All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Antiques : Pre 2000 item #1486323 (stock #VW1846)
Watch Company
$500.00
Frederic Piguet 1270 BREITLING Electromechanical Movement. Cal. 1270, Thirty-Two (32) Jewels, SWISS. For Cartier Pasha and other Brands. Coil cost is $99.00 each and this movement has 5 coils. Cartier is asking $799 for this movement. THIS IS A FINE COLLECTIBLE. INVEST IN HARD ASSETS, DON'T INVEST IN THE STOCK MARKET. BUY SOMETHING PROVEN IN TIME.

We have been selling vintage watches on E-Bay since 1998 as watchco1973 with 13,500 feed backs, 100% positive...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Antiques : Pre 1990 item #1399532 (stock #WN196)
Galerie Hafner
$500.00
shipping included
A beautiful limited reference book containing the collection of the Baur Museum in Geneva, Switzerland of "Japanese Sword Fittings and Associated Metalwork", written by Basil William Robinson (former in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London). Hardback with 444 pages, 752 illustrations (several in color), section with signatures. Cloth with dustjacket, printed 1980 in a limited numbered edition of 1600, this is No. 52. Condition: fine. Dimension: c. 28.8 cm x 24 cm x 5.1 cm, 3 kg.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Bindings : Fiction : Pre 1970 item #1427120
Sold together, an author-inscribed copy of the April 1965 edition of Pearl Buck's original 1931 masterpiece novel, THE GOOD EARTH, along with a typed letter from the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, dated September 28, 1971, signed by Buck. The letter and book, acquired together, are inscribed to a Mr. and Mrs. F. Allen Lucy of Pennsylvania. The book has a dust jacket which shows a little wear, but overall it is clean, and the letter is protected in a plastic sleeve...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Bindings : Contemporary item #1467060 (stock #11222)
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer; Facsimile of the Kelmscott Press Edition.[publisher: The Folio Society, London] Hardcover First Edition 2008, the unlimited edition. Large folio. a massive 16 3/4" x 12'" format. 559pp. Produced on laid paper made specially at the James Cropper Mill (Burneside, nr Kendal). Text in red and black with numerous attractive illustrations and borders in the text. Publisher's full buckram elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt design after William Morris...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 1940 item #1197953
Rare 1931 Signed Limited Edition Book. Epic Poem on life and times of the early settlers of western Canada by Robert Watson with wood cut illustrations by Walter J. Phillips. Signed by both. Book in fine condition, slipcase shows some wear.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Fine Art : Pre 1920 item #1489322
DASHING STAGE BEAUTIES OF WORLD Folder 1912 22/24 Erotic Lithographs 16" x 13" DASHING STAGE BEAUTIES OF THE WORLD This rare collection in its original folder was published ca1912 by the Leslie Judge Company in New York and is in very good condition. The folder consists of 22 (originally published with 24 - 2 are missing) full page lithographs of various beauties of the day. This is a very scarce publication seldom seen for sal
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Bindings : Fiction : Pre 1950 item #1489211
ARTHUR MILLER Death Of A Salesman 1st First Edition 1949 vgc Miller, Arthur : DEATH OF A SALESMAN ,1949, 1st Edition. 8.5" x 5.5". Published in New York by the Viking Press. Bound in orange cloth, brown titles and decoration on front board, edges very lightly rubbed, a lovely clean, tight copy. Lacks dust wrapper. Scarce First Edition with all points noted.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre AD 1000 item #1479138
A superb gilt and coloured parchment leaf from a religious work, France, c. 1450.

Han-written page with the tiniest details and among the finest we've had ever of the early type from the late medieval period of the 15th. century. The decorations includes lavish use of leaf gold to highlight letters.

Size: 15 x 20 cm...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Pre 1980 item #1399709 (stock #WN197)
Galerie Hafner
$420.00
shipping included
A beautiful limited reference book containing the collection of the Baur Museum in Geneva, Switzerland of "Chinese Jades and Other Hardstones", written by Pierre F. Schneeberger. Hardback with 22 color, 105 b.& w. photo plates, 26 illustrations. Brown cloth with dustjacket, printed 1976 in a limited numbered edition of 1600, this is No. 19. Condition: clean, dust jacket with little wear and yellowing. Dimension: c. 28.8 cm x 24 cm x 2.8 cm, 2 kg.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Pre 2000 item #1284850 (stock #444tb)
E & M Perez
$400.00
This set of nine volumes from the Americanist Studies, published by the Smithsonian, is part of 20 planned volumes, begun in 1978, and only 17 were completed. Edited by William C. Sturtevant, each volume covered a specific region or topic, and was edited and written by recognized experts in the particular area...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 1900 item #1450298
A rare first edition of Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) book "A Tramp Abroad", as found in apparently scarce original leather covers rather than the more commonly seen cloth. The book has the ad after page 631 and "Moses" rather than "Titian's Moses" in the frontispiece, indicating an early state. I am not a book specialist so am pointing out characteristics that I see suggest rarity and early state...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Fine Art : Pre 2000 item #1007915 (stock #RMT-113)
GROTESQUES

by Jack Coughlin

Aquarius Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.- First Edition

A fine group of etchings by Couglin on the theme "Of Sundry Copulations Whereby A Man Genders With Sundry Kinds Of Beasts". This is number 63 of 140 numbered copies signed by the artist. Each etching measures 4 1/4" by 3". All are fine impressions, protected by silk paper. There are twently plates in all, each hand-printed by Atelier LeBlanc in Paris...

All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Fine Art : Pre 2000 item #1007922 (stock #RMT-101 )
In three volumes with original slipcase and with tipped in reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence. Published by New York Graphic Society, 1959, Second Edition. Books VG +, slipcase VG.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Fine Art : Pre 1970 item #1464975
Claes Oldenberg by Barbara Rose [publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York] Softcover Cream vinyl wrappers with teal lettering. Pink and brown decorated endpapers. 221 pp. Fully illus [46] in color, many other bw. The famous "soft cover" catalog for the MoMA exhibition, September 25 - November 23, 1969. Accompanied by a 16-page checklist, laid in. VG+ Two clipped endpapers, Vinyl foam wraps beginning to pull away from endpapers.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 1900 item #1490240
PUNCH MAGAZINE Early Pencillings ca1860 Calf Binding PUNCH MAGAZINE "EARLY PENCILLINGS ESPECIALLY POLITICAL" This tome was published in London by Bradbury and Evans, ca1860 and measures 11" x 9", 252pp. The book is bound in tan half-calf, edges a little rubbed, text block very good, clean and tight.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Fine Art : Pre 2000 item #1007936 (stock #RMT-114)
Henri Matisse...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Fine Art : Pre 1980 item #1176098 (stock #B-16)
"Hamada Potter" by Bernard Leach. 1975 First Edition, Kodansha. Hadmade paper bound hard cover with original plastic dust cover. The book is bound with hand-laid paper from Fukui Prefecture coated with pine resin sizing. The titling on the cover and spine was silk-screened with natural Japanese lacquer by Wajima Craft, with the held of the lacquer artists Keisuke Ichinaka and Isaburou Kado. The image is Hamada's signature broken sugar cane motif which adorned so many of his pots. 305 pages with...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Contemporary item #1426913
A lot of memoir-style books by sports celebrities, in all 10 titles, 12 pieces total, the works all in dust jacket, save for one paperback, and ALL SIGNED by the author, some inscribed, the earliest 1990, the latest 2017. Included are works by baseball figures, Olympians, long distance swimmer Diana Nyad, tennis pro Pete Sampras, sports announcer Al Michaels. The full list: BUTLER, BRETT "Field of Hope", 1997 (baseball); GOODEN, DWIGHT "DOC, A Memoir" 2013 (baseball); HAMILTON, SCOTT "Landing...