Antiques & Collectibles

Humanity's hunt for calculating devices probably started with the use of small pebbles to keep track of numbers. The counting inventions progressed through the abacus, early mechanical calculators, and other ingenious devices culminating in today's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780894960123Author Linda KlineFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ross BooksPublisher Ross BooksWeight(grams) 336g

This superb reference work provides a newly revised, comprehensive overview of the entertaining world of battery toys. Battery operated robots, animals, people, character toys, banks, monsters, and cars are shown, compared, and fully analyzed in this...

"In Volume 4 of this all-encompassing, multi-volume set, which catalogs the vast range of enamel-painted figures produced mostly in the Staffordshire Potteries between 1780 and 1840, figures portraying family, children at play, the Temperance Movement,...

By today's standards, men wore formal dress every day in the 1890s. The color lithographs and line drawings of men dressed for work that are shown here bear striking contrast to men in the streets now. That very fact makes these clothes more than...

This book features exceptionally important tapestries from major European collections showing the world-class research - scientific, artistic and historical - applied to their preservation. The collections, mostly of Renaissance Flemish tapestries,...

This book is the catalog for two of the first major exhibits to show only modernist jewelry from such a broad group of artists. Both take place in 2008 in Fort Wayne, Indiana: one at The Fort Wayne Museum of Art (May 2 to August 24) and the other at The...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762473748Author Charles M SchulzFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Rp MinisPublisher Rp MinisWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 97mm * 74mm * 46mm

2017 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE for Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer-artist Frank Miller turned Daredevil from a tepid-selling comic into an industry-wide success story, doubling its sales within three years. Lawyer by day...

My Little Pony came into our world in the 1980s. Now, more than thirty-five years later, the brand is still going strong as children and adults alike all enjoy these colourful ponies. Over the years, the ponies have grown and evolved along with their...

Traditional Indian Jewellery: The Golden Smile of India explores the rich heritage of Indian jewellery and its significance in past and present Indian society. Jewellery plays an important part in the everyday lives, important moments, festivals and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578210926Author Brendan DellFormat HardbackPage Count 70Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Embrace the iconic '60s counterculture movement with 14 large-scale psychedelic black-light posters.Hippy & Trippy Art is filled with mind-bending illustrative posters that give your space that groovy vibe. With phrases and symbols of peace, love, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996393010Author J BallmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Totalmojo Productions, IncorporatedPublisher Totalmojo Productions,...

This beautifully illustrated book of more than 1,100 Victorian era cigar bands comes cased in a handsome presentation cigar box. The collection spans the time period from about 1880 to 1910, which was the "Golden Age" of German lithography and American...

Rediscover every toy and prize you ever pulled out of a Cracker Jack box in this wonderful guide! Comprehensive in scope, toys from the late nineteenth century on up to the 1990s are recorded, representing a major contribution to the expanding Cracker...

Experienced bow builders and practical archaeologists describe the history, evolution and construction of European style longbows in this new and engaging book. For the beginner, clear, uncomplicated instructions are offered, including descriptions of...

An insider's guide to buying, collecting, and selling art from an insider of Christie's Grounded in real-life stories, Art Collecting Today is the essential practical guide to today's art market. A lightly regulated industry with more than sixty billion...

This extensive and easy-to-use guide allows readers quick access to vital information on all of Fenton's art glass types and values. Thousands of listings and over 390 beautiful color images illustrate the vast range of art glass produced by the Fenton...

Netsuke - classic belt decorations for men - are rooted in a historical, mythological and artistic tradition in Japanese culture. Woodcarvers and their pupils, even counterfeiters, continued the work of their role models, in copies or variants of what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891384028Author Lucinda LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Car CulturePublisher Car CultureWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 203mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438256023Author Vlad EvanoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931626385Author Thomas L. ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Astragal PressPublisher Astragal PressWeight(grams) 1270gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

A detailed presentation of the iconic Naseby Cup that illuminates the Victorian vessel’s extraordinary numismatic importance and contextualizes the circumstances surrounding its creation One of the most exceptional numismatic objects in the world, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486427461Author Hilda AmphlettFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Barkcloth was the textile of choice for window treatments, upholstery, and other household textiles of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. This book explores barkcloth's enduring appeal in almost 300 full-color images, demonstrating its scintillating combination...

Most museums collections contain a wide variety of natural materials, and a diverse range of knowledge is necessary to keep so many types of objects at their best. This book studies the composition, structure and properties of natural materials such as...

From the formal carvings of the nineteenth century to the colorful and informal plastic and glass examples of molded relief jewelry, this revised and expanded guide is the perfect reference for those on a search for cameos. Fourteen new designs are...

The beauty and diverse graphics found on porcelain enamel advertising has garnered interest from collectors worldwide. Here are some of the finest examples of advertising signs for petroleum, automobiles, gasoline, beer, paints and varnishes, telephone,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801060806Author Julian GoughFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Atebol CyfyngedigPublisher Atebol Cyfyngedig

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398440920Author Sebastian M WypartFormat HardbackPage Count 422Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781289356569Author John Dawson MayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Nabu PressPublisher Nabu PressWeight(grams) 189g

Eighty percent of Filipinos (about 80 million people) identify with the Catholic faith. Visitors to the Philippines might find it surprising that images of Catholic saints, the Child Christ, and the Virgin Mary can be seen in all kinds of public and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781292447469Author Pip JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Pearson Education LimitedPublisher Pearson Education Limited

For many, birds represent freedom and spirituality since they are created to be free. Although this may be true for people as well, we are of course not able to be as truly free as our winged friends. Looking out of his office window and seeing the...

The Burning Forest is an empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, homes and communities destroyed.Over the past decade, the heavily...

Expanding access to contraception is essential for achieving universal access to reproductive health-care services, as called for in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This Highlights presents estimates of contraceptive use and needs from 1990...

This volume examines how pre-Columbian societies in the Americas envisioned their cosmos and iteratively modelled it through the creation of particular objects and places. It emphasises that American societies did this to materialize overarching models...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088004616Author Kandy MagazineFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 4mm