Elephant Up a Tree or Why the Elephants Decided to Remain Elephants Book

Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling. Brilliant blue linen cloth cover with gold embossed cover. Beautiful aesthetic edition to a fine and decorative library, retailed by the Frederick Loeser...

First edition a song of The English by Rudyard Kipling. Original blue cloth with front cover pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. edition of illustrated work by Robi...

Chinoiserie pagoda. Very decorative Italian painted plaster and wood three-tiered pagoda alla Mongiardino emanating from marine inspired grotto base with four masks issuing water in...

Gold metal and ivory silk damask chasuble. Antique Neapolitan gold threaded metallic taping embroidered chasuble on yellow gold and white silk damask with some wear and repairs newly...

Faberge: Court Jeweler to the Tsars Book by Solodkoff, Rizzoli 1984. Fabergé: Court Jeweler to the Tsars Fabergé, Court Jeweler to the Tsars by G. von Habsburg-Lothringen and A. von Solodkoff. New York: Rizzoli, 1979. First English edition hardcover with slip case. 171 pp. A book on the history of Carl Fabergé and his work. For more than 35 years, Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920) was purveyor of exquisite creations in jewels and precious metals to European royalty, most notably Russia and England, and to the wealthy of the world. He was a designer of unsurpassed ingenuity and delicacy. He turned out a profusion of jeweled flowers in rock-crystal pots, enameled cigarette cases, desk sets in multicolored gold, silver and platinum, gold sedan chairs and coronation coaches...

Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus hardcover book, 1950s Edition. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's legendary horror story is presented in an illustra...

The New Clay: Techniques and Approaches to Jewelry Making. A wonderful book, with over 100 color photos, on making intricate beads and jewelry using modeling clays such as "Fimo" and "Sculpey." Everything you need to know to work with the new polymer clays is covered clearly in this book. Excellent working diagrams show how easy it is to make the most complex looking designs. One of the first books...

by Jonathan Bourne and Vanessa Brett Art and literature portray the very different way of life before the introduction of electric light. The daily schedule of previous generations w...