Victorian Furniture Essays from a Victorian Society Autumn Symposium
Philadelphia: Victorian Society in America, 1983. Paperback. 254 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Profusely illustrated: photographs and prints. Owner inscription. More
Furniture
Nineteenth Century English Furniture
New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1962. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 93 pages in text. With 139 plates, four in color, as well as seven illustrations in the text. Bibliography. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER P174. "A study of the evolution of 19th-century furniture which analyzes the Gothic and Rococo revivals and traces the influence..... More
Muebles et objets divers au Moyen Age et de la renaissance issues d'apres nature et lithographies par Asselineau
Paris: Veith & Hauser, (1854). First edition. Hardcover. Folio, 43 x 29 cm. Engraved title and 114 engraved plates, each with small publisher's blind stamp in lower margin, a few plates with light spotting, balance exceptionally bright and clean. Provenance: Furstliche Furstenbergische Hofbibliothek at Donaueschingen with inkstamp on lower corner..... More
La Couleur Dans L'Habitation 120 Projects D'Artistes Modernes
Paris: Gustave Ficker, ca 1911. First edition. Hardcover. 8 pages in text. 29.5 x 24 cm. 120 full page color plates printed recto only, including designs by H. Kammerer, P. Lazlo, M. Stier, et al. Text in French. Bright and fresh copy, rubbing to backstrip extremities. More
Sao Paulo Na Arquitetura De Arthur Casas
Sao Paulo: Decor, 2007. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Unpaginated. 25.5 x 25.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color plates, a series of modern interior and exterior designs for the largest metropolis of Brazil, including hotels and public edifices. Text in Portuguese and English. Laid-in are two folding plans front and black..... More
Collection Ch.-Leon Chardon Premiere Vente Catalogue De Tableaux Anciens Des Ecoles Flammande, Hollandaise, Francaise, etc...
Brussels: Th. Dewarichet, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. 153 pages. Folio, more than 300 black and white illustrations. Sales held June 27 - June 30, 1921. Each plate with tissue guards. Important sale of an outstanding collection. Text in French. More
Elizabethan Interiors
New York: F. Greenfield, 1900. Second edition. Hardcover. 45 pages. Folio, 42 x 28 cm. Thirty two black and white plates with lettered text and tissue guards. Limited edition, copy 387 of 500. Ex-library, text and plates clean, binding tight, stain to back cover of vellum at head. More
Wood Fibre Carvings Catalog 122
Chicago: Decorators Supply Corporation, 1941. Original Wraps. 12 pages. 30 x 22.5 cm. Profusely illustrated, multiple images per page with price list. Illustrates carvings for mantels, cabinets and architectural trim, reproductions of hand carved patterns. Letter from the company dated March, 1941 laid-in. Front and back cover slightly toned, interior..... More
Antiques How To Identify and Collect Them
New York: Castle Books, 1970. Hardcover. 201 pages. More
Gaudi The Visionary
New York: Viking, 1971. Gaudi, Antonio. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 251 pages. 30 x 25 cm. 228 illustrations including large-scale photographs, many of them gatefolds and tip-ins. Preface by Salvador Dali. Foreword and Bibliography by George R. Collins. Index. Guidi's Artistic and Religious Vision by Francesc Pujols. More
Ensembles Mobiliers. Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs 1925. 1ère série & 2ème série, puis Ensembles Mobiliers. 3ème série. [Collection complète].
Paris: Charles Moreau, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Folio, 46 x 31 cm. Each part contains 32 loose as issued heliogravure full page images of Art Deco interiors, a few with two images per plate. Contributors include Maurice Dufrene, Paul Follet, René Lalique, Henri Rapin, Ruhlmann et al. An engaging presentation..... More
Handicrafts of New England
New York: Harper & Bros, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 375 pp. Forward by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. 128 pages of photographs, and four full-color plates. Discusses the work of hundreds of different crafts people. Index. KARPELE280. "....this book is a fascinating in-depth survey of New England crafts from needlework, metalwork, and..... More
The Early Georgian Period 1714-1760
New York: Reynal, 1957. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 180 pages. More than 200 half-tone plates and more than fifty line drawings. Index. More
The Stuart Period 1603-1714
New York: Reynal, 1960. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 180 pages. More than 200 half-tone plates and more than forty line drawings. Index. More
English Furniture And Decoration 1680 To 1800
Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1911. Second edition. Hardcover. 201 pages. 29 x 22 cm. Profusely illustrated: black and white photographs cover four broad periods -- William & Mary, Queen Anne, Chippendale, Adam, Hepplewhite and Sheration. Two spots front cover else clean inside and out. Backstrip reinforced with binding tape. More
Sheraton Furniture
London: Faber and Faber, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 125 pages in text.Illustrated with 100 plates, four in color. Bibliography. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER P180. "A history of late18th-century furniture which traces the influence of Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing book on furniture making during the eighties and nineties." More
La Casa Nel Tiempo; Storia universale dell'abitazione e dell'arredamento
Rome: Canesi, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 151,149, 189 pages. 34 x 25 cm. Total of 174 color plates, and a plethora of black and white illustrations: photographs and drawings. A comprehensive worldwide review of domesticity and interior design from the earliest times through the 20th century. First volume covers prehistory..... More
The London Furniture Makers From The Restoration To The Victorian Era 1660-1840
London: B.T. Batsford, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 276 pages. 30 x 22 cm. A record of 2500 cabinet-makers, upholsterers, carvers and gilders with their addresses and working notes illustrated by 165 reproductions of makers' trade-cards. With a chapter by R.W. Symonds on the problem of identification of the furniture they..... More
Louis XV Mobel Des Louvre
Leipzig: Ornamentverlag, ca 1910. Second edition. Boards. Folio, 39 x 29 cm. 12 page text plus 28 plates of measured drawings or phototype reproductions of photographs. Text and plates clean, minor aging. More
Menuiserie: The Carved Wood Furniture of 18th Century France
NY: Rosenberg & Stiebel, 1986. First edition. Paperback. 63 pages. 22 x 19 cm. More than 30 illustrated examples. More
Of Knights and Spires Gothic Revival in France and Germany
NY: Rosenberg & Stiebel, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 62 pages. 27 x 20 cm. Illustrated with color and black and white plates or neo-Gothic ornament and furniture. Bibliography. More
Osborne & Little The Decorated Room
New York: Overlook Press, 1988. First American edition. Hardcover. 176 pages. 28 x 22 cm. More than 150 color photographs. More
English Interiors In Smaller Houses; From the Restoration to the Regency, 1660-1830
New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons & B.T. Batsford, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 202 pages . 30.5 x 25.5 cm. Host of black and white full page and multiple images per plate on glossy stock, plus black and white drawings to scale. Author notes a large proportion of examples..... More
Modern French Decoration
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 219 pages. 23.5 x 18.5 cm. Twenty-seven black and white illustrations. Introduction by Leon Deshairs. Art deco and traditional designs with roots in the turn of the century designs of Galle, Grasset, Plumet and Gaillard. More
Kirkjubour Benches and the Cathedral; Light on the Medieval Faroese Episcopal Centre
Torshavn: Emil Thomsen, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 134 pages. 32 x 24 cm. Color and black and white illustrations present richly decorated church furniture from the first half of the 15th century of the Faroe Islands. The motifs on the furniture are especially associated with the liturgical practice of the..... More