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196716801Rutland VT: Charles E. Tuttle 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12.4x9.8x1.5in. previous owner's signature on front endpaper dust jacket with small tear at head of spine. Dust jacket in clear protector. <br>French court styles have been the chosen means of decorating important interiors since the end of the seventeenth century and French furniture and works of art have attracted many distinguished collectors beginning with Catherine the Great. The carefully selected illustrations assembled during the course of nearly twenty years include not only important examples of all kinds but contemporary arrangements of the period discussed. With 24 illustrations in color and 204 in black and white. <br>291pp 5.07lb 12.4x9.8x1.5in Charles E. Tuttle hardcover
1965BIBLIO-44084Furniture History Society London original journal issues 1965-2016. 39 vols printed wrappers 4to. This is a good but broken run of Furniture History the journal of the Furniture History Society which is an extensively illustrated scholarly journal issued annually to members. The society's website notes that: "It is the only journal devoted to the history of furniture from all parts of the world and is internationally recognised as authoritative. Subjects range from the work of individual makers and designers to aspects of interior decoration domestic economy and trade practice. Contributions have been made by the leading scholars in the field. From time to time single issues are devoted to individual subjects or notable articles published in special editions. vol.1 slightly rubbed and soiled the others Very Good clean copies. Furniture History Society, London, original journal issues, 1965-2016 unknown
191260283New Orleans LA: The McDermott Surgical Instrument Co. Ltd. 736-738 Poydras St. ca. 1912. Tall 8vo. 2 576 xvi pp. “Section G†printed on coated paper stock. With well over 1500 photographic and woodcut-engraved text illustrations throughout. Dark green publisher’s cloth Arts & Crafts decoration front cover black lettering front cover & spine minor scuffing edgewear minor bumping to corners inner hinges starting still VG- sound copy. Second edition stated revised & updated of this surprisingly scarce Louisiana medical supply company’s offerings in the Progressive Era. This catalogue includes a remarkable range of early 20th-Century medical equipment ranging from microscopes fitted with new electric arc lamp to electric centrifuges for testing hypodermic syringes antitoxine syringes anaesthetic equipment electrical illuminating apparatus electro-therapeutic wall cabins X-Ray machines portable radiographic Scheidel cases and much more. The McDermott Surgical Instrument Co. Ltd. was owned and directed by T.C. Hills 1867-1930 and Edwin J. Sack initially on Charles Street specializing in surgical instruments artificial limbs trusses medical equipment and more. Founded originally at the end of the 19th-Century and specializing in artificial limbs and trusses by 1910 the company had substantially expanded and moved to 736-738 Poydras St. expanding their offerings and their reach. Worldcat does locate over 10 locations for this catalogue however the collation is often not matching and the dating incorrect. The McDermott Surgical Instrument Co., Ltd., 736-738 Poydras St., hardcover
197220956New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1972. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 11.5x8.9x0.9in. Inscribed by Authors. inscribed and dated December 2 1972 on front endpaper by Billy Baldwin first edition published by Holt Rinehart and Winston; dust jacket with tiny chips at head of spine. Dust jacket in clear protector. <br>With 108 pages of illustrations 72 in full color. <br>221pp 2.68lb 11.5x8.9x0.9in Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover
199419444Buffalo NY: Burchfield Art Center Buffalo State College 1994. 1st. Soft cover. Near Fine. 11.0x8.5x0.3in. Inscribed by Authors. inscribed by author; rubbing to front cover. <br>The catalogue of an exhibition at the Burchfield Art Center Buffalo State College from February 19 through April 10 1994. Illustrated mostly in black and white 8 color plates. <br>104pp 0.93lb 11.0x8.5x0.3in Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo State College paperback
1933871221933. TRADE CATALOG - BABY PRAMS AND FURNITURE. COMPAGNIE LYONNAISE DE CONSTRUCTION DE VOITUES ET JOUETS D'ENFANTS; Lyon. Les Voitures d'Enfants - Les Meuble Lacques. Album No. 1. Lyon: The Company 1933. Oblong quarto printed wrappers; 68 pp. illustrated throughout. Art deco prams weighty looking "landaus" and smaller "cabs" in a range of high modern styles followed by strollers fabricated of either metal some of which are collapsible or wood some cribs and cradles and suites of decorated lacquer furniture for children. unknown
190859337Springfield IL: Board of Prison Industries of Illinois Illinois State Reformatory Print 1908. Two vols. 1st - Oblong 4to. 11 x 7.75 in. 75 1 pp. woodcut engraved borders throughout. With over 150 text woodcut engravings & illustrations of Arts & Crafts furniture. Orange decorated printed softcovers decorative Arts & Crafts borders in black & bright orange on front cover minor shelfwear slight creasing to front cover still NF copy w/ original order sheet ditto TLS & envelopes laid-in; 2nd - 8vo. 8 pp. Self-printed softcovers NF copy all preserved w/ original mailing envelope to H.R. Phelps Lockport Illinois. First editions of these uncommon catalogue and price list for Arts & Crafts furnishings supplied by prison labor during the Progressive Era as the Illinois Board of Prison Industries underwent substantial changes following passage of 1903-1904 laws in Illinois regarding prison labor products to be strictly used by Illinois schools and public institutions. Although Illinois prison labor was producing everything from foundry work to textiles crushed rock to fertilizer and stationery the present catalogue focuses primarily on the Arts & Crafts era quarter-sawn oak furnishings manufactured at Joliet Penitentiary. Items include school desks opera house theatre chairs office desks roll top desks book cases stacking lawyer’s cases dining room tables library tables chairs stools and settees. Worldcat locates 2 copies of first SMU ILL State no copies of price list; See: Koerber & Brieschke Menard: Development of a Nineteenth-Century Pirson Jounral of the Illinois State Historical Society Vol. 96 No. 3 Autumn 2003. Board of Prison Industries of Illinois, Illinois State Reformatory Print, paperback
1918H16554Kiel & Milwaukee WI: Kiel Furniture Co 1918. Near Fine. Oblong quarto 12.5 x 10 inches in full black cloth with "J. B. Laun" stamped in gilt on front cover. 63 1 pp illustrated throughout images printed in slight browntone with inserts including "New Kiel Table Designs Supplement to Catalogue 28" and some price lists circulars and flyers. Products include dining room suites tables library tables desks stools tabourettes pedestals and "novelties." The Kiel Furniture company was founded in 1882 and employed German-American immigrants in the small town of Kiel and has been in business ever since now under the name A. A. Laun Furniture Company named for the younger brother of J. B. Laun one of the original presidents of the company who took over as vice president and general manager in 1916. The types of products featured in these catalogs reflects both the tastes of their clientele mainly middle-income Midwestern households but also reflects the Stickleyesque influence of Arts & Crafts and Mission style aesthetics. No copies of this particular catalog located in any institution. This is the president of the company's own copy! Kiel Furniture Co unknown
1944871891944. FURNITURE Kenmochi Isamu. Kenchiku Shinsho 9 KIKAKU KAGU. Tokyo Showa 19 1944 2nd printing after the first of 1943. 12mo. bound Western style in illustrated boards heavily illustrated with photos. THE STANDARDS OF FURNITURE was an important work as is evidenced by its reprinting in the closing days of a losing war effort. Kenmochi is generally acknowledged to be one of the foremost industrial designers of the 20th century. In very good condition. unknown
192361450Portland OR: Doernbecher Manufacturing Company Planned and Produced by The Arcady Company 1923. Atlas folio. 12.5 x 18.5 in. 54 pp unpaginated. Illustrated with photos and camera-ready advertising copy in two-tone illustrations throughout. Half-beige over tan boards black & brown lettering on front cover minor bumping to corners minor bumping head & foot of spine some scuffing still a VG copy. First edition of this exceedingly scarce sales campaign catalogue illustrating Doernbecher’s line of Jazz Age bedroom furniture manufactured in Portland OR with an intent to raise the awareness of the fast-growing middle class market of better bedrooms and better furnished homes. The largely pen & ink drawings are designed to appeal to the widest range of Western customers and include specific examples of such stores as the Bellview Furniture Co. Idaho Sheppard & Lawrence Lorraigne CA Procter & Johnstone Home Furnishings Paducah KY and many others. Specific details for the 200 300 400 600 etc. suites are all available with finishes in Walnut Oak Silvertone Ivory and more. Following World War I Doernbecher manufacturing first established in Portland OR in 1921 maintained an assembly line for producing furniture nearly five miles long. Original sales literature catalogues and advertising manuals for the storied Western manufacturer are quite scarce. No copies in Worldcat. Doernbecher Manufacturing Company, [Planned and Produced by The Arcady Company], hardcover
196247367Long Island City NY: Scalamandre Silks 37-24 24th St. 1962. 76 sample cards 5.25 x 10.25 in. w/ 424 fabric & trim samples stapled & taped on thick card stock including silk fringes tassels decorative borders ribbons braids and more all in vibrant colours many with ink and pencil annotations indicating stock numbers quantity and prices. All of these are housed in the original sample case covered in green cloth with lid 7 x 15.25 x 13 in. brass handle on one end some wear & rubbing minor bumping & fraying to fore-edges still a VG- exampler. First edition thus of this stunning salesman sample case for silk trimmings used in interior design by the famed Franco Scalamandre’s designers. These samples include French Tufts Rosettes elaborate silk braids borders ribbons tassels and more many of them in traditional styles and colours for use in recovering and restoring furnishings draperies and other period pieces. Scalamandre d. 1988 established Scalamandre Silks in 1929 focused on supplying silk fabrics and trims to the growing movement of restoring historic houses and furnishings in the United States. His plant in Long Island City NY wove historic fabrics to match those acquired by Hearst for San Simeon. He established the Scalamandre Museum of Textiles which thrived until the late 1960s offering beautiful exhibits of historical documents and traditional textiles. His company helped with the restoration of Monticello and was perhaps best known for their reproductions and restorations of draperies wallpapers and upholstery for the Kennedy White House from 1961-1962 and has continued to supply historic fabrics to every administration since. Scalamandre Silks, 37-24 24th St., hardcover
1920216870Paris: Ernest Gründ Éditeur 1920. Illustrated. 6 vols. 8vo. Brown buckram. Fine. Illustrated. 6 vols. 8vo. Ernest Gründ, Éditeur unknown
196715488Milano: Gorlich Editore 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 13.7x10.0x2.0in. Dust jacket in clear protector. <br>The standard work on Italian lacquered furniture. Illustrated with 496 color plates and two color frontispieces. Text in Italian. <br>25pp 9.58lb 13.7x10.0x2.0in <br>EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGES NECESSARY Gorlich Editore hardcover
198825652Nashville TN: Tennessee Historical Society 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 11.3x8.9x1.0in. dust jacket rubbed at extremities. Dust jacket in clear protector. <br>With 422 black and white illustrations and 34 color plates. <br>344pp 3.52lb 11.3x8.9x1.0in Tennessee Historical Society hardcover
2000BOOKS073412IBruxelles: Editions Racine 2000. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket hardcover. B&W and color illustrations. ISBN 2873861991 446pp. Editions Racine unknown
194556162Seattle WA: Roger Dudley Commercial Photographers 1 Stuart Building ca. 1945. 4to. 27 linen-backed silver gelatin photos cream- & gray-coloured linen backings all w/ linen hinges at gutter margin all stamped in lower fore-edge of blank or on verso w/ professional photographer’s stamp. Contemporary black limp simulated leather post-binder rounded corners nickel-plated screw posts at inner gutter margin minor edgewear slight soiling some rubbing still VG exemplar w/ images all having bright strong contrast. This salesman sample photo catalogue of Mid-Century Modern cabinetry was apparently produced for a Seattle based manufacturer offering a wide range of products. The photos encompass Scandinavian Modern-inspired kitchen cabinets with very clean lines stylish hardware and laminate countertops; an entire array of counters display cabinets and sales counters for a Seattle Pharmacy including night shot showing the sales floor through the glass brick lined door showing the prescription counter products on the shelves pharmacist and assistant as well as the soda fountain counter fitted with a Coca Cola Multiplex dispenser. Also included are photos of several styles of glass-fronted display cabinets the window casements for a florist shop and a beautifully created bedroom set featuring his & hers twin beds each with built-in radio vanity and stylish dressers. Of special interest are the series of images of a post-World War II sporting goods store fitted with knotty-pine cabinetry all filled with displays of fishing gear a Martin 60 Outboard Motor ca. 1946-47 fishing tackle hunting rifles and shotguns cartridge boxes tennis rackets taxidermy trophies for deer and elk racks and much more. Dudley Sr. 1895-1954 began his career as a photographer with Walter Miller 1877-1938 who had apprenticed and partnered with Asahel Curtis in Seattle and later set up his own Dorpat Studio in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Building. Dudley bought out the business in the mid-1930s and would continue working the business until his death in 1954 followed by his son Roger Dudley Jr. who had joined the firm in 1945. See: A Guide to the Walter P. Miller Photographs Circa 1920-1932 Golden Gate National Recreation Area National Park Service GOGA-00789; Sherrard Seattle Now & Then: Street Photography Nov. 27 2010. Roger Dudley, Commercial Photographers, 1 Stuart Building, hardcover
190922111Preisbuch V. Auflage 5. Auflage 12.-17. Tausend Fifth edition 12th-17th thousand 1909. Softcover. vg. 4to. 1002pp. Gold-stamped wraps with decoration string protected in modern mylar. Title-page with emblem of the "Deutsche Werkstätten für Handwerkskunst." Rare work on "Dresdner Hausgerät" a cost-effective program designed to manufacture furniture which was easy to assemble in a variety of shapes and forms. Each plate with exact measurements of the pieces depicted. Most of the furniture shown after designs by Prof. Richard Riemerschmid and Prof. Adelbert Niemeyer. Also includes price list with difference in cost depending on type of wood used. Price list loose as issued. Creasing and minor staining on wraps. Top right corners of title-page and third page expertly repaired. Some numbers handwritten in pencil by previous owner to margin of some pages. Text in German. Wraps in good interior in very good condition. Scarce. Preisbuch V. Auflage, 5. Auflage, 12.-17. Tausend (Fifth edition, 12th-17th thousand) unknown
1905002413Chicago: A. J. Johnson & Sons Furniture Company 1905. First Edition. Very good. Trade catalog n. d. ca 1905; oblong folio 18 1/4 x 13; pp. 58 recto only; textured olive wraps 1/4 cloth and large rivets as published; a small cut to cloth on spine; wraps with a few spots to margins and nicks and cuts along edges of paper; faint vertical crease; numerous sepia-tone illustrations; very good condition. A beautiful lavish trade catalog for the A. J. Johnson & Sons Furniture Company - established in 1869 and known for manufacturing luxury furniture. Each page featured an entire suite ie. beds bureau chifforette vanity foot stool etc. the materials the pieces were made of Mahogany Walnut the style of the furniture Queen Anne Hepplewhite William and Mary and the dimensions. A. J. Johnson & Sons Furniture Company hardcover
193449765Tokyo æ±äº¬: Koyosha Henshubu 洪洋社. 編輯部 1934. First edition. Spiral_bound. vg- to vg. Quarto. 3pp. 20pp. 2. Spiral-bound illustrated red black and white wrappers. Volume 13 of the scarce series of Japanese photographic surveys on modernist furniture. At least 16 volumes were known to have been published between 1932 and 1934. This volume is the second part following vol.11 which focuses on the furniture and decorative furnishings from Japanese cafes during the early 1930s. The first three pages contain text captions in numerical order followed by 20 plates of beautifully printed b/w photogravure images of the furniture. The final two pages contain publishers advertisements.<br /> <br /> Text throughout in Japanese.<br /> <br /> Wrappers with some light staining and smudges to the wrappers. Light rubbing to extremities. Back cover with chipping to the bottom left corner as well as some small closed tears along the spiral binding and the left side. Interior with some light smudging and some sporadic minor to light water stains throughout mostly in the margins with images mostly still clean and bright. Wrappers and in very good- interior in very good condition overall. Koyosha Henshubu (洪洋社. 編輯部) unknown
199214255Paris: Michel Aveline Editor 1992. 1st. Hardcover. New/New. 13.2x9.5x1.1in. in shrinkwrap. <br>Alberto Pinto 1945-2012 was a French interior designer of considerable acclaim. This is the first monograph on Pinto highlighting the first 20 years of his work. Exquisite photographs illustrate some of the sumptuous interiors he created including his own apartment in Paris. <br>301pp 4.74lb 13.2x9.5x1.1in Michel Aveline Editor hardcover
197119316Paris: Société d'études et de publications économiques 1971. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 11.2x10.0x1.0in. dust jacket with tear to front panel. Dust jacket in clear protector. <br>The first monograph on this Parisian design house. Illustrations in color and in black and white. Text in French and English. <br>240pp 3.65lb 11.2x10.0x1.0in Société d'études et de publications économiques hardcover
1920H16553Kiel & Milwaukee WI: Kiel Furniture Co 1920. Near Fine. 5 catalogs oblong quarto wraps each about 13 x 10 inches very good plus to near fine condition 64 to 96 pp. each illustrated throughout some in subtle browntone occasional plates in color with occasional price lists and inserts. Products include dining room suites tables library tables desks stools tabourettes pedestals and "novelties." The Kiel Furniture company was founded in 1882 and employed German-American immigrants in the small town of Kiel and has been in business ever since now under the name A. A. Laun Furniture Company named for the younger brother of J. B. Laun one of the original presidents of the company who took over as vice president and general manager in 1916. The types of products featured in these catalogs reflects both the tastes of their clientele mainly middle-income Midwestern households but also reflects the Stickleyesque influence of Arts & Crafts and Mission style furniture. Searching the OCLC database we could find NO copies of any of these particular Kiel Furniture catalogs in institutions; the earliest Kiel catalog we could find institutionally is a 1925 catalog of furniture a single example of which is in the Wisconsin state historical archives. Lightest wear and soil. Kiel Furniture Co unknown
19123220206<p><em>Oblong folio 318 x 472 mm 88 chromolithograph illustrated pages; only occasional light spotting; original cloth-backed flexible boards imitating cloth front cover printed in bronze colour; spine worn a few marks.</em></p><p>The furniture house Grocholesky situated in a small town near Hildesheim in Lower Saxony offered entire suites for living- dining- and bedrooms mainly in art nouveau style however still including the odd piece of historicist design for the more conservative buyer.</p><p>The large and beautiful illustrations show suites of furniture with the measurements on each page; the furniture suitably decorated with modernist vases and mantelpiece decorations on display on dressers shelves and cupboards to give customers an idea of design potential.</p><p>gProvenanceg: Inscribed on the rear inside cover by a citizen of Bockenem at a later date and with stamp and release stamp by a local museum.</p> Bockenem: Grocholesky, Printed by H. W. & C., Berlin.
192046296Newton Highlands Massachusetts approx. 1920-1923. original three-ring binder. Some photographs detached from their mounts etc; some minor edgewear; binder dusty. 8-1/2 x 11 inches. Riley worked for the Heywood-Wakefield Company from approximately 1920-1923. He invented the "Riley Fibre Loom" and after selling the use of the loom for paper and reed fabric based applications to Heywood-Wakefield left in 1923 to form his own venture pursuing the technology with stranded metal applications. Included in the archive are copies of contracts agreements and licenses; numerous samples of various types of wicker weave and reinforced fabric for furniture; photographs of the inventor machinery looms and factories; and related drawings and other materials. unknown
