![Item #60974] Confederate Edged Weapons. William A. ALBAUGH, Carl Pugliese, III](/pictures/medium/60974.jpg?v=1677800646)
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1960. First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Maroon and blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xxiv,198pp; illus. Clean, tight, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, clipped on front flap but with original $7.95 price still present; lightly worn with small chip at base of spine, Very Good..... More
![Item #43569] Badges of Imperial Russia: Military, Civil, Religious. Serge ANDOLENKO, ed. Robert...](/pictures/medium/43569.jpg?v=1641872425)
Washington DC: Quaker Press, 1983. Second Printing. Quarto (28.5cm x 22.5cm). Black leather boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on cover and spine; 216pp; illus. Very Good copy; slightly bumped corners; slight soiling to top cover, else tight. Catalogue of military, civil, and religious badges of Imperial Russia. 765..... More
![Item #47540] The Garden at Chatsworth. Deborah CAVENDISH, Gary Rogers, Duchess of Devonshire, photog](/pictures/medium/47540.jpg?v=1641872512)
New York: Viking Studio, 2000. First American Edition. Quarto (27.5cm); green cloth, stamped in gilt, in color pictorial dustwrapper, with illustrated endpapers depicting a map of the grounds; 8-192pp. Dustwrapper has light surface wear; minor bumps to heel/crown of spine; evidence of damping at spine (visible verso only); inner panel..... More
![Item #46618] Antiques of Perry County, PA. Roy CHANDLER, reeman](/pictures/medium/46618.jpg?v=1641872490)
Deer Lake, PA: Bacon and Freeman, 1975. First, Limited Edition. Number 433 out of 800. Quarto (28cm); black paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt; 200pp. Boards rubbed and scuffed; crown of spine bumped; interiors foxed on pastedowns, endpapers, and along textblock edges. Very Good. Described as the sixth in Chandler's (proposed)..... More
![Item #53694] Thomas Chippendale: a Study of His Life, Work, and Influence. CHIPPENDALE, Oliver...](/pictures/medium/53694.jpg?v=1641872753)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Publisher's green cloth-coverd boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 281pp including 52 leaves of plates at end of text; another 8 inserted leaves of plates are present but not included in pagination. Mild to moderate surface soil to covers..... More
![Item #56089] The Pottery of the Shenandoah Valley Region. H. E. COMSTOCK](/pictures/medium/56089.jpg?v=1641872911)
Winston-Salem: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA), 1994. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (29cm). Blue cloth-covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 538pp; illus. Fine and unmarked in a bright, Near Fine dustwrapper - a nearly new-appearing copy. The authoritative work on the subject, extensively researched and illustrated; now out of print..... More
![Item #47100] On Chinese Gardens / Shuo Yuan (Text in English and Chinese). Chen CONGZHOU](/pictures/medium/47100.jpg?v=1641872501)
Shanghai: Tongji University Press, n.d. [1984]. First Edition. Quarto (26cm); plain paper wrappers in color pictorial dustwrapper; 59pp+106pp+[32 plates], English version bound dos-a-dos with Chinese version, with 32 illustrated plates between. General handling wear, with bumping and rubbing about spine hinges; wrapper toned in patches (English side), edges slightly rolled..... More
![Item #42176] The Art of Ceramics: European Ceramic Design 1500-1830. Howard COUTTS](/pictures/medium/42176.jpg?v=1641872402)
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. First Edition. Quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 256pp; illus. Hint of soil-darkening to bottom board edges, else Fine in a barely edge-rubbed dustwrapper, Near Fine. Excellent scholarly monograph on the history of European pottery manufacture and decoration. More
![Item #56909] Mexican Native Arts & Crafts. Luis COVARRUBIAS](/pictures/medium/56909.jpg?v=1643589961)
Mexico City: Eugenio Fischgrund, [n.d.]. Large octavo (26cm). Stampled pamphlet in white pictorial card wrappers; unpaginated; 14 color plates. Slight edgewear, else Near Fine. More
![Item #53957] Early Lancashire Horological Tools and Their Makers. Theodore R. CROM](/pictures/medium/53957.jpg?v=1641872768)
Hawthorne, FL: Theodore Crom, 1994. First Edition. Quarto. Publisher's brown buckram, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; xi,275pp; illus. Includes bibliography. A fine, apparently unopened copy, As-New. Issued without dustwrapper. More
![Item #38689] Keramos. An Annual of the Pottery Industries of Central-Europe. DECORATIVE ARTS -...](/pictures/medium/38689.jpg?v=1641872362)
Bamberg: Keramos-Verlag A.G., 1925. Second edition (i.e., year). Quarto. Pictorial wrappers; 82pp; illus. Old tape reinforcement to spine; covers soiled; contents complete and fresh, about Very Good. Scarce annual of the German and Bavarian pottery industries. Text in English. Profusely illustrated with photographic plates. Rare; Staatsbibliothek Bamberg only in OCLC..... More
![Item #46364] The American Clock: A Comprehensive Pictorial Survey 1723-1900 With a Listing of...](/pictures/medium/46364.jpg?v=1641872485)
New York: Dutton, 1976. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (29cm.); gilt-stamped, red publisher's cloth-backed boards in yellow pictorial dustwrapper; 359pp. Textblock foxed along edges and intermittently along page margins. Marked in ink on front pastedown. Gift inscription on front free endpaper (verso). Overall light handling wear, but sound; Very Good..... More
![Item #48138] Catalogue des Monnaies Turcomanes: Beni Ortok, Beni Zengui, Frou Atabeqyéh, et...](/pictures/medium/48138.jpg?v=1641872530)
Bologna: Arnaldo Forni Editore, [1965]. Facsimile Edition. Octavo (ca. 22cm.); publisher's light blue printed card wrappers; xvii,[3],175pp. & [7]ll. photographic plates. Some general shelf wear, wrappers lightly dampspotted, spine cracked, else Very Good, internally fine. Facsimile reprint of the original (1894) edition, issued by the Musée Impérial Ottoman, Section des..... More
![Item #51006] The Stitches of Creative Embroidery. Jacqueline ENTHOVEN](/pictures/medium/51006.jpg?v=1641872621)
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1964. Fourth Printing. Illustrated in b&w with instructional diagrams of embroidery stitches and photographic examples. Two inserted leaves of colorplates. Small Quarto. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 212pp. Trivial toning to margins of textblock, mild bumping to boards, one to top and one to bottom..... More
![Item #56343] Hints on Dress; or, What to Wear, When to Wear It, and How to Buy It [Putnam's Hand...](/pictures/medium/56343.jpg?v=1641872926)
New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1872. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Light brown publisher's cloth series binding, stamped in black and gilt; endpapers printed with publisher's ads; iv,107, [11]pp; 10pp of ads at rear. With gift inscription to Miss Rosella Stevens from her teacher Jas. A. Foshay, with chromolithograph..... More
![Item #51497] Silversmiths of Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1730-1850. Vivian S. GERSTELL](/pictures/medium/51497.jpg?v=1641872636)
Lancaster: Lancaster County Historical Society, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Gray cloth, lettered in silver on spine and front cover; 145pp; illus. Fine, apparently unread copy, free of markings or wear; appears new. Standard reference on early Pennsylvania silver. More
![Item #47286] Waterford: An Irish Art [Inscribed and Signed]. Ida GREHAN](/pictures/medium/47286.jpg?v=1641872506)
Huntington, NY: Robert Campbell Rowe Book / Portfolio Press, [1981]. First Edition. Folio (35cm.); publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 256pp.; color photographic illus. throughout. Jacket extremities quite chipped and rubbed with a few tiny losses and short closed tears, brief tape repair to verso, a hint of soil to..... More
![Item #47467] A History of Gardens and Gardening. Edward HYAMS](/pictures/medium/47467.jpg?v=1641872510)
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. First Edition. Heavy quarto (28.5cm); olive green pictorial cloth, stamped in foil, in white, green, and magenta pictorial dustwrapper; in grey cardboard slipcover; ix, 345pp, 33 colorplates. Text and dustwrapper toned and foxed throughout; soiling, minor edge rolling and creasing to dustwrapper, with bumps and..... More
![Item #57615] Pearls: A Natural History. Neil H. LANDMAN, Paula M. Mikkelsen, Rüdiger Bieler,...](/pictures/medium/57615.jpg?v=1647301629)
New York: Harry N. Abrams; American Museum of Natural History; Field Museum, 2001. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (29cm). Publisher's blue cloth, with pictorial dust jacket; 232pp; color illus. Bookplate of James Glen Mead. A clean, fresh copy: Near Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed at edges, with handwritten price sticker to..... More
![Item #58006] Company Curiosities: Nature, Culture, and the East India Company, 1600-1874. Arthur...](/pictures/medium/58006.jpg?v=1651437969)
London: Reaktion Books, 2018. First Edition. Quarto (26cm). Orange paper-covered boards, titled in blue, with black dust jacket; 397pp; color illus. throughout. A straight copy, lightly bumped at corners, very gently cocked, but clean: Very Good. Jacket lightly rubbed at edges, with tiny puncture to spine: Very Good. An overview..... More
![Item #51029] Steuben Glass: An American Tradition in Crystal. Mary Jean MADIGAN](/pictures/medium/51029.jpg?v=1641872622)
New York: Abrams, 2003. Revised Edition. Quarto. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 384pp. Trivial spotting to foredge of textblock, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Faint paint marks to rear cover and foredges of jacket, showing trivial external wear. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. More
![Item #55212] The Record of the International Exhibition 1862. Robert MALLET](/pictures/medium/55212.jpg?v=1641872844)
Glasgow: William MacKenzie, [1863]. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28.5cm). In full leather, blind-stamped with Prince Albert and shields of participating nations on boards, and symbols of the exhibition contents (plow, mining equipment, exhibition hall) on spine, titled in gold on spine, all edges marbled; blue and red marbled endpapers;..... More
![Item #61328] Candleday Art. Marion Nicholl RAWSON](/pictures/medium/61328.jpg?v=1679012200)
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1938. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Red buckram stamped in gilt, dark topstain, in blue, red, and white jacket; blue and red pictorial endpapers; 383,[1]pp; black and white illustrations by the author. Bookseller's ticket of Hyman's Book Store, Des Moines, to rear pastedown..... More
![Item #46238] An Illustrated Guide to Lace. Emily REIGATE](/pictures/medium/46238.jpg?v=1641872482)
Woodbridge, Suffolk (UK): Antique Collectors Club, 1986. Reprint. Quarto (28cm.); olive green publisher's cloth boards with gilt lettering and pictorial dust jacket; 262pp. Text block has light soiling and toning about the edges, otherwise crisp and sound in binding; Fine. Dust jacket has slight shelf wear, rolling along edges; yellowing..... More
![Item #56451] Old Time Wall Papers: An Account of the Pictorial Papers on Our Forefathers' Walls,...](/pictures/medium/56451.jpg?v=1641872930)
Greenwich, CT: The Literary Collector Press, 1905. First Edition. One of 975 copies printed on American plate paper; this copy unnumbered. Quarto (30cm). Original brown paper over boards, with white paper labels printed in red and black to spine and front; beige endpapers printed in black with pattern of small..... More
