All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Pre 1970 item #1405700
"Birds in Paradise" is the catalogue printed for the special exhibition of the same name at Van Cleef's L'Ecole, School of Jewelry Arts in 2019. The exhibition focused on jewelry inspired by birds and was drawn from two private collections and Van Cleef's heritage collection. The catalogue is printed entirely in color and features illustrations of about 100 jewels, as well as drawings and other source material for their design. It's completed with a series of scholarly essays...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 1900 item #1230306
Washington Irving. "Revised Edition Complete in One Volume." Published in 1887 by G.P. Putnam's Sons New York. The front features a gilt design on the black leather boards. This is a nice tight edition and smaller book that measures 4.25" x 6.50".
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Pre 1970 item #1328898
Stated first edition published in 1961 by Chilton Books, Philadelphia. The jacket has small tears and wear and a name is inscribed on the front free paper otherwise the book is fine. Illustrated.228pp.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Pre 1980 item #1176064 (stock #B-2)
"Furo: The Japanese Bath" by Peter Grilli & Dana Levy. First Edition, 1985, Kodansha. Clothbound Hardcover with original dust jacket. "New" condition. 191 pages. With forward by Isamu Noguchi. Color and B/W photos. Chapters: The Spirit of the Bath, The History of Bathing, Public Baths, Onsen: The Hot Spring Bath, The Domestic Bath, A Guide to Hot Springs...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Pre 1980 item #1176065 (stock #B-3)
"Tezukuri no Bi: Okinawa Kurashi to Mingu" ("Handmade Beauty: Okinawa Life and Crafts") in Japanese, 1972. Condition-very good. Soft bound with original dust jacket. 160 pages with 148 B/W photos, plus essays on Okinawan life and craft. Illustrations and descriptions include: baskets, pottery, textiles, farming tools, furniture, architecture, and even handmade karate weapons.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Antiques : Pre 2000 item #1028710
The Bodhisattva Collection
Free with any Imari purchase from our Japanese section
An excellent pictorial reference book specializing entirely in Japanese Imari wares. The pieces span the gamut from the earliest Imari wares of the late 17th century, all the way through the Meiji Period Imari wares of the late 19th century. There are over 100 high quality color photos. In our candid opinion, it's not enough of a reason to purchase an antique merely for the sake of a free book, but any client already seriously contemplating a purchase can enjoy this as a free extra...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Photographs : Places : Pre 1900 item #1420207 (stock #TBD00298)
A well composed albumen photograph of the Mosque of Sultan Sulieman with the Golden Horn in the distance. In the distance to the very far left of the photograph is the Hagia Sophia. In the golden Horn are both sailing ships and steamers. Written in pencil on the mount in the lower left is, “Constnatinople/Mosque of Sultan Suleyman/& the Golden Horn.” The image is 6 x8 inches (15 x20 cm)...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Pre 1950 item #1301246 (stock #gab1)
Calling all Mixologists...Create a great cocktail with a past? This 1946 First Edition of The Stork Club Bar Rinehart and Company, Inc., New York, is the real thing. Hardcover. Book Condition is very good with age appropriate use. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall, having the Rinehart seal at the top of the copyright page. Book is bound in bright red cloth. Has decorative illustration (of a stork) on the front cover...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Numismatics : Coins : North American : Canada : Pre 1940 item #1220367 (stock #02359)
A nice 1939 Canadian silver dollar $1 coin in AU condition. It has good detail and and it retains lots of its luster especially on the obverse (luster does not show particularly well on our scans). All coin and banknote gradings are subjective and are included as guides only, and are based on published grading charts. Please refer to the hi-res scans included in our listings for accurate sight grading of our items. All scans are sized only and they are absolutely unaltered and unenhanced...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 2000 item #1418642 (stock #JB05305)
A clean copy of the 1997 softback book "Half Past Autumn: A Retrospective", by the important, pioneering, African-American photographer, photojournalist and film director GORDON PARKS (1912-2006), ***SIGNED*** by Parks in felt tip marker. The book was published by Bulfinch Press in association with the Corcoran Gallery of Art...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 1960 item #723455 (stock #1-0515)
"Ancient India", Bulletin of the Archeological Survey of India, number 14, Year 1958. Edited and published by the Director General of Archaeology in India, New Delhi. Printed by the Job Press Ltd., Kanpur. 8 3/8"x10 11/16" (21,5x27 cm). 143 pages. Numerous drawings, maps and photos. A series of articles on the archeology of India, Afghanistan and Pakistan, by British and Indian field experts, published in the mid forties to the early sixties. Contents described on cover (see photo 1)...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 1940 item #1426814
A copy of the hard cover book "Canyon Country", by author Julius F. Stone, published 1932 by G.P. Putnam's Sons. The book is signed by the author and inscribed "To Lorin C. Tarlton with all good wishers" 10/25/1945" on the inside front cover in ink. The book describes a 1909 journey down the Colorado River, tracing the famed 1869 trip by John Wesley Powell through the then very little-known region. Foreword by Henry Fairfield Osborn, the head of the American Museum of Natural History at the t...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Bindings : Pre 1930 item #1490206
David Anthony
$45.00
Aldous Huxley, Two or Three Graces and Other Stories, George H. Doran Company, New York, 1928, 301pp+.

First American Edition. Hard Cover in cloth. No Jacket. Deckled pages. Cream end papers. Label on spine. Condition: Very Good/Near Fine. Minimal wear. A couple of small slight discolorations on cover. Interior very clean except for small label at back for Brentano's book store in New York City, and attempt by previous owners to erase price.

Dimensions
12 mo
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Maps : Pre 1700 item #1415339 (stock #JB01905)
This is a miniature map, 3 3/8" by 4 7/8" inside the mat, titled at upper right "EUROPA", and bearing at lower right the name of the engraver cartographer, Pieter van den Keere (Petrus Kaerius). The entire sweep of Europe is shown, from Greenland and Atlantic islands on the west to as far east as Turkey, the Middle East, and "Tartaria". Kaerius (circa 1571-1646) was born in the Low Countries and fled to London due to religious persecution, in 1584. There he became established in engraving map...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Photographs : Pre 1900 item #707151 (stock #see above)
Galerie Hafner
Price: see above
No. 02 = Bonfils No. 1460: Matareyeh - Park with group of ostriches. No. 03 = Zangaki No. 495: Cairo - General view of the citadel. No. 04 = Bonfils No. 1363: Cairo - General view of tombs of califsand citadel. No. 05 = Bonfils No. 1109: Cairo - Mosque Kait-Bey. No. 06 = Bonfils No. 1369: Cairo - Mosque of al Azhar. No. 07 = Bonfils No. 1371: Cairo - Mosque of al Azhar, the courtyard. No. 08 = Bonfils No. 1089: Cairo - The mosque of Amr Ibn al-As. No. 09 = Bonfils: Cairo - Street scene. ...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Photographs : Places : Pre 1900 item #1422104 (stock #TBD00310)
An albumen photograph of an entrance and most of one wing of the Louvre from the roof of another wing. Titled in the negative 0n the lower close to center, “LE LOUVRE,” and with the photographer’s red stamped signature, “Achille Quintet” on the backboard just below the photograph on the lower right, Faintly in the lower right corner in the negative is the number 62. The photo is 7 3/8 x 9 5/8 inches (19 cm x 24. 5 cm) mounted on white thin cardboard 11 ¼ x 15 inches (28.5 x 38 cm).

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All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Maps : Pre 1900 item #1415348 (stock #JB02756)
Found in New Hampshire, this is a beautifully and meticulously drawn map of the South American continent, from the Isthmus of Panama to Cape Horn, signed at lower right one "Rosa W. Miner" (or, "Mines"). The work, which measures 13" by 10" in a simple earlier 20th century frame, is drawn in pencil, with watercolor forming the borders of the various countries. Evidently, at some point, educators supplied the school children with pre-printed blanks, so that there would be no need to draw the lat...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Pre 2000 item #1394539
Sotheby's auction catalog for December 12,1991. In fine condition, the back cover shows very light wear.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Bindings : Pre 1930 item #1490729
David Anthony
$100.00
Kahlil Gibran
Sand and Foam - A Book of Aphorisms
Alfred A. Knopf
New York
1926
85 pp+
Illustrated

Hardcover book with sayings and observation interpreted by Lebanese American author and artist Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931) most known for his first work The Prophet published in 1923 which became one of the best selling books of the 20th C. and still in print today. References to it appear in popular songs by artists such as Elvis Presley and J...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Autographs : Pre 1970 item #1423077 (stock #JB04503)
Ballpoint pen inscribed and signed black and white photograph of quarterback Bill Nelsen of the Cleveland Browns, circa early 1970's, the dedication reading "--Bob-- Best of luck in your future/your cousin Bill Nelsen". The photo measures 9 7/8" by 7". It is loose but protected in a simple inexpensive frame. Bill Nelsen (born 1941) was part of the 1962 national championship team at USC, and went on to a long career in pro football, as a player with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Br...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Numismatics : Medals : Pre 1837 VR item #1487237 (stock #E1015)
Antique 19th-century Polish emigration medal known as "L' Heroique Pologne" was created by medalist - Jean Jacques Barre in Paris after 1831.

A medal was minted in France in 1832 by Polish emigration activists with the aid of the Polish Bazaar Society in Lyon. The Brussels Committee for Heroic Poland designed the medal after the November Uprising.

Obverse: Personification of Poland (Polonia) holding a banner in the ancient style with the inscription POLOGNE and the White Eagle, suppor...

All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Fine Art : Pre 1980 item #1125875 (stock #6672)
A Charles Hill Canadian Painting in the Thirties art book. A 223 page 12-3/8" x 9-3/4" art reference book by Charles C. Hill entitled CANADIAN PAINTING IN THE THIRTIES. Published by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa in 1975, this book features six tipped-in colour prints and copious black and white photos and text throughout. The book itself is in super condition, and the included dust jacket is very good, with some minor edge bruising and creasing and one 1" tear. All items are thorou...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Wine and Related : Pre 1900 item #605418 (stock #126-09)
This is a diminutive Victorian crystal decanter of oval shape with rich foliate scrolled etching above one row of cut hollows and an applied foot. It is pint size, and has an unusual diamond cut neck with a flared rim topped by a molded ribbed medallion stopper, unmarked but possibly Baccarat. Condition: decanter in very good condition; slight wear to base; stopper has a 3/8" chip. Measurements: 10 _" high x 4 _" diam.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Antiques : Pre 2000 item #1027907
The Bodhisattva Collection
Free with any purchase from our Early Chinese section
An excellent pictorial reference book focusing on tomb items from China's Golden Age with heavy concentration on Tang and Han Dynasty items, but Eastern Zhou, Warring States, Spring and Autumn, and Qin Dynasty Periods are covered as well. There are over 120 color photos, most pieces are bronzes and/or gilded bronzes, but there are also some jade and early pottery pieces represented as well. The text is also very informative. In our candid opinion, it's not enough of a reason to purchase an anti...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Maps : Pre 1800 item #1491083
David Anthony
$29.00
John Owen and Emanuel Bowen created innovative road maps in the early 18th C greatly aiding travelers of the day, whose publication spanned 1720-1764, titled Britannia Depicta.

This map is from pages 207/208, double-sided, and whose primary view is of Lincoln / Grimsby. The map features a coat of arms and covers Lincoln, Market Rasen and Grimsby.

This hand colored example is matted and believed to be in fine or very fine condition.

Dimensions (matted, inche...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Geological : Loose Gemstones : Contemporary item #1373962 (stock #VW1629)
Watch Company
$350.00
PORSCHE Lemania 5100 PVD BRACELET 20mm Factory Genuine Original. Still in the factory protective package. Note: "PVK" referes to a metal that is much harder than stainless steel. Never used. Inside of the clasp is marked: "STEEL-INOX/ SWISS NSR MADE/ MODCLE-DEPOSE". THIS IS A FINE COLLECTIBLE. DON'T INVEST IN THE STOCK MARKET. BUY SOMETHING PROVEN IN TIME.

NOTE: We have been selling vintage watches on E-Bay since 1998 as watchco1973 with over 13,000 vintage watch sales and 100% po...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 1960 item #454359
Stated first edition of the three-act play, "The Autumn Garden" by Lillian Helman. This play was performed on Broadway in 1951 at the Coronet Theatre and actor James Lipton (who now hosts the PBS show, The Actors Studio) is noted as a cast member.Copyright 1951 by Little, Brown and Co. Discarded library copy. 139 pages
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Geological : Loose Gemstones : Pre 1960 item #1442412 (stock #G0799)
A Beautiful Chinese green jadiet round pendan ,with 14K gold backing in excellent condition. D: 17mm marked. Sold
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Antiques : Pre 1960 item #966813 (stock #BK10)
Ancient East
$35.00
DESCRIPTION: “Ceramics for the Collector: an Introduction to Pottery and Porcelain” by George Savage is an original standard for the new ceramic collector, giving a broad overview of ceramics through the ages and throughout the world, with Chinese ceramics constituting the heaviest treatment. Currently out of print; originally published by Rockliff, London, (1955) 3rd printing, 64 B&W plates, 224 pp; hardcover, in very good used condition; dust jacket scuffed with some tape applied to str...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Antiques : Pre 2000 item #664569 (stock #10468)
Eijer, Dieuwke, Kagamibuta, Mirrors of Japanese Life and Legend, The Baur Collection / Heinz Kaempfer Fund (Geneva / Leiden), 1994. 95 pages, numerous b/w and color illustrations. Extensive description of the history, materials, techniques of kagamibuta, its subject matter and kagamibuta makers, richly illustrated with excellent photos of pieces from the Baur Collection and from private collections. The appendix contains a list of kagamibuta makers with their signatures and biographic informatio...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Pre 1990 item #1483842
Bulleting for Society for Japanese Arts: Andon, Shedding Light on Japanese Art. A wonderful resource on all aspects of Japanese art. ISSN: 0168-2997 Issues included: 13, 15, 16 (1983); 19 (1985); 21, 22, 24 (1986); 25, 27/28 (1987); 29 (1988) Condition: shelf wear, staining and soiling, discoloration and abrasions.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Photographs : Landscapes : Pre 1960 item #1320927 (stock #TBD00196)
A sepia toned silver print of Tipsco lake with Mount Rainer in the background in a textured white mat, simple blond wood frame and a brass plaque identifying the image as follows, “MT. RAINER – TIPSCO LAKE/ MT. RAINER NATIONAL PARK.” Out of the frame there is no identification of the photographer. Image 15 3/8 X 19 3/8 inches. Frame 23 X 25 7/8 inches.

Condition: examined out of the frame. The photograph is laid down on the backboard, but otherwise in excellent condition. Frame with nu...

All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Geological : Fossils : Prehistorical item #1300854
what pdx
$95.00
Moroccan stromatolite fossil well preserved in a nice red sandstone believed to date from about 600 million years ago.These microbial fossils are one of Earth's earliest records of life. The earliest known stromatolite fossils are between 3.5 - 2.75 billion years old in the Precambrian period. The blue-green algae in these early colonies were important in creating Earth's current oxygen atmosphere. Size 3" by 3.5" and weighs .04 pounds this piece has very fine details a great desk piece.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 1980 item #1405903
A stated first edition published in 1972. The jacket shows some wear, the book is fine.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Photographs : Places : Pre 1900 item #1420203 (stock #TBD00295)
An oversize albumen photograph of the exterior front of the Beylerbeyi Palace on the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul. The palace was built from 1861 to 1865 as an Imperial summer residence. The photograph is by Pascal Sebah. In the lower left in the negative, “38. Palais du Sultan a Beyler Bey,” on the lower right also in the negative, “P. Sebah.” 10 ¼ x13 ¼ inches (26 x33.5 cm) in a 16 x20 inch (40.5 x50 cm) mat.

Condition: good, with some wrinkles, a spot of discoloration in the s...

All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Antiques : Pre 2000 item #1453434
A hardcover published in 1994 that highlights holloware, jewelry and cutlery exhibited at the Kolding Museum. There are B&W photos along with an extensive appendix noting the pieces, dimensions,etc.along with a chronology. The cover shows very light wear with minor creasing at the top of the back spine - the book itself is in excellent condition. Written in Danish and German. 231pp.