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• Clothing and dress -- Early works to 1800
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• Church vestments -- Early works to 1800
• Cosmetics -- Early works to 1800
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• Costume -- China -- Early works to 1800
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• Costume -- France -- Early works to 1800
• Costume -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800
• Costume -- History -- 16th century -- Holy Roman Empire -- Early works to 1800
• Costume -- History -- 16th century -- Italy -- Early works to 1800
• Costume -- History -- To 500 -- Early works to 1800
• Costume -- Italy -- Florence -- Early works to 1800
• Costume -- Italy -- Siena -- Early works to 1800
• Costume -- Italy -- Venice -- Early works to 1800
• Costume -- Middle East -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800
• Costume -- Rome -- Early works to 1800
• Costume -- Scotland -- 17th century -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800
• Costume -- Turkey -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800
• Costume -- Turkey -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800
• Nobility -- Great Britain -- Costume -- Early works to 1800
• Women -- England -- Costume -- Early works to 1800

• Habitus praecipuorum populorum, tam virorum quam foeminarum [sic] Singulari arte depicti. Trachtenbuch; darin fast allerley und der fürnembsten Nationen, die heutigs tags bekandt sein, Kleidungen beyde wie es bey Manns und Weibspersonen gebreuchlich, mit allem vleiss abgerissen sein, sehr lustig und kurtzweilig zusehen. (Hans Weigel, 1969), by Hans Weigel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Habiti antichi : (Per Combi, & LaNoù ; appresso capo Francesco Bodio, 1664), by Cesare Vecellio and Francesco Bodio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le navigationi et viaggi nella Turchia, di Nicolo de Nicolai del Delfinato ... : con diuerse singolarità in quelle parti dall' autore viste & osseruate. (Apresso Guiglielmo Siluio stampatore regio., 1576), by Nicolas de Nicolay, Willem Silvius, Jean Croissant, Geeraard Jansen van Kampen, Cornelis Muller, Arnaud Nicolai, Assuerus van Londerseel, and François Flory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Omnium fere gentium nostrae aetatis habitus ... (Ferdinando Bertelli Æneis typis excudebat, 1563), by Ferando Bertelli and Enea Vico (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur les costumes et sur les théatres de toutes les nations, tant anciennes que modernes : ouvrage utile aux peintres, statuaires, architectes, décorateurs, comédiens, costumiers, en un mot aux artistes de tous les genres : non moins utile pour l'etude de l'histoire des temps reculés, des mœurs des peuples antiques, de leurs usages, de leurs loix, et nécessaire à l'education des adolescens (Chez M. Drouhin, éditeur dudit ouvrage ..., 1790), by Jean Charles Levacher de Charnois, Pierre-Michel Alix, and Philippe Chéry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Navigationi et viaggi, fatti nella Tvrchia, di Nicolo de'Nicolai del Delfinato, signor d'Arfevilla (Presso Francesco Ziletti, 1580), by Nicolas de Nicolay, Francesco Ziletti, Antoine van Leest, and François Flory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mascarades ([publisher not identified], 1597), by Jean Jacques Boissard and Robert Boissard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil de la diuersité des habits, : qui sont de present en vsage, tant es pays d'Europe. Asie, Affrique & Isles sauuages, le tout fait apres le naturel. (Par François des prez ..., 1567), by François Desprez (page images at HathiTrust)
• De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diuerse parti del mondo libri dve (Presso Damian Zenaro, 1590), by Cesare Vecellio and Cristoforo Chrieger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Habiti antichi, overo, Raccolta di figure delineate dal gran Titiano, e da Cesare Vecellio suo fratello (Per Combi, & LaNoù, 1664), by Cesare Vecellio and Cristoforo Chrieger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quatre premiers livres de navigations et peregrinations orientales. English (Imprinted at London : [At the cost of John Stell] by Thomas Dawson, 1585), by Nicolas de Nicolay, Thomas Washington, and John Stell (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Tractus de pileo, coeterisque capitis tegminibus tam sacris quam profanis ... Petro de Maridat ... dicatus (Sumptibus Ioannis Champion, et Christophori Fourmy, 1655), by Théophile Raynaud and Petro de Maridat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pontificiorvm ordinvm omnivm omnino vtrivsqve sexvs, habitvs (Sumptib. Sigismundi Feyrabendij, 1585), by Jost Amman and François Modius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eirenokoinonia. The peace of the communion of the Church of England. Or, The conformitie of the ceremonies of the communion of the Church of England with the ensamples and doctrine of the holy Scriptures, and primitiue Church, established by the Apostles of Christ, and the holy martyrs, and bishops, their successors. By Io: Gordon, Doctor of Diuinitie, and Deane of Salisbury. (London : Printed by T. S[nodham] for Nathaniell Butter, and are to be solde at the signe of the Pide-Bull, neere S. Austins Gate, 1612), by John Gordon (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Fratres sobrii estote. I. Pet. 5. 8. Or, An admonition to the fryars of this Kingdome of Ireland to abandon such hereticall doctrines as they daylie publish to the corruption of our holy faith, the ruine of soules, and their owne damnation which sleepeth not, by Paul Harris priest. ([Dublin] : Printed [by the Society of Stationers], MDCXXXIV [1634]), by Paul Harris (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• I secreti de la signora Isabella Cortese : ne'qvali si contengono cose minerali, medicinali, arteficiose, & alchimiche, & molte de l'arte profumatoria, appartenenti a ogni gran signora : con altri bellissimi secreti aggiunti. (Appresso Giouanni Bariletto, 1565), by Isabella Cortese (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des odeurs : suite du Traité de la distillation (Chez Bailly, libraire ..., 1777), by Antoine Hornot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ricettario galante del principio del secolo xvi (G. Romagnoli, 1883), by Olindo Guerrini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delights for ladies to adorn their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories : with beauties, banquets, perfumes, and waters. (London : Printed by James Young, 1644., 1644), by Hugh Plat and James Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• The toilet of flora : or a collection of the most simple and approved methods of preparing baths, essences, pomatums, powders, perfumes, and sweet-scented waters. With receipts for cosmetics of every kind ... for the use of ladies. (printed for J. Murray ... and W. Nicoll ..., 1784), by Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Toilet of Flora: or, A collection of the most simple and approved methods of preparing baths, essences, pomatums, powders, perfumes, and sweet-scented waters. With receipts for cosmetics of every kind, that can smooth and brighten the skin, give force to beauty, and take off the appearance of old age and decay, by Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz (Gutenberg ebook)
• Delightes for ladies to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories with beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters. (At London : Printed by Peter Short, 1602), by Hugh Plat (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Cosmeticks or, the beautifying part of physick. By which all deformities of nature in men and women are corrected, age renewed, youth prolonged, and the least impediment, from a hair to a tooth, fairly amended. With the most absolute physical rarities for all ages. Being familiar remedies, for which every one may be his own apothecary. / All extracted out of that eminent physician John Jeams Wecker, never yet extant in the English tongue before, but was promised to the world by Mr. Nic. Culpeper. (London : Printed by Tho. Johnson, at the White Cock in Rood-lane, 1660), by Johann Jacob Wecker and Nicholas Culpeper (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Pecunes cosmeticks for the face. ([London : s.n., 1690?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Princesses Powder. ([London : s.n., 1695]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The famous water of talk and pearl, being the clearest of all waters, and is of that excellent quality for beautifying the face, that in a short time it will turn the brownest complexion to a lovely white ... ([London : s.n., 1670?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The gentlewoman that lived in Red-Lyon-Court, is removed to Racket Court, near Fleet-bridge, the third door on the right-hand. Who hath a most excellent wash to beautifie the face, as many of the greatest quality can testify: its virtue is to take out all manner of wrinckles, freckles, pimples, redness, morphew, sun-burn, yellowness, or any other accident, caused too often by mercurial poysonous washes: ... ([London : s.n., 1690?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• In Surry-street, in the Strand, at the corner-house with a white-balcony and blue-flower pots, liveth a gentlewoman, who hath a most excellent wash to beautifie the face, which cures all redness, flushings, or pimples. ... ([London : s.n., 1690?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• De lauris, capillamentis, et chirothecis (Ex officina Camilli Cavalli :, 1693), by Giovanni Battista Pacichelli, Orazio Frezza, and Francesco de Grado (page images at HathiTrust)

• Desseins des edifices, meubles, habits, machines, et ustenciles des Chinois. (de l'imprimerie de J. Haberkorn, dans Gerrard-Street; se vend chez l'auteur, à coté du Caffé de Tom en Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; & chez A. Millar & J. Nourse, Libraires dans le Strand, 1757), by William Chambers, J. Nourse, Andrew Millar, John Haberkorn, and Paul Fourdrinier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des édifices, meubles, habits, machines et ustensils des chinois : gravés sur les originaux dessinés a la chine (Chez le sieur le Rouge ..., 1776), by William Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ornatus muliebris Anglicanus or The severall habits of English women, from the nobilitie: to the contry woman, as they are in these times Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemus fecit Londini Æ. 1640. ([London] : Sold by H. Overton at the White Horse without Newgate..., 1640), by Wenceslaus Hollar (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Fourth year of the French Republic, 1795 (Printed for Deroy ;, 1797), by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire des modes françaises (Chez Costard, libraire ..., 1773), by Guillaume François Roger Molé (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pleasant quippes for vpstart nevvfangled gentlevvomen. (Imprinted at London : by Richard Iohnes, 1596), contrib. by Stephen Gosson (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Selected illustrations (unique bound volume of 80 images from Diversarum Nationum Habitus and other Bertelli works, ca. 1590), by Pietro Bertelli
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• Selected illustrations (unique bound volume of 80 images from Diversarum Nationum Habitus and other Bertelli works, ca. 1590), by Pietro Bertelli
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  • page images at HathiTrust

• De re vestiaria veterum praecipue de lato clavo libri duo (Ex Officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1665), by Albert Rubens and Gio. Battista Doni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Octavii Ferrarii De re vestiaria libri septem. : Quatuor postremi nunc primum prodeunt: reliqui emendatiores & auctiores. Adiectis iconibus, quibus res tota oculis subijcitur (Typis Petri Mariae Frambotti, 1685), by Ottavio Ferrari and Albert Rubens (page images at HathiTrust)

• Apparato et feste nelle noze dello illvstrissimo signor duca di Firenze, & della duchessa Sua consorte : con le sue stanze, madriali, comedia, & intermedij, in quelle recitati. (Per Benedetto Giunta, 1539), by Pierfrancesco Giambullari and Antonio Landi (page images at HathiTrust)

• In espettazione delle Loro Altezze Reali Ferdinando III, principe reale d'Ungheria e di Boemia, arciduca d'Austria, gran duca di Toscana, e Luisa Maria di Borbone real principessa di Napoli sua consorte : feste pubbliche destinate dalla città di Siena in contrassegno della sua gioja e devozione (Dai Torchj Pazzini Carli, 1791), by Alessandro Mochetti and Tommaso Paccagnini (page images at HathiTrust)

• De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diuerse parti del mondo libri dve (Presso Damian Zenaro, 1590), by Cesare Vecellio and Cristoforo Chrieger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recueil de cent estampes representant differentes nations du Levant, gravées sur les tableaux peints d'après nature en 1707 & 1708, par les ordres de M. de Ferriol, ambassadeur du roi a la porte, et mis au jour en 1712 & 1713 par les soins de M. Le Hay. (A Paris : Chez Basan, graveur, 1714., 1714), by Jean-Baptiste Vanmour, Pierre de Rochefort, Jacques Franssières, Bernard Baron, Charles Nicolas Cochin, J. Haussard, Claude Du Bosc, Gérard Jean Baptiste Scotin, G. Scotin, Philippe Simonneau, François Basan, Jacques Le Hay, and Charles Ferriol (page images at HathiTrust)

• Thomae Bartholini De armillis vetervm schedion (Sumptibus J. Henrici Wetstenii, 1676), by Thomas Bartholin, Cornelis Gerritsz. Decker, Fortunio Liceti, Ole Worm, and Caspar Bartholin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Octavii Ferrarii De re vestiaria libri septem. : Quatuor postremi nunc primum prodeunt: reliqui emendatiores & auctiores. Adiectis iconibus, quibus res tota oculis subijcitur (Typis Petri Mariae Frambotti, 1685), by Ottavio Ferrari and Albert Rubens (page images at HathiTrust)

• A supplication directed by Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, in contemption of side-tailes, and muzzled-faces. ([Edinburgh : s.n., 1690]), by David Lindsay (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Türckischer Estaats- und Krieges- Bericht (Thomas von Wiering, 1683), by Thomas von Wiering, Melchior Lorichs, and Eberhard Werner Happel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recueil de cent estampes representant differentes nations du Levant, gravées sur les tableaux peints d'après nature en 1707 & 1708, par les ordres de M. de Ferriol, ambassadeur du roi a la porte, et mis au jour en 1712 & 1713 par les soins de M. Le Hay. (A Paris : Chez Basan, graveur, 1714., 1714), by Jean-Baptiste Vanmour, Pierre de Rochefort, Jacques Franssières, Bernard Baron, Charles Nicolas Cochin, J. Haussard, Claude Du Bosc, Gérard Jean Baptiste Scotin, G. Scotin, Philippe Simonneau, François Basan, Jacques Le Hay, and Charles Ferriol (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Duke of Norfolk's order about the habit the ladies are to be in that attend the Queen at her Coronation ([London] : Printed by Nat. Thompson ..., 1685), by Henry Howard Norfolk (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Ornatus muliebris Anglicanus, or, The severall habits of English women : from the nobilitie to the contry [sic] woman, as they are in these times, 1640 (Published by Laurie & Whittle, 1794), by Wenceslaus Hollar (page images at HathiTrust)

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