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A Practical Treatise on the Balance Spring, Including Making, Fitting, Adjusting to Isochronism and Positions, and Rating; Also The Adjustment for Heat and Cold FIRST EDITION

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, D.H. Hopkinson : 1876

Seller ID: 131a1825

Condition: Fair

144 pages plus adverts at back. Contents include: On Making Hair-Springs; On Fitting Hair-Springs; The Adjustment to Positions; The Adjustment to Isochronism; Regulating, or Rating; The Adjustment for Heat and Cold. Hinges intact. Above-average but not excessive wear. Silver lettering on backstrip still legible. Small chips from each end of backstrip. Blind-stamped boards. Unmarked.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; A Practical Treatise on the Balance Spring, Including Making, Fitting, Adjusting to Isochronism and Positions, and Rating; Also The Adjustment for Heat and Cold *FIRST EDITION* Cloc...
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Canadian Antiques Collector - a Journal of Antiques and Fine Arts: August 1967 - Canadian Historical Autographs

By: Adams, Marian: Editor

Price: $119.95

Publisher: Ontario, Canada, Canadian Antiques and Fine Arts : 1967

Seller ID: 764g0120

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

31 pages Features: Tourists on Porcelain - Minton China dessert service depicting sketches from "Northwest Passage by Land" specially made for Viscount Milton; Canadian Autographs - Collecting Canadian historical autographs; Collecting Clocks - Narrowing the category of the collection; Caddy Spoons - Collecting caddy spoons (used to transfer the expensive tea from the caddy to the tea pot; Black Creek Pioneer Village - Village on the outskirts of Toronto that contains 18 buildings restored to tell the story of rural Ontario from 1793 to 1867; MacCallum Porcelain Collection: A Teaching Co...
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Canadian Antiques Collector - a Journal of Antiques and Fine Arts: January 1967 - Manitoba Glass Mfg. Co. Ltd.

By: Adams, Marian: Editor

Price: $119.95

Publisher: Ontario, Canada, Canadian Antiques and Fine Arts : 1967

Seller ID: 764g0116

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

31 pages Features: Beausejour's Glass Works - History of the Manitoba Glass Mfg. Co. Ltd. at Beausejour, Manitoba; Beauty in Ontario's Pioneer Coverlets; There's Something Heart-warming About a Log Cabin; Those Puzzles in Porcelain - Eighteenth Century English porcelain dishes; Dutch Mirror of History - A journey down Amsterdam's Mirror Street (Spiegelstraat); and Sheraton Chairs - A Brief Look at (Thomas) Sheraton, the Supreme Chair-Man. Minimal wear. Small mailing label top left back cover. Minor soiling on back cover. Front cover and contents clean and unmarked. A sound copy.
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Canadian Antiques Collector - a Journal of Antiques and Fine Arts: July 1968 - Parian Statuettes

By: Adams, Marian: Editor

Price: $129.95

Publisher: Ontario, Canada, Canadian Antiques and Fine Arts : 1968

Seller ID: 764g0127

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

31 pages Features: Parian Statuettes - Brief history of Parian Statuettes of the 19th Century and the Canadian makers; Maisons du Quebec - Quebec architecture of the late 18th Century; The Burlington Glass Site Part - Burlington Glass Co. in Hamilton, Ontario (circa 1874 - 1910) and articles unearthed at the old site 1967; Scottish Silverware - History of Scottish silverware between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries; Unusual Exhibits in a Handmade Country - A look at a few of the 400 museums and art galleries in the Netherlands; Dried Bouquets for you Antiques - The art of drying f...
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Canadian Antiques Collector - a Journal of Antiques and Fine Arts: June 1968 - Rockingham Teawares

By: Adams, Marian: Editor

Price: $129.95

Publisher: Ontario, Canada, Canadian Antiques and Fine Arts : 1968

Seller ID: 764g0126

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

31 pages Features: A Seat Below the Salt - Brief history of silver plate of the 1600's as owned by the aristocracy; Rockingham Teawares - Rockingham China Works of Swinton in Yorkshire - history and identifying attributes; Lithographs - The process and history of lithography; The Burlington Glass Site Part 3 - Brief history of Burlington Glass Co. in Hamilton, Ontario (circa 1874 - 1910) and articles unearthed at the old site 1967; Theorem Painting - Process of Theorem painting - designs painted on white cotton velvet; and Early Canadian Furniture. Minimal wear along spine. Small mailin...
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Canadian Antiques Collector - a Journal of Antiques and Fine Arts: May 1967 - Upper Canada Furniture

By: Adams, Marian: Editor

Price: $119.95

Publisher: Ontario, Canada, Canadian Antiques and Fine Arts : 1967

Seller ID: 764g0118

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

31 pages Features: Furniture of Upper Canada; Furniture of French Canada - History of fine furniture in French Canada; Tibetan Jewelry; From Modesty to Mod - Article on the Royal Ontario Museum's Centennial exhibition on Canadian clothing from 1780 to present (1967); The Fascination of Misericords - Background of Misericords (ornate wooden carvings); and How to Become a Collector Without Knowing It. Minimal wear. Small mailing label top left back cover. Clean and unmarked. A worthy copy.
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Canadian Antiques Collector - a Journal of Antiques and Fine Arts: November 1967 - Canadian Confederation Silversmiths

By: Adams, Marian: Editor

Price: $119.95

Publisher: Ontario, Canada, Canadian Antiques and Fine Arts : 1967

Seller ID: 764g0122

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

31 pages Features: Confederation Silversmiths - Brief history of Canadian silversmiths of the Confederation period (1867 - 1871); 300 Years of Canadian Art - A look at an exhibition of Canadian art at the Art Gallery of Ontario from the early French colonial period to 1966; Eskimo Art - A Collector's Viewpoint; Animal Menagerie of the 1700's - Brief look pottery and porcelain animals from 18th century England; A Short History of Antique Miniature Furniture; An Outline of English Period Furniture - Identifying the various periods, their dates, and the wood used; and Contemporary French T...
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Canadian Antiques Collector - a Journal of Antiques and Fine Arts: September 1968

By: Adams, Marian: Editor

Price: $79.95

Publisher: Ontario, Canada, Canadian Antiques and Fine Arts : 1968

Seller ID: 764g0128

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

31 pages Features: English Chair Styles 1660 - 1860; Royal Worcester Flower Making - History of flowers made in bone china (1751 - 1955), Royal Worcester porcelain; The Pre-Columbian Artifacts of Mexico - History, location and museums; J.S. McLean: A Tribute to the Modest Collector; and Silver Cream Jugs - History (1650 - 1780) and examples from the Mrs. William Bennett Munro collection. Small mailing label bottom right front cover. Moderate wear to front cover. Clean and unmarked. A worthy copy.
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This Week Magazine, December 19, 1965 - Insert to the Boston Sunday Herald: World's Most Expensive Doll House!

By: Adler, Bill; Rice, Charlie; Harrity, Richard; Lane, Judy; Weisinger, Mort; MacDonald, John D.; Paddleford, Clementine

Price: $199.95

Publisher: USA, United Newspapers Magazine Corporation / The Boston Herald : 1965

Seller ID: 302g3206

Binding: Paperback

16 pages. Features: White House Wit - from many Presidents; New Haven's Shubert Theater hosts three deer to spruce up musical comedy "The Yearling"; World's Most Expensive Doll House! - it has been insured for $2.5 million and is now owned by Queen Elizabeth - full-page color photo plus five black and white photos; Zipcode USA - teen Q&A - with photo of the Lovin' Spoonful and Dame Margot Fonteyn; The Girl in the Yellow Suit (fiction); Home From School - recipes. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy.
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Canadian Homes Magazine, July 1962 Antiques, the Great Canadian Treasure Hunt

By: Anglin, Gerald: Editor

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Canada, Maclean Hunter : 1962

Seller ID: 853a1841

Binding: Paperback

60 pages. Topics include: 23 page report on the latest in Canadian Homes' frequent reports for antique lovers, with content from Herbert Schwartz, Robert Collins and George Hancocks. Great contemporary advertisements. Above-average wear. Several tape reinforcements. Unmarked. Minor water staining to some pages.
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Lot of Three issues of the Nicola Valley Historical Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Spring 2003), Vol. 17, No. 4 (Summer 2003), Vol 18, No. 1 (Fall 2003): Treasures of Yesterday

By: Atkinson, Loann; Watson, Barb; Sulz, Bette

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Merritt, B.C., Nicola Valley Archives Association : 1981

Seller ID: 633h2036

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

These three issues remind us of tools and devices (now antiques) used by homemakers and families of long ago such as: Smoothing Stones, Hat Irons, Sad Irons, Goffering Irons, Fluter Irons, Box Irons, Gas Irons, Phonographs, Radios, and Cameras, not to mention live bands!. Total of 36 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Clean and unmarked with light wear. ; 4to
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Antique Automobile Magazine - Dedicated to the History of the Automobile, November-December, 1961

By: Ault, Charles A.; Et al

Price: $99.95

Publisher: USA, Antique Automobile Club of America, Inc. (AACA) : 1961

Seller ID: 536g1174

Binding: Paperback

Features: Motoring in Miniature - using models to preserve automotive history; Hershey Fall Meet; Glidden Tour; Recounting a 1924 Cross Country Tour in a Model T; Cover Model T 1910 Ford Touring; National Fall Meet - Central Division; Early Glidden Tourist Eddie Richard Guest at AACA's Hershey National Meet; 1927 Martin Aerodynamic Auto Takes AACA Glidden Tour; A 1910 Thomas; H.H. Franklin's 1910 Air-Cooled Torpedo; Mister Brass - Tommy Protsman of Atlanta, Georgia; How to make your own chain sprockets; The Stainless Steel Fords; AACA Movies; How to Photograph Antique Cars; 1931 6 Cylinder CM ...
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Manions' U.S. Militaria - Auction 162 Catalogue, Volume 20-8B

By: Author Not Stated

Price: $59.95

Publisher: USA, Manion's International Auction House, Inc. : 1994

Seller ID: 51303985

Binding: Paperback

288 pages. Light wear. Minimal markings. Nice tight clean copy.
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Sights and Scenes of the World: A Series of Magnificent Photographic Views Embracing the World of Nature and Art, People's Series, No. 1, 28 October 1893

By: Author Not Stated

Price: $119.95

Publisher: Chicago, W.B. Conkey Company : 1893

Seller ID: 827c6781

Binding: Paperback

16 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Full-page black and white photos of: Osborne Palace - Queen Victoria's home on the Isle of Wight; Pope's Villa at Twickenham on the Thames near London; Robert Burns' Cottage, Ayr; The Giant's Causeway - Irish Basaltic rocks; Lakes of Killarney; Palace of Sans Souci, Potsdam; Castle of Rheinstein; The Appian Gateway, Rome; The Grand Canal, Venice; The Grand Opera House, Paris; The Grand Staircase in the Paris Opera House; The Stora Theatre, Gothenburg, Sweden; The City of Lisbon, Portugal; The City of Bethany, near Jerusalem; Native Malay Village - fishermen in b...
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Sights and Scenes of the World: A Series of Magnificent Photographic Views Embracing the World of Nature and Art, People's Series, No. 10, 30 December 1893

By: Author Not Stated

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Chicago, W.B. Conkey Company : 1893

Seller ID: 827c6790

Binding: Paperback

16 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Wonderful full-page black and white photos of: The City of Mexico; City of Bombay, India; Island of St. Helena; Cape Town, Africa; The Royal Palace, Honolulu, Sandwich Islands (Hawaii); Constantinople; Ruins of the City of Capernaum; Royal Palace of Peterhof, near St. Petersburg; The Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Devil's Bridge, Switzerland; Island of Madeira; Salon, Marie de Padilla; Frederiksborg Palace, Denmark; Royal Palace, Stockholm, Sweden; The Palace of Versailles, France; The Assumption of the Virgin, by Murillo. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy.
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Sights and Scenes of the World: A Series of Magnificent Photographic Views Embracing the World of Nature and Art, People's Series, No. 12, 13 January 1894

By: Author Not Stated

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Chicago, W.B. Conkey Company : 1894

Seller ID: 827c6792

Binding: Paperback

16 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Wonderful full-page black and white photos of: Piccadilly Circus, London; Durham Castle, England; Hall of Knights in the Royal Palace, Berlin; Bridge of Sighs, Venice; Interiors of the Pompeiian Museum; The Sea of Ice, Switzerland; The Statue of Peter the Great, St. Petersburg; Natives of Australia Fishing; Native Street and Houses in Ceylon; Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia; In the Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence River; The Mission of San Antonio, California; The Cathedral of Lima, Peru; The Tomb of Canova; Niagara Falls, Winter of 1892-3; Jupiter Terrace...
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Sights and Scenes of the World: A Series of Magnificent Photographic Views Embracing the World of Nature and Art, People's Series, No. 13, 20 January 1894

By: Author Not Stated

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Chicago, W.B. Conkey Company : 1894

Seller ID: 827c6793

Binding: Paperback

16 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Wonderful full-page black and white photos of: Seven Dials, London; Eaton Hall, near Chester, England; Royal Library in Berlin; The Interior of St. Mark's Church, Venice; Panorama of Naples, Italy; St. Gothard Tunnel, Switzerland; Lady Kazan Cathedral, St. Petersburg; Private Mosque of the Turkish Sultan, Constantinople; Queen Street, Auckland, New Zealand; Yale College; The Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Canada; Railroad Station, Santiago, Chili (Chile); Church and Convent of San Francisco, Lima, Peru; The Holy Family, by Murillo; The Lion of Lucerne; Street Sce...
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Sights and Scenes of the World: A Series of Magnificent Photographic Views Embracing the World of Nature and Art, People's Series, No. 14, 27 January 1894

By: Author Not Stated

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Chicago, W.B. Conkey Company : 1894

Seller ID: 827c6794

Binding: Paperback

16 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Wonderful full-page black and white photos of: The Royal Exchange, London; Irongate, the principal retail business street of Glasgow; Jungfenstrasse, Hamburg; A 'Street' or canal in Venice; Entrance to Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris; Ramble St. Monique, Barcelona; The Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens; Ahmedieh, or Mosque of Sultan Ahmed, Constantinople; Natives bathing in natural hot springs, New Zealand; Princeton College, Princeton, New Jersey; North American Indians - a plans Indian scene; Government Palace, Buenos Ayres (Aries); Cathedral at Bogota, Columbia;...
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Sights and Scenes of the World: A Series of Magnificent Photographic Views Embracing the World of Nature and Art, People's Series, No. 15, 3 February 1894

By: Author Not Stated

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Chicago, W.B. Conkey Company : 1894

Seller ID: 827c6795

Binding: Paperback

16 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Wonderful full-page black and white photos of: Bank of England - great street scene; The Bromielaw or Harbor, Glasgow; The Hamburg Warehouses - River Elbe scene; The Pitti Palace, Florence, Italy; A Street Scene in Naples; Hall of Justice - in the Alhambra at Granada in Spain; Port Said; The Acropolis, Baalbek, Syria; Native Street in New Zealand; English Parade, Hong Kong; Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh, New York; The Post Office, Buenos Ayres (Aries); Carmen Church Ruins, Guatemala; St. Martyn's Church, Canterb...
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Sights and Scenes of the World: A Series of Magnificent Photographic Views Embracing the World of Nature and Art, People's Series, No. 17, 17 February 1894

By: Author Not Stated

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Chicago, W.B. Conkey Company : 1894

Seller ID: 827c6796

Binding: Paperback

16 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Wonderful full-page black and white photos of: Poet's Corner, Westminster Abby; The Municipal Buildings, Aberdeen; City of Munich, Germany; Lake Maggiore, Italy; The Hotel De Ville, or, City Hall, Paris; Trollhattan Falls, Sweden; Water Carriers in Cairo; The City of Damascus; Tea Plantation in China; City of Calcutta, India; The State, War and Navy Departments, Washington, D.C.; City Hall Square, New York; The City of Zacatecas, Mexico; Hyde Park, London - a busy street scene; Royal Museum, Berlin; The Ghiberti bronze doors in Florence. Moderate wear. Tears/c...
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Category: Antiques and Collectibles