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  • BARBEAU, Marius
    "All Hands Aboard Scrimshawing"

    Salem, MA: Peabody Museum, 1966. Tall octavo, pp 26, stapled, in yellow card covers. Numerous photos in text. Soft creases, VG clean copy otherwise. An article previously published in "The American Neptune" for April, 1952. As the title suggests, a pamphlet about scrimshaw.

    Book ID: 42089
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  • CHINA PAINTING. With Sixteen Original Coloured Plates. Second Edition by LEWIS, Florence
    LEWIS, Florence
    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.

    Book ID: 40735
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  • SAWYER, (George A.)
    FRET- SAWING AND WOOD-CARVING FOR AMATEURS. Illustrated from Original Drawings by the Author

    Boston: Lee and Sheapard, 1875. Squarish octavo. Original red decorated cloth stamped in gilt on front cover. brown endpapers. [2], 63, [1, blank], [7, illustrated ads], [3, blank] pp + 7 plates; 15 figures in text, title page printed in red & black. Partially cracked inner hinges neatly repaired; lightly sunned spine has slight rubbing at tips and joints; else a VG clean and tight copy, no owner names. A scarce book, aimed at younger readers.

    Book ID: 25300
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  • RODIER, Paul
    THE ROMANCE OF FRENCH WEAVING. With two illustrations in colour and ninety-nine in black-and-white

    New York: Tudor Publishing Co, 1936. "New edition". Green pictorial cloth stamped in red, yellow, and gilt. pp (xviii), 356 + plates. Index. Spine la bit darkened, with light spots. page edges yellowed; mild fraying to spine ends; else a VG clean, tight & unworn jacketless copy, no owner names. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required. ; Thick octavo

    Book ID: 44793
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