Recent arrivals and highlights

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Listed below are some of our recent arrivals and featured books. Check back regularly for updates.

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An elegant watercolor album of historical costumes, an academic study

Establishing color standardization in the textile industry by the leading firms of St-Etienne

Passenger Guide for US Troops & Civilians returning from the Philippines after WWII aboard the USAT General C.G. Morton, June 1947

An unpublished vaudeville play with street vendors on Boulevard du Temple near Madame Tussaud’s wax museum

A sales catalog for a Parisian women’s clothing designer displaying 150 different designs (1904-06), for dresses, coats, hats, furs, parasols, etc. for different seasons—complemented by 8 photographs of dresses.

The HELLMAP ATLAS is a geography of Hell inspired by Sandro Botticelli's (circa 1485) drawings for an unrealized edition of Dante's Inferno.

Sketches of six new birds by Didier Mutel

The Rosetta Stone for Mutel’s Poetics of Acid Etching.

Vladimir Nabokov and the Polyommatus Blues Butterflies: a dance for two.

Curiosa meets socio-anthropological study: Examination of the sexual mores of the French colonies