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ARMS AND ARMOR IN COLONIAL AMERICA 1526-1783.
Edition: First printing
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1956. Quarto, black cloth. (xiv), 350, (4) pp. Numerous photos and illustrations in text. Partially inked out ink inscription to front free endpaper, very light soiling to page edges, else fine. Jacket is worn - chips, tears, internal tape repairs. The book has the printed endorsement of The Company of Military Collectors & Historians. 2 kg
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 8557More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
ASPREY & Co (trade catalogue, mail order dept.)
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51017More details Price: USD $495.00 USD $445.50 -
BRITISH CLOCKS AND CLOCKMAKERS
London: Collins, 1947. Brown boards. pp 48. Illustrations in colour and black and white. VG clean and unworn copy. Dust jacket has nicks, slight rubbing, VG generally. A volume in the excellent Britain in Pictures series. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44950More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
CANADIAN GLASS 1825-1925
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Ryerson, 1967. Pinkish cloth. pp xiv, 262. Colour frontispiece and one other colour plate, b&w illustrations throughout, glossary. Blind stamped owner name on front free endpaper, else fine. Dust jacket is loose fitting at the flap folds, mild use, VG otherwise. Stevens discusses the glass factories province by province, giving details of their dates, owners, personnel, trademarks, specimens, and techniques. Antique glass for the collector.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44245More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
CHINA PAINTING. With Sixteen Original Coloured Plates. Second Edition
London: Cassell, 1884. Second edition (first was in 1883). Oblong format, 19 x 25 cm, original olive cloth stamped in red. 52 pp + 16 tipped in chromolithographed plates; a few b&w illustrations in the General Introduction. Lacking the front free endpaper; private owner rubber stamp on half-title and rear free endpaper; slight foxing to margins of plate leaves and adjacent leaves, but no foxing nor creasing to the plates; old small paper label in corner of rear cover; else a VG+ clean, tight and unworn copy. An instructional book for hand-painting on china ceramics, including various stages in the process.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 40735More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
EARLY CANADIAN GLASS. With a Foreword by Lorne Pierce.
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Ryerson, 1961. Squarish octavo, red cloth. xxii, 184, [2] pp. Numerous photos in text. VG in VG jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45531More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
Early Canadian Timekeepers
Edition: First printing
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50494More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
FAKES
New York: Dover, 1967. Second edition, revised and enlarged (first was in 1948). pp 348 + ads. 142 illustrations in text. Covers creased, slight rubbing to spine folds, good clean copy otherwise. Covers archaeological materials, paintings, prints, glass, metal work, ceramics, furniture, and tapestries. Authoritative and a good read.
Condition: Binding: Trade Paperback
Book ID: 45263More details Price: USD $8.95 USD $8.06 -
FROM BROAD-GLASS TO CUT CRYSTAL: a history of the Stourbridge glass industry
Edition: First printing
Condition: Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 39766More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
GLASS IN CANADA: the first one hundred years
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Methuen, 1982. pp (6), 282. Photos, many in colour, index. Black cloth. Very nearly fine. Jackety has tears, mild rubbing, VG otherwise. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required. Size: Oblong quarto.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45279More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
HEPPLEWHITE FURNITURE DESIGNS from the Cabinet-Maker and Upholster's Guide 1794. With a preface by Ralph Edwards, F.S.A.
Alec Tiranti: London, 1965. Black cloth. pp [2], (81). 80 reproductions from the 18th century original. Bookplate and shop sticker at front, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has been laminated, VG otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44945More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
High Victorian Design / Le Style de Al Grande Epoque Victorienne
Ottawa: Natlional Gallery of Canada, 1974. A Travelling Exhibition Organized by the Victoria & Albert Museum for the National Programme of the National Gallery of Canada Ottawa, 1974-1975. Une Exposition Itinerante Organisee Par le Victoria & Albert Museum Pour le Programme National de la Galerie Nationale Du Canada Ottawa, 1974-1975 Blue cloth. pp xi, 300. Black & white illustrations. Index. Small damp spot to front cover, foxing to page edges, near fine otherwise in VG jacket. 3.5 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51984More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
LALIQUE PAR LALIQUE
Edition: First edition
Lausanne, Switzerland: Edipop, 1977. Tall quarto, brown cloth. pp (310). Colour reproductions throughout. Fine copy. Dust jacket has one short tear, else fine. Text in English and French. Art Nouveau glass and jewelry. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41992More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
MASON JAR CENTENNIAL 1858-1958
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45310More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
NINETEENTH-CENTURY POTTERY AND PORCELAIN IN CANADA
Edition: First edition.
Montreal: McGill University Press, 1967. Quarto, mauve cloth. pp [2], xx, 441, b&w photos in text, indexed. Cloth a little frayed at spine tips; ink name on front free endpaper; else a VG clean & tight copy, no marks in text. Mauve dust jacket is tanned at spine. flap folds, and margins; short edge tears, VG otherwise.The first book to set pottery and porcelain in Canada in their historical context and the first detailed study of British ceramic wares in a colonial market. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 24457More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00 -
NOVA SCOTIA GLASS
Halifax, N.S: Nova Scotia Museum, 1968. Second edition, revised. pp 42, [2]. Many illustrations. Covers a bit faded, with light soiling, corner creases, VG otherwise. Antique glassware manufactured in Nova Scotia. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45252More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
Ontario Fraktur: A Pennsylvania-German Folk Tradition in Early Canada
Edition: First edition.
Toronto: M.F. Fehely, 1977. Oblong octavo, black cloth, red endpapers. 144 pp, numerous illustrations in colour and b&w, indexed. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has some rubbing, generally VG otherwise. "This is the first serious study done in Canada of Fraktur, a rich tradition of folk art having its beginnings in Medieval Erope and brought to North America by Germanic settlers fleeing religious persecution... Michael Bird examines in detail the majhor teaching groups who practiced at that time and discusses the tradition as it appears in the three founding Mennonite communities in Southern Ontario - the Niagara Peninsula, Markham Township and Waterloo County." - jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 25199More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
PORCELAIN, Its Nature, Art and Manufacture.
London: Batsford, no date [1906]. Blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. viii, 264 pp + 50 black & white plates. Covers have some rubbing; short tears to head of spine; bookplate to front pastedown, blind-stamped ownership to front free endpaper; tanning to the endpapers; a good, clean & sound copy otherwise. The majority of the book is on Chinese and Japanese porcelain.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 16032More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
Roycroft collectibles: Including collector items related to Elbert Hubbard, founder of the Roycroft shops
Edition: First printing
San Diego and New York: A. S. Barnes, 1980. Brown cloth. pp 128 + plates (some in colour). Small sticker shadow inside front cover, light yellowing to page edges, else fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52544More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
Silversmiths and Related Craftsmen of the Atlantic Provinces
Edition: First edition.
Halifax, N.S: Petheric Press, 1973. Paper issue. Quarto. pp vi,133. Photos and plus extensive legend reproducing maker's marks from 1776 to 1900. A little leaned, else a VG clean and tight copy, no owner names.
Condition: Binding: Softcover.
Book ID: 21841More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50