Antiques and Collectables

Understanding Jewellery is a love letter to glorious pieces from the last hundred years. -M. J. Rose, The Adventurine An enjoyably scholarly r...

Every individual book has a history which can help us to understand what difference it may have made in the world. Within these pages you will find...

Postcards were the Instagrams of the early twentieth century. On one day in September 1906, 200,000 postcards were mailed from Coney Island. In 191...

Advertisers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century pushed the boundaries of printing, manipulated language, inspired a new form of art and e...

From rare books, valuable sculpture and paintings, the relics of saints, and porcelain and other precious items, through stamps, textiles, military...

Famous throughout the nineteenth century for the quality of its products, the English revolver industry began a steady decline after WWI from which...

Although there have been, and continue to be, many books written on a wide variety of aspects of the First World War, this work not only approaches...

This beautiful book of art postcards provides 32 candid views of Amish life in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. See Amish families at work, play, an...

This is a high-level overview of the legendary watch brand, A. Lange & Söhne. In 1845 Ferdinand Adolph Lange convinced the Saxon government to ...

The intensive research undertaken for this valuable book properly identifies forty-five Native American silversmiths and their hallmarks found on S...

Philippe Fatin is a traveller, photographer and collector who has established a world-class collection of tribal textiles from southern China. Thes...

Numerous publications have dealt with the subject of jewellery, but this book stands alone: all of the jewels featured were owned by Marjorie Post,...

The charm of this remarkable book is overwhelming, in which antique boxes and tea caddiesalong with the people who inspired, made, and used themdan...

From rugged Japanese firemen''s ceremonial robes and austere rural work-wear to colorful, delicately-patterned cotton kimonos, this lavishly illust...

For Valour: The Complete History of the Victoria Cross will be the definitive work on the subject and compelling as a narrative as well as the ulti...

History Today carried a feature in 2015, describing The Origin of Museums as a cult book [that] spawned a new discipline in the history of collecti...

Newly revised and updated, 'Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles' records the titles worn throughout the British Army by units of the Regular, Militia,...

After the invention of the magnetic compass and its first use in Italy for travel in the 16th century, a ship's course could be constantly monitore...

The Academy of Independent Creators in Watchmaking (Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants, AHCI) is celebrating its 35th anniversary in 202...

For most of the past century, beautiful models of airliners have been made to promote their airlines' services in travel agents and their own shops...

From the beginning of the twentieth century, United States military individual load-carrying equipments were fabricated mainly of cotton duck and c...

There''s no such thing as too many books, simply not enough places to put themDecluttering is all the rage, but what do you do when your preferred ...

Between the Lines: Early Advertising in Singapore welcomes us to the rush world of early print advertising in Singapore. This comprehensive pictori...

Paul Martin, famous for his passion for beautiful furniture, has been the hugely successful TV presenter on BBC1's Flog It! for the past fifteen ye...

For Neophytes - to learn the fundamentals, and appreciate the main features of a model, its qualities and weaknesses. For amateurs - to create the ...

Jewellery in Context is the doctoral dissertation, edited by Theo Smeets in its first English translation, by the Dutch art historian and design ...

In the ambitious dream of a futurist reconstruction of the universe pursued by the movement founded by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, which ranged from...

Navitimer. A mysterious name at first glance. It is in fact a contraction of two words, which correspond to the two major functions of a revolution...

The Colt M1911 is one of the most well-known and popular military weapons of the 20th century. Designed by John Browning, this pistol, with its leg...