Search Results: Antiques and Collectibles from Sandhill Books

Christie's, 2000. Softcover in fine condition. Pictorial covers, 92 pages, photographs throughout, 27 cm tall, quarto, bibliography, auction catalog, 136 lots.

Chipstone Foundation, 2008. Softcover. Fine. Stiff card covers, 260 pages, 11-in tall, index, many illustrations. Legacy of Nathaniel Gould; shaved post- and rung-chairs; Philadelphia pier tables; written evidence of furniture repairs.

Motorbooks International, 1997. Softcover. Fine. Glossy, pictorial wraps, 96 pages, 9-in tall. A survey of steam tractors manufactured by 17 companies.

Chipstone Foundation, 1998. Softcover. Fine. Photographs throughout, 293 pages, 11-in tall. Fourteen essays by various authors: Boston seating furniture in Late Baroque style, inlaid cherry furniture of Nathan Lombard, furniture of George Hunzinger, and much more.

Published by the author. Softcover. Very Good. 166 pages, 11-in tall, profusely illustrated. Reprints of the 1943 and 1946 quartermaster supply catalogs for WACs' and nurses' clothing and equipment; reprint of Mary Steele Ross' 1943 "American Women in Uniform"; reprint of the 1945 prescribed service uniform for women personnel of the army. Covers with just a bit of soil.

Chipstone Foundation, 2007. Softcover. Fine. 292 pages, 11-in tall, index and bibliography, profusely illustrated. Six essays including early American furniture makers' marks; reading Japanned furniture; cabinetmaker George C. Wright; board-seated turned chairs; Benjamin Randolph revisited; and more.

American Air Mail Society, 2014. Book. Fine/no jacket. Maroon cloth, 690 pages, 10-in tall. Three sections: official contract air mail first flights, CAM routes 1-34; Philippine flights 1911-1946; foreign flag flights

New York: Bloomsbury Auctions, 2007. Trade Paperback. Fine/no jacket. 241p, illustrations throughout, 30cm tall, quarto. Auction catalogue, 280 lots. New York, American revolution, American natural history, 19th century, native Americans, western Americana.

Edward Eberstadt & Sons, 1964?. Softcover. Good. White, glossy wraps, 72 pages, 9-in tall. Bookseller catalogue listing 210 items concerning state constitutions. A clean copy with a few ripples to covers, front cover with brown tone at edge.

Tel Aviv: Museum Haaretz, 1965. Softcover. Very Good. Pictorial covers, 34 pages, 9.5-in tall, bibliography. Illustrated with 12 plates of ancient glass. An exhibition catalog of glass from the 2nd millennium BCE to the Byzantine Period, also Islamic glass. A revised and enlarged version of "The Glass Collection of the Museum Haaretz." Minor soil to the covers, title page with a historical society discard stamp, no other markings.

Netherlands: Antiquariaat Forum, 1998. Trade Paperback. Very Good/no jacket. 200p, illustrations, 30cm tall, quarto. Dealer's catalogue of 752 manuscripts, books, globes, atlases offered for sale. Africa, America, Asia, Australia and the Pacific, Europe, navigation and shipbuilding, bibliography and cartography. Covers show minor crease.

Waverly Auctions, 1990. Softcover. Fine. White wraps, unpaged, 28 leaves, 9-in tall. A 1990 auction catalog with 415 lots and 4 pages of autograph facsimiles. Presidents, first ladies, vice presidents, americana, artists, authors, composers, astronauts, etc. Facsimile of Sitting Bull's autograph on front cover.

New York: Theo. Audel and Company, 1904. Third edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. Black cloth and top edge gilt, xxiv and 349 pages, many illustrations, 18cm tall, 12mo, index. "A practical and useful treatise for students and workers in telephony, giving a review of the development of the industry to the present date, and full descriptions of numerous valuable inventions and appliances." A clean and lightly worn copy.

New York: Universe Publishing and Vendome Press, 1998. first edition. Hard Cover. Fine/fine. 79p, illustrations throughout, 22cm tall, octavo. Universe of Design series. Gray cloth with gilt title. Fine in a fine jacket.

Sotheby's, 1988. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Green cloth with gilt title, 205 pages, 11 in tall. A profusely illustrated auction catalog with 392 lots of antiquarian ornithological books and drawings in watercolor and gouache by Nicholas Robert, Jacques Barraband, and Edouard Travies. Mostly French text, some English. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Oxford: Blackwell's Rare Books, no date, 2006?. Softcover. Fine/no jacket. pp 84, many illustrations, 24cm tall, octavo. Bookseller catalogue listing 300 items. Short pencil notation inside front cover, otherwise clean and unworn.

Old West Publishing, 1964. Hardcover. Fine/no jacket. Robert Cormack illus. Brown cloth with publisher's labels applied to front and spine, 150 pages, 24cm tall, octavo. No. 163 of 775 author signed and numbered copies.

New York: Broadman Library Foundation, 1948. Softcover. Very Good/no jacket. White wraps with black title, 34 pages, 10 in tall. Illustrated with 3 photographs of Dr. Joseph Broadman, a physician, in his library of 500,000 documents, newspapers, newspaper clippings, periodicals, pamphlets, leaflets, books, cartoons, pictures, posters, official reports, etc.. Broadman published this pamphlet in an unsuccessful effort to place the collection in a university library. In 1966 he gave the collection to a newly established Quaker institution on Long Island, Friends World College. In 1990 FWC was sold to a new owner who tore down the buildings a few years later and "the collection passed into oblivion." ("What Ever Happened to the Broadman Library," a blog posted by Princeton University Library, 2008). Front wrap with edge tear and crease, and 2 minor staple punctures. A clean copy, internally fine.

Garden Grove, CA: Swenson's Graphic Arts Studio, 1978. Softcover. Very Good/no jacket. 40p, illustrations, 28 cm tall (quarto). Dentzel menagerie are featured. Rear cover shows small ink notation at top.

University of Missouri Press, 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine/good. Red cloth, 128 pages, 12-in tall, bibliography and index. Catalogue includes 40 Pennsylvania German zithers, 11 dulcimers with straight sides, 70 dulcimers with a single bout, and 70 with double bouts. Many photographs. A clean copy with a smidgeon of wear at tips. Clean dust jacket shows 2-in tear to front panel. Near fine in a good dust jacket.