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Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Limited, 2008. 192pp/illus. Through images on over 475 postcards produced between 1900 and 1930, also the golden age of picture postcards, this book lets you see what the Academy and life there were like when midshipmen with names like Nimitz, Halsey, King, Spruance, Mitscher and Burke were among its residents. postcard values. Clean no… Read more about this item

Crestwood Tuckahoe, New York, U.S.A.: St Vladimirs Seminary Pr, 1983. 222pp/illus. incl color fold-out. Contents include: "The Meaning and Language of Icons" by Leonid Ouspensky, "The Technique of Iconography " by Leonid Ouspensky,. "Explanation of the Main Types of Icons". 60 icons are illustrated and described as archetypes by the authors. Light shelfwear. Clean. 2nd Printing. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/Very… Read more about this item

Middle Village, New York, U.S.A.: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1973. 353pp. many col. & plain plates, text-ills, sketch-maps in text, bibliogr. Catalogue listing & describing some 236 rugs. Light rubbing to dj. Text Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Virginia: The Near Eastern Art Research Center and James Mark Keshishian, 1994. 256pp/illus/end-paper map. The author describes and analyzes his own collection of inscribed Armenian rugs, published as a part of his 30 year quest to show the world his favorite rugs. It is mostly filled with colored plate showing 19th century and early 20th century rugs with the… Read more about this item

Sheboygan, WI: Phoenix Chair Company, 1891. Original 284pp illustrated catalogue. Includes Fancy High back Chairs and Rockers, American Bent Wood Furniture, Office and Library Chairs, Dining and Reception Chairs, Wood Rockers, Children'Rockers, Stools, Lawn Chairs, and Cradles. Each chair is illustrated individually on a full page. Tight and generally clean. Light wear to corners and edges. Back cover… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Chartwell, 1985. 226 p. 78 full-page plates (49 color); 30 additional smaller ill. from photographs, with location map and numerous line drawings and diagrams. Includes discussion of regional characteristics of carpets from Persia, Turkey, the Caucasus, Turkestan and Central Asia, and China; notes on symbolism and naturalism; " Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near… Read more about this item

New York: Garden City Publishing, 1937. 127pp/illus. Contains 168 reproductions, 19 of them in color. Includes a biographical dictionary of the miniature painters of America. Cover lightly stained. Some light foxing. Text clean.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Washington, D.C: Library of Congress, 1954. 292pp. Clean and tight; about Fine. Catalogue of the famed Rosenwald collection, donated to the Library of Congress in 1945. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Macmillan Pub Co, 1950. 318pp/illus (312 illus of clocks). Detailed bookon historic clocks. Nice clean copy.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Crestwood Tuckahoe, New York, U.S.A.: St Vladimirs Seminary Pr, 1983. 222pp/illus. incl color fold-out. Contents include: "The Meaning and Language of Icons" by Leonid Ouspensky, "The Technique of Iconography " by Leonid Ouspensky,. "Explanation of the Main Types of Icons". 60 icons are illustrated and described as archetypes by the authors. Light shelfwear. Clean. 2nd… Read more about this item

Paris: Celiv, 1994. 236pp/illus. French text. Clean. First Edition. Glossy Hard Cover/Boards. As New/As New. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

New York: Tudor Publishing, 1935. 394pp/illus. (265 illus). new edition. hardback. spine fading, mark on spine, edges rubbed. Clean. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1961. 240 pp; numerous b/w photographs & line drawings; glossary; bibliography. Cloth with dj. Useful guide to the major periods and styles of French furniture, sculpture, tapestry, textiles, clocks, bronzes, snuffboxes, ceramics and glass through Charles X.. DJ chipped with wear. Text clean.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good(-). 4to - over 9¾"… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Macmillan Pub Co, 1967. 371pp with 559 b/w illus. cloth A companion and sequel to The Book of American Clocks. With a 49-page list of makers. Clean. Price clipped from dj.. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Worcester, UK: Worcester Royal Porcelain Co. Ltd, 1882. 183pp/illus. Original quarter leather/marble boards. Nice illustrations. Clean copy. Cover separating at spine.. First Edition. Quarter Leather/Boards. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1975. 254pp/illus. Light foxing to edges. profusely illustrated with colour and b/w photos by John Garetti incl list of clock and watchmakers in America, biblio and index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Geneva, Switzerland: Antiquorum Editions, 1993. 408pp/illus. Detailed catalogue of valuable clocks and timepieces from 16th to 20th Century. English text. Clean.. First Edition. Glossy Hard Cover/Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Washington, D.C: The Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1981. 127 pp. 30 color plates, 104 b/w photographs. Bibliography and glossary. Beautiful decorative endpapers. Dicussses the earliest toys, wooden playthings, dolls and dollhouses, tin and cast-iron toys, soliders, paper playthings, card and board games, optical devises, and banks. Concludes with a chapter of advice for the collector.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good(-).… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C: The Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1981. Over 200 Color & b/w illustrations; b/w Pictorial Endpapers. No Jackets. Very Good 4tos 127, [1]; 128 pages. Subtitle of volume 1: Prehistoric through Rococo; subtitle of volume 2: Neoclassic to the Present. Volume 1 authored by Bishop and Coblentz; volume 2 authored by Ketchum. 2 volumes complete, with separate… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Lake Isle Pr, 1998. 240pp; illustrated, for the most part in color, with more than 300 examples of antique and contemporary pieces. The popularity of these tiny boxes peaked during the reign of Louis XV (1715-74), when a controversial habit called snuffing, the inhaling of powdered tobacco, put elaborately designed tabatieres or snuffboxes into the… Read more about this item