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Collecting Antique Maps: An Introduction to the History of Cartography by Jonathan Potter is a well-regarded guide for map collectors, combining a history of cartography with practic...

Sailor's Valentines by John Fondas, With SlipcaseNew York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2002. First Edition, Hardcover. Over 50 examples of octagonal Valentines. The story of ...

Chesapeake Gardening and Landscaping, by Barbara W. Ellis. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Published by The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2015. "What if, one st...

Christie's 2000 The China Trade Sale. 1st Ed softcover. Chinese Export Porcelain and works of art, 164 lots, on 111 pages. Fully Illustrated in color. With results. NPT Books a divi...

Nature into Art: The Gardens of Wave Hill by Thomas Christopher. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. "Like Wave Hill itself, this book makes an indelible impression wildly intimate, p...

Catalogue of the Charles of London Collection of Notable Examples of Early English and Other Furniture, Choice Needlework and Textiles and Exceptional Sets of Rare Renaissance Tapest...

American Art Association Mrs. S. K. DE Forest Chinese Porcelains and Pottery, January 1936. Rare Sung and Ming, porcelains and pottery, Ch'ing decorated po...

Exploring Historic Dutch New York: New York City * Hudson Valley * New Jersey * and Delaware. 'The book is signed by Russell Shorto who wrote introduction and is Director of the John...

Life Is a Party: Deliciously Doable Recipes to Make Every Day a Celebration by David Burtka. Signed, Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Published by Little, Brown & Company, New York, 2019. After years of acting, David Burtka decided to follow his passion and attend cooking school. As the chef and founder of the catering company Gourmet MD, he worked with clients like Katy Perry, Elton John, and Kelly Ripa, and loved bringing people together for social gatherings of all kinds. LIFE IS A PARTY offers readers an intimate look inside the lives of one of Hollywood's most beloved couples. David and Neil share a love of entertaining and their celebrations have become legendary. And now David wants to share his go-to recipes, party themes, music lists, decor tips, and Pinterest-worthy spreads with all of us. Whether your budget is minimal or unlimited, you'll be inspired by 100 fail-proof recipes inspired by seasonal ingredients. David also offers 16 party themes, complete with endless ways to mix and match dishes...

Rehearsal's Off! By George Booth. 1st Ed Hardcover Signed with cartoon drawing. Published by: Dodd Mead, January 1976. His "New Yorker" cartoons have been opening a window on the biz...

Martha Stewart's Cake Perfection by Editors of Martha Stewart Living. Published by Random House USA Inc, New York, 2020. Stated 1st Ed Hardcover. Martha Stewart perfects the art of c...

Ranch House Style by Katherine Ann Samon and Edmund Barr Photographer. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Publisher: Clarkson Potter, 2003. If you grew up in postwar America, ...

Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Lessons and Recipes for the Home Cook: A Cookbook by Martha Stewart. Stated 1st Ed Hardcover with dust jacket. Published by Clarkson Potter October 2...

Biennale di Firenze: Looking at Fashion, by Germano Celant, Luigi Settembrini, and Ingrid Sischy. Published by Skira, 1996. 683 pp., Illustrated throughout in both b/w and color. ".....

by Yoshio Taniguchi. First Edition, 1999. 280 pages. Includes 434 illustrations, including 208 plates in full color. Covered in this monograph are nearly twenty of Taniguchi's buildi...

Pierre et Gilles: The Complete Works, 1997. French/English/German Edition by Bernard Marcade (Author), Pierre Commoy (Photographer), and Gilles Blanchard (Painter). An unbridled cele...

A Simpler Way of Life: Old Farmhouses of New York & New England, Stated 1st Ed. This book celebrates a rich and time-honored tradition in American architecture: the farmhouse. Nowher...

Le Corbusier: Architect of the Twentieth Century by Kenneth Frampton. Published by Harry N. Abrams, 2002. Widely regarded as the greatest architect of the 20th century, the Swiss-bo...

Villas 50 en France by Raphaelle Saint-Pierre, 1st Ed Rare Hard to Find Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Publisher, Norma, Paris, France, 2005. In French. "While the design of the 50s is ...

War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston). "This catalogue was published to coincide with the exhibition WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of A...

Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library 17th-19th Centuries, 2 Vol Set with Slip Case, 1st Ed. Published in NY by Pierpont Morgan Library, 2006. Ranging from preparatory studi...

Parke-Bernet NY Florence H. Crane, Castle Hill Ipswich Mass, Important English Furniture 6/29-30 & 7/01, 1950, 1st Ed. Chicago industrialist Richard Teller Crane Jr., heir to Crane C...

Sotheby's, 2011 Lilly & Edmond Safra Collection European Furniture Volume IV. Magnificent European Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog. 89 lots phot...

The Complete Content Cameos by Martin Henig and Helen Molesworth. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Published by Brepols Publishers, Belgium, 2018. This is a catalog of the largest ...

Signed by RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER, Foundation Cartier Pour l'Art Contemporain 1994. Contemporary art installation exhibit in France. Richard Artschwager’s project at the Fondation Cartie...

Woman as Design: Before, Behind, Between, Above, Below by Stephen Bayley. Published by Conran Octopus, 2009. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Extract: "This is a complicated, ambit...

American Fashion: The Life and Lines of Adrian, Mainbocher, McCardell, Norell, and Trigere by Robert Riley; Dale McConathy; Sally Kirkland; Bernadine Morris; and Eleni Sakes Epstein....

Vanishing Ice by Barbara C. Matilsky Stated 1st Ed Softcover Exhibition Catalog. Published by Whatcom Museum, 2013. Vanishing Ice introduces the rich artistic legacy of the planet's ...

A Simpler Way of Life: Old Farmhouses of New York & New England by William Morgan and Photos by Trevor Tondro. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Published by North Country Books, 2013. Colonial farmhouses were built not by architects, but by stonemasons, carpenters, and other craftsmen—sometimes by the farmers themselves. These vernacular structures utilize such richly textured materials as wideboard planks, hand-hewn beams, and brick and fieldstone hearths. Current owners have filled their dream houses with authentic decor: hooked rugs, vintage crockery...

17th Century Cabinets Rijksmuseum Dossiers, 1st Ed softcover catalog. The Rijksmuseum contains the largest collection of 17th c cabinets. This book contains photos, and full descript...

The Americana Collection of the Late Mrs. J. Amory Haskell. Part Six. Parke-Bernet NY Feb. 10th, 1945. Mrs. J. Amory Haskell was a preeminent collector of early American decorative a...

Sotheby's Property from the Estate of the Late Richard C. von Hess. NY June 1998. Beautifully illustrated with full-color and B&W reproductions and photos. Including Property from th...

Denkmäler der Krippenkunst. Das erste umfassende Werk über Krippenkunst, by Rudolf Berliner. 1st Ed hardcover c1926. Monuments of nativity art. The first comprehensive work on nativi...

Painting and Decorating Craftsman's Manual and Textbook. 1st Ed hardcover. Published by Theo Audel & Co Publishers, 1949. With original fold out paint chart. A valuable resource for ...

Catalogue of English Furniture and Woodwork, Vol. III and IV. Vol III, Late Stuart to Queen Anne by Oliver Brackett. Pair of 1st Ed hardcovers. Published by Victoria and Albert Museu...

Set of 3 Catalogues Of The Byzantine And Early Mediaeval Antiquities In The Dumbarton Oaks Collection. 1st Ed hardcovers with dust jackets in various conditions. Published by Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, DC. Volume 1 and 2 signed by the authors with owner's bookplate of 'Nasli Heeramaneck' and his wife Alice. The Heeramaneck's were Parsian American art dealers, specializing in Asian and Pre-Columbian art. Born in Bombay, they moved to New York in the 1920s, and lived and worked there until their deaths. Works collected by them, are now held by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Museum of New Delhi, and Yale University. Volume I focuses on Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass, Glyptics, and Painting. Volume II focuses on Jewelry, Enamels, and the Art of the Migration Period...

At Home With Carolyne Roehm by Carolyne Roehm. Published by Random House, Incorporated, 2002. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Former fashion designer Carolyne Roehm is reno...

Christie's 1987 Kitley House Devon. Softcover auction catalog with 894 lots on 171 pages. Illustrated in color and black & white. NPT Books a division of N.P. Trent Antiques has a l...

The Ellerslie House Collection. 24 May, 2001, Published by Christie's. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog. 230 lots on 162 pages. Illustrated in color. With results. NPT Books a divis...

Lord St. Helens & Sir William Fitzherbert. January 22, 2009. Christie's (London). 1st Ed softcover auction catalog. 682 lots in color and fully described and with results. NPT Books...

Christies 2003, Library at Gaiter's Green, Fine English Furniture. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog 353 lots on 290 pages illustrated in color and fully described. NPT Books a divis...

Christie's: The Sir Ralph and Lady Halpern Collection London 2/24/05. 1st Ed auction catalog 105 pages with 200 lots illustrated in color and all described in detail. NPT Books a di...

Christies Brian Juhos Collection. 1st Ed auction catalog with 500 lots in color and fully described. The private collection of the celebrated international decorator and interior des...

The Collection of Alice and Murray Braunfield : January 17, 2004 at Sotheby's. Published by Sotheby's, New York, 2004. 1294 lots on 176 pages in color and fully described. great Ame...

The Neighborhoods of Queens by Claudia Gryvatz Copquin, 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket This Up-To-Date, Intimate Portrait Of The 99 Neighborhoods Of Queens Is A Wonderful Tribute...

Eclectic Rhythms: Artists of Huntington, West Virginia, 1871-Present, by Geoffrey K. Fleming. The book is a biographical dictionary of artists in Huntington, West Virginia. The book ...

Gouthire's Candelabras by Charlotte Vignon and Edmund De Waal. 1st Ed hardcover, no dust jacket as published. Published by D Giles Ltd, London, 2019. Pi...

Art Along the Rivers: A Bicentennial Celebration by Amy Torbert. An exhibition that coincided with the Missouri state bicentennial. The catalog brings together the region's painting...

Picturing Victorian America: Prints by Kellogg Brothers of Hartford CT 1830-1880 by Nancy Finlay. Published by Wesleyan University Press, 2009. Softcover. Winner of the Ewell L. Newman Award from the American Historical Print Collectors Society (2009). Winner of the Betty M...

A Building History of Northern New England by James Garvin. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Published by University Press of New England, 2001. The first and only full-scale techn...

Arts and Crafts Architecture by Maureen Meister. Hardcover with dust jacket. Published by University Press of New England, 2014. This book offers the first full-scale examination of ...

The Material World of Eyre Hall: Four Centuries of Chesapeake History Edited by Carl R. Lounsbury. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Published by D Giles Ltd, London, 2021. This is ...

A White House of Stone: Building America's First Ideal in Architecture by William Seale. Published by White House Historical Association, 2017. 1st Ed hardcover no dust jacket as pub...

Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave by Joanna Gaines. 1st printing hardcover with dust jacket. The author walks you through how to create a home that reflect...

Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age by Karina Corrigan. 1st Ed hardcover exhibition catalog. Published by Peabody Essex Museum / Yale University, 2015. Hardcov...

The Shipcarvers' Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America by Ralph Sessions. Published by Princeton University Press, 2005. 1s...

The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center Series.) by Carolyn J. Weekley, and Laura Pass Barry. 254 pp. with 173 illustrations, including 131 plates in f...

Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence by Metropolitan Museum of Art. Published by the Yale University Press, 2002. 1st Edition hardcover catalog with dust jacket publishe...

The World of Comets; by Amedee Guillemin, Translated and Edited by James Glaisher. Published in London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877. 1st Ed leather hardcover. Wit...

Little by Little by Nina Fletcher Little. Published by Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1998. An inspiring account of the superb collection of New England cou...