ANTIQUES and COLLECTABLES
ARMSTRONG, JOE C.W: From Sea to Sea. Art & Discovery
Maps of Canada.
Ontario: Fleet, 1982.
Reproductions of 38 maps with descriptive text, largely in colour.
Folio, original laminated coloured pictorial wrappers; very
good.
Quote Item No. 4256
Price: £10.00
BARKER, RICHARD & SMITH, LAWRENCE: Netsuke, the Miniature
Sculpture of Japan.
London: British Museum, 1976.
First edition. Profusely illustrated in colour and black &
white. Large 8vo, pp.184, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding
very good; dustwrapper price-clipped, spine slightly faded, else
good; internally, excellent.
Quote Item No. 4276
Price: £10.00
BHUSHAN, JAMILA BRIJ: Indian Jewellery, Ornaments and Decorative
Designs.
Bombay: D.B.
Taraporevala Sons & Co., no date [ca. 1950's].
With 3 colour plates depicting 10 designs, 471 line drawings and
over 360 half-tone illustrations.
Folio, pp.xviii:168:plates, original cloth-backed boards in
dustwrapper; binding
corners and headbands bumped, cloth at lower headband frayed, and a
worm-hole to back cover;
dustwrapper with a number of short creased tears (small amount of
loss) to outer edges;
internally page edges browned, ink inscription on front
free-endpaper, else generally good.
Quote Item No. 9907
Price: £40.00
BIRCH,
WALTER DE GRAY: Seals. With autograph letter signed from the author.
London: Methuen, 1907.
First edition. Plates. Large 8vo (10¼
x 7½
inches), pages: xxviii:321. Original red cloth blocked in gilt; 2
inch split to lower joint; endpapers foxed, otherwise good.
With a 2-page autograph letter signed from the author dated
British Museum, 4th Sept. 1900 loosely inserted.
Quote Item No. 10913
Price: £20.00
BLUNT, REGINALD [Editor]: The Cheyne Book of Chelsea China
and Pottery.
London: Geoffrey Bles, ca. 1924.
First edition. Coloured frontispiece, Coloured frontispiece,
blakc & white plates, some coloured. 4to, pp.132, publisher's
quarter vellum, marbled boards, t.e.g., no dustwrapper; vellum
dusty, marked, spine browned, edge-rubbed; internally, contemporary
inscription on front free endpaper, else very good.
Quote Item No. 8855
Price: £30.00
BUTE LIBRARY - AUCTION CATALOGUE: Valuable English and Continental Books from
the Bute Library. London, 15 March, 1995.
London: Christie's, 1995.
A number of coloured plates and numerous black & white
illustrations. 4to, pp.254:[15], softcover; generally very good. The
sale comprised 411 lots.
Quote Item No. 2478
Price: £10.00
CASSELL,
JOHN (Publisher): The Illustrated Exhibitor, A tribute to the
World's Industrial Jubilee; comprising Sketches, by Pen and Pencil,
of the Principal Objects in the Great Exhibition of the Industry of
All Nations, 1851.
London: John Cassell, 1851.
Ten folding plates including the panoramic view of the Crystal
Palace as frontispiece. Tall 8vo, pp.xliv:556, contemporary half
black calf marbled boards. The spine gilt extra with crimson
lettering piece. 4 inch crack to upper joint but firm, extremities
rubbed but not unattractive on the shelf.
Quote Item No. 10616
Price: £180.00
CIESLIK, JURGEN and MARIANNE: Steiff-Teddy Bears.
Love for a Lifetime.
Verlag Marianne Cieslik, Julich 1994.
First edition. Profusely illustrated in colour and black &
white. Large 4to, pp.184, original glazed boards; lower
corners very slightly bumped, else fine.
Quote Item No. 5015
Price: £10.00
DAVIDSON, JANET; N. TE AWEKOTUKU; NEICH, R; and
others: Maori Art and Culture.
Auckland, New Zealand: David Bateman, 1996.
Illustrated in colour and black & white. 4to, pp.168,
softcover; slight shelf-wear, else excellent.
Quote Item No. 7006
Price: £25.00
EDWARDS, ERNEST L.: The
Grandfather Clock.
An Historical and Descriptive Treatise on
the English Long Case Clock with Notes on some Scottish, Welsh and
Irish examples.
Altrincham: John
Sherratt & Son, 1976.
Reprint. Illustrated
with 221 black & white photographic plates.
10 x 7½ inches wide, pp.270:[plates],
original vinyl in price-clipped dustwrapper;
a few minor marks to the dustwrapper, else generally a very
good copy.
Quote Item No. 11108
Price: £40.00
ERRMANN, JURGEN K.: The Book of Tea Caddies, a History from
1880 to the Present Day. Das Buch der Tee Dosen, ihre
Geschichte seit 1880.
Wien: Buchkultur, 1993.
Well illustrated partly in colour. 4to, pp.128, original blue cloth;
one corner a little bumped but generally an excellent copy in like
dustwrapper.
Quote Item No. 10106
Price: £58.00
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE: The World Encompassed. An
Exhibition of the History of Maps held at the Baltimore Museum of
Art.
Baltimore, Maryland: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery,
1952.
Profusely illustrated catalogue. 4to, unpaginated [282
exhibits fully described], original wrappers. Lower
fore-corner of upper wrapper chipped away.
Quote Item No. 891
Price:
£30.00
FAIRHOLT, FREDERICK WILLIAM: Rambles of an Artist:
Being Papers on Art, in relation to Antiques, Paintings, Art
Decorations, and Art-Manufacture. Illustrated with 259
wood-engravings.
London: Virtue, ca.1870.
4to, pp.viii:259, original decorated green cloth blocked in black
and gilt, a.e.g., no dustwrapper; headbands and corners bumped,
rubbed, and some fraying, with general shelf-wear; internally, inner
joints cracked, inscription on grey front pastedown, in all other
respects very good. Chapters devoted to Durer, Ancient brooches and
dress fastenings, finger-rings (pp.75-157), grotesque design and
rambles among old books.
Quote Item No. 76
Price: £45.00
FOX, CARL: The Doll.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, n.d.
Profusely illustrated in colour. Large oblong, pp.343,
original red velvet covered boards lettered in gilt in dustwrapper;
binding excellent; dustwrapper poor, with a multi-creased tear to
bottom front edge and another two tears to fold-edge of back, spine
slightly faded, and generally with much minor creasing to surface of
dustwrapper due to handling of this heavy book; internally, very
good.
Quote Item No. 5758
Price: £9.00
HATTON,
CHRISTOPHER: [LEWIS C. LOYD and DORIS MARY STENTON,
Editors]: Book of Seals. To Which is Appended a
Select List of the Works of Frank Merry Stenton.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1950.
First edition. Portrait, black & white plates. 4to,
pp.lxv:457:[6, list of subscribers], original dark blue cloth in
dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper spine browned and
scuffed, headbands torn and chipped (some loss) and with a number of
short tears to edges; internally, endpapers browned, else a very
good.
Quote Item No. 6818
Price: £55.00
[HERMAN MILLER FURNITURE]: NELSON, GEORGE; EAMES, CHARLES; NOGUCHI, ISAMU; and LASZLO,
PAUL: The Herman Miller Collection.
Zeeland, Michigan: The Herman Miller Furniture Co., 1948.
Black & white Illustrations throughout of furniture designed by
George Nelson, Charles Eames, Isamu Noguchi, and Paul Laszlo. Oblong
small folio, pp.72, original tan linen lettered in black and blocked
in red; spine lettering a little rubbed, general overall light
soiling and browning to the binding; internally very good.
Quote Item No. 4646
Price: £80.00
HILL, WILLIAM HENRY,
ARTHUR F. and ALFRED EBSWORTH: The Violin-makers of the Guarneri
Family 1626-1762. Their Life and Work.
London: The Holland Press, 1965.
Plates, some coloured, folding map. 4to (11¾ x 9¼ inches), 173-pages. Original
cloth. Very small white mark to upper cover else very good in worn
& chipped dustwrapper. Armorial bookplate on front free
endpaper.
Quote Item No. 11038
Price: £21.00
LEVER, CHRISTOPHER: Goldsmiths and Silversmith of England.
London: Hutchinson, 1975.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.256, original cloth in
dustwrapper; dustwrapper slightly edge-creased (especially at ends
of spine), slight shelf wear; in all other respects, very good.
Quote Item No. 4270
Price: £10.00
LLOYD, H. ALLAN: Some Outstanding Clocks over Seven Hundred
Years 1250 - 1950.
London: Leonard Hill, 1958.
First edition. Plates and Illustrations. Imperial 8vo, pp.xx:160,
original cloth in dustwrapper; binding with bumped headbands and
dent to top edge of front cover; dustwrapper browned (especially
spine) and with a number of short tears to edges and another longer
creased tear at top edge near spine; internally, very good and with
ink name to front free-endpaper.
Quote Item No. 280
Price: £25.00
MILLER, PHILIP and BERTHOUD, MICHAEL: An Anthology of British
Teapots.
Wingham, Kent:
Micawber Publications, 1985.
First edition.
Illustrated profusely in black & white.
Folio, pp.xxii:386, original cloth in dustwrapper;
binding headbands bumped and slight dent to front leading
edge, else very good;
dustwrapper corners chipped and frayed, slight edge creasing and
very short tear to top of spine;
internally excellent.
Quote Item No. 10135
Price: £30.00
MOSORIAK, ROY: The Curious History of Musical Boxes.
Chicago: Lightner, 1943.
Plates and illustrations. 4to, pp.242, original green cloth
blocked in white no dustwrapper; binding headbands and corners
bumped, edge-rubbed especially at ends of spine; internally,
endpapers slightly yellowed, simple bookplate adhered to front
pastedown, else generally good.
Quote Item No. 3695
Price: £10.00
NELSON & HAMILTON & THEIR CIRCLE - EDWIN WOLF SECOND COLLECTION -
AUCTION CATALOGUE: Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts,
Valuable Printed Books, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts, including
the Edwin Wolf 2nd Collection of letters and memorabilia relating to
Nelson, Hamilton and their circle. London, 20th June, 1990.
London: Christie's, 1990.
A number of coloured illustrations and numerous black & white
illustrations. 4to, pp.168:[7], softcover. This sale comprised 388
lots. The Nelson Hamilton Collection comprised Lots 165 to 277.
Quote Item No. 2479
Price: £10.00
PERFUME: Parfums de Plantes. Catalogue of the Exhibition at the
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris, December 1987 - June
1988.
Paris: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 1987.
Illustrations in colour and black & white. 4to, pp.256,
softcover; very good.
French text. Illustrated with
examples of items associated with the history of perfume and scent.
Quote Item No. 10339
Price: £15.00
READ, CHARLES HERCULES: The Waddesdon Bequest. Catalogue of
the Works of Art bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand
Rothschild 1898.
London: British Museum, 1902.
Portrait and 55 plates, illustrations in the text. 4to,
pp.xvi:129, publishers half vellum, top edge gilt. Vellum
discoloured, soiled and dusty, cloth darkened around edges; page
edges foxed, some foxing throughout, else good. Inscribed by the
author, "Janet from CHR Jan. 1902". With note affixed with
stamp-edging to front free endpaper "To the One whose intelligent
sympathy in the angular problems of the STONE AGE helped the writer
to avoid the common perils of such a study, THIS HUMBLE VOL.
complementary to its foregoer is DEDICATED".
Quote Item No. 7868
Price: £21.00
SEYMOUR, DALE: Antique
Gambling Chips. With price guide and chip codes.
Palo Alto, California: Past Pleasures, 1985.
Profusely illustrated throughout. 4to, pp.285, softback.
Very good.
Quote Item No. 10441
Price: £30.00
SINKANKAS,
JOHN: Gemstones of North America.
Princeton, New Jersey:
D. Van Nostrand Co. Inc., no date [1959].
Colour plates, black & white illustrations.
Small folio, pp.xv:675, original cloth, no dustwrapper;
binding headbands bumped and two slight dents to lower edge
of front cover, else binding very good;
ink inscription on front free-endpaper, internally excellent.
Quote Item No. 9901
Price: £20.00
SOTHEBY'S: The Keir
Collection of Medieval Works of Art.
New York: Sotheby's,
1997.
Auction catalogue to accompany sale held in New York on 20 November,
1997. Profusely
illustrated in colour.
Folio, pp.257, original cloth in dustwrapper;
very slight shelf-wear, else an excellent copy.
Auction results loosely inserted.
Quote Item No. 9229
Price: £22.00
TRIBE, TOM and WHATMOOR,
PHILIP: Dorset Clocks and Clockmakers with a supplement on the
Channel Islands.
Oswestry: Tanat Books,
1981.
First edition. Black &
white photographic plates.
8vo, pp.234, original burgundy cloth in price-clipped
dustwrapper; spine very,
very slightly faded;
generally an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 8941
Price: £31.00
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Paris: Palais Galliera, Musee de la Mode et du Costume, 29
Octobre 1989 - 14 Janvier 1990.
Illustrated in colour and black & white. 4to, pp.128, softcover; the
front cover corners are bumped (the lower one with a small crease),
with a "thumbed" indent to front cover, else very good; internally,
excellent.
French text.
Quote Item No. 3221
Price: £18.00
WEBSTER, ROBERT: Gems.
Their Sources, Descriptions and
Identification.
London: Butterworths,
1970.
Second edition. Colour
plates, black & white illustrations.
Tall 8vo, pp.xvi:836, original cloth in dustwrapper;
binding very good;
dustwrapper poor with a large piece missing from top of spine
and sides with creasing and shorter tears, corners frayed;
internally, long ink inscription on front free-endpaper,
generally very good.
Quote Item No. 10008
Price: £30.00