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A collection of works on Fashion: 1. RACINET, AUGUSTE. Le costume historique. Paris: Firmin-Didot- 1888. 6 volumes. 4to. Numerous lithographic plates, most printed in colors and gold. Modern buckram. Light browning. Colas 2471-2472. 2. TOUCHET, JACQUES, illustrator. Les vies de dames galantes. Paris: Éditions de la Belle Etoile, 1938. 2 volumes. 8vo. Publisher's printed wrappers, later custom clamshell box. Toning, slightly loose. Carteret IV, 82. 3. KEEZER, ROSA SARA. La Toilette feminine et les bibelots de l'Apoque romantique. Paris: Éditions Nillson, 1930. Folio. 20 pochoir colored plates. Loose as issued in publisher's pictorial card folder with cloth ties. Toning, adhesive residue on verso of each plate. Colas 1597. 4. [Foreigners in Japan.] [Japan]: c.1800. 6 hand-painted plates with captions in Japanese, each depicting a man and woman in the dress of various European countries, some in military uniform, each captioned with the relevant nationality on the verso: "Holland," "England," "Germany," "Portugal," Russia," and "Denmark." Contained in modern cloth clamshell box. Spotting and creasing, "Portugal" with worming to lower edge of image. 5. UZANNE, OCTAVIA. La Femme a Paris: Nos Contemporaines. Paris: Ancienne Maison Quantin, 1894. 4to. 20 hand-colored engraved plates by Massé after Vidal, engraved illustrations throughout. Rebound in green morocco, with original case in clamshell box.