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AMATI, NICOLO - Violins by: Catalogue of Objects of Virtue and Watches the Propert of the Earl of Cromer .... Also Violins by Nicolo Amati the property of Arthur Collis and others which are to be sold at auction ...
London: Christie, Manson & Woods, May 20, 1946. 14-page auction catalogue. 8vo. Wire stitched; a little creased.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17907
ARMAN, F. MARCUS: The Reginald M Phillips Collection of 19th Century British Postage Stamps. A Short Account.
National Postal Museum, London, 1966. Profusely illustrated with black & white photo. illustrations. 8vo (8 1/4 inches sq.) 31-pages.Original printed card wrappers; upper wrapper marked else good. Please excuse the reflection in the photograph.
£12.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 21816
ASPREY & CO: Their substantial & beautifully illustrated catalogue of luxury goods including much in the Art Deco style.
London: Asprey & Co. c. 1930. Profusely illustrated priced catalogue. 4to (11 x 9 inches), 195-pages. Original grained cloth-backed glazed coloured pictorial boards. Corners bumped else very good. Letter from Aspreys dated 1930 at one time affixed to the title with a paper clip leaving resultant rusty mark.
Luxury goods illustrated, amongst much else, include: luggage, dressing cases, enamel and silver toilet sets, sports sticks, motor mascots, field glasses, desk sets in shagreen. tortoiseshell cigarette tubes, cut glass, pens, gold cigar boxes, woven gold and platinum purses, etc. etc. Much in the Art Deco style.
£600.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17075
BHUSHAN, JAMILA BRIJ: Indian Jewellery, Ornaments and Decorative Designs.
Bombay: D.B. Taraporevala Sons & Co., no date. First edition. 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.
£18.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 9907
BRUNNER, GISBERT L. & PFEIFFER-BELLI, CHRISTIAN: Wristwatches - Armbanduhren - Montres-Bracelets.
Koln: Konemann, 1999. Profusely illustrated in colour. 4to (12 x 9 inches), 512-pages. Original grey grained cloth; excellent in slightly edge creased but very good dust jacket. Text in English, Gernan, & French. Weight 2.829 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 20294
CANDEE, HELEN CHURCHILL: The Tapestry Book.
Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1912. First edition. Coloured frontispiece and numerous b&w plates. 8vo (9 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches), 275-pages. Original decorated tan cloth blocked in colours. Some foxing to prelims & at end. Overall very good.
£12.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 22362
CERA, DEANNA FARNRTI Editor: Jewels of Fantasy. Costume Jewelery of the 20th Century.
Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1992. First edition. Softback. Profusely illustrated in colour. 4to (11 1/4 x 10 inches), 323-pages. Original coloured pictorial glazed wrappers. Fine. Weight 2..3 kg ths extra postage will be requested.
£50.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 22965
CHRISTIES auctioneers: Masterworks of Rene Lalique and by Gaillard, Eolfers and Louchet. A Private Collection.
Christies, Geneva, 1986. 18 fine Lots each with full page colour plate. 4to (10 x 8 inches), 42-pages, original coloured glazed pictorial wrappers.
£30.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 22958
CHRISTIES auctioneers: Magnificent Jewels.
Christies, Geneva, Nov. 13, 1986. Plates in colour. 4to (10x 8 inches), 542 Lots on 236-pages. Original coloured laminated boards. Fine. With diamond certified leaflet loosely nserted.
£30.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 22982
COMINO, MARY: Gimson and the Barnsleys "wonderful furniture of a commonplace kind".
London: Evans Brothers, Numerous illustrations. 4to ( 10 x 7 1/2 inches), 224-pages. Original cloth; light foxing to endpapers else good in good dust jacket.
£12.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19110
CLAYTON, MICHAEL: The Collector's Dictionary of the Silver and Gold of Great Britain and North America.
Antique Collectors' Club, 1985. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. 4to (11 x 8 1/2 inches), 481-pages. Original cloth, excellent in very good dust jacket.
£28.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 21672
CURTIS, HOWARD: 2,500 Years of European Helmets, 800 B.C - 1700 A.D.
Beinfeld, North Holywood, 1978. First edition. Very well illustrated. Oblong 8vo (8 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches), 436-pages. Original grained cloth blocked in gilt, in the good dust jacket. Small attractive bookplate.
£80.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 21265
CURTIS, MATTOON M: The Book of Snuff and Snuff Boxes.
Liveright, N.Y. 1935. First edition. Frontspiece and 116 photographic illustrations at end. 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches), 149-pages (of text). Original burgundy cloth; very good.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 22732
DELABERE COLLECTION: A Catalogue of the Most Singular, Rare, and Valuable Collection of Portraits by the Passes, Delaram etc. Some of them Unique. Being the contents of a Very Celebrated Book .... most of them Very Brilliant Impressions, and in the Finest condition. Which will be sold by Auction by Mr Christie at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday March 29, 1811.
London: 1811. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 inches), 44-pages. 152-Lots. Old half calf, marbled boards, the spine lettered in gilt, "Mr. Bindley's Portraits 1811".
Spine chipped, both boards detached, title dust marked.
Buyers names and prices realised added in a contemporary hand, perhaps that of James Bindley (1737-1818; a commissioner of stamp duties; a collector of books & engravings). The title page is inscribed at head, "Mr Bindley, Stamp Office". The sale of Bindleys collection upon his death raised over £29,000.
Very rare. No copy cited on Copac.
£550.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17488
FELIX, MARC L: Kipinga. Throwing Blades of Central Africa.
Jahn: Munchen, 1991. First (& only?) edition. Numerous plates, folding map in endpocket. 4to (10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches), 205-pages. Original 2-tone pictorial cloth; fine in the original slipcase.
£65.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 21259
FINER, PETER: 7 of his beautifully illustrated and expertly described dealer catalogues of Arms & Armour.
Warwickshire & London 1995. The seven catalogues issued 1995-2008 and comprise Nubers 1-4 & 6-8. The first two are softback, the remaining are original cloth in dust-jackets and fine. In all 737-items offered. 7 volumes 4to (12 x 8 1/2 inches). Two with presentation insciptions from Finer.Very occasional adhesion damage, else fine. Very detailed and finely illustrated reference works. Weight 8.525 kg thus extra shipping will be requested.
£90.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 21256
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.
£60.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 6818
HAWKINS, EDWARD (Edited by Augustus W. Franks & Herbert A. Grueber): Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the Death of George II.
London: Spink, 1978. Originally published by the British Museum in 1885. Two volumes. Illustrations. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), pages: 724 & 866, original black cloth; crease to fore-edge of 9 leaves, headbands a little bumped but overall very good. With the attractive bookplate of the collector David Perry on front pastedown.
£55.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14869
HOFF, ARNE; SCHEPELERN, H.D. & BOESEN, GUDMUND: Royal Arms at Rosenborg.
Chronological Collection of Danish Kings at Rosenborg &amo; the Danish Arms and Armour Society, Copenhagen, 1956. Two volumes bound as one (1 of text, 1 of plates). Folio (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches). Contemporary grained binder's cloth 223-pages of text, 93-plates. Original pictorial wrappers and backstrips bound-in. Attractive bookplates. Weight 2.194 kg thus extra overses postage will be requested.
£60.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 21270
HUBLOT: Hublot the Art of Fusion.
Hublot Watches, Switzerland, 2016. Catalogue profusely illutrated in colour. 4to (9 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches), unpaginated. Original black blindstamped boards.
Enquire - please quote Item No. 20285
INTERNATIONAL WATCH COMPANY: The IWC Aquatimer Collection 2014.
IWC Schaffhausen, 2014. Profusely illustrated catalogue in colour. 4to (8 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches), 306-pages. Original white boards; very good.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 20292
JACKSON, CHARLES JAMES: An illustrated history of English plate, ecclesiastical and secular : in which the development of form and decoration in the silver and gold work of the British Isles, from the earliest known examples to the latest of the Georgian period, is delineated and described, with a coloured frontispiece, seventy-six photogravure plates and fifteen hundred other illustrations.
First edition. Coloured frontispiece. Two volumes 4to (13 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches) 1085-pages. Contemporary half red morocco, spines ruled in gilt and gilt lettered direct. Bookplate. Some scuffing to corners, overall a handsome copy and very good internally. Very heavy substantial extra postage will be requested for overas shipping.
£60.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 22572
KENDRICK, A.F. & TATTERSALL, C. E. C: Hand-woven Carpets, Oriental and European.
Benn Brothers, London, 1922. First edition. No, 679 of 1000 copies. Two volumes (1 of text, 1 of plates). 4to (11 1/4 x 9 inches), 198-pages (text), 205 (plates). Original tan buckram blocked in gilt; a little marking oveall very good. 4. 961 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£36.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 22248
KENYON, OTIS ALLEN: Carpets and Rugs. How they are made, How to select them, How to care for them.
North Canton, Ohio: The Hoover Company, 1923. First edition. 3 coloured folding plates (one badly folded) and photographic illustrations. 8vo (8 1/ x 5 3/4 inches), 168-pages. Original green ribbed cloth; very good. Name on front pastedown.
£18.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19134
KRAUSE, CHESTER L: Wisconsin Obsolete Bank Notes and Scrip.
Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1994. Profusely illustrated. 4to (11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches), 528-pages, original cloth in dust jacket; excellent.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16204
LAMB, ROBERT A: A Catalogue of French Emegency Tokens of 1914 - 1922.
no publisher or place stated: 1967. Illustrations. 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches), 49-pages, softback; original tan grained wrappers; very good.
£35.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14850
A. LANGE & SOHNE: Their catalogue of wristwatches.
A. Lange & Sohne, Glashutte, Germany, 2016. Illustrated in colour throughout. Folio (12 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches), 223-pages. Original grey grained cloth lettered in silver; unevenly faded. With list of outlets loosely inserted.
Weight 1.443 kg thus extra overses postage will be requested.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 20283
LEIPOLD, F: Dekor-Vorschläge der Fa. F. Haver Leipold.
Zirndorf Oesterreicherstrasse 16 - 19. 1966. 53 plates being reproductions of earlier copper engravings of horses in various riding positions, craftsmen, city views, historical buildings, allegorical figures and their insignia. Folio (22 x 15 3/4 inches), orignal cloth-backed wrappers. Very good.
£21.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 22332
MACQUOID, PERCY: A History of English Furniture. With plates in colour after Shirley Slocombe and numerous illustrations. The Age of Mahogany.
London: Medici Society and Laurence & Bullen, 1923. Folio (15 x 11 inches), 271-pages, original bevelled burgundy cloth, 2 1/2 inches of upper right spine gnawed away not affecting the volume internally.
£30.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17036
MACQUOID, PERCY: A History of English Furniture. With plates in colour after Shirley Slocombe and numerous illustrations. The Age of Satinwood.
London: Medici Society and Laurence & Bullen, 1928. Folio (15 x 11 inches), 260-pages, original bevelled burgundy cloth, top edge gilt; narrow band of fading at head of spine where dust jacket incomplete else very good in the edge chipped and torn dust jacket. Very heavy, extra postage will be requested.
£35.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17034
NICHOLLS & CLARKE LTD: Catalogue No. 37 Baths, Lavatory Basins, Plumber's Brasswork, Stoves, Heating Appliances, Modern Tiled Fireplaces ...... etc.etc.
London: Nicholls & Clarke, c. 1937. Profusely illustrated catalogue. 8vo (9 3/4 x 6 1/4 nches), 672-pages. Original cloth. Margins tanned. Binding spotted and soiled although very sound.
Weight 2.230 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19146
OMAN, CHARLES: A Catalogue of the Plate belonging to the Bank of England.
London: for the Govenor and Company of the Bank of England, 1967. Frontispiece and 46 photographic plates. 4to (11 x 8 1/2 inches), 56-pages, original linen blocked in gilt; excellent.
£45.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18029
POLLEN, JOHN HUNGERFORD: Ancient and Modern Furniture and Woodwork in the South Kensington Museum.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1874. Coloured frontispiece and mounted photographic plates. 8vo (10 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches), 415-pages. Publisher's half roan. Binding poor, rubbed, chips, & splits. Damp-marking to frontispiece, text tanned.
Weight 1.6 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.
£12.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19109
SERVEN, JAMES E: Colt Firearms 1836 - 1958.
Santa Ana: By the Author, 1958. 2nd printing. Profusely illustrated. 4to (12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches), 387-pages. Original cloth with a gilt plaque to upper cover in a poor dust jacket which has loss. Upper inner joint split but holding on webbing otherwise very good. Weight 2.3 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested
£40.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18677
SHAW, HENRY & MEYRICK, SIR SAMUEL RUSH: Specimens of Ancient Furniture drawn from Existing Authorities by Henry Shaw F.S.A.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1866. Title in red & black, Additional lithographic title (plate 1) and a further 73 lithographic plates on stout paper. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 inches), text pages (4):57, 20th Century 1/4 black polished calf, green cloth sides, ornamental gilt border to sides, spine gilt on bands with blue lettering piece. Very good and very clean internally.
Weight 2.3 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.
£200.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19092
SPINK & SONS: Spink & Sons Monthly Numismatic Circular. Volume XIV, Nos. 157-168.
London: Spink & Sons, 1906. Illustrations. Folio (12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches), pages: xix:8760-9509, original red cloth; binding very damp-marked, internally very good.
£38.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18815
TILL, WILLIAM [Medallist]: Descriptive particulars of English Coronation Medals from ... Edward the Sixth to ... Queen Victoria; subjoined are desultory memoranda of many of the most choice ... medals and medallions of illustrious personages distinguished in British history.
London: John Hearne, 1846. Second edition, with the Author's last corrections. 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches), pages: xix:108:(4, advertisement for William Till, Medallist, 17 Great Russell Street, London). Original grained grey/blue cloth; binding spotted, headbands rubbed. Frontispiece and title foxed otherwise internally very clean. Contemporary inscription on front free endpaper. Uncommon.
£90.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18808
VALKO, GEORGES: Uber den Druckprozess und di Abarten der Stehenden Helvetia 1882-1907.
Bern: Zumstein, 1978. Black & white plates. 8vo (10 x 7 inches), 78-pages. Original green cloth; very good.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15601
VALKO, GEORGES: Uber die Frankaturen 1882 bis 1907.
Bern: Zumstein, 1986. Coloured illustrations. 8vo (10 x 7 inches), 62-pages. Original blue cloth; very good.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15600
VARIOUS: Birds and Flowers of the Fifty States. A Collection of United States Commeemorative Stamps With the sheet of 50 actual stamps loosely inserted.
United States Postal Service, 1982. First edition. Colour illustrated throughout. 4to (11 12x 12 3/4 inches), 60-pages. Original faux quarter leather over blue cloth pictorially blocked in gilt. Binding a little marked else very good in the very good dust jacket. With loosely inserted: a block sheet of the 50 stamps, as issued but often lacking.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 22061
WALKLING, GILLIAN: Antique Bamboo Furniture.
Bell & Hayman, London, 1979. First edition. Well illustrated partly in colour. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches), 128-pages. Original cloth; a lttle marginal tanning else very good in price-clipped, rubbed dust jacket.
£12.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 22740
WOLLASTON, HENRY: British Official Medals for Coronations and Jubilees. A Commemorative Collectors Guide.
Commemorative Collector Society, Nottingham, c. 1978. Presentation copy signed by the author. Illustrations. Folio (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches). 101-pages, original printed wrappers. Lower wrapper soiled else good. Uncommon.
£28.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 21814
WRAY, CHRISTOPHER: Lighting Emporium. Oil Lamps & Fittings. Catalogue No. 4.
London 1966. 92-pages of illustration, some coloured. 4to (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches), original wrappers. With later price list inserted.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 20694