Oct 27, 2020 - Sale 2549

Sale 2549 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Color-plate Books in Fine Bindings.
Six volumes in five, all small format, including: Charles Hullmandel's Costumes Français de 1200 à 1715, London: Printed by C. Hullmandel for Rodwell & Martin, [no date, paper watermarked 1823], illustrated with 100 hand-colored costume plates, bound in full red morocco by Bayntun, Bath, 5 1/2 x 4 1/8 in.; Costumes of the Members of the University of Oxford [and] The Costumes of the Members of the University of Cambridge, London: Robins [and] Whittock for Stiel, [c. 1850], each small format, in original publisher's cloth boards, accordion-style contents with hand-colored costume plates, both housed in the same custom box; Mary Anne Venning's A Geographical Present; Being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World, London: for Harvey & Darton, 1820, illustrated with hand-colored costume plates throughout, bound in full speckled calf, gilt-tooled spine, 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.; The Traveller; or an Entertaining Journey round the Habitable Globe, London: Printed for J. Harris & Son, [c. 1825], illustrated with hand-colored costume plates and scenes, bound in full speckled calf, gilt-tooled; [and] The Dance of Death; Painted by H. Holbein, and Engraved by W. Hollar, London: Printed by Whittingham for Harding, 1804, hand-colored plates, bound in full straight-grained red morocco, tooled in gilt, 6 3/4 x 4 in. (5)