Antique & Collectible Books & Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a lovely pocket-sized copy of "The Lady's Almanac for 1859". It has a blue embossed cover and the pages are all gilt-edged. The book contains moon cycles and other information, and has black ages for the reader to jot down daily...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare and possibly important Catholic novel by Jean Connor entitled "So As by Fire", named for a quote in Corinthians 3:1This volume was presented to a St. Aloysius School pupil, Albina Gendreau of Ware, for "punctual...

ARTIFACT: Wonderful 1888 Gloucester, Massachusetts poetry book Local and Miscellaneous Poems by Frank Walcott Hutt. The antique, hard cover book features poems of Cape Anne and its surroundings, the cover page reads: "VERSES AFFECTIONATELY...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1892 United States Department of Agriculture Forestry Division Bulletin Number The document is entitled "Timber Physics: Part I Preliminary Report". The booklet is in a large format. VINTAGE: Circa 1892. SIZE: 57...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1914 United States Senate document entitled "Agricultural Cooperation and Rural Credit in Europe". It is a booklet detailing the Part 1 Observation Report by The American Commission on Agricultural Cooperation in...

ARTIFACT: Circa 1888 stunning, large format Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream printed in Nuremburg, Germany by Ernest Nister. The United States Edition was published by Dutton. The front features beautiful gilt details and features a gorgeous...

ARTIFACT: This is a copy of the “Cessna Air Crafter 1942”, a yearbook published by the Cessna Employees Club of Wichita, Kansas. Cessna has been producing aircraft since 1927. The book has many black and white and some colorized photographs (some...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa early 1960s deck plan pamphlet for the Greek Lines' T.S.S. Olympia. The Olympia was Scottish-built and launched in 1953, the only passenger ship ever constructed exclusively for the Greek Line. She later became the M. S. Regal...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1943 edition of a French/English travel guide to Casablanca, the capital of Morocco (Guides Maroc Presse). This copy is named to Staff Sergeant Paul G. Humphrey, United States 5th Army. Humphrey noted that he was in town for...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1979 paperback copy of "Firefox 5: Ironmaking, Blacksmithing, Flintlock Rifles, Bear Hunting, and Other Affairs of Plain Living" by Eliot Wigginton. The book was written by Wigginton, a teacher who moved to the Appalachian...

ARTIFACT: This is a hardcover copy of Detlev Niemann's "Price Guide: Orders and Decorations Germany, 1871-1945 (Bewertungs-Katalog: Orden und Ehrenzeichen Deutschland)", Second Edition (subtitle: Orders, Decorations, Award Documents, Miniatures and Cases...

ARTIFACT: This is a hardcover copy of "Cut and Thrust Weapons" by Eduard Wagner, with many beautiful and detailed illustrations, several in color. The volume covers the different types of cut and thrust weapons, as well as how to wield them and...