Costumes Historiques Des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe Siecles (2 Vols)
Paris: Librairie D'Architecture de a Levy, 1867. E. Lechevallier-Chevignard (dessines); A. Didier; L. Flameng; F. Laguillermie (graves). Hardcover. Black cloth library rebinding. Bound in two volumes. 151 pp + 154 pp. 150 color plates, handcolored engravings in some cases with gilt detailing. Good+ (ex-library with donor bookplates and usual library markings. All plates have library ink stamp on lower right corner of image. In volume 2, pages 33-36 are bound in the incorrect order, but are all present. Foxing to pages throughout. ). Item #132499
An importantant work on historical costumes of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Organized by brief texts on a type of historical person or an example of a specific personage (for example, "Dame de Lorraine", "Noble Anglais", or "Artisan Francais" and " Le Roi Francois Ier" or "Gaspard de Coligny"), followed by an illustration.
Price: $200.00