These are items relating to textiles including rugs and carpets, textile dyeing, manufacturing, agriculture related to textiles such as cotton, wool and silk. Items on machines and manufacturers are included here.
Paris: Armand Guerinet, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. quarto, 200 loose plates- as called for- housed 2 portfolios. X- Library. Portfoilos are are not original but very well made libray replacements that are sturdy and in bright red cloth covered boards. Ties are present. Each of the two portfolios house 100..... More
London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1960. First Edition. Original wraps. 12mo or short octavo, bound in original stiff paper wraps in very good condition but with light wear and age toning of covers, tiny label of earlier owner on back of front cover, pp.75 this is exhibition catalogue without illustrations..... More
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, bound in original cloth covered boards with black lettering, light to moderate wear, contents very good to near fine with age toning of paper, ca. 142 pages of text and illustrations and ca. 30 pages of adverts. very good..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. thick octavo, bound in original purple cloth covered boards, spine faded, corners bumped, binding sound but starting to show weakness. Contents very good or better in general. There is some light foxing of plates but very little elsewhere. All plates and..... More
Hartford: Case, Tiffany & Co., 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, bound in original dark brown blindstamped cloth covered boards with light shelf wear, but a number of bits of brown missiing - most from back. Contents very good except for foxing that varies from very light to moderately heavy, though..... More
Roma: Textilia Ed. D'ARTE, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. tall quarto, bound in original cream color cloth covered boards in very good to near fine condition, book slightly warped, contents are pp. 125 , with 47 color plates illustrating rugs and carpets. Beautifully produced work to accompany an exhibition in Roma..... More
London: David Black Oriental Carpets, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. square octavo, bound in original biege cloth covered boards in fine condition, contents are fine with ca. pp. 20 of text and some illustrations and then followed by 60 items with text and illustration in color plates. Dust jacket is present..... More
London: David Black Oriental Carpets, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. small folio, bound in original red cloth covered boards in fine condition except that corners are slightly bumped, contents are fine with pp. 26 of text followed by 55 color plates of kilims. Dust jacket is very good with little wear..... More
London: David Black Oriental Carpets, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. small folio, bound in original red cloth covered boards in fine condition except that corners are slightly bumped, contents are fine with pp. 26 of text followed by 55 color plates of kilims. no Dust jacket . No names or bookplates..... More
London: Thames & Hudson, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by author. Folio, numerous photographic illustrations, publisher’s blue cloth stamped in blind and silver with mild fading along top edge, minor shelf-wear, near fine. Pictorial dust jacket with flattened creases, a couple short tears repaired with scotch..... More
Mulhouse: Bibliotheque D.M.C., 1920. Original wraps. quarto, stiff card covers with brown / bronze pattern on front and back, with moderate wear, one corner bent, remnats of a silk ribbon at front and back of booklet, contents are a booklet of ca. pp. 9, 30 plates 1 in color and..... More
Mulhouse: Bibliotheque D.M.C., 1920. Original wraps. quarto, stiff card covers with burgundy / bronze pattern on front and back, with moderate wear, one corner bent, remnats of a silk ribbon at front and back of booklet, contents are a booklet of ca. pp. 5, 30 plates 1 in color and..... More
Mulhouse: Societe Anonyme Dollfus - Mieg & Co., 1900. First Edition. Original wraps. oblong 16mo, bound in original tan paper wraps with nice color, contents are 24 color plates illustrating stiching designs. The cover is loose from the staple binding. There is no date noted in the booklet, but ca..... More
Washington, D. C. GPO, 1828. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Disbound combination of two early reports to the U.S. House of Representatives and Dept. of Agriculture on the subject of Silk. The two reports are bound together but removed from a larger group of government reports. Full title of the larger..... More
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1974. ]o Dendel. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Bound in original half blue cloth with gray paper covered boards all in fine condition with like dust jacket. More
Cincinnati: Markarian Foundation, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. tall quarto, bound in original gray cloth covered boards in very good to near fine condition, contents are pp. viii, 423 , with 162 color plates illustrating items, some have more than one item on a plate, also many color and b&w illustrations..... More
Washington DC: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1915. Original wraps. U.S. government report misc. series No. 31, pp. 258 , bound in original gray paper wraps, darkening around the edges of the front cover, very light damp staing on the first few pages, generally very good copy full of facts and figures..... More
Wien: A. Hartlebens, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. octavo, bound in half maroon cloth with marbled paper covered boards with moderate wear and small tears along hinges, contents generally very good with pp. 45 if text in German and 76 plates illustrating various weave patterns with the first plate having 5..... More
Hopedale: The Draper Company, 1903. Second Edition. Stiff wraps. octavo, bound in original navy blue cloth (could be leather or faux leather) to make flexible covers with white lettering, light soiling and wear, contents near fine but with age toning of paper, 320 pages of text and numerous illustrations with..... More
New York: Du Pont Fibersilk Co., 1922. 1st Edition. Original wraps. small booklet of 10 pages with original covers that are stained. Contents very good. Early information about "artificial silk" . Information within states that in 1922 about half as much was produced as real silk was used. More
Paris: Quantin, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. quarto, bound in original dark blue pebbled cloth covered boards in very good condition, contents very good or better with occaisional light foxing, numerous photographic illistrations and many more illustrations of fashionsof the time for people, home, food and pets. Note: due to size..... More
Istanbul: Ak Yayinari, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. quarto, bound in original gray- blue apparently silk cloth covered boards with very little wear and some fading, contents slightly age toned, otherwise fine with text and illustrations for 56 textiles along with lots of other illustrations - many in color. very good..... More
Philadelphia: Textile Publishing Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo or short octavo, bound in original black cloth covered boards with moderately heavy wear, front edge of backstrip is detached from front cover , joints a bit weak, but still sound, contents very good except of light dampstainf at top of..... More
Wilmington: E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company, 1946. Cloth. octavo bound in original black cloth covered boards with blindstamped lettering in green on covers and back strip, inside are 6 pages of text about the dyes and processing, but, the bulk of the book is a set of..... More
Wilmington: E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company, 1946. Cloth. octavo bound in original dark green cloth covered boards with blindstamped lettering outlined in gilt on covers and back strip, inside are 28 pages of text about the dyes and processing, but, the bulk of the book is a...... More