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Corset 3ème année. [A collection of samples].
France, ca. 1960/'70. Large folio. 12 oblong leaves (33.0 x 50.0 cm) with wide, lace borders, and all but the first ("title page") with real examples of corsets and brassieres mounted, the majority with additional, original illustrations in ink on transparent paper. The front leaf with a handwritten title and a photo of a young woman mounted. Bound together with pink ribbons.
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Wurffbain, J. P.
Salamandrologia, h. e. descriptio historico-philologico-philosophico-medica salamandrae quae vulgo in igne vivere creditur, S. R. J. Academiae Naturae Curiosis exhibita, atq. Novis aliquot capitibus, experimentis, figurisq; aeri eleganter incisis, nec non rerum & verborum indice adaucta. [Complete with the rare allegorical frontispiece].
Norimbergae [Nürnberg], Georg Scheurer, 1683. Small 4to (19.6 x 15.4 cm). Engraved title page and letterpress title page with wood-engraved vignette; iv, 133, [xv] pp. (including Bericht an den Buchbinder and Errata praecipua); five folded engraved plates. Contemporary full mottled boards and skilfully renewed spine with four raised bands and red morocco label with gilt title and date.
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Zwanziger, M.
Original illustrations and designs for carpets or wallpaper
Berlin, unpublished, 1934-1941. 23 separate designs including 17 for carpets and wallpaper (mainly in Art Deco style), four botanical drawings, and two detailed designs on graph paper; and one printed and partly handwritten certificate. Various sizes (30.5 x 22.0 cm up to 64.0 x 43.5 cm [two on graph paper very large, 70.2 x 59.0 cm, folded]).
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