- MANUALE DI VARJ ORNAMENTI TRATTI DALLE...Manuale
MANUALE DI VARJ ORNAMENTI TRATTI DALLE...Manuale di Varj Ornamenti Tratti Dalle Fabbriche e Frammenti Antichi per Uso, e Commodo De' Scultori, Pittori, Architetti, Scarpellini… , by Carlo Antonini, Roma: Barbiellini alla Minerva, 1790. Four volumes bound as two books, with engravings of rosettes, candelabra, and solares, 13 1/2" x 9".
Condition:
Rebound, some foxing to areas, some light discoloration and toning, mainly to margins.
- COUNTRY ACCESSORIESCountry accessories,
COUNTRY ACCESSORIESCountry accessories, including a squat bottle, hide box, etc., together with four reference books on Americana.
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As found condition. Bottle - 18th c., as expected wear and condition consistent with age and use, no apparent damages/losses noted. Wallpaper box - 11" h., 15" l., 11" w., wear, as found condition. Cheese basket - overall good condition. Other boxes - as expected wear consistent with age and use.
- THREE FRENCH DESIGN BOOKS, ETC.Three
THREE FRENCH DESIGN BOOKS, ETC.Three French design books and a German engraving for the decoration of guns, Livre Nouveau de differents Cartouches et Consoles Invented by D. Pineau , by Ches Huquier, Paris, 1738-1749, and Inventaire General du Mobilier de la Couronne Sous Louis XIV by Jules Guiffrey, Vols I and II, 1885; together with an engraved title page for Unterschiedliche Stucke vom Buchsenmachen by Johann Christoph Weigel, ca. 1700
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Condition:
Huquier: Unbound, including five of the original six engraved plates, some foxing and several spots of discoloration. Weigel: foxing, 1'' tear to lower margin and along left plate mark.
- SIX BOOKS, INCLUDING POEMS ON SEVERAL
SIX BOOKS, INCLUDING POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS...Six books, including Poems on Several Occasions by Matthew Prior, London: J. Tonson and J. Barber, 1721; Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son..Vol. I , published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, Dublin: Wogan, 1781; The Works of the Right Hon. Lord Byron, Vol. VII Philadelphia: Pomeroy, 1825; etc.
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Condition:
Also includes: Matthew Boulton by H.W. Dickinson, Modes and Manners… Vol. III, The Seventeenth Century by Max Von Boehn; and Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Vol. LX. Poems: front board detached, spine cracked, pages fairly good with some toning/spotting.
- GERMAN LANGUAGE BOOKS, 18TH/EARLY 19TH
GERMAN LANGUAGE BOOKS, 18TH/EARLY 19TH C.German language books, 18th/early 19th c., including a 1767 Luther bible Biblia das ist die ganze Heilige Schrift... D. Martin Luthers , by Christoph Matthai Pfaffen, Speyer: Ludwig Bernhard Friderich Gegel, 1767; spiritualist work Das Alte Testament mit Erklarungen das Innere Leben by Madame Guion, 1744; and Swiss Appenzeller's Kalender, auf das jahr 1825 , by Joh. Ulrich Sturzenegger, Mathemat., Trogen: 1825;
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- SEVEN ENGLISH BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURAL
SEVEN ENGLISH BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNSeven English books on architectural design, 18th/19th c., including The Country Gentleman's Architect , Miller, 1787, Laing Hints for Dwellings , Carter The Builder's Magazine , Book of Designs , two folios English Brickwork and Architectural Turned Woodwork by Small and Woodbridge, and Vignola. The Five Orders of Architecture by Pierre Esquie.
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Condition:
Several boards detached but present. Laing with overall toning and staining, mainly to corner.
- FOUR EARLY PENNSYLVANIA LEDGER BOOKSFour
FOUR EARLY PENNSYLVANIA LEDGER BOOKSFour early Pennsylvania ledger books, 18th/early 19th c., including a Lancaster rent book for Thomas Cookson, March 23, 1741; a Baltimore merchant account book, 1804-1808; a Lebanon County merchant ledger 1791-1792, and the 1812 ledger of Jacob Mayland, a tobacconist located at the corner of Race and Third Street in Philadelphia.
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Condition:
Vignola: first half of pages loose.
- EIGHT CUMBERLAND FORGE LEDGER BOOKSEight
EIGHT CUMBERLAND FORGE LEDGER BOOKSEight Cumberland Forge (Cumberland County, Pennsylvania 1805-1835) ledger books, dated 1807-1835, including two ledgers and a day book all beginning in 1807, together with later 1813 Bar Iron , and 1819 Cordwood and Bar Iron books, and 1828 Cash Book , and the 1841 account book of Jacob M. Halderman, detailing some of the earliest wages paid and purchases made by customers such as the Colebrook Furnace and the Pennsylvania Furnace.
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- FURNITURE DESIGN BOOKS, 19TH C.Furniture
FURNITURE DESIGN BOOKS, 19TH C.Furniture design books, 19th c., including The Compiler: Designs in Furniture and Decoration , compiled and published by R. Charles, London, 1879. Quarto, with lithograph plates of designs from various periods, Original Designs for Cabinet & Upholstery Furniture , London: William Hunter & Sonos, not dated, and The Cabinet Makers Assistant by John Hall, Baltimore, 1944 reprint.
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Condition:
Lacking title page. Spotting, light toning. Front board beginning to detach.
- ENGLISH FURNITURE BOOKSEnglish furniture
ENGLISH FURNITURE BOOKSEnglish furniture books, to include A History of English Furniture…The Age of Oak by Percy Macquoid, London, 1904, The Age of Mahogany , 1906, and English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century by Herbert Cescinsky, Vol. I.
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Condition:
Vol. II boards detached, light toning.
- SIX BOOKS ON AMERICAN ANTIQUESSix books
SIX BOOKS ON AMERICAN ANTIQUESSix books on American antiques, including A Collection of Scale-drawings, Details and Sketches of what is commonly known as Colonial Furniture by Alvan Crocker Nye, and Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition Catalogue , 1929.
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- SIX TRADE BOOKS, 18TH/19TH C.Six trade
SIX TRADE BOOKS, 18TH/19TH C.Six trade books, 18th/19th c., including The Builders' Assistant by John Haviland, Philadelphia, 1818-1821, vols. I and III; together with books on mechanics, porcelain, and wool dying.
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Condition:
Lacking Volume II. Vol. I front cover detached but present. First American publication on the Greek Orders of Architecture. Other titles: The Mechanic's Companion, Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts: Porcelain and Glass, and two editions of The Dyer's Assistant in the Art of Dying Wool… by James Haigh, Leeds: J. Bowling, 1778.