Category: Antiques

British Railway Postcards of Yesteryear

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Ian Allen Ltd

Seller ID: 016214

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, tall quarto, pp (56), very clean internally, pictorial boards, slightly age-toned and marked.
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Shell Street Guide and Metropolitan Map of San Francisco and Bay Cities

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Shell : 1936

Seller ID: 016475

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Very Good

A large colour folding map, double-sided, with detailed street index; oute covers slightly age-toned and slightly used, but overall the map is in very good condition. SCARCE.
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Image for Gamage's Christmas Bazaar 1913, being a facsimile reprint of the 1913 Christmas catalogue of A.W. Gamage Ltd of Holborn, London, with some pages from the 1911 General Catalogue

Gamage's Christmas Bazaar 1913, being a facsimile reprint of the 1913 Christmas catalogue of A.W. Gamage Ltd of Holborn, London, with some pages from the 1911 General Catalogue

By: Adburgham, Alison (introduction)

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Newton Abbot, David & Charles : 1974

Seller ID: 013239

ISBN-13: 9780715366080

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, quarto, pp (36), 472, top edge foxed and fore-edge slightly foxed, otherwise a very good copy in a slightly faded dustwrapper. [Gamages began life in 1878 in a rented watch repair shop and, after quickly becoming a success amongst its customers, was established as a London institution. In time it was to grow large enough to take up most of the block on which it was situated. The store finally closed in 1972, but prior to that had been unusual in that its premises were away from the main Oxford Street shopping area, being on the edge of the City of London at Holborn Circu...
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Gem Testing

By: Anderson, B.W,

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Butterworths : 1985

Seller ID: 017336

ISBN-13: 9780408004404

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Ninth edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, four colour plates, and black and white photographs, octavo, pp (10), 434, very clean internally, black cloth in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper.
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Crested China - the History of Heraldic Souvenir Ware

By: Andrews, Sandy

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Horndean, Springwood Books : 1980

Seller ID: 004512

ISBN-13: 9780903852111

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Well illustrated, large quarto, pp 304, cloth very slightly worn and very slightly bowed, dustwrapper slightly worn and slightly frayed at top, signature and date on front endpaper.
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Book Auction Records, Cumulative Index to Volumes 66 - 69

By: Batho, D. (editor)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Folkestone, Wm Dawson & Sons Ltd : 1977

Seller ID: 010073

ISBN-13: 9780712908290

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Large quarto, pp iv, 1129, slightly worn internally, cloth a little worn and faded, slightly rubbed at the joints. Very heavy - extra postage may be needed.
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General Index to Book Auction Records for the Years 1979-1984 (Volumes 77 - 81)

By: Batho, D. (editor)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Folkestone, Wm Dawson & Sons Ltd : 1985

Seller ID: 010074

ISBN-13: 9780712910354

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Large quarto, pp viii, 1008, slightly worn internally, cloth faded. Very heavy - extra postage may be needed.
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Tobacco Tins and Their Prices

By: Bergevin, Al

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Radnor, Pennsylvania, Wallace-Homestead Book Company : 1986

Seller ID: 010880

ISBN-13: 9780870694646

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Well illustrated in black and white, large 8vo, pp 232, a faint stain to the bottom edge of the last few pages, corners curled or slightly dog-eared, fore-edge faintly marked, paperback, covers slightly worn and curled at corners.
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Catalogue of English Furniture & Woodwork Volume III - Late Stuart to Queen Anne. (Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Woodwork)

By: Brackett, Oliver

Price: £8.50

Publisher: London, The Board of Education : 1927

Seller ID: 006207

Binding: Cloth

Illustrated with black and white photographic plates, large 8vo, pp viii, 52, a little worn and age-toned internally, small pieces of sellotape and markes on the endpapers, hardback, cloth a little worn and marked. [Bedstead, chairs, settees stools and day-beds, tables, chests of drawers and cabinets, dressing-glasses and mirrors, boxes, clocks, frames, miscellaneous pieces, architectural details.]
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18th Century Wedgwood - a guide for collectors and Connoisseurs

By: Buten, David

Price: £7.50

Publisher: New York, Main Street Press : 1990

Seller ID: 005080

ISBN-13: 9780416005615

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, quarto, pp 192, signature on half-title, otherwise a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper.
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The Tradition of Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century : Catalogue of an Exhibition, 1979-1980

By: Callery, Bernadette G. & Mosimann, Elizabeth A. (eds)

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Pittsburgh, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation : 1979

Seller ID: 009995

ISBN-13: 9780913196281

Binding: Cloth-backed boards

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, tall slim quarto, pp 129, very clean internally, cloth-backed boards very slightly bumped, spine very slightly marked, otherwise a very good copy. [The preface states "The Tradition of Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century" explores the tension that results from modern craftsmen working in a traditional craft. The twentieth century binder must always contend with traditions of binding structure, material and cover design, and this conflict is compounded when facing the re-binding of an older book. We have attempted to gather representative examples of what we see as the t...
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Carter Bros. and Dad

By: Carter, Alan

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Sydney, The Australian Antique Trader : 1985

Seller ID: 011305

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with cartoons, pp (4), 126, fore-edge slightly bruised, otherwise very clean internally, white cloth showing only very slight signs of use, a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. [Am account of the secondhand and antiques business in Portobello Road and the West Country between 1950 and 1966.]
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Satsuma at Spink Exhibition to be held in The Oriental Galleries at 5-7 King Street, London between 2nd June and 19th June 1992

By: Champkins, Paul (ed). [Spink]

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, Spink & Son Ltd : 1992

Seller ID: 019752

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Well illustrated, small slim quarto, pp 36, paperback, the lower corners curled, otherwise very good.
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Stripped Bare, Photographs from the Collection of Thomas Koerfer. Paris, 9 Novembre 2017

By: Christie's

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Christie's : 2017

Seller ID: 014974

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, small quarto, pp 110, very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly used, otherwise a very good copy. [Includes original photographs from Araki, Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Warhol, Mollino etc.]
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The Curious History of the Bulb Vase

By: Coccoris, Patricia (foreword by Brent Elliott)

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Birmingham, : 2012

Seller ID: 007153

ISBN-13: 9780956809612

Binding: Pictorial laminated boards

Condition: New

Foreword by Brent Elliott. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp (4), 294, hardback, a very good NEW copy. [The Curious History of the Bulb Vase looks at the extensive range of bulb vases that appeared in Great Britain from the mid-18th century to date. Not only did they capture the imagination of Victorians, the sheer numbers produced are staggering. Much of the credit for the success of bulb vases can be placed at the feet of George Piercy Tye, a Birmingham industrialist who designed and produced the most innovative of glass bulb vases. Although interest in bulb vases trailed off in the early pa...
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Detective Fiction - the collector's Guide

By: COOPER, John & PIKE, B.A.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Aldershot, Scolar Press : 1994

Seller ID: 006017

ISBN-13: 9780859679916

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Second edition. Illustrated, small quarto, pp x, 341, a good copy in a a dustwrapper which is a little creased and wrinkled along the top edge. [The standard work]
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Bristol and West-Country Pewterers, with illustrations of their marks

By: Cotterell, Howard H.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Bristol Museum and Art Gallery : 1918

Seller ID: 009840

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with 4 photographic plates, and many small text figures of marks, large slim quarto, pp (4), 36, paperback, yapp edges, very slightly worn, but a much better than average copy of this scarce work.
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A Guide to the Mediaeval Antiquities and Objects of Later Date in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities (British Museum)

By: Dalton, O.M.

Price: £9.00

Publisher: London, Printed by Order of the Trustees : 1924

Seller ID: 009982

Binding: Decorated boards

Condition: Very Good

17 plates and 217 text illustrations, pp xii, 322, very slightly worn internally, neat contemporary signature and date crossed out on front endpaper, printed boards, slightly worn, spine slightly creased.
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The Mineral Kingdom

By: Desautels, Paul E.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: New York, Ridge Press Book, Grosset & Dunlap : 1968

Seller ID: 017033

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 252, a large inscription on the front endpaper, otherwise extremely clean internally, fawn cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped and shows only the slightest signs of use. A great copy. [A heavy book - extra postage may be necessary.]
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Generations in Clay - Pueblo Pottery of the American Southwest

By: Dittert, Alfred E. & Plog, Fred

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Northland Publishing : 1991

Seller ID: 019003

ISBN-13: 9780873582704

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Eighth printing. Large horizontal octavo, pp 149, very clean internally, paperback, the covers in very good condition but slightly curved.
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