French Walnut Bookcase

This English inlaid bookcase has an eight pane astragal door which is banded with satinwood and ebony inlay. It has the original working lock and key. ...

- This French marble-top display/bookcase has doors with a scalloped shape and are crossbanded with bookmatched flame mahogany. The sides have flamed bookmatched mahogany panels. The...

This English mahogany book/display case has the original lock and key and retains the original thirteen wavy glass panes in both doors. The interior has two adjustable shelves with molded fronts. The base has cabriole Queen Anne legs that terminate in slipper feet. The cornice has blind fretwork carving and dentil work...

English George III Style Book/Display Cabinet has the original broken arch cornice that has carved egg and dart molding. The doors have cross ...

English painted satinwood display case is painted with floral leaf and ribbon motifs.  

This four door/two drawer cupboard has exposed peg construction throughout. The sides each have five recessed panels. The engraved brass escutcheons and other hardware are original. ...

A large French Empire bookcase, or buffet a deux corps in walnut with bronze mounts and glass doors, dating from the early 19th century. This handsome piece has a nice old patina a...

Small French Empire bookcase/cabinet with framed glazed sides, featuring a molded wooden elongated X on the inside, one wire-mesh-inset door, the corners e...

A French Restauration period walnut breakfront bookcase from the early 19th century, with glass doors and fluted accents. Created in France during the first quarter of the 19th centu...

Sn4851 fine quality and very elegant Victorian cabinet of breakfronted design, having stunning figured walnut top above projecting, mirrored door flanked by superb quality drop carvi...

Austrian Biedermeier (Circa 1825) walnut veneer and ebonized trimmed bookcase with demilune 3 drawer commode base and upper section with 2 doors and 4 small drawers.

The best word I can think of to describe our newest find is; Presence. This absolutely incredibly elegant Très grande bibliotheque from Nîmes, France, simply makes the room, with its undeniable presence. Whether it’s the mammoth scale of the bookcase, or the combination of the ebonized walnut and the indescribable painted interior colour (we’re still searching for a name), something just clicked and made our antique bookcase quite special. Finding a genuine antique French bookcase, that measures roughly twelve and a half feet in length, that was not assembled from a bunch of old wood bits sitting around a guy’s workshop, is a rare occurrence. In our over 30-years of importing from Europe, we might have had two or three that were genuine. This huge antique French bookcase was fabricated from French solid walnut and certainly dates from the 1800’s. Look carefully at the wavy hand-made glass and that pretty much tells the whole story, for we are unaware that anyone produces new glass this good. Generally, when you find a bookcase, or display cabinet of this stature, you’ll discover that its history was probably from a public institution, be it a school, library, or even a high-end department store, but generally they are deathly tired. Fortunately, that was not the case with this antique French bookcase. Our antique bibliotheque was discovered in the town of Nîmes, a city in the Occitanie region of southern France. Little history; Nîmes was an important part of the Roman Empire and the city is most famous for the Arena of Nîmes, a double-tiered circa-70 A.D. amphitheater still in use today. Also, the famous Pont du Gard...