Rare haute couture books, fashion magazines, designers' drawings, history of clothing fashion

First edition.
Spine faded and clumsily restored with tape, handsome interior condition despite some minor foxing mainly at the end of the volume.

New edition expanded with an introduction and notes by Louis Moland.
Half caramel sheep binding, spine with five raised bands showing minor rubbing, decorated with dotting and gilt double fillets, hazelnut shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, contemporary binding.
Anne de Bretagne, Marie Stuart, Catherine de Médicis, the most illustrious sisters...
Minor scattered foxing.

New edition revised and corrected from the 1740 edition.
Half caramel sheep binding, spine with five raised bands showing minor rubbing, decorated with dotting and gilt double fillets, headcaps rubbed at top, hazelnut shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, contemporary binding.
Some minor foxing.

First edition.
Primitive clothing, the first fabric manufacture, purple, the Athenians, the handkerchief, the Romans, the Gauls, Philippe Auguste and furs, the doublet, origin of breeches, the necktie, the revolution, how dandies dress...
Handsome and rare copy, with blank covers, despite some light foxing.