Category: Etiquette and Society

Il Galateo (Volgare e Latino) (Giuntovi il Trattato degli Uffizi comuni l'Orazione a Carlo V. L'Orazione alla Repubblica di Venezia, e le Rime

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Venezia, Simone Occhi : 1750

Seller ID: 001204

Condition: Very Good

Book. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 358 pp. Della Casa's sixteenth century manual on court etiquette rendered in both Italian and Latin. (It was published originally in Italian, and later translated by Nicolo Fierberto.) Gamba 285. Also included in this volume is Della Casa's treatise on how a subordinate should treat his superior in government and his "Rime" or verse. This copy is tight and generally clean. The title page has two pin-sized holes forming a colon after the title, with no loss of lettering or content, and a few of the preliminary pages after have minor corner crea...
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Kidd's Fashionable Library; or Mirror of Ton. Interspersed with Numerous Original Anecdotes of Popular Characters. Included are "The Book of Fashion", "The Book of Gentility", "The Book of Elegance", "The Book of Refinement", "The Lovers' Own Book", and "The Book of Courtship"

By: Illustrations by S. Slader and others, from the designs of Cruikshank, Seymour and Bonner

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London, W. Kidd

Seller ID: 001168

Binding: Half Morocco. Marbled Boards.

Condition: Very Good

16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Undated, circa 1830. Xrare, with only two copies turning up on OCLC Worldcat. With frontis plate and woodcut illustrations, two per section (with title and as tail piece at end). 36, 47, 36, 49, 32, 54 pp. In essence, six smaller books or pamphlets bound together, although it appears that these may have been originally issued as a single volume. Actual authorship of each installment is not given, but pseudonymous authors are One of "The Exclusives", A Member of "The Beef-Steak Club", A Lover of Nature, One of the Cognescenti, Amator, and Amic...
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My Lady's Toilette

By: Shephard, Catharine

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs & Co. : 1911

Seller ID: 001412

Binding: Hardcover and with box

Condition: Very Good

With 22 leaves of card stock, 20 of which contain an illustration which features a flap which when lifted reveal a word. A series of illustrations, designed and executed more than a century prior to 1911 by Catharine Shephard of Virginia and presented to her favorite neice, we are told on the title page. This is a reproduction of the "treasured heirloom" and a charming specimen of fin-de-siecle nostalgia for the Early Republic, the Georgian and Regency Eras. Bound together with a ribbon. Some light soilage on the covers, which are paper pasted onto boards. The ribbon is newer. Wi...
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Category: Etiquette and Society

Il Galateo (Volgare e Latino) (Giuntovi il Trattato degli Uffizi comuni l'Orazione a Carlo V. L'Orazione alla Repubblica di Venezia, e le Rime

Kidd's Fashionable Library; or Mirror of Ton. Interspersed with Numerous Original Anecdotes of Popular Characters. Included are "The Book of Fashion", "The Book of Gentility", "The Book of Elegance", "The Book of Refinement", "The Lovers' Own Book", and "The Book of Courtship"

My Lady's Toilette