[Rarebooks] FS: THE BOOK OF HISTORICAL COSTUMES, with 96 hand-colored lithographed plates

[Charles Agvent]

One of many fine items from our recent catalog--WINTER MISCELLANY 
2010--with 56 select items, all new arrivals.  See it on our home page:

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[PAUQUET (Hippolyte & Polidor)] . THE BOOK OF HISTORICAL COSTUMES, DRAWN 
FROM THE BEST SPECIMENS AND THE MOST AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS OF EACH PERIOD. 
London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, n.d. [c.1860]. First Edition. Quarto 
(9" x 12") in publisher's gilt-lettered red cloth, all edges gilt, 
rebacked with a later spine and a gilt-decorated morocco spine label. 
Illustrated with 96 hand-colored lithographed plates after the Pauquet 
brothers. Some plates with light marginal foxing or staining, most very 
clean and all bright. Very Good.         $850.00

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