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Hair & Beauty.- Nicolaï (Christoph Friedrich) Recherches Historiques sur l'Usage des Cheveux Postiches et des Perruques, first edition in French, half-title (frayed and reinforced at inner margin), engraved title with vignette, errata leaf, 2 large folding engraved plates with 65 figures, foxed, modern morocco-backed pink marbled boards, uncut, [Colas 2199], Paris, L.Collin, [1809] § Sawer (J.Ch.) Odorographia, a Natural History of Raw Materials and Drugs used in the Perfume Industry, First Series only (of 2, Second Series published in 1894), first edition, folding map of Bulgarian rose-farming district, illustrations, title browned,1892 § Bennett (H.) The Cosmetic Formulary: How to make Cosmetics, Perfumes, Soaps and allied products, first edition, 1937 § Spon (Ernest) Workshop Receipts, the last two original cloth, slightly rubbed at edges; and 11 others, 8vo (6)

⁂ Nicolaï was a bookseller in Berlin, a member of the Academy of Sciences of Prussia, and a friend of Lessing. His essay on wigs was intended as a critique of human vanity and its follies.

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