Antiques Collectibles category: 2714 books

Extremely pliable yet amazingly durable, metal offers infinite decorative options. Here are 1,000 prime examples of French metal masterworks, painstakingly reproduced from an extremely rare and valuable edition. From the everyday to the ornate, items include:Weather vanesTilesWaterspoutsTrimsBasinsPike...

This new edition of Antique Trader Book Collector's Price Guide provides readers with the information and values to carve a niche for themselves in a market where rare first editions of Jane Austen's Emma and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone recently sold at auction for 254,610...

From A is for Aardvark—“We’re not allowed to tell you anything about Winston cigarettes, so here’s a stuffed aardvark”—to Z is for Zippo, the iconic American lighter, The Cigarette Book is the ultimate souvenir and celebration of the dying art of smoking. Encyclopedic in both layout and...

An insider's guide to buying, collecting, and selling art from an insider of Christie's Grounded in real-life stories, Art Collecting Today is the essential practical guide to today's art market. A lightly regulated industry with more than sixty billion dollars of annual sales, the art market is often...

With all the zany vibrancy of a Bollywood musical, the colorful matchbox labels of LIGHT OF INDIA present a fascinating confluence of popular culture and a sophisticated graphic arts tradition that stretches back for centuries. Populated with pouncing Bengal tigers, regal jungle elephants,...

Comme un immense musée, mais en moins poussiéreux... et en plus amusant ! A METTRE ENTRE TOUTES LES MAINS !

De l'humour, de la culture générale et de l'auto-dérision : Les Questions Cons arrivent en livre ! Dans la vie, tout le monde se pose des questions. Il y a les questions intelligentes, celles qui font réfléchir : c'est quoi un atome ? Comment sortir de la crise ? ... Et puis il y a les autres,...

200 citations pour frimer dans les dîners en ville ou sur vos copies ! De Socrate à Derrida en passant par Descartes et Kant, découvrez 200 citations classées par grands thèmes et choisies par Jérôme Duhamel. Un Petit Livre à lire de toute urgence pour découvrir les citations des grands penseurs qui ont bouleversé l'histoire des idées en 2 500 ans !

Extrait : "Née coquette, la femme a de tout temps aimé à se parer.Dès qu'elle put se mirer dans l'eau calme d'une fontaine, elle connut sa beauté : pour plaire, elle chercha à s'embellir encore ; et d'un mouvement spontané, dégageant son visage, elle releva sa chevelure, la tressa, la réunit...

A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors...

The perfect guide for both seasoned and novice seaglunkers, The Sea Glass Hunter's Handbook reveals how to locate the best beaches and predict optimum conditions; understand coastal access laws; determine the personal and professional value of sea glass' and identify the source of individual fragments....

In the rural Australia of the fifties where John Baxter grew up, reading books was disregarded with suspicion, owning and collecting them with utter incomprehension. Despite this, by the age of eleven Baxter had 'collected' his first book - The Poems of Rupert Brooke. He'd read the volume often, but...

Troup County in Vintage Postcards traces a major period of growth and development for this Georgia community, from the late 19th through the mid-20th century. Snapshot glimpses of history preserved on postcards reveal the second courthouse, which burned in 1936; the textile mills that opened at a rapid...

A unique memoir about a modern couple living the lifestyle of another era—and what it teaches them about history and human nature. We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it’s spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history?...