Featuring exquisite examples from museums and private collections, including many rare items, this treasure trove explains and illustrates the hist...

Antique and Collectible Dollhouses and Their Furnishings features pictures and information on over 200 dollhouses from Europe and America dating fr...

A comprehensive look at striking furniture of the nineteenth century Biedermeier era in Austria and Germany. This handsome book features more than ...

The box represents great temptation. "Open me" it says. The human cannot resist it; its charm is overwhelming. So too, is the charm of this remarka...

The charm of this remarkable book is overwhelming, in which antique boxes and tea caddies—along with the people who inspired, made, and used them—d...

Collecting antique brass musical instruments involves a fascinating and wide range of subjects, including music history, art history, political his...

The beauty of traditional Chinese design is seen in the simplest household implements as well as in the great houses and furnishings of the Emperor...

From the end of the Civil War until the explosive popularity of the cigarette in the early twentieth century. the cigar was king. For the pleasure ...

Even before its current zenith of popularity, coffee has been a favorite beverage worldwide for centuries. To prepare coffee beans for use, human i...

Slip into the romantic world of a private dressing room. Here fancy and jeweled perfume bottles, powder jars, trinket boxes, hairbrushes, mirrors, ...

Exquisite, exciting, enameled jewelry - powdered glass fused onto metal to create gorgeous, delicate color and detail, beautiful enough to be consi...

Before the age of Pyrex*TM and plastic, attractive, utilitarian, enameled metal wares adorned kitchens and homes throughout Europe and America. Dec...

This book offers collectors and admirers of this beautiful art informative text and splendid photographs. All enameling techniques--from classic to...

In the past ten years, antique textiles, especially those from France, have become very popular for interior decoration. In her easy-to-read style,...

In thousands of years of tilling the soil, we have created a great variety of garden tools to dig, cut scrub, harrow fields, and trim borders. What...

Nearly 900 beautiful color photographs display End of Day antique glass marbles produced, by glass artists after hours to prove their skill, during...

Swirl marbles comprise one of the largest categories of antique handmade glass marbles and come in many distinct and eye-catching types, ranging fr...

Ice skating has a rich heritage with traditions spanning the centuries and the globe. Here is a concise history of skating, from the first bone ska...

Out of print for a while, this classic reference work on antique ironware is available once again. Antique collectors, iron buffs, and industrial h...

Do you own an old lamp? Would you like to learn its approximate age, value, and history? Antique Lamp Buyer's Guide is the reference book used by p...

Do you own an old lamp? Are you wondering what it is, how it was originally used, how you can make it better, or how much it was worth? If so, this...

Informative as well as inspirational, this book is for all who love collecting as well as displaying fine Limoges porcelain. It covers the history ...

From the sweet simplicity of household linens to lacy confections of European origin, this essential reference will answer many questions about hei...

From grand jardinieres to diminutive butter pats, this book features ceramic majolica that added vibrant color to every room of the home in over 45...

Family physician and artist Dr. C. Keith Wilber presents a hand-illustrated tour of medical history via the doctors' instruments. This study chroni...

Mining's dramatic and dangerous nature is reflected in the hundreds of specialized tools and artifacts shown in over 500 color photographs and disc...

The art of history in motion, with the thrill only motorcycles can bring! Between these covers is a spectacular collection of clockwork motorcyles ...

There is something about antique homes and their hard-working barns that captures the imagination. Maybe it's their pleasing proportions, maybe the...

Humanity's hunt for calculating devices probably started with the use of small pebbles to keep track of numbers. The counting inventions progressed...

The antique phonograph is the center of a beautiful, brilliant, and sometimes bizarre universe of accessories. The commercial development of the ph...

In this, their fifth collaboration, award-winning authors Timothy C. Fabrizio and George F. Paul examine the fascinating and collectible field of p...

Antique phonographs enjoyed a vigorous commercial existence 100 years ago. The market they inhabited was as filled with options, accessories, gadge...

The closure of the era of chemical imaging coincided with the turn of the 21st century: now is the perfect time to review what photography has been...

This delightful compendium of American pocket mirrors showcases more than 500 miniature treasures of early 20th century design. Small celluloid rou...

Some of the earliest college and professional sports gear is presented in an easy-to-find, chronological format and 600 beautiful color photos. Cho...

Large quantities of leaded decorative windows were manufactured in the years surrounding the turn of the century. Glasses of many colors and textur...