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Keepsake de Costumes, Le

Keepsake de Costumes, Le by COMPTE-CALIX, Francois Claudius

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Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
Title
Keepsake de Costumes, Le
Author
COMPTE-CALIX, Francois Claudius
Seller
David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
Paris: Chez Aubert, 1853. Twenty Hand Colored Plates depicting the Costumes of Western Europe and North Africa COMPTE-CALIX, Francois Claudius. Le Keepsake de Costumes. Dessins de Compte Calix, gravés sur acier. Album offert aux abonées du journal Les Modes Parisiennes. Paris: [Chez Aubert], 1853. Folio (13 5/8 x 10 1/2 inches; 345 x 266 mm.). Twenty fine hand colored plates engraved on steel by Varin, Préval, Pelée, Ramus, Montaut d'Oléron, Girardet, Rebel Monnin, Portier, Desjardins and Metzmacher. All plates with original tissue guards. Publisher's pale blue paper wrappers. Front cover printed in gold, most of the paper spine worn away but still sound. Minimal insect damage to fore-edge of first blank. Some marginal foxing to plate 12, light marginal foxing to a few other plates, otherwise an excellent example of this rather scarce costume book. This fine album was offered to subscribers of the newspaper Les Modes Parisiennes. The plates: 1. "Chef Arabe" An Arab chef from Algeria 2. "Femme Mauresque" A Moorish woman 3. "Paysanne" A peasant woman from the vicinity of Neuviller (Bas Rhin) 4. "Auberciste de Miesbach" An innkeeper from Miesbach (Germany, Bavaria) 5. "Costume de Tresnuzaghes" A costume from Tresnuzaghes (Sardinia) 6. "Pastora della Gallura" (Sardinia) 7. "Paysanne" A peasant woman from the vicinity of La Rochelle 8. "Femme des environs de Nimes" A woman from the vicinity of Nimes 9. "Jeune Fille de Brienz" A young girl from Brienz, canton of Bern (Switzerland) 10. "Marchand Juif" A Jewish merchant from Algeria 11. "Juive Mariée" A married Jewess from Algeria 12. "Jeune Fille Juive d'Alger" A young Jewish woman from Algiers (lightly foxed in blank margins) 13. Marchand de Tapis" A merchant from Tapis from Zell (Tyrol) 14. "Bergère de Jennbach" A shepherdess from Jennbach (Tyrol) 15. "Femme de Passau" A woman from Passau (Germany, Bavaria) 16. "Paysanne de Iffeldorf" A peasant woman from Iffeldorf (Germany, Bavaria) 17. "Rémouleur Arabe" An Arab grinder in Cairo 18. "Costume de Bosa" A man from Bosa (Sardinia) 19. "Femme de Ploaghe" A woman from Ploaghe (Sardinia) 20. "Boucher de Cagliari" The butcher from Cagliari (Sardinia). Colas 671; Gumuchian 1833; Hiler, p. 181; Not in Bobins, Lipperheide or Osborne.
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MAX REGER & KARL STRAUBE; by Anderson, C.

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Seller: J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books
Title
MAX REGER & KARL STRAUBE;
Author
Anderson, C.
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J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Burlington: Ashgate, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Illus. & musical examples.

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