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Vietnam Vintage: Antiques from Southeast Asia, 1900-1950
ISBN: 9780764319587 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the early twentieth century, Vietnam was a cosmopolitan country, influenced not only by its Chinese and Khmer neighbors, but also by the French and other Europeans. This fascinating book is among the first in English to document the output of Vietnamese craftspeople and manufacturers from this period. Lacquer work, carvings, textiles, and ceramics are among the wonderful crafts illustrated in 302 color photographs. These are placed in their cultural context with a detailed text and insights from the author, who has lived in the region for many years. Collectors of Southeast Asian...
During the early twentieth century, Vietnam was a cosmopolitan country, influenced not only by its Chinese and Khmer neighbors, but also by the French...
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144,01 zł |
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Beatrix Potter Collectibles: The Peter Rabbit Story Characters
ISBN: 9780764323584 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beatrix Potter brought animals to life for generations of children. Characters such as Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-duck, Tom Kitten, and Benjamin Bunny "people" her classic stories. The Tale of Peter Rabbit is the best-selling children's classic of all time, selling over forty million copies. The 23 original stories in Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit series were beautifully illustrated, and spanned a legaacy of wonderful artwork and collectibles. This new and engaging book presents, for the first time, collectible ceramics, ornaments, toys, puppets, music boxes, fine arts, and figurines of the...
Beatrix Potter brought animals to life for generations of children. Characters such as Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-duck, Tom Kitten, and Benjamin Bunn...
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144,01 zł |
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Classic Perfume Advertising: 1920-1970: 1920-1970
ISBN: 9780764327414 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Someone once said, "There is nothing new under the sun only new ways to do things." This could be the anthem of the agencies that produced the advertisements shown in this exciting new book. Perfume magazine ads not only tell the story of the brand, they are on the resumes of many of the world's most famous fine artists. The images shown here represent great perfume houses at the height of their marketing prowess: Guerlain, Schiaparelli, Caron, Lentheric, Hattie Carnegie, Lanvin, Houbigant, and more. To make their brands unforgettable they hired the most creative talents available, including...
Someone once said, "There is nothing new under the sun only new ways to do things." This could be the anthem of the agencies that produced the adverti...
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186,59 zł |
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The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors
ISBN: 9780801443626 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This book is . . . a romantic history of romantic collecting. It takes seriously, and by necessity shares, the tendency of romantic histories to dwell upon their own fragmentariness, on the impossibility of capturing an intact history. . . . It traces the particular ways in which objects stepped into the lives of romantic collectors, and also the ways in which the objects moved on." from the IntroductionIn the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the activity of collecting became democratized and popularized, allowing all kinds of people to become caught up in the collecting...
"This book is . . . a romantic history of romantic collecting. It takes seriously, and by necessity shares, the tendency of romantic histories to dwel...
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151,53 zł |
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Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea
ISBN: 9780804753425 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While ethnography ordinarily privileges anthropological interpretations, this book attempts the reciprocal process of describing indigenous modes of analysis. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research with the Yonggom people of New Guinea, the author examines how indigenous analysis organizes local knowledge and provides a framework for interpreting events, from first contact and colonial rule to contemporary interactions with a multinational mining company and the Indonesian state. This book highlights Yonggom participation in two political movements: an international campaign against the...
While ethnography ordinarily privileges anthropological interpretations, this book attempts the reciprocal process of describing indigenous modes of a...
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107,48 zł |
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Barbs, Prongs, Points, Prickers, and Stickers: A Complete and Illustrated Catalogue of Antique Barbed Wire
ISBN: 9780806108766 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the Great Plains, a land barren of wood and rock for the traditional rail and stone fences, the wire fence was a logical invention. Hundreds of barded-wire designs were invented, and the more practical patents were manufactured and shipped west at great profit. Today collectors are carefully searching out that wire for both enjoyment and historical interest. This book was designed to provide a well-organized identifying, classifying, and cataloguing system for the many designs and variations of barded wire. Nearly one thousand drawings and three indexes to patents, inventors, and...
On the Great Plains, a land barren of wood and rock for the traditional rail and stone fences, the wire fence was a logical invention. Hundreds of bar...
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102,60 zł |
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Old Masters Signatures and Monograms, 1400-Born 1800
ISBN: 9780810830820 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covers approximately 250 sales of Old Masters since 1980, with an average of five listings from each sale. There are 2,700 signature examples of 1,700 artists. Three sections following the main body of this volume offer the researcher easy cross-referencing--monograms and initials, symbols, and alternate names. The appendix includes supplemental signature information on additional artists whose actual signatures were not available, but whose importance could not be omitted.
Covers approximately 250 sales of Old Masters since 1980, with an average of five listings from each sale. There are 2,700 signature examples of 1,700...
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1480,90 zł |
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Woodworking Tools
ISBN: 9780852635018 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mankind has been using wood since prehistoric times to build shelter, houses, containers, vehicles and implements and the tools and techniques used to shape and manipulate wood are thousands of years old. The basic tools were established by Roman times, but apart from the mechanization of carpentry, the majority of woodworking tools have changed little since then. This book examines the basic woodworking tools used throughout history, reflecting the astonishing variety of forms which these basic tools have assumed at different times and in different places.
Mankind has been using wood since prehistoric times to build shelter, houses, containers, vehicles and implements and the tools and techniques used to...
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35,96 zł |
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Textile Machines
ISBN: 9780852636473 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book considers one of the liveliest areas of the decorative arts to emerge during the second half of the twentieth century. The new approaches to glassmaking that evolved during the 1960s liberated glassmaking from the factory and placed it in the hands of individual glassmakers. The result has been a glassmaking movement that has produced colourful, innovative and exciting work. Concentrating on the British context, this book provides an introduction to the work of significant contemporary makers along with the themes and ideas that have shaped their work. This book considers one of the liveliest areas of the decorative arts to emerge during the second half of the twentieth century. The new approaches... |
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35,96 zł |
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Harvesting Machinery
ISBN: 9780852639795 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Harvest, the most critical phase of the farming year, has always required full mobilisation of resources for maximum effort during the short period when crop ripeness and suitable weather conditions coincide. Mechanical means of assistance were first used, as far as we know, in Roman times but the story of harvesting machinery really belongs to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Harvest, the most critical phase of the farming year, has always required full mobilisation of resources for maximum effort during the short period... |
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35,96 zł |
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Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book, Volume 1
ISBN: 9780871691842 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume, the first of three describing the major facets of ancient Egyptian science, concentrates on the origin and development of hieroglyphic writing, the scribal profession, and quasi-learned institutions in ancient Egypt. (Antiques/Collectibles)
This volume, the first of three describing the major facets of ancient Egyptian science, concentrates on the origin and development of hieroglyphic wr...
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444,79 zł |
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Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors
ISBN: 9780878056989 / Angielski / Miękka / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This easy-to-understand guide through a maze of research possibilities is for any genealogist who has Mississippi ancestry. It identifies the many official state records, incorporated community records, related federal records, and unofficial documents useful in researching Mississippi genealogy. Here the contents of these resources are clearly described, and directions for using them are clearly stated. Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors also introduces many other helpful genealogical resources, including detailed colonial, territorial, state, and local materials. Among... This easy-to-understand guide through a maze of research possibilities is for any genealogist who has Mississippi ancestry. It identifies the man... |
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83,04 zł |
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British Longcase Clocks
ISBN: 9780887402302 / Angielski / Twarda / 373 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The longcase clock has been a part of the Englishman's home for some 300 years and has gained a place in his heart seldom if every achieved by any other domestic item. An example of its importance in family life is that it, with the bed and the house, was nearly always mentioned specifically in the will." In Derek Roberts's important new book, readers find a wealth of valuable information detailing the British origins, evolution, and wide range of longcase clocks that have been produced since the sixteenth century. In twenty chapters Mr. Roberts provides a detailed overview of many facets of...
"The longcase clock has been a part of the Englishman's home for some 300 years and has gained a place in his heart seldom if every achieved by any ot...
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447,56 zł |
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Collectible Rabbits
ISBN: 9780887402685 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fun book brings together a wide variety of rabbit figures, both antique and modern, which can be enjoyed and collected today. Rabbits from the 1800s to the present appear through hundreds of beautiful color photographs in forms from candy containers to stuffed toys, and are made of paper, cast iron, wood, glass paper mache, ceramics, and plastics. These rabbits represent diverse international origins including Germany, America, France, England, and the Orient. Many private collectors and dealers opened their hutches to share these rabbits with other bunny fanciers.
This fun book brings together a wide variety of rabbit figures, both antique and modern, which can be enjoyed and collected today. Rabbits from the 18...
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82,27 zł |
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Purrrfection: The Cat
ISBN: 9780887402692 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a wonderful romp through the history of the cat seen through antiquities and collectibles. From the pharaohs to Felix, Purrrfection takes the reader on the cat's journey from the status of god to devil and its climb back up the social ladder to its present role as man's best friend. A worthy addition for the cat collector as well as the cat fancier, Purrrfection deals with collectibles such as woodblocks, jade, coins, porcelain, ephemera, folk art, and toys in more than 175 lovely color photographs. Let the beauty, majesty, and mystery of the cat unfold in words and photographs ...
This book is a wonderful romp through the history of the cat seen through antiquities and collectibles. From the pharaohs to Felix, Purrrfection takes...
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82,27 zł |
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Heintz Art Metal
ISBN: 9780887402982 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The American Arts and Crafts Movement flourished briefly but brilliantly during the early years of the twentieth century. It was during this era that the Heintz Art Metal Shop and its successor the Smith Metal Arts Company (Silver Crest) produced decorative bronze wares of the highest quality. Today's avid interest in Arts and Crafts furnishings and accessories has collectors searching for examples made by these two firms. This book provides collectors and dealers alike with a pictorial panorama of such Heintz and Silver Crest items as bowls, jewelry, trophies, vases, and desk pieces, as well...
The American Arts and Crafts Movement flourished briefly but brilliantly during the early years of the twentieth century. It was during this era that ...
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97,70 zł |
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Oyster Cans
ISBN: 9780887404627 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When investigated with curiosity and enthusiasm, items that may seem mundane and commonplace can prove to be fascinating subjects Commercial oyster cans have become important collectibles today. This book has over 800 color photographs of oyster cans, jugs, and bottles, and the text provides wonderful details and anecdotes about the history of the oyster industry in Europe and America.
When investigated with curiosity and enthusiasm, items that may seem mundane and commonplace can prove to be fascinating subjects Commercial oyster c...
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144,01 zł |
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Oyster Plates
ISBN: 9780887405297 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Starting in the Victorian years of the 19th century, hearty oyster consumption made special, beautifully crafted "oyster plates" a necessity in fashionable homes and restaurants. This book is perfect for collectors, complete with a rarity guide and color photographs of almost 500 pieces of original dishware and unusual serving utensils. The text is filled with the history of oysters plate manufacturers from Limoges and Meissen to Wedgewood.
Starting in the Victorian years of the 19th century, hearty oyster consumption made special, beautifully crafted "oyster plates" a necessity in fashio...
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144,01 zł |
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Pepsi-Cola Collectibles
ISBN: 9780887405334 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late 1890s, Caleb Davis Bradham, a North Carolina drug-store owner and pharmacist, mixed a concoction at the soda fountain for his customers that was a hit. They called it "Brad's Drink"; Bradham named the mixture Pepsi Cola. Pepsi became a national success and engendered an array of commercial, advertising, and promotional objects that are much sought after by collectors today. Many of those objects are included in this book, presented with beautiful, full-color photographs. The items come from one of the largest collections of Pepsi memorabilia in the nation, that of Everette Lloyd.
In the late 1890s, Caleb Davis Bradham, a North Carolina drug-store owner and pharmacist, mixed a concoction at the soda fountain for his customers th...
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144,01 zł |
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Fun Buttons
ISBN: 9780887406911 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fun Buttons is different Humor in button subjects and design is featured in the nearly 400 color photographs, text and captions. From all over the world, over three centuries, this gathering of buttons is both delightful and informative. Organized by materials and themes, these funny buttons include children's subjects, animals, fairie, fruit, vehicles and sports designs which can't help but amuse and fascinate collectors, dealers and those who sew. The list of button clubs and organizations is a wonderful reference in itself. "The book...illuminates the myriad of subjects that the designers...
Fun Buttons is different Humor in button subjects and design is featured in the nearly 400 color photographs, text and captions. From all over the wo...
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144,01 zł |
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