SVENSK KERAMIK by Per Palme

Traditional Collectibles: Books: References: Antiques Pre 1950: item #410599
BOOK 17

This little book Svensk Keramik (Swedish Ceramics) published 1947 in Stockholm (172pp, extreme top of binding missing as seen in photos) is profusively illustrated. Excellent examples are selected from the 18th to 20th centuries. Among the artists included are Berndt Friberg, the Trillers, Wilhelm Kage, Stig Lindberg, Edgar Bockman, Tyra Lundgren, Alf Wallender, and many many others. The text is in Swedish but for English speakers the illustrations are what make this volume valuable.

VINEGAR BITTERS 1872 ALMANAC

Traditional Collectibles: Books: References Pre 1900: item #405494
3.00HJ

‘Dr. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters, Free From Alcohol’ (yech!)…one cannot imagine that this was a particularly popular drink in its day! J. Walker was the proprietor for this concoction, and his ‘patent medicine’ was sold through R. H. McDonald & Co., Druggists & General Agents with locations in San Francisco and New York. The cord-bound, 38-page, 5 ½” x 8” pamphlet (3.00HJ) was a bible for the Temperance Cause. With multiple tales about the horrors of drink, and numerous testimonials to t... Click for details

NABIS BOOK ILLUSTRATION

Traditional Collectibles: Books: References: Fine Art Pre 1900: item #387703

PAUL RANSON (illustrator). A.-Ferdinand Herold. "Le Livre de la Naissance, de la Vie et de la Mort de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie." Paris: Mercure de France, 1895. Pp.(ii),114,(5), illustrated by Paul Ranson with large (7-12 lines apiece) historiated initials, one to each of the 55 brief chapters of this "légende," narrating the Virgin Mary's life in pictures, and paralleling the text. None of the initials is repeated, telling as they do a story; notwithstanding their employment as initials, th... Click for details

Book: Shogun, The Shogun Age Exhibition (German), 1984

Traditional Collectibles: Books: References: Antiques Pre 1990: item #387165
B 079

Shogun, Kunstschätze und Lebensstil eines japanischen Fürsten der Shogun-Zeit [Shogun, The Shogun Age Exhibition] Exhibition at the Haus der Kunst, München, 1985. Objects from the Tokugawa Art Museum, Nagoya with essays by Roger Goepper, Shinzaburô Ôishi, Yoshinobu Tokugawa. Tokyo, The Shogun Age Exhibition Committee, Tokyo, 1984. 292 pp., fully illustrated, 273 objects, esp. sets of objects. 28 x 21 cm. Paper. German text. Almost perfect condition.... Click for details

Book: Japanese lacquer, Tsuda and Karl Mannstaedt, 1908

Traditional Collectibles: Books: References: Antiques Pre 1900: item #387159
B 078

Book on Japanese art:
Tsuda – Manuskript, [Über die Lackkunst Japans, 1908, Tsuda Noritake, Tokyo, in der Karl Mannstaedt – Übersetzung.] A translation into the German language of a manuscript on the History of Japanese Lacquer by Tsuda Noritake, dated 1908.
The manuscript, written by Tsuda in the English language, is inscribed with kan... Click for details

Lexikon - Encyclopedia of Dollhouses

Traditional Collectibles: Books: References: Antiques Contemporary: item #381399

Yet another fantastic German book about dollhouses - Lexikon der Puppenstuben und Puppenhauser - Encyclopedia of Room Boxes and Dollhouses. After years of research Marianne Cieslik and Swantje Kohler have succeeded in putting together a comprehensive book about the German manufacturers of everything imaginable for dollhouses. From before approximately 1880 when dollhouses were first factory made, there are few records of the manufacturers of dollhouses. Yet these two ladies have found informati... Click for details

Cieslik's Miniaturen - Book of Antique Dollhouse Items

Traditional Collectibles: Books: References: Antiques Contemporary: item #380507

This book is published by the small well-known German publishing house Marianne Cieslik. The author Gitta Grundmann has put together 150 pages of colored prints of antique dollhouses and room boxes as well as miniature furniture and accessories. This book is a paperback price guide with German Mark prices from 2001-2002 and is therefore in this respect somewhat out-dated. Nonetheless the pictures are of very good quality and each item is marked with a date of manufacture. The book also includes ... Click for details

Oil Lamps of the Holy Land by Noam Adler - Softcover

Traditional Collectibles: Books: References New: item #374071

OIL LAMPS OF THE HOLY LAND By Noam Adler, collection compiled by Stephen Adler. Beautifully illustrated collection of more than 1,000 ancient oil lamps in the Adler Collection of Jerusalem, which is currently featured in a major exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem. This is a remarkable collection of lamps from 2200 B.C. up to the Crusader Period. Softcover, 180 pages (315mm x 220mm), Printed in Israel, ISBN: 9655551660 - Slight tears on the spine cover and bumping on corners in shipp... Click for details

Book: Ellsworth, Later Chinese painting and calligraphy

Traditional Collectibles: Books: References: Antiques Pre 1990: item #372970
10255

Ellsworth, Robert Hatfield, Later Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: 1800-1950, 3 vols., Random House, New York, 1987, cloth, in cloth box, 14 ¼ x 10 3/8 in. (36.5 x 26.5 cm). Vol. I: Text, xvi, 399 pp. with several b/w illustrations; vol. II: Painting, xviii, 369 pp. color illustrations; vol. III: Calligraphy, xxiii, 281pp. color illustrations.
Very intensive and reliable study of paintings from the later Qing perio... Click for details

Book: Fu / Fong, The Wilderness Colors of Tao-chi, 1973

Traditional Collectibles: Books: References: Antiques Pre 1980: item #372935
10257

Fu, Marilyn and Wen Fong, The Wilderness Colors of Tao-chi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1973, cloth, slipcase, 13 5/8 x 10 1/16 in. (35 x 25.8 cm). 5 pp. of introduction, 24 pp. with commentaries and translations to 12 paintings by Tao-chi, with a full page color illustration to each painting, 1 p. notes. The paintings originate from the album “Wilderness colors” which is in the Arthur M. Sackler Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Slipcase slightly rubbed at corners and ... Click for details