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American Furniture, the Federal Period by Charles F. Montgomery. New York: Crown Publishing, 1978. Hardcover with dust jacket. 496 pp. A large reference book on American federal period furniture...

Antiques investigator, tips and tricks to help you find the real deal for antiques and collectibles, written by the UK antiques expert Judith Miller. ...

Skinner's Horse by Philip Mason. Harper & Row, New York, 1979. Stated First American Edition hardcover with dust jacket. James Skinner, a half-caste officer in early 19th century Ind...

Christo and More SMS A Collection of Multiples 'William N. Copley, 1968' S.M.S. is an art collection in a box that was available by subscription in 1968. Through February and December, subscribers were mailed six issues containing assorted works of art curated by William N. Copley. The portfolios consist of “original reproductions" by 73 artists including William Copley, Christo, Marcel Duchamp, Roy Lichtenstein, Joseph Kosuth, Walter de Maria, Yoko Ono, Lawrence Weiner, Richard Artschwager, Man Ray, Bruce Nauman, John Cage, Terry Riley and more. S.M.S. included renowned and unknown artists side by side. As form of protest against galleries, S.M.S. made contemporary art affordable and accessible at a modest price of $125.00 per subscription. The portfolios are all kept in their original display covers. Edition of approximately 2,000 published by Letter Edged in Black Press. Volume No. 1 February 1968 Little Box of Earthquake and Cotton (cover), Irving Penn; Black Dress, James Lee Byars; Chicago Project…, Walter de Maria; My Country ‘Tis of Thee, Kasper Konig; Luggage Labels Nancy Reitkopf; Project for a Bridge, Sue Braden; A Postcard for Mother, Richard Hamilton; Two Propositions in Black, Le Monte Young and Marian Zazeela; Store Front, Christo; Sol Mednick; Pharmaceuticals, Julian Levy. Volume No. 2 April 1968 Seven Minute Recording of Contapetrie, a surrealist word game (cover), Marcel Duchamp; The Mirror of Genoveva, Meret Oppenheim; Three Color Separations, Alain Jacquet; A Two-Year-Old Girl Choked to Death Today on an Easter Egg, Ray Johnson; A Proposed Comic Section for the New York Times, Bernard Pfreim; Farwell to Faust, George Reavey; Album, Clovis Trouille; Legal Tender, Bruce Conner; 10 collages, Marcia Hertscovitz; Cynocephalus & Co., Nicolas Calas. Volume No. 3 June 1968 Untitled abstract landscapes (cover), John Battan; Clouds, William Bryant (Bill Copley); Ode to London, Dick Higgens; Two Drawings, Ronnie Landfield; Bush in Hand, Roland Penrose; The Father of Mona Lisa, Man Ray, signed and numbered; Glove, Enrico Baj; Four Titled Abstracts, Joseph Kosuth; Correspondence, H.C. Westerman; Signal Flag Poem, Hannah Weiner; Poppy Nogoods All Night Flight, Terry Riley; Poems, Atograf. Volume No. 4 August 1968 Untitled (cover), Robert Stanley; Drift Study 4:37:4:05:09:50 5 VII 68, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela; Permanent Parking Decal, Robert Watts; 100 Year Calendar, On Kawara; Lichtenstein Hat, Roy Lichtenstein; Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) continued, John Cage; Phenakistiscope, Hollis Frampton...

Cardboard cover titled 'Ethnographica in het Museum van het Bataviaasch Genootschap' including 12 plates of ethnographic items of Batavia including: 1) Carved door, from Talaga, Cheribon. 2) Carved door, from the Dewa-temple. 3) Achenese weapons. 4) Pouches for Sirih-Ingredients. 5) Bronze objects. 6) Bronze objects. 7) Large broad axes, made of bronze. 8) Details of the ornamentation of the axes. 9) Details of the ornamentation on the back of the axes. 10) Golden bowl...

Apter-Fredericks Important English Furniture 2012 Catalog by Harry & Guy Apter. Apter - Fredericks, London, 2012. Apter Fredericks had been operating from the same site in Chelsea si...

Jonas Lie (1880-1940), by William H. and Carol Lowrey Gerdts. Spanierman gallery, 2005. First Edition hardcover. 120 page exhibition catalog, in color with some fold-out examples of ...

Christie's: Bernard Blondeel and Armand Deroyan Important Tapestries and Carpets London 4/2/03 Sale #6752. The catalog consists of 152 pages with 73 lots illustrated in color and des...

Thomas Tompion His Life and Work by R.W. Symonds. New York: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1951. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 320 pp. Thomas Tompion (...

Cardboard cover titled 'Platen behoorende bij De Atjèhers van Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje' including 12 plates of Aceh (or Atjeh, Indonesia) with a total of 27 images. The plates include...

Sotheby's the collections of Hanns and Elisabeth Weinberg & the Antique Company of New York, November 2006. 468 pages, 738 lots of important Europe...

Color and light: Luminous atmospheres for painted rooms by Donald Kaufman. Clarkson Potter, New York, New York, 1999. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket....

‘American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’ by Albert TenEyck Gardner. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1965. First Edition, 1st printing...

An exhibition catalogue of R.B. Kitaj's paintings and drawings from his 1995 Marlborough Gallery solo show. This is a beautiful monograph of his provocative and eccentric images repr...

Sotheby's: The Roger Whittaker collection. Softcover auction catalogue. 152 pp. paintings, furniture and works of art collected by Roger Whittaker during his life as an international...

Collecting antique metalware by Evan Perry. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, USA, 1974. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. With...

Christie's: Fine and Decorative Arts: The Maurice & Margo Cohen Collection. Important 20th Century Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture, New York, May 1999. 194 pp., illus. Works by Otto ...

A group of three auction catalogues from the Christie's New York 'Interiors' sales. The Interior sale catalogues are noted for their in-depth writings and beautiful full-color pho...

Secreet-Boeck, by Abraham Canin, Dordrecht, 1601 Titel: Secreet-Boeck, Waer in vele diversche secreten ende heerlicke consten in veelderleye verscheyden materien, seker Latijnsche,...

Fine French and Continental Furniture Including European Works of art and tapestries, ceramics and carpets April 27, 2007. Sotheby's 1st Ed softcover. 467 lots in color, 324 pp. With...

Two catalogues on the furniture of Georgia. 1.) Neat Pieces, The Plain-Style Furniture of 19th Century Georgia. Atlanta: Atlanta Historical Society, 1983. First edition softcover. 20...

Henri Rousseau dit Le Douanier by Jean-Marie Lo Duca, Paris. Paris: Syndicat de la Propriété Artistique, 1951. 1 first edition softcover portfolio. Unpaginated. Portfolio of work by ...

The Terror : The Return of Dr Palfrey by John Creasey. Walker and Company 1966, New York. 1st Ed hardcover. The story of the near-panic that strikes the world's governments when an u...

Guide to Russian Works of Art Paulson, by Paul and Maria Paulson. Self published, Washington D. C., 1980, by Apollo Books. 117 pp. softcover first edition. With black and white illus...

First edition, published by Høst & Søns Forlag København, 1954 An important document of Danish chair design during the early 1950s, showing many of the aesthetic and technological...

Irish Houses and Castles by Desmond Guinness and William Ryan. NY: The Viking Press, 1974. Hardcover with dust jacket. 352 pp. In this book Desmond Guiness, President of the Irish Ge...

Chinese Export Porcelain, Standard Patterns and Forms, 1780-1880 by Herbert, Peter, and Nancy Schiffer. West Chester: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1975. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacke...

"IL MOBILE EMILIANO"book by Luisa Bandera. Novara: Istituto Geografico De Agostini, 1997. Reprint from 1972 edition hardcover with dust jacket. Hardcover with dust jacket. 203 pp. It...

Richard Parkes Bonington 'On the Pleasure of Painting' by Patrick Noon. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 315 pp. A large book on the ...

The Work of William Lawrence Bottomley in Richmond. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1985. Signed by the author, first edition hardcover...

Candleholders in America, 1650-1900 by Joseph T. Butler. NY: Bonanza Books, 1967. First edition thus hardcover with dust jacket. 178 pp. 136 full-page photos of candlesticks, candela...

Christie's Mobilier et Objets d'Art, tableaux Anciens et du xixeme Siecle, Ceramiques Europeans et Verre. 8 Novembre 2005. First Edition softcover. Christie's catalog contains 230 p...

Produced in 1959 this catalogue in sort covers introduced what was then "Dunbar's new executive office collection" which had been designed by Edward Wormley. The introduction states...

This is an extremely rare bound set of the 12 ART, GOUT, BEAUTE monthly fashion magazines from 1924. It was noted or its superb art deco pochoir illustrations, some of which were dou...

A soft covered catalogue produced by the Vitra Design Museum having 182 pages with 99 black & white illustrations and 29 full colour plates and text in german. Showcasing the work of...

This rare book was privately published in 1961 by the then owner of the property Arturo Lopez-Willshaw, only 300 were published to be given to friends. This copy which is number 36, which was a gift to Salvador Dali and his wife.. The Lopez-Willshaw's were member of the cafe society centred around Paris, they were fabulously wealthy and furnished the house with museum quality pieces of furniture and art. He was a particular friend of one of the other members of the cafe society - Baron Alexis de Rede...

Heritage of England: Silver Through Ten Reigns by James Charles. London: Asprey and Co., 1983. First edition hardcover, no dust jacket as issued. Exhibit...

Signed First Edition, Published by Madison Square Press, New York, 1967. Arguably his greatest single work, ‘November Girl’ continues to exert a powerful and widespread influence on...

Christie's: Catalogue Library at Gaiter's Green & Fine English Furniture, March 2003. Softcover catalogue with results. 353 lots of beautiful period English furniture and accessories...

This is the important monograph on Guglielmo Ulrich which was published in 2009. With over 500 pages having 667 illustrations which include - color and black and white photographs as...

Wrought iron and its decorative use by Maxwell Ayrton and Arnold Silcock. New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1929. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 196 pp. An informative reference book...

American Furniture, The Federal Period by Charles F. Montgomery. New York: The Viking Press, 1966. Hardcover with dust jacket. 496 pp. A large reference book on American federal period furniture...

Paintings drawings and sculpture in the Phoenix Art Museum collection by James Harithas, Compiler. Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 1965. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 226 pages. Of...

Sotheby’s fine English furniture decorations and carpets including property of the Late Perry Ellis, New York, June 1987. 234 lots in color and b & w. NPT Books a division of N.P. Tr...

Technical Drawings for Swedish Furniture A set of two pamphlets dated 1926 which show drawings for Empire and Baroque furniture. The text is in Swedish and there are 53 plates in tot...

White Towers by Paul Hirshorn and Steven Izenour. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1979. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 189 pp. A photographic essay of the iconic designs for the White Tower Hamburger Restaurants. The chain was founded in 1926 by John E. Saxe and Thomas E. Saxe in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It peaked in popularity during the 1950s when the company achieved 230 store locations...

DeLorenzo 1950, Jean Prouve/Serge Mouille, 1985 exhibition catalog.

Fine Porcelain & Pottery, The Best of the World's Beautiful China by Stanley W. Fisher. New York: Galahad Books, 1974. Hardcover and dust jacket with a protective glassine wrap. A pi...

Splendors of Hard Stones, The Court Art in Florence of the Grand Dukes by Annamarie Giusti. Florence: Giunti Publishing. 1st Edition paper back with text in Italian, 1988. 278 pp. An...

Cape Furniture by M. G. Atmore. Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1965. Hardcover with dust jacket. 244 pp. A comprehensive study of antique furniture made in Cape Cod Massachusetts. It includes chapters on chairs, seated furniture, tables and sideboards, cupboards and cabinets, armoires and wardrobes...

Design in America: the Cranbrook vision, 1925-1950 by Robert Judson Clark. Abrams, in association with the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Metropol...

A very useful and interesting pamphlet dating from 1930 which was produced by the Morgan Woodwork Organization to show the designs for Colonial style of Woodwork and how it should be...

London Interiors, from the Archives of Country Life by John Cornforth by John Cornforth. London: Aurum Press Limited. First edition hardcover with dust jacket, 2000. 192 pp. A photographic archive of the past century by the magazine "Country Life" of houses as they were in the past. It covers artists in Holland Park studios...

Rex Whistler had an amazing career which was cut short when at the age of just 39, he was killed in action during the second world war. During his short twenty year career he encompassed all areas of art and design - from sets for theatre and ballet, book illustrations his most famous being Gulliver's Travels, mural painting in large country houses and portrait painting. He designed the Cafe for the Tate Gallery, did posters for Shell Petroleum, he created designs for Wedgwood china and the wall murals he did for Lady Edwina Mountbatten...

Extremely rare set of Georges Braque archives maquettes books and lithographs created with the publisher 'Au Vent d'Arles', Paris. The set is composed with: - L'Ordre des Oiseaux (...

17th Century Dutch Book, Oost-Indien, 1694 by Frikius, Hesse and Schweitzer, Simon de Vries Dutch translation by Simon de Vries of the accounts of three Ge...

Collecting American 19th century silver by Katherine Morrison McClinton. New York: Bonanza Books, 1968. Hardcover with dust jacket, 280 pp. A survey of 19th century American silver...

A hard back book published in 1946, about household furniture, its construction and room sets designed around it. As Europe was struggling to get back to some sort of normality the f...