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May 1- 3, 2025

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The Lady's Album of Fancy Work; Consisting of Novel, Elegant and Useful Designs in Knitting, Netting, Crochet, and Embroidery, With Clear and Explicit Directions for Working the Patterns.

London: Published by Grant and Griffith, Corner of St. Paul's Churchyard, 1849 First edition. Rare. OCLC records one copy of this edition located in Sweden, and one copy of the second edition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Pictorial (lace design) cloth-backed boards. Cloth spine. Glazed…

Offered by Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB

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Giant Picture Printer. An Arnold Arnold Toy.

[ Toys ]. Arnold, Arnold.

Greenwich, Conn.: The Chaspec Manufacturing Company, [n.d., ca. 1950s] [ Together with:] Arnold, Arnold. How to Play with Your Child. New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. 4 x 7 in. [6], 185 pp. Diagrams and chapter heading vignettes. Color-printed paperback covers. Some creasing to front…

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Weaving. O.K.T.S. [Cover title.]

[ Froebel, Friedrich, gifts]. [ Dudley, Bertha F[rances], artist.]

[Portland, OR: Oregon Kindergarten Training School, 1892.] Friedrich Froebel (1782 - 1852), early childhood education pioneer who developed the concept of the kindergarten, created his Gifts between about 1830 and 1850. These twenty activities, which varied in complexity and included…

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Nieuw algemeen schilders, vergulders en konstverlakkers handboek, en de geheimen in de illumineerkonst ontdekt, ten dienste voor alle beoeffenaars en beminnaers dier edelen konsten. Om zig zelven op de beste en gemakkelykste wyze daar in te oeffenen en bekwaam te maken. Benevens een manier om de verwen kunstig te bereiden en met nut te gebruiken, onderrighting om menschen, beesten, vogelen, boomen, velden, waters, vrugten en bloemen, na het leven te couleuren of aftezetten. Alle metaalen te vergulden. Allen uit- en inlandsche vernissen te maaken, en te gebruiken. Plyster, hoorn en beeldwerk aan te leggen. En laatstelyk de beste wyze van een nog onbekende konstige verlakkunst. In ‘t licht gebragt door een voornaam beoeffenaar van alle die konsten.

(PICTORIUS, J.B.).

Amsterdam, G. Roos & H. Vermandel, 1790. 8vo. (6), 464, (24), pp. Halfcaf, marbled boards. (binding restored: new endpapers, calf restored with old spine pasted-on). (some staining to the index). A good copy.
An extremely scarce treatise dealing extensively with paints, varnishes and gilding…

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