Sold for:
$750
$750
Paris: Librarie de Firmin-Didot, 1888. 6 vols. Oblong 8vo, 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. First edition, octavo issue, of Racinet's masterwork on historic dress in the world. Profusely illustrated with 300 chromolithographs and 200 duotone lithographs (27 plates counting as "double-plates," as issued). Rubbing to boards; manuscript ex-libris to title pages; otherwise pages are bright and interior is in very good condition.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2012-11-07
