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Bookcases For Sale
Style: Georgian
Style: Arts and Crafts
Gardner & Son circa 1840 Serpentine Fronted Claw & Ball Feet Library Bookcase
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning circa 1840 A Gardner & Son Glasgow flamed mahogany serpentine fronted library bookcase with ornately carved Claw & Ball feet
A very good looking and well made piece, it screams late Georgian decadence. This is one of those pieces that to the untrained eye looks to be quite normal but a quick look closer and you can see the premium timbers, the sublime carving and so it
We have cleaned waxed and polished it from top to bottom, its in good used period order throughout
Dimensions:
Height:- 122cm
Width:- 152cm
Depth:- 42.5cm
Please note all measurements are taken at the widest point
A. Gardner & Son were cabinet makers based at 36 Jamaica Street, Glasgow in Scotland. They built very fine quality antique furniture using...
Category
1840s Scottish Georgian Antique Bookcases
Materials
Hardwood
Original George III circa 1760 Solid Hardwood Corner Cupboard Large Bookcase
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely original George III circa 1760 solid mahogany corner cupboard
A very good looking and decorative piece, its hard to believe that th...
Category
1760s English George III Antique Bookcases
Materials
Hardwood
George IV circa 1820 Hardwood Library Bookcase Inc Drawers Ornate Astral Glazing
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning Astral glazed George IV mahogany library bookcase
This piece has an absolutely stunning timber patina, I've never seen ...
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1820s English George IV Antique Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Hardwood
English George III Mahogany Secretaire Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a fine quality George III Mahogany secretaire breakfront bookcase. Have four doors with arched oval glazing bars open to adjustable interior shelves. Below this, the base...
Category
19th Century English George III Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Arts & Crafts Oak Bookcase with Teardrop Stain Glass, Drawers and Lower Cupboard
Located in London, GB
An Arts & Crafts oak bookcase with a flaring cornice and shaped supports below, teardrop stain glass to the leaded doors with arched tops, and a pair of dr...
Category
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Oak
English Georgian Mahogany Secretary Bookcase
Located in New York, NY
English Georgian (18/19th Century) mahogany secretary bookcase having a 2 glass mullioned doors over multiple drawers & a fall-front center...
Category
19th Century British Georgian Antique Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Portable Polished Brass and Mahogany Cyclopedia Bookshelf with Wheels
Located in New York, NY
The design for Cyclopedia stems from the high wheel bicycles of the 1870s. Unlike most bookshelves, Cyclopedia differentiates itself through its por...
Category
2010s Turkish Arts and Crafts Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Antique English George III "Chinese Chippendale" Bookcase or Display Cabinet
Located in Charleston, SC
Fabulous quality antique English George III diminutive size, carved and fretted mahogany "Chinese Chippendale" bookcase or display cabinet
Please note superbly "blind fretted" and c...
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Late 18th Century English George III Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Arthur Brett George II Mahogany Library Bookcase China Cabinet Carved Eagles
By Arthur Brett
Located in Dayton, OH
Late 20th century George II style library bookcase by Arthur Brett. Made from mahogany with a wide base featuring two six pained doors opening to adjustable shelves over pullout work...
Category
Late 20th Century George II Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Mahogany
English George III Style Book/Display Cabinet
Located in Wilson, NC
English George III Style Book/Display Cabinet has the original broken arch cornice that has carved egg and dart molding. The doors have cross ...
Category
1920s English George III Vintage Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Arts & Crafts Solid Oak Barrister's Stacking Desk Shelf Cabinet
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Quarter Sawn oak English barrister's desk cabinet with sliding panels, 1890-1900. Panels slide effortlessly. Utilitarian understated piece with elegant construction.
Category
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Bookcases
Materials
Oak
18th-19th Century Neoclassical Colonial Padauk Glazed Ebonized Book Case
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A fine and unusual Colonial glazed book case, reeded architectural column supports with neoclassical capitals, tapered and turned reeded legs terminat...
Category
18th Century English George III Antique Bookcases
Materials
Padouk
18th Century English George II Walnut Secretary Bookcase
By Giles Grendey
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a fine quality 18th century English George II walnut secretary bookcase in the manner of Giles Grendey. The shaped mirrored pane...
Category
Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
Contemporary Cyclopedia Bookshelf in Powder Coated Metal and Yellow Terrazzo
Located in New York, NY
The design for Cyclopedia stems from the high wheel bicycles of the 1870s. Unlike most bookshelves, Cyclopedia differentiates itself through its portable structure. This unique piece is a library and a display shelf that can be wheeled and positioned in various locations around the space to meet the owners preference and purpose. This new edition of Cyclopedia is composed of yellow powder coated metal...
Category
2010s Turkish Arts and Crafts Bookcases
Materials
Terrazzo
Early 18th Century George I Figured Walnut Bureau Bookcase
By Peter Miller
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
A superb and exceptionally well proportioned early 18th century figured walnut ‘pagoda topped’ double dome bureau bookcase, circa 1720 England.
The upper section is surmounted with what is believed to be the original solid walnut finials and soft bevelled mirror plates, opening to a removal bank of walnut veneered and feather banded drawers, cantered by pigeonholes below two shelves. Candle slides are neatly stowed below the bookcase doors to reflect the light.
To the moulded bureau, the fall opens to reveal pigeonholes, long and short asymmetric drawers each beautifully veneered in figured walnut and feather banded, cantered by a cupboard door which neatly conceals an open compartment and drawer. Below the fall, two short and two long graduating oak lined drawers are each book-matched in superb sections of hand-cut figured walnut veneers over bun feet.
It should be noted that this exceptional desk and bookcase, is not only of the finest cuts of figured walnut veneer but exquisitely made at the pinnacle of design which had gradually evolved predominantly in London, during the late 17thand early 18thcentury.
The actual description 'desk-and-bookcase' appears to be first recorded in the accounts of the Royal cabinet-maker Gerrit Jensen (fl.1680-d.1715) who supplied several for the Royal Household from 1710 (Bowett, op. cit.), and another described as 'a walnut writing desk, the top for books and patons and glass in the doors asked' for the 5th Earl of Salisbury, Hatfield House. Another maker of this form of desk was the London cabinet-maker John Gumley (1691-1727) who advertised in Richard Steele's Lover on April 24 1714 that he 'hath taken for a Ware-house, and furnished all the upper part of the New Exchange in the Strand' continuing with an extensive list of his stock including 'Desks and Bookcases.' In 1714 he supplied one of these in walnut to James 1st Duke of Montrose for the sum of £11.
Russian cabinetwork of this period was strongly influenced by Tsar Peter I return to Russia after his studies in London. He subsequently sent twenty-four cabinetmakers who were working in Amsterdam to London to train as furniture makers. One of these cabinetmakers named Fedor Martynov made furniture for the Empress Anna Ioannovna. Martynovs drawings are almost identical to the present piece.
Literature
Mallett’s Great English Furniture, London: Bullfinch Press 1991, p.248, fig 287, by Lanto Synge,
English Furniture 1660-1714 From Charles II to Queen Anne, by Dr Adam Bowett,
Woodbridge: Antique Collector’s Club, 2002 Chapter 7 Case Furniture 1689–1714 pp.221-223 fig. 7:53
A walnut bureau bookcase of the same form and period sold from the private collection of Patricia Kluge...
Category
Early 18th Century British George I Antique Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
Liberty & Co. an Arts & Crafts Oak Glazed Bookcase with Stylized Heart Details
Located in London, GB
Liberty & Co. A quality Arts & Crafts oak glazed bookcase with stylized heart details and stylized copper handles, flanked by side shelves with twin architectural supports united to ...
Category
1890s English Arts and Crafts Antique Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Oak
George III Chippendale Period Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase
Located in London, by appointment only
George III Chippendale period mahogany breakfront bookcase.
Having a moulded and dentilled cornice above a fluted frieze, enclosed by a pair of glazed doors flanked by fluted and st...
Category
18th Century British George III Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Pair of Very Important Samuel Pepys 1666 Large Library Bookcases After Original
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this pair of Samuel Pepys 1666 large library bookcases after the original.
These bookcases are basically the birthpla...
Category
20th Century English Georgian Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Hardwood
Mid 18th Century Mahogany and Gilt Display Bookcase
Located in London, GB
An attractive mid-18th century figured mahogany display bookcase with gilt gesso mouldings throughout having dentil moulded cornice above shaped glazed doors and paneled cupboard doo...
Category
Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Three-Tiered Mahogany Set of Shelves or Étagerè
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Three-tiered mahogany shelves or ètagerè with Classic turned finials and supports over dramatic bulbous feet with brass wheels sporting a crisp finish. Big on function and bold in de...
Category
20th Century English Georgian Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Bookcase English, Georgian Style
Located in Toronto, CA
A traditional English bookcase in the Georgian styling, with a Classic arch in the top of the bookcase shelf area. The cabinet is in two pieces top and bottom with the booth being server type cabinet.
Category
20th Century English Georgian Bookcases
Materials
Wood
George III Mahogany and Satinwood Book Cabinet
Located in Essex, MA
Finely constructed with choice veneers with crossbanded top with brass 3/4 gallery over a pair of paneled doors with a pair of opposing doors with pleated fabric, each corner with re...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century Irish George II Mahogany Secretaire Cabinet manner of Giles Grendy
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a fine quality 18th century George II Irish mahogany secretaire cabinet in the manner of Giles Grendy. The shaped mirror panels doors opening ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Irish George II Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Georgian 18th Century Mahogany Bureau Bookcase Cabinet
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very attractive and good quality George III period mahogany bureau
bookcase having unusual castellated and carved cornice above pair of 13
pane astragal glazed doors, superbly figured flap and four long drawers
with replacement brass oval plate handles raised on original shaped bracket
feet
(A fine example of a functional and elegant Georgian bureau bookcase...
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Chinoiserie Bureau Bookcase
Located in Martlesham, GB
An impressive chinoiserie bureau bookcase on a red background, the carcass itself 18th century but lacquered in the early 20th century, hav...
Category
1920s British Georgian Vintage Bookcases
Materials
Lacquer
George III English Thomas Chippendale Brown Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Dublin, GB
A superb George III Chippendale period mahogany breakfront library bookcase, the raised architectural pediment, with a detailed moulded edge, above arched Gothic glazed doors carved with acanthus, resting on a raised paneled door base with a deep plate-form base, (a design often seen in Thomas Chippendale work).
Footnote: The design for this bookcase can be seen in the life and works of Thomas Chippendale by Christopher Gilbert page 41 figure 65, as one of four bookcases commissioned by Sir Rowland Winn for his London townhouse in St James Square, or at Nostell Priory.
Category
1760s English George III Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
18 Century English Sheraton George III Satinwood Cabinet Bookcase, circa 1785
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A classic period Sheraton English satinwood and tulipwood China display case or bookcase the upper section with dentil cornice above a pair of astra...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Bookcases
Materials
Satinwood
Fine Antique 18th Century Rosewood Bureau Bookcase
Located in Suffolk, GB
Fine antique 18th century rosewood bureau bookcase having a magnificent top section with a shaped moulded swan neck pediment, two shaped doors both wi...
Category
18th Century English George III Antique Bookcases
Materials
Rosewood
19C Irish Georgian Style Secretary Bookcase
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING a STUNNING 19C Irish Georgian Style Secretary Bookcase.
From circa 1850-60 and most definitely, “IRISH”.
Made of gorgeous flamed Cuban mahogany which would have been imported from the British Colonies at the end of the 18th Century and early 19th Century.
This piece of is of IMPRESSIVE PROPORTIONS ….. it is a real STATEMENT piece and EXTREMELY HIGH QUALITY !
It has a very ‘Regency Style’ pelmet or crown with egg and dart moldings under a very straight line crown.
The top section consists of a 4 door bookcase, each with 3 shelving areas. It appears to retain it’s original glass, but it could likewise have been replaced at some time during it’s long life, as it is very rare to find pieces that have not suffered breakages over 150+ years.
Each bookcase door still retains the original moldings to the front with a star shape above and below a central circular viewing panel.
Each section is separated by a carved and fluted roman column/pillar.
The bookcase section rests on top of the base, which consists of a beautiful central secretaire desk accessed by drop down front with working lock and key and rests on 2 pull out rests on either side. The secretary portion has a central tabernacle, with an inlaid oval satinwood medallion above another scallop shell drawer. It has 6 smaller drawers and 8 cubbies. The 2 pillars on either side of the central tabernacle are secret drawers and pull out. The curved crowns above the cubbies on either side are likewise secret drawers and pull out.
Either side of the secretary there are 2 drawers (4 total) with a press or cupboard underneath.
Under the secretary there are 4 large central drawers.
The brasses and hardware are all original to the piece (save 2 extra hinges that have been attached to the drop down secretary to give it more support and stability.
Again, each section is separated by a turned and fluted column/pillar which replicates the 2 side pillars to the central tabernacle of the secretary.
The piece sits on 8 curved feet.
This was an extremely high quality piece when made. This is also supported by the fact that the secondary woods are also mahogany and not pine or oak for slightly lesser quality pieces of the era.
This piece is specifically identifiable as an Irish Georgian Style piece by virtue of the scallop shell moldings on the base side presses (see photos).
Irish Georgian furniture...
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Mid-19th Century Irish George III Antique Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Mahogany, Satinwood
George III Style Mahogany Bibliotec
Located in Houston, TX
A handsome Italian George III flame mahogany bookcase with three upper glass door cabinets, adjustable shelves, three base cabinet doors with three pullout or pull-out shelves and go...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian George III Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany, Giltwood
Fine Georgian Mahogany Inlaid Library Bookcase, circa 1800
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A wonderfully impressive, fine quality early 19th century Georgian mahogany break fronted library bookcase, having molded cornice with carved button decoration above five diamond pattern astrical glazed doors, each with scrolling foliate inlaid decoration, opening to reveal adjustable shelves within. The five paneled doors...
Category
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
George III Thomas Chippendale Hardwood Bookcase on Serpentine Chest Drawers
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning George III Thomas Chippendale style mahogany bookcase on serpentine chest of drawers
A glorious find, truly stunning, after original Thomas...
Category
19th Century English George III Antique Bookcases
Materials
Hardwood
19th Century English Pine Cabinet
Located in Pasadena, CA
19th century English pine cabinet with pair of large glass doors. Black painted interior and dark trim through front of front face. Simple cove moulding on top edge and feet. The she...
Category
19th Century English Georgian Antique Bookcases
Materials
Pine
Georgian Style Bubble Glass Satinwood Inlay Mahogany Bookcase Breakfront Cabinet
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Exceptional 1940s English Georgian style custom bubble glass two-piece mahogany breakfront. This bookcase features individual panes of bubble glass, drop front writing desk surface w...
Category
1940s American Georgian Vintage Bookcases
Materials
Brass
20th Century Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a good quality four door breakfront bookcase of small proportions. The top of the bookcase has four glazed doors each opening to reveal adjustable shelves. Below this, in...
Category
Early 20th Century English George III Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
George III Style Mahogany, Satinwood and Marquetry Bookcase, 19th Century
Located in Savannah, GA
19th century George III style mahogany, satinwood and marquetry bookcase on stand, having a broken arch pediment with fan inlays above the frieze inl...
Category
19th Century English George III Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
George II Irish Brown Mahogany Bureau Bookcase
Located in Dublin, GB
A fine George II Irish mahogany blind door bureau bookcase
The open fret work swan neck cornice outside a carved giltwood Irish cartouche, above two shaped raised panel doors, wit...
Category
1740s Irish George II Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Georgian Mahogany 18th Century Library Secretaire Bookcase
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very good quality 18th century mahogany secretaire bookcase of diminutive proportion having 13 pane astragal glazed doors above secretaire drawer and three long drawers with replac...
Category
Mid-18th Century English George III Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
George II Walnut Slant Front Bureau Bookcase / Secretary
Located in Woodbury, CT
George II walnut and walnut burl slant front bureau bookcase / secretary with original hand beveled mirrored doors on bracket feet. Upper cabinet with candle slides conceals book she...
Category
18th Century British George II Antique Bookcases
Materials
Walnut, Burl
Irish Georgian Secretary
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine and unusual 18th century Irish mahogany bureau bookcase, the pierced gallery top with Gothic details, the pilasters and door with rich and crisply carved shell and foliate desig...
Category
1750s Irish Georgian Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mercury Glass, Mahogany
George III Style Satinwood and Harewood Display Bookcase
Located in London, GB
A fine quality George III Style satinwood harewood and tulipwood crossbanded bow fronted display bookcase, by J.Hicks of Dublin, having moulded cornice and glazed doors with husk and roundel gilt inlaid waist moulding above carved gilt gadrooned edged base, having three crossbanded drawers, flanked by matching husk and roundel inlaid columns. The bookcase having serpentine sides, the upper section with ribbon bows holding leaf fronds, the lower inlaid with classical urns surmounted by pineapple finials, supported on gilt metal acanthus leaf feet.
Further information:
James Hicks was born into a family of Dublin chair-makers and was trained in London in the cabinet making workshops on Tottenham Court Road. On his return to Dublin he set up business in Lower Pembroke Street in 1894 and established what was to become one of the city's leading cabinet-making firms. His clients included Princess Victoria, the Crown Princess of Sweden, and Kind Edward VII. The firm specialised in high quality copies of pieces in the styles of Sheraton, Hepplewhite, Chippendale styles as well as pieces in the style of the prominent 18th Century Dublin cabinet-maker and marqueteur William Moore. Hicks described himself as a 'Cabinet Manufacturer, Collector and Restorer of Chippendale, Adam and Sheraton furniture...
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Early 20th Century Northern Irish George III Bookcases
Materials
Tulipwood, Harewood, Satinwood
Beautiful and Stylish Wooden Dutch Arts & Crafts Display Cabinet / Glass Case
Located in Lisse, NL
Stunning antique cupboard and display cabinet or bookcase by one of Holland's finest.
If you are looking for a truly stylish and top quality crafted, solid wood showcase then this u...
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Early 20th Century Dutch Arts and Crafts Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Heals. A Limed Oak Bureau Bookcase of Slim Proportions on Sledge Style Feet.
By Heal's
Located in London, GB
Heals. A limed oak bureau bookcase of slim proportions on sledge style feet reminiscent of the Cotswold School. A glazed upper section, fold down writ...
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1930s English Arts and Crafts Vintage Bookcases
Materials
Oak
Antique and Meaningful Dutch Arts & Crafts Bookcase w. Learning Theme Sculptures
Located in Lisse, NL
Unique three-door Arts & Crafts bookcase / book shelves with hand carved sculptural door panels.
If you are looking for a truly stylish and top quality crafted bookcase, then this ...
Category
Early 20th Century Dutch Arts and Crafts Bookcases
Materials
Bronze, Brass
English George II Style Chest of Drawers, Bookcase and Drop Down Desk
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A truly magnificent mahogany George II style bookcase fitted writing desk and a chest of drawers. The upper section having numerous folio/file drawers and compartments, a leather lin...
Category
Late 19th Century English George II Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Custom Georgian Style Breakfront Secretary in Mahogany and Burl
Located in Bridgeport, CT
With a carved overhanging top over a three-part step back case. Each section with mullioned wavy glass doors and lined in ecru moire. A total of eight adjustable shelves with carved ...
Category
20th Century Unknown Georgian Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Liberty & Co. Arts & Crafts Oak Bookcase Stain Glass and Copper Hinges & Handles
Located in London, GB
Liberty and Co, attributed. A good Arts & Crafts oak bookcase with typical extending upper cupboard sections, the doors with rotating floral designs to the stain glass with hand hammered copper hinges...
Category
Late 19th Century English Arts and Crafts Antique Bookcases
Materials
Copper
Arts and Crafts Oak Glazed Bookcase with inset period tiles
Located in London, GB
An Arts and Crafts oak bookcase with extended upper sides and inset with original Tulip tiles with stylized floral cut-outs. Adjustable book/display shelves to the left and a stain g...
Category
Early 20th Century Arts and Crafts Bookcases
Materials
Oak
Liberty & Co. A Slim Arts & Crafts Walnut Bookcase with Stylised Copper Hinges
Located in London, GB
Liberty & Co. A Slim Arts & Crafts walnut bookcase with open upper shelves and cupboards below with stylised brass hinges.
Measurements are to the cornice.
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Late 19th Century English Arts and Crafts Antique Bookcases
Materials
Brass
English Mahogany Breakfront
Located in Woodbury, CT
This very large English breakfront features classic Chippendale design flourishes. From the broken pediment crown to the arcaded cavetto moul...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary British Georgian Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Italian Olive Burl Wood Cabriole Leg Bombay Drop Front Secretary with Bookcase
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Very fine craftsmanship Italian made burl wood drop front secretary.
Category
20th Century Italian Arts and Crafts Bookcases
Materials
Olive, Burl
English Walnut Glazed Door Breakfront
Located in Woodbury, CT
We designed this breakfront to bridge the style gap between antique and modern. Using clean lines and traditional glazing, we gave a nod toward the 18th century and covered it in a t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Georgian Bookcases
Materials
Walnut, Burl
English Mahogany Secretary With Mirrored Bookcase. Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
English mahogany secretary with mirrored bookcase. Secretary has a upper case broken pediment top with dental molding, original mirrored doors, c...
Category
1780s English George III Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century George III Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a top quality George III mahogany breakfront bookcase. The top of the bookcase has flour glazed doors, each opening to reveal a fitted interior. The centre doors open to display various pigeon holes over several drawers. Each side door encloses two shelves, over two sliding trays, above two drawers. Below this, the base section has two ebony and mahogany cupboard doors to the centre, flanked by four mahogany lined, graduated drawers on either side. All of the drawers and cupboards are fitted with Bramah Locks, and the piece is in excellent condition having been refinished using traditional methods.
Bramah locks were designed by Joseph Bramah in 1784, a true innovator of the time. Bramah locks were renowned for their resistance to lock picking...
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Early 19th Century English George III Antique Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Contemporary Console /Sideboard YPSILON by Studio 1+11 , 21st Century, Germany
By Wim Yanov
Located in Berlin, DE
Console /Sideboard "YPSILON" by Studio 1+11 is made out of stained ash-tree in black. As the name reveals, it is possible to recognize the letter Y by looki...
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21st Century and Contemporary German Arts and Crafts Bookcases
Materials
Ash
18th Century Irish Georgian Palladian Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Essex, MA
George II Palladian mahogany breakfront bookcase, 18th century
The broken swan's-neck pediment with gadroon- and dentil-carved bands terminating in a foliate roundel, above a like-carved frieze over two central doors, each inset with a shaped mirrored panel, flanked to either side by a single door, featuring a finely carved floral festoon, centered by fluted Corinthian pilasters, opening to a shelved interior, the lower section fitted with a drop-front secretary drawer opening to an inset leather writing surface and a variety of drawers and cubbyholes, flanked to either side by two small drawers, over two paneled cupboard doors, the side sections each fitted with four graduated drawers, raised on a plinth base.
This design is similar to those found in William Salmon's, "Palladio Londinensis."
Reference this exact piece in "The Antiques Directory Furniture," General Editors, Judith and Martin Miller, Portland House, New York, 1985, page 118 Breakfront (C Price Classification: "An Early George III mahogany breakfront secretaire bookcase, with shaped bevelled glazed cupboard doors, flanked by outer doors carved with Corinthian pilasters, lower section with secretaire drawer")
Provenance: Williams Antiques...
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Mid-18th Century Irish Georgian Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century English Breakfront Mahogany Library Bookcase
Located in London, GB
A Fine and Elegant Breakfront Library Bookcase in the Thomas Sheraton Manner
In Honduras mahogany with delicate and restrained inlay in satinwood, the lower cupboards, have inlaid...
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18th Century British George III Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany, Glass
Early 18th Century Solid Walnut English Bureau Bookcase
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A delightful early 18th century solid walnut bureau bookcase having attractive
double domed top with replacement mirror plates to panelled doors
enclosing well fitted interior abov...
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Early 18th Century English Georgian Antique Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
Vintage, New and Antique Bookcases
As long as curious people have collected stories, we have needed a place to stow them away and preserve them. When auction houses and book dealers proliferated by the late 17th century, the bibliophile was born. And, of course, as with any treasured objects, a book lover’s volumes were suddenly worthy of a luxurious display — enter the bookcase. Americans of means during the 19th century took to amassing art as well as rare books, and antique bookcases of the era, rife with hand-carved decorative accents and architectural motifs, were ideal for displaying their handsome leather-bound wares.
Although our favorite titles may change over the years, the functionality and beauty of their home within our home is timeless. Whether you proudly shelve your books in regal mahogany or behind glass cabinet doors, a bookcase — or perhaps more than one — is essential to creating a cozy nook for any book lover. Even those who don’t covet the perfect home library can benefit from an attractive display case, as bookcases can easily double as charming étagères.
Contemporary and customizable options make it easier for you to find the perfect bookcase for your style and stacks. If you don’t wish to fill your storage piece so that your collection is snug within its confines, incorporate extra space to allow for additional displays and decorative objects. And by introducing a striking dark wood Art Deco bookcase or low-profile mid-century modern design by Paul McCobb into your living room, your signed first editions won’t be the only items making a statement.
Find your dream bookcase on 1stDibs now.
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