique et pittoresque de tout ce qui concerne le peuple Romain, dans ses costumes civiles, militaires et religieux, dans ses moeurs publiques et privées, depuis Romulus jusqu'à Augustule.
Paris, chez Deroy, 1796. 4to. With 50 hand-coloured full-page engraved plates. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a black morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers. [4], 221, [3] pp. Full description

HELYOT, Pierre. Histoire des ordres religieux et militaires, ainsi que des congrégations séculières de l'un et de l'autre sexe, qui ont été établies jusqu'à présent ...
Paris, Louis, 1792. 8 volumes. 4to. With 812 full-page hand-coloured engravings, along with woodcut devices on the title pages and some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, title lettered in gold, volume number set within black circular label, the initials "P.W.S." lettered in gold at the foot of the spine, marbled endpapers. Each volume around 400-500 pp. Full description

THOMAS, Antoine Jean Baptiste. Un an a Rome et dans ses environs. recueil de dessins lithographés, représentant les costumes, les usages et les cérémonies civiles et religieuses des états romains, et généralement tout ce qu'on y volt de remarquable pendant le cours d'une année; dessiné et publié ...
Paris, Firmin Didot, 1830. Folio. With a lithographed vignette on the title page and 72 hand-coloured tinted lithograph plates by Jean-François Villain. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper sides. [4], 44 pp. Full description

[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

[PERIODICAL - DUTCH - FASHION]. Kabinet van mode en smaak.
Haarlem, A. Loosjes Pz., [1791]-1794. 8 volumes. 8vo. With 95 (of 96) engravings, primarily depicting costumes, but also including 4 portraits, furniture, buildings, and sheet music, most of them hand-coloured, including one not mentioned in the binder instruction, each volume features a woodcut illustration on the title page, along with small woodcut headpieces and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled half beige calf, marbled paper sides, with title and volume labels lettered in gold on the spine. Full description

[PERIODICAL - WOMEN]. Elegantia, of tydschrift van mode, luxe en smaak, voor dames. Eerste (- vierde) jaargang.
Amsterdam, E. Maaskamp, 1807-1810. 4 volumes. 8vo. With 137 engravings, mostly hand-coloured, the majority depicting fashion subjects such as costumes and embroidery patterns (several folding). Also including plates of furniture and a folding view of Constantinople, with three small uncoloured engravings on the separated title pages. Contemporary vellum. VIII, 392, [8]; VIII, 384, [2 blank]; VIII, 384, [2 blank]; 200, [2 blank] pp. Full description