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Lot 67
[Color-Plate Books] Cabinet des Modes... First Edition, With 172 Hand-Colored Plates
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
Dec 5, 2024
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Live / New York
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$2,858
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[Color-Plate Books] Cabinet des Modes, ou les modes nouvelles, décrites d'une manière claire & précise, & représentées par des planches en Tailledouce, enluminées.
Paris: Chez Buisson, 1785. In two volumes. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with 172 engraved plates by Duhamel after Pugin and Derais, virtually all hand-colored, some folding. Contemporary mottled calf, tooled in gilt, green morocco spine labels; marbled endpapers.
A handsome set of Cabinet des Modes, a bimonthly periodical intended to promote French fashions throughout the world. The color plates focus on dress but also depict accessories, hats, carriages, etc., and provide an interesting visualization of pre-Revolutionary France.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.