1930s Collectibles and Curiosities

Author Simon Jenkins The acclaimed best-selling author and popular historian explores the history of Europe via its cathedrals. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs throughout, this joyous exploration of the history of Western civilization showcases the cathedral’s central role in the European imagination. A masterful writer, Jenkins tells the stories behind these stone wonders: the architects that made them possible, the triumphs of engineering, the artists who enriched their décor, and the inevitable human follies of those who were involved in their building, from the artisans and workers to the wealthy donors and the faithful who worshipped beneath their soaring spires and majestic domes. Simon Jenkins is the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of best-selling works that make history accessible. Blending insight and authority with personal reflections and experiences, he deftly reveals the history, design, and significance of each of these enduring monuments to the human spirit from popular favorites like St. Paul’s and the Duomo in Florence to less well-known masterpieces well worth a trip. Europe’s cathedrals are treasure troves of art and repositories of history that attract hundreds or thousands of visitors every year. About The Author Simon Jenkins is author of many bestsellers including A Short History of England, A Short History of Europe, A Short History of London, England’s Thousand Best Churches, and England’s Cathedrals...

Sotheby's New York: Antiquities and Islamic Art, 1990. Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Western Asiatic Antiquities and Islamic Works of Art. 230 lots. Sotheby's London: Antiquit...

The first complete illustrated bibliography of 1,000 iconic photobooks created by members of the renowned photo agency This fascinating in-depth survey brings Magnum's history alive through the genre of the photobook, an essential vehicle for photographers to share their work. Its pages include unpublished behind-the-scenes material, together with ephemera from the photographers' archives about the making of their books. With an introduction by Fred Ritchin and texts by Carole Naggar, this book explores the evolution of the photobook, as well as the important role that Magnum has played in the history of documentary photography. "If the photographic life were a treasure hunt, The Magnum Photobook is a rightfully vaunted treasure chest. Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's introduction expanded my understanding of how the photobook, as expressed early and continuously by Magnum photographers, plays a critical role in defining and expressing a photographer's voice beyond the settings of assignment-based work. Then learning about the creation of each book is the richest of rewards, made all the more so by a final section of the book that shows the early iterations of many of the photobooks. This book about books is one that I must have in the library." —Mike Davis...

This is the hardback Sotheby's sale catalogue which was produced for the sale of the late first ladies possessions in April 1996. The sale featured, furniture, paintings, jewellery, porcelain, letters, photographs and other Memorabilia from the time that she was first lady and married to President Kennedy. The sale total was in excess of $34 million. In excellent condition and something that collectors of Kennedy memorabilia...

Poul Kjærholm was a Danish designer and architect who is known for his contributions to modern furniture design. Kjærholm was born in 1929 in Denmark and studied at the Danish School...

This is the Sotheby's catalogue produced for the sale of Patricia Kluge's collection from Albemarle House, Charlottesville, Virginia - which took place ...

Life Cast Bronze Model/Sculpture of a Human Skull Signed and copyrighted Indistinctly, possibly by Maxilla and Mandible Ltd. New York Realistically cast and modled, in two parts with upper and lower jaws. This skull vanity (or vanitas) is a representative scientific model or a 'memento mori' , which was informed popular thinking during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance about human mortality. This sculpture/ model was made from a real human skull...

"MENTMORE" Buckinghamshire Country House Sale 1977. Sotheby's Auction Catalogs, a set of 4. The catalogs from what is was possibly the greatest English country house sale ever conduc...

19th century cast iron boot jack, with jacks on both ends and legs on both sides. Brown Brothers Foundry, patented May 18, 1869. 12" x 5". Collector's p...

Standard catalogue of World Paper Money by Albert Pick. Lola: Krause Publications, 1986. Fifth edition hardcover. 1087 pp. A catalogue that lists all paper...

By Patricia Reed William Nicholson (1872-1949) is among the most admired and elusive painters in the history of British art. Neither academic nor overtly modernist, his ravishing paintings are a singular achievement of the early twentieth century. Nicholson made his name as a graphic artist in the 1890s before turning to painting full-time. Over the next four decades he explored the genres of portraiture, landscape and still life with exceptional inventiveness, wit and technical skill. Yet his aversion to art groups and his reluctance to make public pronouncements about art have made it difficult to place his work within the main narratives of twentieth-century art history. The breadth of Nicholson's painting is revealed in this sumptuous book, the first fully illustrated catalogue raisonné of the oils. Many of Nicholson's pictures have not been recorded before and most are reproduced here for the first time. The catalogue, which represents more than twenty years of scholarship on the part of its author, Patricia Reed, includes detailed entries on all Nicholson's oil paintings and the most comprehensive chronology of his life to date. The art historian Wendy Baron gives a context for Nicholson in British art at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the painter and critic Merlin James...

Masterpieces of Modern Architecture. Published by Barnes & Noble of New York in 2006. Hardcover book with dustjacket. 303 pages.