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Best.-Nr. 29615London and New York: William Heinemann and G. P. Putnam's Sons No Date. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. Clothbound quarto. 256 pp. With numerous black and white photographs. Book is not dated but from early part of the 20th century. A sound very good copy in pebbled red cloth binding decorated and printed in gilt on the front panel. A large and heavy book. William Heinemann and G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
1935Best.-Nr. 26449Hartford: Tercentenary Commission 1935. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. Clothbound volume with printed paper label on the front panel. With 30 pp of text and descriptions of the photographs which follow. 273 black and white images of Connecticut furniture. Some light expected soiling to thick oatmeal cloth covers else a handsome very good copy. Tercentenary Commission unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 30355Bloomfield: Connecticut Historical Society 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Small hardbound quarto. Issued without dustwrapper. 97 pp. With several black and white photographs and illustrations. Light stain to front cover else a very good copy. Connecticut Historical Society hardcover books
1933Best.-Nr. 971Elite Furniture Company Jamestown New York 1933. Soft Cover. Rare 1933 Elite Co. catalogue of tables and occasional pieces. VG in its original brown wrappers. Tall quarto. Dozens of high-quality photos of Colonial and Period reproduction tables. Elite Tables 1933 price list and order blank tipped-in as well. Elite Furniture Company, Jamestown, New York paperback books
1825Best.-Nr. WRCAM56380Greenfield Ma 1825. 108pp. Publisher's advertisements on rear board. 16mo. Original printed paper-covered boards. Moderate staining to boards minor chipping to spine ends minor edge wear. Moderate scattered foxing. Very good and wholly unsophisticated. Untrimmed. The first American printing of the first American furniture finisher's manual reprinted from the original British edition by G.A. Siddons. "A new edition with considerable additions. Including an appendix containing several valuable tables." Clear and concise instructions are given for dying and staining woods making glue making and applying varnish polishing japanning cleaning woods and metals and much more. For example to make furniture oil "Take linseed oil put it in a glazed pipkin with as much alkanet root as it will cover; let it boil gently and you will find it become of a strong red color: let it cool and it will be fit for use." Six tables in the appendix provide assistance for figuring lengths and weights and an index follows. Western Massachusetts was obviously a place of great architectural and design innovation during the American Federal period as both the present title and Asher Benjamin's landmark architecture book THE COUNTRY BUILDER'S ASSISTANT. were printed in Greenfield. Not in AMERICAN IMPRINTS. Highly desirable and a landmark in American crafts. RINK 1793. hardcover books
1940Best.-Nr. WRCAM49639New York 1940. Forty-two original works from approximately 9 x 7 1/4 inches to 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. Most on paper and mounted to cardboard backing some executed on art board some matted. Minor dust-soiling to some several examples have pencil drawings of room layouts or floor plans on the verso Hofstatter stamps on verso of two a few examples detached from mount. Overall clean and in excellent condition retaining vibrant coloring. A stellar group of thirty-nine original watercolors and three original pencil drawings depicting early 20th-century furniture designs largely in the French Provincial style. The artwork was executed by New York furniture designer and interior decorator Theodore Hofstatter or artists working for his firm. The group includes wonderful depictions of mirrors beds window drapes chairs desks bureaus tables and stands. Additionally there are eleven works showing the interior design of various room settings. Theodore Hofstatter succeeded his father in their New York City business of furniture design and construction naming the firm Hofstatter's Sons when his brother Adolph joined him in the concern in the early 1870s. The Hofstatter family concentrated their efforts on building quality furniture at wholesale prices. In 1885 Theodore Hofstatter founded a branch of the business to focus on interior decorating opening a separate location on Broadway near Twelfth Street. Eventually the business would move to at least two different addresses on Fifth Avenue evidenced by Hofstatter labels affixed to the verso of several of the watercolors here a few of these labels are also marked "Special Design" by Hofstatter. According to THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY 1894 Theodore's design business "kept abreast ever since its opening with the current of fashionable taste in illustrating in the styles reproduced all those characteristics with which the names inseparably connected with the history of the three Louis are essentially a part. Berain Lebrun Watteau Andre Charles Boule have now a historical significance; Cailleri Gouthiere Reisener Fragonard Greuze Boucher Martin and the rest awaken a whole train of associations. It is through their influence and such as theirs that Theodore Hofstatter's designs possess the material to produce only those effects that can be truthfully termed good style." Hofstatter restricted his decorating contracts largely to commercial interests furnishing the City Club the Downtown Club the Arkwright Club and nine floors of the Hotel Savoy. He also cultivated a small group of private clients one of whom was Cornelius Dresselhuys Dutch consul to Great Britain. Two of Dresselhuys's rooms the Entrance Hall and Vestibule at 9 Kensington Palace Gardens in London are featured here in lovely full watercolors. A fascinating group of artwork featuring furniture and interiors from a prominent New York City furniture maker and interior designer. Such original illustrations of furniture and interior decoration are in our experience quite scarce. unknown books
1868Best.-Nr. WRCAM32817Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird 1868. 4pp. plus forty-eight engraved plates. Oblong octavo. Original green cloth gilt- stamped cover. Front hinge starting. Internally bright and clean. Very good. The third furniture pattern book published in America issued simultaneously with another Baird title GOTHIC ALBUM FOR FURNITURE MAKERS. It was preceded by books called THE CABINET-MAKER'S ASSISTANT published in 1840 and 1842. Depicted are a variety of bed stands bureaus wardrobes tables bookcases and more in a Renaissance Revival style. They are patterned after mid-19th- century French designs. All early American furniture books are rare. Henry Carey Baird hardcover books
1857Best.-Nr. WRCAM28019Baltimore: John D. Troy 1857. 29pp. Original printed wrappers. Slight foxing. Very good. "Being the entire Furniture and Fixtures contained in the Dwelling of Mr. William Key Howard." Administered by F.W. Bennett & Company. Early auction catalogues such as this are rare even more so in this condition. Items of note include a lavish engraving of "Washington Crossing the Delaware." John D. Troy unknown books
1830Best.-Nr. 315876Birmingham 1830. 163 engraved plates irregularly numbered 1 to 278. 1 vols. Oblong 4to 13 x 9 inches. Quarter brown leather and boards with the same printed index B-W on front and back pastedowns. worn. 163 engraved plates irregularly numbered 1 to 278. 1 vols. Oblong 4to 13 x 9 inches. Rare engraved early nineteenth century brassfounder's trade catalogue with the manufacturer's name given usually not noted in such a work. While the actual catalogue appears to be ca. 1820-1830 some of the actual copper plates would appear to have been engraved somewhat earlier ca. 1800-1810 Plates present : 111 17 19 26 29 31 33 37. 39 41 47 59 65 66 74 75 7980 84 86 90 9899 101 102 105111 112 116 117 118 125 128 129 130 131 132 134 136 137 138 140 141 142 143 145 147 149 152 163-190 192-196 199-203 205-222 224 226 227 230 230A 231 232 234 235 240 241 242 242A 243-248 248A 249 250 253 254-265 267-278. unknown books
1788Best.-Nr. 315882London: Sold at the White Swan Shoe Lane and the Black Boy St. Martin's Lane 1788. First edition. Additional engraved allegorical title and 20 copper-engraved plates sixteen after Thomas Shearer. xvi 143 1 4 Price of Doors Extra Prices of Doors pp. 1 vols. 4to. Recent quarter calf red morocco spine label marbled boards. Dust-soiling to plates some marginal dust-soiling and spotting and small losses to a few blank corners of letterpress leaves bookplate. First edition. Additional engraved allegorical title and 20 copper-engraved plates sixteen after Thomas Shearer. xvi 143 1 4 Price of Doors Extra Prices of Doors pp. 1 vols. 4to. First edition of this work by the journeymen cabinet-makers of London which lists prices and provides designs for common furniture forms of the period. Subsequent editions followed. This edition is scarce on the market with no copies appearing at auction since 1981. Sold at the White Swan, Shoe Lane, and the Black Boy, St. Martin's Lane unknown books
1816Best.-Nr. 315888Paris: Hamelin-Bergeron 1816. Second expanded edition. xxxii-50 i.e. 509; xi-1-542 pp. Atlas: first 8 plates with 9 hand-coloured figures per plate of wood grains; IX-XXXIX; Atlas Tome II LVII plates some folding. 96 plates in all. 3 vols. 4to atlas; 8vo text. Contemporary quarter tan calf rubbed. Signed by the publisher opposite opposite title page of volume 1 and along title page margin as receipt of purchase for 60 fr. Text and plates clean and fresh. Atlas vol. rebacked preserving spine. Second expanded edition. xxxii-50 i.e. 509; xi-1-542 pp. Atlas: first 8 plates with 9 hand-coloured figures per plate of wood grains; IX-XXXIX; Atlas Tome II LVII plates some folding. 96 plates in all. 3 vols. 4to atlas; 8vo text. Second edition of the definitive contemporary work on the lathe originally published in 1792-96. The illustrations show wood turning machinery and tools finished products and hand-colored depictions of 72 varieties of wood grain. Brunet I-785; Ogden Bibliography of Turning item 27 Hamelin-Bergeron unknown books
Best.-Nr. 39780TRADE CARD PAINE FURNITURE. Paine Furniture Trade Card featuring a fold-A Eastlake Bed. Boston: circa 1870s. Card 5 1/2 x 4 inches. An attractive trade card for Paine Furniture of Boston featuring a woodcut o the store on one side and an interior scene of a Victorian parlor where a handsome Eastlake cabinet is being folded down by a girl to become a bed. So soiling light wear; abraded portion on the corner of the living room scene. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 39139BROADSIDE ADVERTISEMENT FORT PLAIN FURNITURE COMPANY. MANUFACTURERS OF AS AND PAINTED CHAMBER FURNITURE ETC. Fort Plain New York: n.d. circa 1870-1880. Large printed broadside 23 x inches. Rare printed trade broadside not recorded on OCLC nor in Romaine or in McKinstry. Fine large broadside with thirteen wood-engraved illustrations of furniture suits or beds. Suits consist of bed tall dresser with mirror and wash basin stand. They could be had in ash walnut trimmed or painted imitat walnut and burl. Each of the cuts is signed "Levytype Co. Phila." Title printed with large poster types. Linen backed in very good condition. unknown books
1922Best.-Nr. 249317London: George Routledge 1922. First Edition. Volume I with 1 color plate and 400 monochrome illustrations; Volume II with 1 color plate and 527 monochrome illustrations. xiv 382; ix 388 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Modern blue buckram a.e.g. Fine. First Edition. Volume I with 1 color plate and 400 monochrome illustrations; Volume II with 1 color plate and 527 monochrome illustrations. xiv 382; ix 388 pp. 1 vols. 4to. George Routledge unknown books
Best.-Nr. 36153FURNITURE French Furniture Album. Paris: Quetin circa 1860. Oblong 4to. Contemporary cloth spine and board 22 plates. An anonymous album of seventeenth through nineteenth century French furniture featuring eighty-five items drawn on twenty-two numbered plates. The plates were printed by V.L. Quetin who published a series of albums of illustration from Le Magasin de Meubles about this time as well as a similar suite of plat Meubles et Sieges Vieux Boise in 1860. All Quetin's albums are rare with o or two copies cited by OCLC. There is some slight darkening along the fore-e on a few leaves and slight edge wear but a very good copy nevertheless. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 8742FURNITURE ITALIAN FURNITURE INTERIORS AND DECORATION. New York: Architectural Book Publishing n.d. Folio. Portfolio. 1 page 58 plates. First edition. Italian furniture interior moldings and decorations of the fifteenth throug eighteenth centuries are illustrated in sixty plates of which plates three a fifty-two are missing. The portfolio is worn however the plates are very good. unknown books
1920Best.-Nr. 216870Paris: Ernest Gründ Éditeur 1920. Illustrated. 6 vols. 8vo. Brown buckram. Fine. Illustrated. 6 vols. 8vo. Ernest Gründ, Éditeur unknown books
1935Best.-Nr. 26468Hartford: The Case Lockwood & Brainard Company 1935. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. Clothbound quarto with printed paper label afixed to the front panel. 144 pp. One of 525 copies printed for sale of which this is number 33. Includes 67 illustrations reproduced by the collotype process. Prior owner name/date on the first blank endpaper else a handsome very good or better copy. Connecticut furniture heritage. The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. D4924Alfafar Valencia c. 1930s. Near Fine. Album containing unmounted watercolor and gouache pencil and color printed studies of individual pieces of furniture and interior design ensembles probably created as maquettes for advertising purposes. Includes 17 in pencil ranging in size from 5.5-by-9 inches to 11-by-17 inches; and 32 in color most about 11-by-15 inches with 3 large pieces 18-by-24 inches folded once down the middle. Total of 48 pieces some a little rubbed or chipped along the edges; a few of the pencil sketches foxed; but the whole is overall nice and bright suitable for display. Remarkably detailed the polished wood shines! and accomplished artwork shows lavish nigh on palatial bedrooms and dining rooms -- with ornate beds bookcases chairs tables bureaus dressers and more prominently on display. 13 images in pencil or in color focus on specific pieces of furniture sometimes many per page taking them out of their context rooms and allowing a detailed look at the piece itself. The designs seem primarily focused on classical and neoclassical styles but Muebles Rodriguez is known for carrying modern colonial Provencal and avant garde pieces as well -- some of that influence is apparent here. A lovely and rich presentation. unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 008426New York: E. P. Dutton 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition of this remarkable monograph on American furniture arts with a foreword by Jean Lipman. Heavily illustrated in both color and black and white. 299 pp. Prior owner name to front flyleaf else a fine copy in very good unclipped dustwrapper a couple of short closed tears. E. P. Dutton hardcover books
1916Best.-Nr. 286393Chicago: Chicago Mission Furniture Company 1916. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. The supplement for the Chicago Mission Furniture Co. catalog for 1915-1916. Illustrations and prices throughout. Preliminary leaf pasted onto the title page since torn out; likely an order form. Wear to the spine. Stapled illustrated softcover. Very Good. Very Good binding. Chicago Mission Furniture Company unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 30031Baltimore: October House 1968. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Oblong clothbound volume in dustwrapper. 128 pp. Profusely illustrated. A sound very good copy in dustwrapper. October House unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 174944New York: The Company 1950. Paperback. Good overall shelfwear to wraps with light staining and corners bent interior is VG for age. Yellow wraps with bw illustration on front and gray lettering 48 pp profusely illustrated in bw. "This catalog can only suggest to the wide variety of Richter Reproductions for Dining Room and Bed Room- and a host of incidental pieces." - page 3. The Company paperback books
1972Best.-Nr. 29638New York: Alfred Knopf 1972. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Tall wide clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 207 pp. Stated first edition. Illustrated in black and white. A handsome very good copy in clipped but otherwise very attractive pictorial dustwrapper. Alfred Knopf unknown books
1905Best.-Nr. 002413Chicago: 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 books
