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Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine


Price:
$25.00

Sotheby's
The Jerome Rapoport Collection of American Aesthetic Silver. June 20, 1996
NY: Sotheby's, 1996

Quarto. 86 lots, all with color & b/w photographs. Essay by Janet Zapata. Paperback. A near fine, unmarked copy. This collection of American silver based on Japonism is noteworthy in its depth and breadth, encompassing all the important phases of the period with outstanding examples from Tiffany, Gorham, Whiting Mfg. Co., Dominick & Haff, Durgin, Enid Yandell, and others.
Inventory number #014619



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$25.00

[Trade Catalog] L.S. Starrett Company
Starrett Precision Tools, Steel Tapes, Dial Indicators, Hack Saws. Catalog 26
Athol, MA: L.S. Starrett Company, 1938

Small octavo. 282 pp; b/w illustrations. Original wraps. VG with some soiling to covers, rusty staples, internally clean and bright. Catalog 26 featuring steel rules, steel tapes, transits and levels, combination squares and sets, vernier calipers, and height gages, micrometer calipers, last word indicators, dial and test indicators, automotive tool sets, screw pitch-thickness gages, calipers-dividers, drill and wire gages, levels, and hack saw frames-blades. All items listed with prices.
Inventory number #014078



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$20.00

Barr, Elaine
GEORGE WICKES, 1698-1761, Royal Goldsmith
NY: Rizzoli / Christie's, 1980

Quarto. xiii, 210 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, previous owner name on back of front free endpaper, else a bright, unmarked copy; jacket intact with no tears.
Inventory number #010092



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$35.00

Davis, Frank
FRENCH SILVER 1450-1825
NY: Praeger Publishers, 1970

Octavo. 104 pp; 183 b/w illustrations; appendix, makers' marks, list of Paris silversmiths, bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, prior owner name on front free endpaper & half-title page, else a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has one edge tear on front panel. Comprehensive survey of French 18th century silver illustrates and describes many brilliant examples of the period, beginning with its roots in medieval times. Included are fine examples for public and private collections in Leningrad, Munich, Amsterdam, Lisbon, London, and New York.
Inventory number #009936



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$25.00

Hood, Graham
AMERICAN SILVER: A History of Style, 1650-1900
NY: Praeger, 1971

First edition. Octavo. 255 pp; 286 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, former owner name on front free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked copy; jacket shows light edgewear.
Inventory number #009788



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine


Price:
$15.00

Schroder, Timothy B. & J.F. Hayward
THE ART OF THE EUROPEAN GOLDSMITH: Silver from the Schroder Collection
NY: American Federation of Arts, 1983

Quarto. 208 pp; color & b/w photographs; marks; bibliography. Paperback. Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy. The catalogue of the Schroder silver collection, containing the 79 objects in the exhibition, and an appendix of 15 objects too fragile to exhibit. The objects date from the 13th into the 19th centuries
Inventory number #009787



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine


Price:
$40.00

Honour, Hugh
GOLDSMITHS & SILVERSMITHS
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971

Quarto. 320 pp; b/w and color photographs and illustrations throughout; bibliography; index. Cloth with unclipped dustjacket. Near fine in near fine dustjacket. Former owner's name in pen on half-title page, no other markings of defects observed. Published as a companion volume to Hugh Honour's Cabinetmakers and Furniture Designers, this book consists of fifty studies of goldsmiths and silversmiths of ten nations and eleven centuries. They range in date from Vuolvinus, maker of a gold and silver altar in ninth-century Milan, to Wilhelm Wagenfeld, who studied at the Bauhaus and is one of the outstanding industrial designers of our time. Sculptors and painters who worked in precious metals are included, as well as the makers and designers of ordinary household plate.
Inventory number #009373



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine


Price:
$35.00

Aguttes, Claude
ART NOUVEAU & ART DECO Hotel des Ventes de Neuilly. 1er Juillet 2003
Neuilly-sur-seine: Claude Aguttes, 2003

Quarto. 97 pp. 449 lots, illustrated with color photographs. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #007428



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$20.00

Holland, Margaret
ENGLISH PROVINCIAL SILVER
NY: Arco Publishing, 1971

Octavo. 240 pp; color frontispiece; b/w plates; bibliography; index. Hardcover with dustjacket. VG in VG dj. An account of old country silver, with sections on Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Inventory number #007009



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$20.00

Ash, Douglas
DICTIONARY OF BRITISH ANTIQUE SILVER
London: Pelham, 1972

Octavo, 189 pp; b/w frontispiece; line drawings throughout. Hardcover with dustjacket. VG in VG jacket.
Inventory number #007008



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: New
Jacket: New


Price:
$60.00

Hartop, Christopher & Ellenor Alcorn
BRITISH AND IRISH SILVER in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007

First edition. Quarto. 263 pp; more than 750 duotone & 8 color illustrations; catalogue, bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. The Fogg Art Museum's silver collection is one of the most significant in America and includes objects that range from Elizabethan cups to works by such renowned artists as Paul de Lamerie. This book features over 300 pieces from the collection, that together offer a survey of silverware across three centuries.
Inventory number #006048



Binding: Cloth-backed Boards
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$150.00

Metman, Louis & J.L. Vaudoyer
LE BRONZE Le Cuivre, L'Etain, Le Plomb
Paris: D.A. Longuet, n.d.

n.d. (c.1915) Folio. 22 pp; 80 b/w plates illustrating 777 objects; bibliography. Text in French. Loose as issued in paper-covered portfolio. Ex-lib, dedication bookplate on pastedown, minimal catalog notations on verso of plates, small stamp on bookplate. sm. list of yearly collation checks from 1915 to 1930 in pencil on title page verso. no other library markings. Portfolio lightly soiled with small tears to cloth and paper library label on heel, contents VG. Sculpture, candlesticks, andirons, clocks, frames, keys & escutcheons from Roman times through the 18th century. Second part of series "Le Metal". Le Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan.
Inventory number #004721



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: New
Jacket: New


Price:
$60.00

Witt-Doerring, Christian
JOSEF HOFFMANN INTERIORS 1902-1913
NY: Prestel, 2006

First edition. Quarto. 224 pp; illustrated throughout mostly in b/w. Hardcover with dustjacket. Published in conjunction with the Josef Hoffmann exhibition at the Neue Gallerie in NYC from November 2, 2006 to February 26, 2007. Illustrated with color photographs of Hoffmann’s masterpieces -on their own and as parts of interiors- this monograph focuses on significant aspects of Hoffmann’s career: his early years as a member of the Secessionist Movement and founder of the Vienna Workshops, his role in the intellectual rebellion that took place in Austria; and his progression toward a Modernist ethic. It takes readers through four dazzling interiors designed by Hoffmann and furnished with his signature pieces, including furniture, wall and floor coverings, textiles, lighting, ceramics, glassware and metalwork.
Inventory number #004543



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$25.00

Ward, Barbara McLean & Gerald W.R. Ward, eds.
SILVER IN AMERICAN LIFE Selections from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University
NY: The American Federation of the Arts, 1979

Quarto. 193 pp; 196 objects described and illustrated, some in color plus 39 b/w text illustrations; bibliography; index of silversmiths, designers, manufacturers and retailers. Paperback. VG.
Inventory number #002449



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine


Price:
$15.00

Richter, Anne
ARTS AND CRAFTS OF INDONESIA
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994

First edition. Square octavo. 160 pp; profusely illustrated in color & b/w; map; glossary; bibliography. Paperback with flaps. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. This book features the diversity of Indonesian decorative arts - textiles and beading, wood and horn carvings, pottery ranging from simple cooking pots to elaborate terracotta modeling, jewelry and metalwork, masks and puppets, and baskets.
Inventory number #000717




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