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Christmas Special / Antique Books, Autographs and Prints

Thursday 11 December 2025 e Friday 12 December 2025, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Racinet, Auguste

Le Costume Historique. Five cents planches, three cents in colors, gold and silver, two cents in cash, 1888

Estimate

€ 500 - 700

Sold

€ 968

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, 1888. 6 vols. In 2°, 406 x 298 mm. With 500 plates, most of them chromolithographs with gold and silver highlights, and colored lithographs, contemporary binding in blue half morocco and marbled cardboard, slight browning.

Specialist Notes

First edition of the most famous costume book of the nineteenth century and the first fashion book to use color lithography.


Colas 2471: “le most important recueil general concerning custom”; Lipperheide Ad52; Vicaire VI, 945-6; Vinet 2141.

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