Softcover. Hong Kong, Christie's Hong Kong,, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 88 pages, 55 lots. Comprehensive catalogue accompanying the Christie's Hong Kong special auction of the Tianhe Shanfang collection, held May 30, 2005. All items illustrated with color photography, accompanied by detailed descriptions and historic information, with value estimates in HK and US dollars. Clean, like new.
Softcover. Bosto/NY/Philadelphis, Lame Duck Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 136 pages, illustrated in color. Beautiful catalog with many color illustrations. Wonderful reference for books you'll probably never run across at your local library sale. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Lausanne SW, Swiss Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Magazine format, 8 X 10 1/2", pages 251-324 plus 64 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include Some Experiments on Friction, Antique clocks of Vienna, Swiss self-winding watches, An Astronomical Clock of Modern Conception, watch case repairs, and more. Mild wear, excellent condition, no markings.
Hardcover. Plesant Plain OH, David Zimmerman, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 268 pages illustrated in color. A visual reference for all kinds of tins for coffee, peanut butter, cocoa, tea, and various other food products. Also tins for spices, tobacco, cosmetics talcum powder, soap, typewriter ribbons, needles, pens, medicines, etc. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. A comprehensive guide to nearly 4000 years of sword making from all over the world. Written by a distinguished team of experts and scholars, it provides an expert appraisal of the weapons themselves and is rich in historical and background detail. Fully illustrated throughout with photographs and art reproductions, this is a unique survey of a vast body of superb craftsmanship. It is an essential reference work for weapons enthusiasts, collectors and lovers of military history and fine art.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs. Foxing to endpapers, with faint darkening to page edges. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 450 pages, b&w illustrations, diagrams throughout.Dust jacket with minor edgewear.
Softcover. Watford UK, Argus Books, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages. Revised by ERnerst Steel and Martin Evans with new drawings in this edition.
Softcover. Hartford CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. White wraps with color illustration and black lettering; 80 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w and color. Exhibition curator J. Herbert Callister. 49 works in the exhibition.
Softcover. Lausanne SW, Swiss Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Magazine format, 8 X 10 1/2", pages 97-170 plus 58 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include The Breguet Spring, The Swiss watch in India, Machine for winding and testing self-winding watches, and more. Mild wear, chipping to paper on spine, excellent condition, no markings.
Hardcover. Paris, Chez Castel, 2nd pr., 1858, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, VIII-352 pages plus a 70 page supplement. Title printed in red & black. Original 1/2 leather, with marbled boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilded decorations. This is the 2nd. and much enlarged edition. A very useful volume in the scarce field of book repair. FRENCH TEXT. Leather corners show light wear, small scar to front panel, otherwise a very good, clean volume.
Softcover. New York, Christie's, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Non-Paginated. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Marion, MA, N/A, N/A, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, b&w photographs. Green cloth covers w/ small gilt lettering. Missing front fly leaf, previous owner's markings on some pages. Foxing/staining to end papers, covers and edges; else pages clean.
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