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Chapter 1 From Earliest Times Through Byzantine 14
Stone Age
Nile Valley
Prehistoric Egypt
Ancient Egypt
Near Eastern Peoples
Hebrews
Mesopotamian Valley
Asia Minor
Assyrians
Ancient Persians
Cretan Civilization
Scythians
Greeks
Parthians
Romans
Goths
Byzantium or Constantinople
The Orient
7 Plates
1 through 7
Chapter 2 Medieval Europe 46
Mantles, gowns, petticoats, blankets, bonnets and mittens of fur or fur-lined
List of Frankish furs
The pelisse
Charlemagne and his lambskin coat
Ermine called "Armenian rat"
Spotted ermine for royalty
Vair or miniver
Clergy and peasant
Crusaders bring furs back from the East
Circular Gothic cope
Hattes of bever in the eleventh and twelfth centuries
Felting
Use of furs in heraldry
Sumptuary ruling on miniver and ermine
Marco Polo and the Tatars
Russia
The surcoat and the gambeson
Furs as heirlooms
Origin of livery
Parti-colored costumes
The houppelande
Extravagant use of fur
Sumptuary decrees
Fur gloves
24 Plates
8 through 31
Chapter 3 Renaissant Europe 76
Rise of rich merchants
Fabrics and furs
Beaver hats
Imported furs
Braided fur greatcoats of Western Europe
The "goller"
Spanish cotte
The muff and "muff dog"
Henry VIII
The miniver cap
Fur tippet
Russian fur gifts to Elizabeth
Furred nightgown
Leather corset
Turkish caftan
The Janizaries
China
Lapland
Scarcity of peltries
New World furs
The Incas
Ilamas
23 Plates
32 through 54
Chapter 4 The Seventeenth Century 100
Note on the Vikings
Columbus
The French on the St. Lawrence
Rat musqué
Trading posts
Captain John Smith
Henry Hudson
Dutch West India Company
Hudson's Bay Company
American beaver
The Cavalier hat
Beaver pelts as currency
The buffcoat
Leather costumes
Bison or buffalo
The muff or "indispensable"
Muffetees the palatine
Fur neckpiece
The Dutch sacque
Furred petticoat
Fur cap
"pelzkappe" of the Teutonic countries
The French hood
The red ryding hood
Kalpac
Bearskin bonnet
Roquelaure or rocolo
Hongreline
Armenian robe
Notes of a French master furrier
15 Plates 55 through 69
Chapter 5 The Eighteenth Century 101
American trading posts
Northwest Fur Company
Discovery of the Columbia River
Astoria
John Jacob Astor
List of furs
Colonial hatters
The French hood
The muff
Fur trimming
Feminine greatcoat
The mante
Redingote
Spencer
Masculine fur-lined greatcoat
Hussar jacket
Bearskin busby
Catherine of Russia and Voltaire
The banyan robe of honor
Napoléon's coronation robe
A fur shop in New York
American Indians and furs
12 Plates
70 through 81
Chapter 6 The Nineteenth Century 154
Astrakan
Sable
Monkey fur
The Empire pelisse or witzchoura
Fur-lined gowns
The talma
Pelerines
"snake charmer"
Fur boa
The muff
Fur on boots and bonnets
Men's fur-lined overcoats
Silk plush
The pardessus
"turkey back" jacket
Mantles of the 1860's
Mantua maker
Sealskin and astrakan sacque
Otter
Tiny muffs
Fur accessories
Mountain goat
Chinchilla
The buffalo robe
31 Plates
82 through 112
Chapter 7 The Twentieth Century 220
A great fur period
Fur generally worn to the outside
Chinchilla ponyskin
The pillow muff
Poiret
Men's fur-lined overcoats
The raccoon coat
Fur coat for the miss
Sheared raccoon
Neckpieces and stoles
Krimmer mink summer furs
Dyed fur ensembles of coney rat fur
The feminine fur collared cloth coat
Decline of the muff
"honey-beige"
New light weight dressing of pelts
Silver fox
Furred tweed masculine overcoat
World War II
Furred utility jacket
Fur fibers in weaving
Summer furs
Sable
Mink
"mink-processed"
Pelts white furs
Colored furs
Hair seal
One sleeved stoles
Fur sweaters
"moustache," a new fur
For 1950, 106
Different modish furs
58 Plates 113 through 170
Chapter 8
Fur Manufacture 221
Glossary of Furs 233
Bibliography 255
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