Antiques & Collectibles

Crow, Nancy. Quilts and Influences. Foreword by Jean Robertson. Photographs by Carol Bobo, Nancy Crow, Jean Alexander Greenwald, and Kevin Fitzsimons. Paducah, Kentucky: American Quilter's Society, 1990. 2d edition. 4to (large book). xi, 256 pages. Color and black-and-white plates and photographs. Endpaper photographs. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. ISBN 0891459448. #25778. $30
Click here to email a question or place an order ~ Ordering Information ~ back to top

Domenech (Galissa), Rafael, and Luis Perez Bueno. Antique Spanish Furniture. Muebles Antiguos Espanoles. Translated from the Spanish by Grace Hardendorff Burr. New York: Archive Press, 1965. 1st English edition. Bilingual edition / Edicion Bilingue. 4to (large book). 142 pages. Plates. 77 plates with 50 pages of explanatory text in English and Spanish on facing pages. Text in English and Spanish. Very good hardcover and dust jacket in library acetate cover. Exlibrary: Spine labels, stamps on bottom edge, front flyleaf, Contents page, and inside rear cover; rear free endpaper removed. #24704. $22.50
Click here to email a question or place an order ~ Ordering Information ~ back to top

Eastlake, Charles L. Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and Other Details. London: Longman, Green, 1878. 4th Edition, Revised. xiv, 304 pages. Index. Illustrations. Frontispiece. Poor decorative hardcover; exlibrary, with spine label, bookplate inside front cover, pocket inside rear cover; front and rear coves almost detached. #27514. $65
Click here to email a question or place an order ~ Ordering Information ~ back to top

Good, Richard. Clocks: An Owner's Handbook. London: British Museum Publications, 1985. Small 4to (medium-large book). 224 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Frontispiece. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0714105392. #26772. $30
Click here to email a question or place an order ~ Ordering Information ~ back to top

Harvard University, School of Architecture, Robinson Hall. Committee of Graduates. Catalogue of Furniture, Silver, Pewter, Glass, Ceramics, Paintings, Prints, Together with Allied Arts and Crafts of the Period 1636-1836. Acknowledgments by Charles H. Watkins. Foreword by Edward W. Forbes. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University, 1936. Small 4to (medium-large book). ix, 114 pages, 70 plates. Harvard Tercentenary Exhibition. Good hardcover, top and bottom of spine slightly frayed, front and rear covers slightly discolored and worn along spine. Former owner's bookplate on blank front flyleaf. #25328. $20
Click here to email a question or place an order ~ Ordering Information ~ back to top

Hayward, Arthur H. Colonial Lighting. Boston: B. J. Brimmer Co., 1923. Special Edition, copy #156 of 206. xxv, 159 pages. Index. 114 photographic plates. Signed by the author. The special edition, printed on deckle-edged antique Normandy vellum, not bound in French Levant, but in dark blue cloth. 'This book should be considered in the light of a primer - the ABC of lamp collecting.' - Introduction. Very good hardcover. Gilt title and illustration on front cover. Gilt title and publisher information on spine faded; pictorial title page foxed. #27449. $60
Click here to email a question or place an order ~ Ordering Information ~ back to top

Hopkins, Albert A. The Lure of the Lock. A Short Treatise on Locks to Elucidate the John M. Mossman Collection of Locks in the Museum of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen in the City of New York, Including Some of the 'Mossman Papers'. New York: The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, 1954. Reprinted. 246 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. First published in 1928. Very good hardcover. #26788. $40
Click here to email a question or place an order ~ Ordering Information ~ back to top

Huth, Hans. Lacquer of the West: The History of a Craft and an Industry, 1550-1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971. 4to (large book). x, 158 pages of text, plus 200 pages with 364 plates. Index. Bibliography. Color and black-and-white illustrations. Includes chapters on 17th and 18th century lacquers, lacquer in England and the North American Colonies, and Italian, German, French, Netherlands, Scandinavian, and Russian lacquers. Very good hardcover and dust jacket in library acetate cover. Exlibrary: Spine labels, stamps on top and bottom edges, dedication page; barcode label and pocket on rear flyleaf. ISBN 0226363155. #24409. $40
Click here to email a question or place an order ~ Ordering Information ~ back to top

Keuffel & Esser Co. K+E Measuring Tapes, Folding Rules & Plumb Bobs. New York: Keuffel & Esser Co., 1944. 57 pages. Illustrations. Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover), some dampwrinkling throughout. #27589. $30
Click here to email a question or place an order ~ Ordering Information ~ back to top

Klever, Katrin und Ulrich. Exotischer Schmuck: Volksschmuck, Amulette und Talismane. Techniken und Werkzeuge. Sammler, Handler und fremde Markte. Wie man alten Schmuck erkennt. Munchen: Mosaik Verlag, 1977. 1st printing. 4to (large book). 144 pages. Bibliography color and black-and-white plates. Endpaper maps. Text in German. Very good hardcover in worn, torn and repaired dust jacket. ISBN 3570028291. #25693. $40
Click here to email a question or place an order ~ Ordering Information ~ back to top

McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. McCormick Triumphant, 1831-1896. McCormick Harvesting Machines. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Sterngas Publishing Co., 1985. Facsimile reprint with facsimile copy of original chromolithographic front and rear covers. Oblong Small 4to. 40 pages. Illustrations. Originally published: Chicago, January 1, 1896. A trade catalog. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #26442. $30
Click here to email a question or place an order ~ Ordering Information ~ back to top

Prokot, Inge, und Joachim Prokot. Schmuck aus Zentralasien. Munchen: Callwey Verlag, 1981. Small 4to (medium-large book). 156 pages (40 pages of text and 116 pages of color and black-and-white plates). Index. Bibliography. Plates. Maps. A book about Central Asian jewelry and personal adornment. Includes chapters on Frauenschmuck der Turkmenen, Schmuck der Tekke, der Ersari, der Yomud, der Kasachen und Tadschiken, und der Karakalpaken. Text in German. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. ISBN 3766705881. #26339. $60
Click here to email a question or place an order ~ Ordering Information ~ back to top

Richter, Lydia. Puppen Album 1: Deutsche Porzellanpuppen. [Doll Album 1: German Porcelain Dolls]. Munchen: Laterna Magica, 1980. 1st printing. 160 pages. Index. Color and black-and-white illustrations. Text in German. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 3874671860. #22222. $60
Click here to email a question or place an order ~ Ordering Information ~ back to top

Rubin, Ken & Fran. Drop Coin Here. New York: Crown Publishers, 1979. 4to (large book). 96 pages. Index. Color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Signed by the author. Chapters on gambling trade stimulators, vending machines, and arcade and pinball machines. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. ISBN 0517532980. #26374. $90
Click here to email a question or place an order ~ Ordering Information ~ back to top

Wesselman, Linda J., and Martha D. Hamilton, text. Earliest Recollections: Furnishings from the Family of Edwin B. Sears. May 26, 1983 through July 31, 1984. Edited by Penny J. Sander. Acknowledgments by Brock Jobe. Boston, Massachusetts: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1984. 59 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Includes 'My First Meeting with Mr. William Sumner Appleton,' by Edwin B. Sears, pages 9-12. An exhibition catalog. Very good hardcover. Former owner's bookplate on front flyleaf. #25344. $60
Click here to email a question or place an order ~ Ordering Information ~ back to top

Youngman, Henny. Henny Youngman's Bar Bets, Bar Jokes, Bar Tricks. Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1974. 1st edition. 127 pages. Illustrations. Dated, inscribed and signed by the author. Very good hardcover in frayed, chipped and slightly torn dust jacket. ISBN 0806504048. #27256. $20
Click here to email a question or place an order ~ Ordering Information ~ back to top