Antiques & Collectibles

Hardcover. Lockport NY , self-published, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 204 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w. Scrupulously detailed guide to over 600 North American railroad china patterns. Each pattern is clearly illustrated with a close-up photo of the logo, border and backmarks. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos plus almost 40 pages of color photos showing 300 of the patterns. The Guide also covers railroad station restaurant and eating house ware, electric street railway and streetcar china, and select patterns from railroad connected ferry boat services. With pricing information for each pattern, rarity scale, information on manufacturers and how to decode their marks, and advice for the beginner on how and what to collect. Still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Atglen PA, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 9 1/2" x 12, 250 pages. A handsome volume with over 450 illustrations of the world's finest wristwatches produced by the top 17 watch houses. Includes Blancpain, Breguet, Cartier, Audemars Piguet, Baume & Mercier, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Rolex, Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, Chopard, Girard-Perregaux, IWC, Corum, Ebel, Piaget, Ulysse Nardin. Like new, clean.

Hardcover. Exton, Pennsylvania, Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 329 pages. Brown wood-patterned laminate for cover with gilt design to front and lettering to spine, 175 b&w plates. Light wear to cover; overall a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Lausanne SW, Swiss Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Magazine format, 8 X 10 1/2", 68 pages plus 64 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include 23rd Swiss Watch Fair Basle, List of exhibitors, Guard pin tools, and more. Mild wear, excellent condition, no markings.

Hardcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 458 pages. Through furniture, this exhibition catalogue will explore the cultural identity of a little-studied region of 18th and 19th century New England: southeastern Massachusetts, an area that stretches from just south of Boston to Providence, east to the tip of Cap Cod, and includes the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. The era between 1710 and 1850 was marked by enormous changes in the landscape, population, and economy of this area, as well as in the activities of furniture craftsmen and the purchasing patterns of local residents. Three themes are paramount here: 1. Regionalism in the character of furniture made in the area and the forces that shaped that identity. 2. Fashion, changing tastes and the growing affluence of local residents over time. 3. Shop practices and the evolving craft practices of furniture makers through the recreation of two shops, the rural handcraft tradition of Samuel Wing of Sandwich in 1800 and the mechanized operation of a New Bedford or Fall River chair factory in 1850. The exhibition will include approximately 75 pieces of furniture from private and institutional collections, tools and equipment from the Samuel Wing cabinet shop (now owned by Sturbridge Village), and selected household furnishings depicting interiors in southeastern Massachusetts during the 18th and 19th centuries. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Shelburne, Shelburne Museum, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, 180 pages. Softcover exhibition catalog. Features full color photographs and information related to furniture manufactured in the state of Vermont up to 1850. Light wear to covers. Clean, unmarked text. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Paducah, KY, Collector Books, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 334 pages. Black & white and color photographs.

Hardcover. Grand Rapids, Periodical Publishing Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with slipcase. Features 101 black & white plates with design measurements and details. Book clean and tight, with bright gilt titles on cover and spine. Moderately worn slipcase with a deep abrasion confined to bottom right corner of spine - approx. 1".

Hardcover. NY, Christie's, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue boards with color label on front cover. This is the hardcover catalogue for the sale of the Elizabeth Parke Firestone collection held at Christie's in New York on Friday, November 19, 1982. 51 pages featuring 57 items, all with color photographs. Clean copy.

Softcover. Lausanne SW, Swiss Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Magazine format, 8 X 10 1/2", pages 81-149 plus 60 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include Checking Watch Mainsprings, Clocks of Southern Germany, Modern Calendar or Date Watches, How to Oil a Watch, and more. Mild wear, excellent condition, no markings.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 864 pages, b&w engravings throughout. 3/4 black calf leather over pebble grain cloth covered boards. Rubbing to the leather. Subjects: Lookout Mountain & How We Won It, John Bull in Abyssinia, Among the Andes of Peru and Bolivia, Fashions in Guinea, Chinese Embassy to Foreign Powers, Explorations in Lower California, Shooting Stars and Meteors, Fish Culture In America, many other articles. Hinges cracked, library bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.