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Books & Publications
Welcome to our Books & Publications department, dedicated to printed material selected for historical, artistic, literary, and collector significance. Rather than a general accumulation of ordinary used books, this gallery focuses on volumes, periodicals, and manuscripts that carry enduring cultural value, scholarly importance, or exceptional visual appeal.
Our diverse inventory spans a broad range of publishing traditions—featuring antique reference books, vintage art and printmaking serials like The Magazine Antiques, collectible fiction and illustrated children's books, decorative bindings, historic pamphlets, and rare print portfolios. Read our full guide to collecting historic books, serials, and print publications here.
The Art of Blacksmithing Revised Edition by Alex W. Bealer Hardcover 1995
Alex W. Bealer's classic guide to traditional blacksmithing, revised 1995 edition with more than 500 illustrations.
$35.00
The Magazine Antiques - April 1965 - Vincennes Sevres Porcelain And Audubon Issue
April 1965 issue of Antiques featuring Vincennes-Sevres porcelain, American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Portuguese porcelain, unpublished Audubon originals, German lacquer, and significant mid-century decorative arts scholarship. Offered in poor but complete condition with extensive moisture-related condition issues.
$20.00
The Magazine Antiques - April 1990
April 1990 issue of The Magazine Antiques featuring J. M. W. Turner at Petworth House, Edwin Van Antwerp's Jelliff furniture, neoclassical Delaware silver, British copperplate-printed textiles, and the old-fashioned garden revival.
$35.00
The Magazine Antiques - April 1998
April 1998 issue of The Magazine Antiques featuring Paris porcelain in America, Pennsylvania fraktur, children's costumes from the Tasha Tudor collection, Pairpoint lamps, and related decorative arts scholarship.
$35.00
The Magazine Antiques - August 1973
August 1973 issue of The Magazine Antiques featuring major articles on the American Arts and Crafts movement, Jonas Chickering and the American piano industry, Colonial Williamsburg sewing tools, American cup plates, the villas of Andrea Palladio, and Anthony G. Quervelle furniture. An important period reference combining scholarly research with the dealer advertisements, market observations, and collecting culture of the early 1970s.
$45.00
The Magazine Antiques - August 1994
The Magazine Antiques, August 1994, featuring Chinese export fans, Rosenau near Coburg, the Gothic Room at Marble House in Newport, formal dining in Europe, and richly illustrated material for collectors of fine and decorative arts.
$35.00
The Magazine Antiques - August 2000
August 2000 issue of The Magazine Antiques featuring Maria Sibylla Merian, Tiffany's Japanese-inspired silver flatware, French Art Deco design, American folk artist Lucy Cleveland, and studies in decorative arts, collecting, and museum scholarship.
$50.00
The Magazine Antiques - August 2006
Special issue devoted to The Library Company of Philadelphia, featuring articles on rare books, publishers' bindings, paintings, sculpture, clocks, Civil War collections, ephemera, and the history of one of America's most important cultural institutions.
$35.00
The Magazine Antiques - December 1947
December 1947 issue of The Magazine Antiques featuring Pennsylvania German Christmas traditions, Goddard and Townsend furniture, antique lighting, lustreware collecting, Peter Pelham, New England Glass Company invoices, and period advertisements from leading American antiques dealers. A valuable postwar reference documenting both scholarship and the antiques market immediately following World War II.
$45.00
The Magazine Antiques - February 1987
Original February 1987 issue of The Magazine Antiques, a key decorative arts journal used by collectors, curators, and researchers. A valuable reference for late-20th-century scholarship on American and European antiques, interiors, and material culture.
$25.00
The Magazine Antiques - February 1992
The Magazine Antiques, February 1992 issue, featuring western landscape photography, McKim, Mead and White, American neoclassical looking glasses, and China trade furniture.
$35.00
The Magazine Antiques - February 2000
February 2000 issue of The Magazine Antiques featuring major articles on the Stroganoff collections, Venetian Art Nouveau glass, the Tile Club in America, and material culture of childhood. A substantial reference issue for collectors, decorative arts enthusiasts, museum researchers, and students of American and European antiques.
$40.00
The Magazine Antiques - January 2007
January 2007 issue of The Magazine Antiques featuring the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) at Old Salem.
$35.00
The Magazine Antiques - July 1993
July 1993 issue of The Magazine Antiques devoted to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, with articles on Jefferson's legacy, sources from antiquity, furnishings, museum objects, prints, scientific amusements, clothing, and Poplar Forest.
$60.00
The Magazine Antiques - July 1994
July 1994 issue of The Magazine Antiques featuring major articles on marine painting, Nantucket's China Trade, engraved glass with American views, and an eighteenth-century Dutch dolls' house. A substantial reference issue for collectors, curators, decorative arts enthusiasts, and students of material culture.
$40.00
The Magazine Antiques - June 1970
June 1970 issue of The Magazine Antiques, featuring scholarly articles on Philipsburg Manor, Louisbourg, Charleston furniture and silver, Queen Anne and Chippendale furniture, ceramics from an eighteenth-century wilderness fort, and museum accessions.
$65.00
The Magazine Antiques - June 1971
June 1971 issue of The Magazine Antiques, featuring Uppark, Sussex, Irish glass, Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, Newport block-front furniture, Cincinnati cabinetmakers, and related scholarship. Poor/fair copy with detached cover and visible handling wear, but clean interiors.
$35.00
The Magazine Antiques - June 1997
June 1997 issue of The Magazine Antiques, a substantial England-focused back issue with articles on Cotehele, the Hope-Weir cabinet, Scottish drinking vessels, hyacinth mania, and a barge for a prince. Good/very good, lightly handled, with clean interiors.
$25.00
The Magazine Antiques - March 1990
March 1990 issue of The Magazine Antiques featuring Walter Gay interiors, Tiffany silver, French Rococo decorative arts, the Dummer glass and ceramic factories, and the Gardner-Pingree House of Salem.
$50.00
The Magazine Antiques - March 1993
Substantial March 1993 issue of The Magazine Antiques devoted to The American Museum in Britain, featuring scholarly articles on American furniture, ceramics, folk art, textiles, collecting, and museum collections.
$40.00
The Magazine Antiques - March 1998
March 1998 issue of The Magazine Antiques featuring a major group of articles devoted to Chinese export painting, Asian export art, China trade portraiture, and the artistic exchanges between East and West during the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. An excellent reference issue for collectors of Chinese export porcelain, paintings, maritime trade material, and Asian decorative arts.
$35.00
The Magazine Antiques - May 1997
May 1997 issue of The Magazine Antiques, the 75th anniversary number, with substantive articles on American Federal furniture, Shaker furniture, Southern interiors, Concord furniture, and the nineteenth-century furniture trade in New Orleans.
$30.00
The Magazine Antiques - Mount Vernon Decorative Arts Reference Issue, February 1989
February 1989 issue of The Magazine Antiques, devoted to Mount Vernon and early American decorative arts, including furniture, ceramics, silver, portraits, gardens, and restoration studies associated with George Washington's historic estate. A scholarly and richly illustrated reference issue for collectors, decorators, and students of Americana.
$30.00
The Magazine Antiques - November 1992 - American Painting Issue
November 1992 issue of The Magazine Antiques featuring American painting, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Alexander Jackson Davis, Rembrandt Peale, George Beck, and nineteenth-century American art scholarship.
$30.00
