Category: Antiques & Collectibles

NOTTINGHAM'S LOST LANDMARKS ON OLD PICTURE POSTCARDS.

By: Ottewell, David.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Keyworth, Nottingham, Reflections of a Bygone Age : 1992

Seller ID: 21355

ISBN-13: 9780946245529

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

37 pp, 8 1/4" H. 'Yesterday's Nottinghamshire' series no. 17. "A postcard trip down memory lane featuring famous Nottingham buildings and statues that are no longer with us." Interior - cigarette odour, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean and bright.
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THE EARLY FURNITURE OF FRENCH CANADA.

By: Palardy, Jean.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan : 1978

Seller ID: 22848

ISBN-13: 9780770516642

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

412 pp, small 4to (10" H). The definitive work on traditional French-Canadian furniture. A valuable sourcebook of basic information on the design and workmanship of French-Canadian furniture from the 17th C. to the first half of the 19th C. Over 600 b&w photos and numerous pen and ink drawings. Interior - previous owner's bookplate on free front endpaper, bump/crease to top corner of pages - mainly at front half of book. Exterior - light edgewear - mainly on spine, minor rubbing, soiling to bottom of text block, soft creases at top corner of covers.
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THE EARLY FURNITURE OF FRENCH CANADA.

By: Palardy, Jean. Translated by Eric McLean.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada : 1971

Seller ID: 24227

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

412 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, drawings. "(P)rovides a valuable source-book of basic information on the design and workmanship of French Canadian furniture from the seventeenth to the first half of the nineteenth century. Armoires, buffets, chairs, commodes, beds and other common items are described and illustrated in detail, and the scope of the book extends to spinning-wheels, chandeliers, mantelpieces, stoves, fabrics, doors, locks and latches. Objects are not treated in isolation: the settings are brilliantly recreated, with outlines of the daily live...
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SCRAPPY. COLUMBIA PICTURES AND WINKLER FILM PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS. BIG LITTLE BOOK 1122.

By: Patterson, Pat, adapted by. (Hal Hode.)

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Racine, Wisconsin, Whitman : 1934

Seller ID: 29521

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

283 pp, 5 1/2" H. "A Charles Mintz Production." B&w drawings. Contains: Scrappy's Circus; Scrappy's Big Adventure; Scrappy and the Black Sheep (Rimes by Hal Hode). Light browning to pages, paper at inside hinges are split - hinges are holding firmly, light to moderate edge wear, browning to edges of text block, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, light rubbing and soiling - mainly on rear board.
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A-Z OF STAFFORDSHIRE DOGS: A POTTED HISTORY

By: Pope, Clive Mason

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, Antique Collectors' Club : 1999

Seller ID: 25907

ISBN-13: 9781851492589

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

168 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H). Colour photographs. "In the 18th century, artists and potters were not slow to reflect in models the interest of the time in identifying and selectively breeding individual types of dog, and continental and home-based factories started to produce realistic examples of both sporting and pampered dogs. Following Landseer's painting of 1836 of Queen Victoria's favourite dog, the King Charles Spaniel Dash, the potters of Staffordshire were not slow to seize the opportunity to turn Dash into a national icon. Pairs of spaniels were portrayed in clay in enormous quantities...
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COMMONWEALTH PRICE LIST JUNE 2001.

By: Purves Philatelics.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Tonbridge, Kent, Purves Philatelics : 2001

Seller ID: 21143

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

30 pp, 10 7/8" H. Colour photographs. Contents: Pre King George VI sets & single items; 1935 Silver Jubilee sets; Pre King George VI sale items; King George VI sets & single items; King George VI booklets; King George VI errors & varieties; King George VI Omnibus sets; King George VI sale items. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor wrinkle and small stain on rear cover.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MEDICAL EX LIBRIS LITERATURE.

By: Radbill, Samuel X., M.D.

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Hilprand Press, Los Angeles, California, 1951.

Seller ID: 6056

40 pp. text + 15 pp. plates, large 8vo, hard cover in glassine wrap. Tipped-in frontis. of Samuel X. Radbill's bookplate. "Dr. Radbill is well known as a bookplate collector, and while he has an interest in bookplates generally, his special interest is in the medical ex-libris and he is an authority in this special field. A volume such as his will be of great use to collectors, in fact another took collectors of bookplates will welcome." Light edge wear to boards, very light browning to edges of text block. Glassine is browned, worn with chips and tears and some reinforcement with tape, b...
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AN OAK SPRING POMONA: A SELECTION OF RARE BOOKS ON FRUIT IN THE OAK SPRING GARDEN LIBRARY, DESCRIBED BY SANDRA RAPHAEL.

By: Raphael, Sandra. Introduction by Rachel Lambert Mellon.

Price: $70.00 USD

Publisher: Upperville, Virginia, Oak Spring Garden Library : 1990

Seller ID: 23641

ISBN-13: 9780300049367

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

276 pp, 4to (11 1/2" H). Patterned endpapers. "(This) is the second of a series of catalogues describing selections of the rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs Paul Mellon. The 'Pomona' describes a hundred books and manuscripts about fruit, with illustrations taken from some of the most beautiful books on the subject, as well as original drawings or paintings. The earliest book described is Bussato's 'Giardino di Agricoltura' of 1592, the latest 'The Herefordshire Pomona', an encyclopaedia of apples and pears from the 1870s. In between t...
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AN OAK SPRING SYLVA: A SELECTION OF THE RARE BOOKS ON TREES IN THE OAK SPRING GARDEN LIBRARY. DESCRIBED BY SANDRA RAPHAEL.

By: Raphael, Sandra. Preface by Rachel Lambert Mellon.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Upperville, Virginia, Oak Spring Garden Library, Upperville, Virginia, 1989. : 1989

Seller ID: 23640

ISBN-13: 9780300046526

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

147 pp, 4to (11 1/2" H). Patterned endpapers. "(This) is the first of a series of catalogues describing selections of the rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. The 'Sylva', which deals with books and manuscripts on trees, will be the smallest volume of the series, describing nearly fifty books, manuscripts, or drawings, from a tiny 1555 book on oaks to early nineteenth-century advice on large-scale tree-planting, a range including both great books, like Evelyn's 'Sylva', Duhamel's 'Traite des Arbres', and Michaux's 'North Amer...
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COINS AND THE STORY THEY TELL.

By: Raymond, D.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Self-published, Sydney, Australia, n.d.

Seller ID: 10986

23 pp, large 8vo, soft cover (stapled in wraps). B&w illustrations. Contents include: Australian Pattern Nickel Pennies; The South Sea Bubble Coins; Porcelain Currency; The Ill-Fated Mary Queen of Scots; Tokens of the Traders; Peter the Great's Beard Coins; Queen Anne and Her Farthing; The Owls of Athens; The Abyssinian Talari; The Cowrie Shell as Currency; A New Type of Meixan Coin; An Ancient Roman Commemorative; "Old Grog" and His Medals, etc. Interior - pages are browning very lightly, closed tear on first page - archivally taped, otherwise clean and tight. Exterior - 1 1/2' tear at t...
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Image for UNITED STATES MARTIAL FLINTLOCKS: A COMPREHENSIVE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE FLINTLOCK IN AMERICA FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE DEMISE OF THE SYSTEM.

UNITED STATES MARTIAL FLINTLOCKS: A COMPREHENSIVE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE FLINTLOCK IN AMERICA FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE DEMISE OF THE SYSTEM.

By: Reilly, Robert M. Foreword by Norm Flayderman.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Lincoln, Rhode Island, Andrew Mowbray : 1986

Seller ID: 31094

ISBN-13: 9780917218217

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

263 pp, 12 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w drawings. "Each of the shoulder arms has been rendered in one-eighth scale, while the handguns, locks and lockplates are drawn to half their actual size - all in the clear, precise manner which has become Mr. Reilly's hallmark over the years. Among the most significant aspects of this work are those illustrations of every known marking variation of the lockplates of the flintlock era - many of which appear here for the first time. (The book) details the complete evolution of the flintlock rifle per se. The early musket contracts have also been...
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A CATALOGUE OF THE GREEK VASES IN THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY, TORONTO. 2 VOL. SET.

By: Robinson, David M. and Harcum, Cornelia G. Edited, with additions, and an Appendix of recently acquired vases by J.H. Iliffe.

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press : 1930

Seller ID: 569

Binding: Hard Covers

Condition: Very Good

2 volume set, 10 3/16" H, brick coloured cloth with gold lettering and banding on spines, gold illustration on front boards. Volume I - Texts and Drawings - 288 pp, b&w drawings. Chapter headings: Prehistorc Vases: The Bronze Age; Geometric or Dipylon Vases; Etruscan Imitations of Early Greek Vases, VII century; Peucetian and Daunian Vases, VII-V centuries; East Greek / Corinthian / Etruscan Imitations; Laconian Style; Rhodian-Milesian Vases, VII century; Etruscan-Ionic Vases, VI century; Later Cypriote Vases: Early Iron Age; Attic Orientalizing Styles, etc. c 600 B.C.; Attic Black-Figured Va...
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OLD BOOKS IN THE OLD WORLD: REMINISCENCES OF BOOK BUYING ABROAD.

By: Rostenberg, Leona & Stern, Madeleine B.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New Castle, Delaware, Oak Knoll : 1996

Seller ID: 29662

ISBN-13: 9781884718182

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

175 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs. "(A) charming account of postwar book buying abroad by the 'Holmes and Watson' of antiquarian books. After the (Second World War), Americans went abroad for European culture, food and art, but Rostenberg & Stern, the Grand Dames of the antiquarian book-selling world, went to Europe to buy old books. (This book) glows with the details of their book-buying trips abroad between 1947 and 1957. Filled with tales of steamships, cobblestone streets and dusty rare bookshops, this illustrated journal draws from original diaries and letters and contemporary recoll...
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GLASS MANUFACTURING IN CANADA: A SURVEY OF PRESSED GLASS PATTERNS. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MAN MERCURY SERIES. HISTORY DIVISION PAPER NO. 33.

By: Rottenberg, Barbara Lang. With Judith Tomlin.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, National Museums of Canada : 1982

Seller ID: 25544

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good -

77 pp, 11" H. B&w photographs. Contents: Preface; Introduction; Glass Manufacturing in Canada; Glass Companies: Ontario / Quebec / New Brunswick / Nova Scotia / Manitoba / Alberta / British Columbia; Pressed Glass Patterns in the National Museum of Man Collection; Glossary; Notes; Index to Glass Companies. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light fading to spine color, light soiling marks on rear cover, tiny tear and crease at bottom edge of front cover, minor edge wear.
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Image for EUROPEAN TAPESTRIES XV TO XVIII CENTURIES. (15th TO 18th CENTURIES.) CATALOGUE OF A LOAN EXHIBITION, DECEMBER 5th - 16th, 1945. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY.

EUROPEAN TAPESTRIES XV TO XVIII CENTURIES. (15th TO 18th CENTURIES.) CATALOGUE OF A LOAN EXHIBITION, DECEMBER 5th - 16th, 1945. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY.

By: Royal Ontario Museum.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Royal Ontario Musuem, Toronto, 1945.

Seller ID: 19461

29 pp, 9 3/4" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). B&w illustrations. The catalogue of an exhibition. Contents: Foreword; European Tapestries; Tapestries of the XV and XVI Centuries; Transitional Period of Tapestry Design, XVI and XVII Centuries; F lemish. XVII and XVIII Centuries; France. The Gobelin Factory; France. The Beauvais Factory; France. The Aubusson Factory; England. Sheldon and Mortlake Factories; Spain. Santa Barbara Factory. Interior - light rusting to staples, otherwi s e clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, tiny faint mark on ...
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WURLITZER AUTOMATIC PHONOGRAPH. PARTS CATALOG FOR MODELS 24 AND 24-A.

By: Rudolph Wurlitzer Company.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: North Tonawanda, Rudolph Wurlitzer Company : 1938

Seller ID: 24350

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good

48 pp, 11" H. B&w drawings, diagrams. Parts catalog for two Wurlitzer models. Includes drawings of parts and diagrams of sound systems and microphone & speaker installation. Interior - moderate browning, pages 28 & 29 are reversed, some pages with water mark at top corner, two pages with small ink notation. Exterior - rubbing and soiling on rear cover, edges of text block are browned.
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WURLITZER AUTOMATIC PHONOGRAPH. PARTS CATALOG FOR MODELS P-500, G-500, P-500-A, G-500-A, 600 AND 600-A.

By: Rudolph Wurlitzer Company.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: North Tonawanda, Rudolph Wurlitzer Company : 1938

Seller ID: 24351

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good+

104 pp, 11" H. B&w drawings, diagrams. Parts catalog for six Wurlitzer models. Includes drawings of parts and diagrams of sound systems and microphone & speaker installation. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - small area of ink notation and two small foxing marks on front cover, small soiling marks and two tiny dints on rear cover, one small corner crease, two small holes punched through book for file holder, browning and soiling on edges of text block.
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MILLER'S COLLECTING PORCELAIN.

By: Sandon, John.

Price: $27.50 USD

Publisher: London, Miller's : 2002

Seller ID: 9502

ISBN-13: 9781840006131

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

160 pp, small 4to (10 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated in color. "A comprehensive introduction to the invention of porcelain and how it is manufactured is provided, including the factory processes involved in making the items, as well a details of what to look for and where to find it. Over 320 full-color photographs illustrate the diversity of porcelain available, with feature tint-boxes on useful collecting information and advice. Fakes and reproductions are uncovered and helpful tips are given on how to care for and display your procelain collection." Very minor rubbing to dust jacket.
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THE FURNITURE OF OLD ONTARIO.

By: Shackleton, Philip. Signed.

Price: $85.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada : 1973

Seller ID: 24702

ISBN-13: 9780770510466

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

399 pp, 4to (12 1/4" H), printed by the Hunter Rose Company on Rolland Primacote Dull and bound in Columbia Bolton buckram, in plain green cloth-covered slipcase. Number 233 of a limited edition of 250 copies, signed by the author on the limitation page. 600 illustrations, including 12 colour plates. "This superb, fully illustrated volume provides an authoritative guide to some of the most interesting furniture made in Ontario from the beginnings of settlement to 1860. Each (of the nearly 600 items) is fully described with careful attention to the woods used, original finish, and outstanding d...
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HOCKSHOP. (THE FABULOUS STORY OF THE "EMPERORS OF PAWNBROKING".)

By: Simpson, William R; Simpson, Florence K.; Samuels, Charles.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1954

Seller ID: 20291

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

311 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H). B&w plates. "This anecdotal profile tells the story of the fabulous 'Emperors of Pawnbroking' - the William (Hockshop) Simpsons who for five generations maintained the oldest, best-known and most respected pawnshop in the United States. This bizarre family business began in 1822 when the first William Simpson came from England and set up New York's first hockshop. From the era of O. Henry to that of Damon Runyon, the Simpsons did business with gypsies, morticians, gamblers, actors, sportsmen and thousands of others who came to their store to solve unique personal proble...
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