Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018

284 c   (COSTUME.) Le Petit Modiste Francais, Dédié aux Dames. Hand-colored engraved additional title, 12 hand-colored engraved plates. 16mo, 4 3 / 4 x3 inches, contemporary gilt-tooled pink paper boards plainly rebacked, matching slide-off case; minor foxing. Paris: Le Fuel, [1822] [300/500] Handsome miniature fashion almanac with a plate of stylish ladieswear for each month of the year. 284 285 285 c   (COSTUME.) Sample book of French theatrical costume plates com- piled by the Fording Costume Company of Boston. 106 hand-colored lithographed plates from various sources. Folio, 13 1 / 2 x9 inches, old boards detached, block intact; ink stamps of Fording Costume Co. to verso of each plate, moderate surface soiling and an occasional tear. sold as is . Vp, later part of the 19th century [400/600] 286 c   (COSTUME.) [Townsend’s Month- ly Selection of Parisian Costumes.] Publisher’s advertisements and text, 55 hand- colored engraved fashion plates (numbered 425-484, but lacking 438, 469-472). 4to, 11 1 / 4 x9 inches, contemporary cloth backed plain boards, lightly rubbed and stained, “1832” in ink to upper cover; plates generally nice with bright colors. [London, 1832] [250/350]