Carrera, IT: Italian Marble Industrie, 1972. First edition. Original Cloth on Boards, green w/white embossed lettering. Quarto, pp x, pp 223. B/W photographs throughout text plus 140 Color reproductions of marble types by Rizzoli in Milan. Specifications for each type is listed across from each plate. (Physical & mechanical tests..... More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1970. First edition. Cloth over Boards in Slipcase. Small quarto, pp. 344 (volume 1) and 300 (volume 2), illustrated with b/w photographs. The Garvan collection of American silver was started by a Yale alum in 1916, and gifted to Yale in 1930. Three major..... More
Savannah, GA: Telfair Books, 2010. First edition. Decorated Boards. Quarto, pp. 128, illustrated with color photographs. This book examines the important role Savannahians played in the production of silver flatware and hollowware and in the connoisseurship and collecting of these distinctive and beautiful objects. The Telfair Museum hosted an exhibit..... More
Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1999. First edition. Paperback. Octavo, pp. 230. American hardware from 19th century & early 20th is a fast-growing collecting area. This is the premier identification and value guide to these beautiful and very collectible items. 1,000 different hardware items are covered, 1,000 b/w photographs, 16 page..... More
Detroit: Berry Brothers, n.d. ca 1930's. First edition. Staplebound Decorated Wraps. Octavo, pp. 40, illustrated w/color drawings. Stamped by Sturtevant & Blood Co., a lumber yard in Owosso, Michigan, on the front cover. Published by Berry Brothers, who sold varnishes, enamels and stains out of Detroit, Ontario, and San Francisco..... More
New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1972. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. xv, 146, indexed, illustrated with 8 color plates. This volume sets forth basic information on the science of color and its practical applications to architecture. Special features include a chart demonstrating the interpenetration of colors in limestone, colored..... More
