Books for Sale

Title	ISBN	Price	Notes
Objects of Adornment: Five Thousand Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Galery, Baltimore	0917481763	$20.00	Pristine – Gallery survey. Many period pieces rarely published, excellent details.
Jewelry, 7000 years: An international history and illustrated survey from the collections of the British Museum	0810911574	$80.00	Pristine - surveys jewelry from as early as 5000 BC to the mid 20th century. lots of photos, both color and black and white. Most of the photos are large, and all of them show clear details. An inspiring book for the jewelry designer
Jewelry of the Ancient World	0847804445	$200.00	Slight scuffing on cover – Rizzoli Book. Includes
Gothic Illuminated Manuscripts. Emma Piryani Cameo/Hamelyn, 1970	0600012506	$5.00	Small tear on cover. 69 plates in full color, including many close ups of Italian costume details. Translated from italian study of illuminated miniatures.
The Playfair Hours: A Late Fifteenth Century Illuminated Manuscript from Rouen (V & a, L. 475-1918)	0905209982	$100.00	Pristine, Jacket perfect
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England Gale R. Owen Manchester Univ Pr Hardcover List price (USD): $95.00	0719018188	$85.00	Original Hardcover version from Manchester Press. Slight scuffing on DJ upper spine. Thorough, academic book, breaks male and female dress into eras, and then examines clothing form, fabric, and accessories in a very scholarly manner. The index and bibiliography are extensive. This book is _the_ source for Anglo Saxon costume recreationists.
Jewels of the Pharaohs: Egyptian Jewelry of the Dynastic Period (1) Cyril. Aldred	0345276221	$5.00	Slight ding on spine. Pristine otherwise. The most helpful to studying the designs ancient Egyptian used and modifying them for artwork. Many color plates which help to illuminate the text decriptions. Prose is straightforward and easy to read .
The Unicorn Tapestries Margaret B. Freeman Metropolitan Museum of Art	0870991477	$65.00	Slight scuffing on plastic overjacket. Pristine otherwise. This book includes fold-out detailed color plates of each of the tapestries along with a complete history on them.
Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering Edward Johnston A&C Black	080088731X	$5.00	1978 Pitman/Taplinger pb, tight, bright, unmarked, edgeworn, spine lines
900 Years Of English Costume Nancy Bradfield Crescent	051761670X	$25.00	Pen & ink drawings of English Costumes. Good for gaining understanding of sihouette and draping not easily visible from original source mss. drawings, esp. for early period.
The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting James Marrow George Braziller	0807612278	$60.00	Pristine. Earthier and more realistic than French or Burgundian counterparts. Biblical events are portrayed with fresh immediacy. While religious illumination predominates, there are pungently naturalistic glimpses of room interiors, landscapes and people--a pictorial repository of late medieval Netherlandish life. It samples the Egmont Breviary's mysterious, semi-impressionist figures, as well as works by many other predominantly anonymous artists. An individual essay scrutinizes the content, style, and probable place of origin and patronage of each work. Cogent analysis of the manuscripts' social and spiritual environment, an understanding of the formal development of the style, and an appreciation of its diverse local aspects and distinctive masters. Twelve additional essays further refine our comprehension of the tradition's chronological phases, anonymous artistic personalities, and regional subdivisions.
Celestial Charts: Antique Maps of the Heavens Carole Stott Smithmark Publishers	0831713224	$25.00	Pristine.
Hispanic Costume: 1480 - 1530 Ruth M. Anderson Hispanic Society of Amer	0875351263	$25.00	Pristine. Very, very good for the serious historical costumer who is interested in Spanish influence on fashion during the 16th century. Covers both male and female clothing in amazing detail. Spanish terms for clothing are easily identifiable and well defined. This is one book that no 16th century costumer should be without!
ART OF CREWEL EMBROIDERY M. J. Davis Crown	0517500779	$5.00	Cover slightly mottled. Good B&W photos of period pieces, close enough up to discern stitch patterns.
Period Costume for Stage & Screen: Patterns for Women's Dress 1500-1800 Jean Hunnisett Players Press	0887346103	$125.00	Pristine. Jean Hunnisett is a well known costumer whose credits include Elizabeth R for BBC television. One goal of the book is to assist the costumer in achieving higher standards of cut, construction and period-feel of the finished garment. The scale patterns are well drafted. The outward appearance of the finished costumes has a good period feel.
1000 Years of Stained Glass Catherine Brisac Doubleday	0385231849	$45.00	Pristine. 150 razor-sharp photographic reproductions, mostly of church windows. Brisac's text is scholarly and extensive, raising it above the stained glass picture book.
Byzantine Art in the Collections of Soviet Museums Alice Bank Abrams, Harry N Inc	0810907267	$45.00	Pristine. Painting, sculpture, silver, bronze, gold, jewelry, wood and ivory carvings, cloissonne enamel, textiles, embroidery and ceramics. HUGE detailed plates.
Moravia Magna: The great Moravian empire, its art and times Ján Dekan Control Data Arts	0898930847	$10.00	Slightly ripped dust jacket. Pristine otherwise. Worth it for 2 plates of a Gold plated iron helmet of the Boldenheim type. Jewelry, chapes, LMS, pottery, and nifty maps.
The Celtic world Barry W Cunliffe McGraw-Hill	0070149186	$10.00	Slightly ripped dust jacket, pristine otherwise. History, closeups of stonework, LMS, mss illum., bronzework. Good basic survey.
The glory of the page: Medieval & renaissance illuminated manuscripts from Glasgow University Library (Unknown Binding) by Nigel Thorp	0905203836	$44.00	Interior perfect, slight scuffing on softcover. 42 full color plates, over 150 B&W – many images rarely seen in other compendiums, including medical & Valturio "On Warfare."
The Visconti Hours, National Library, Florence	0807606510	$75.00	Pristine condition. This extraordinary manuscript, perhaps one of the gayest, most spontaneous and fanciful of Western illuminations, is an exceptionally rich Book of Hours painted by two quite differentartists. In the late 1300s, Giovannino dei Grassi and his workshop painted the first folios for Giangaleazzo Visconti, despot of Milan
A world of embroidery Mary Gostelow Scribner	0684142309	$15.00	Very good condition. Color and black and white photos in this large format book illustrate embroidery from all corners of the globe. The first half of the book describes the practice of embroidery in many lands, the second half deals with stitches and techniques (177 entries, not counting stitch variations.). Embroidery is not merely a pastime, but an art.
The calligrapher's handbook; Cecil Mortimer Lamb Faber	0571046606	$8.00	Out of print and hard-to-find. Spine smooth but faded, deck pristine. Essays on skins, papers, pouncing, gilding, knives, pens, pigments, media. Heraldry in illuminated manuscripts & more.
Rites and Religions of the Anglo Saxons (Hardcover) Gale R. Owen NOTE: First Edition Pub: Dorset Press 1985 [1981] (This is NOT the B&N reprint.)	0880290463	$15.00	Hardcover DJ: faded spine, Book: Excellent condition. All the religions known to have been practiced by the Anglo-Saxons, and thus discusses their practice of Catholic Christianity as well. The second chapter, "Everyday life in Pagan times," looks at both literary remnants and the archaeological record. The results of the excavation of a likely Heathen temple at Yeavering in Northumberland are described. A brief exposition of the possible religious/cultural significance of the individual Runes of the Anglo-Saxon Futhork adds to the value of this book for the modern Heathen reader.
The Full Color Book of Henry VIII, John Walder, Octopus Books 1973	0706402324	$25.00	Oversize, DJ torn, Book pristine. 72 pages, most with large color plates. This one's so rare there's no data on it. Tapestries, mss, sculpture, portraits with great detail, architecture with interiors. Beautiful book.
The Key to Weaving: A Textbook of Hand Weaving for the Beginning Weaver (REV) Mary E. Black Hungry Minds Inc	0025111701	$15.00	Excellent in slightly ripped jacket; 1979; 2nd Edition Revised;
Heraldry : A Pictorial Archive for Artists and Designers (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) Arthur Charles Fox-Davies Dover Publications	048626906X	$5.00	Tips slightly bent. Royalty-free treasury of 393 full-color, 654 black-and-white illustrations. Authentic heraldic arms, lions, eagles, dragons, shields, crests, windows, etc. Also, arms of cities and towns, arms of Edward the Black Prince, Milton, Maximilian I, others.
Sculpting Traditional Bowls (A Schiffer Book for Woodcarvers) Rip Mann Tammi Mann Doublas Congdon-Martin Schiffer Publishing	088740698X	$10.00	Like New. Handhewn bowls are one of the oldest crafts known to humanity, but one which has been almost lost. Introduces the carver and woodworker to exciting new possibilities. Using only hand tools, the bowl adze, a bowl shave and a carver's hook, Rip and Tammi begin with a blank and conclude with an oil finish process that makes the bowls beautiful and perfectly safe for use with food.
Bayeux Tapestry: The Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest Bruce J. Collingwood Barnes & Noble Imports	0880291532	$5.00	Reprint of 1856 account of Norman Conquest, complete with large color plates of the entire tapestry.
Textiles in the Art Institute of Chicago Christa C. Mayer Thurman Art Inst of Chicago Museum Shop	0810938561	$15.00	Softcover, pristine condition. 8^th C. Egypt, 14^th C Spain, 15^th C Italian, silks, embroidery, tapestries. Photos have stunning level of stitch detail. Latter 1/3 of book is post-period, but still fun.
Latin Bookhands of the Latter Middle Ages 1100-1500 Thompson, Cambridge University Press	Unknown	$5.00	Unbound xerox copy in folder. This is a copy of a rare and hard to find mss. I'm charging $5 just to be sure you're serious about the craft & this will go to a good home.
The Life and Times of Elizabeth (Curtis International)	Unknown	$5.00	Similar to Henry VIII book, only plates lack the same kind of detail. Pretty, but not conclusive for research.
Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving: A Practical Text-Book of Design and Workmanship Grace Christie Pitman Publishing	0800824016	$25.00	Unused copy of the paperback reprint of 4th edition from 1915.. Detailed stitch patterns & how to's from the English neo-gothic era.
Jeanne D'Arc: Ses Costumes, Son Armure, Adrienne Harmand	Unknown	$5.00	Xerox copy of rare and hard to find mss., in 3 ring binder. I'm charging $5 just to be sure you're serious about the craft & this will go to a good home. Lots of Viollet Le Duc.