HARDCOVER catalogue with dust jacket, excellent condition, titled, "The Morgan Collection of Highly Important English and Continental Silver and Objects of Virtue." Sale was held on October 26, 1982. The top lot was a Charles II silver-gilt toilet set that sold for $418,000. Catalog is clean inside and out (there are price notations written in it). All 68 lots are illustrated, many in color, with one fold-out. 10" high X 8" wide, 68 pages...

Very slim hardcover catalog with brief history of the diamond and the emperor and two photos of the gem, one under fluorescent light. Scan is not very good in terms of color because the lettering and decoration is gold gilt on glossy dark blue which did not reproduce well.

Beautiful catalog of "The Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Gold Boxes and Objects of Vertu," held November 19, 1982 at Christie's in New York. All 57 lots are illustrated in color. Prices ranged up to $308,000. Catalog is unmarked and in very good condition. Includes list of prices realized.

Classic book on subject, HARDCOVER, quarto volume, America's Quilts and Coverlets by Carleton L. Safford and Robert Bishop, published by Weathervane Books, New York, 1974. Profusely illustrated. Very good condition with some fraying and minor tears to dust jacket. Price includes free Media Mail shipping within the USA.

Condition is like new. The book is crisp and clean with fine dust jacket. There is a small area on upper right of front free endpaper where a small label, probably identifying previous owner, has been removed. Publisher's Note: Handsomely illustrated and engagingly written, "New York Modern" documents the impressive collective legacy of New York's artists in capturing the energy and emotions of the urban experience over the past five decades. 61 illustrations. 448 pp...

Checklist for 1988 exhibit celebrating the gift to Yale by the Kossack family of American silver encompassing at the time almost 4,400 objects dating from about 1720 to 1890. It included 1,965 tea, 774 table, 207 dessert, 199 salt and 49 mustard and other small spoons; 467 sugar shells and tongs; 269 ladles; 151 pieces of holloware; 126 forks; 46 knives; 43 spectacles; 36 serving pieces, and 35 pieces of jewelry representing the work of approximately 1,100 silversmiths...

Handsome French bar saucer from the absinthe period (pre-1915) with 60-centime price and blue border edged by black hairlines. This is a genuine turn-of-the-century saucer or soucoupe from the Belle Epoque when poets and artists drank the addictive wormwood-based drink absinthe which was banned in France in 1915. You sat at the bar and drank, each drink being served on a priced saucer...

Large quarto book (12 3/8 by 9 1/2 inches) by Elemore Morgan, a professional photographer and father of the well-known landscape painter Elemore Morgan, Jr. Described on the dust wrapper as "A Study in Photographs and Words" by Elemore Morgan and Ed Kerr. Printed on high quality paper, it contains 101 duo-tone photos. each one occupying a page. Published in 1962 by Claitor Book Store, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

"A vivid chronicle of a great American family whose members prove to have been every bit as entertaining — and almost as important — as they thought they were," Geoffrey C. Ward, former editor of American Heritage magazine and author of Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt -- quoted on the inner flap of the dust wrapper. Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1986. 297 pp., 27 illustrations. Price includes free shipping by media mail.

Rare Lincoln item -- sale of the only signed, titled and dated version of the Gettysburg Address manuscript in existence. "The Unique and Final Holograph Manuscript Known as the Bliss Copy Together with An Album of Other Manuscripts and Autograph Letters all Written and Brought Together for Benefit of the Sanitary Commission Fair Baltimore - 1864." This catalog was for a sale on April 27, 1949, at Parke-Bernet Galleries (predecessor to Sotheby's) in New York City...

The definitive book on Hitchcock chairs and furniture. Large softcover book in very good condition. Almost like new but with the very slightest curl to cover. First edition, second printing 1977.

"14 FASCINATING WALKS THAT FOLLOW THE PATHS OF THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY WRITERS, THEIR SLEUTHS AND CHARACTERS." -- from the cover. Authors are Alzina Stone Dall and Barbara Sloane Hendershott. Walks are: Bath, Brighton, Cambridge, Canterbury, Dorchester/Charmouth, Ely, Greenwich/Blackheath, Newmarket, Oxford, Salisbury, Shrewsbuy, Stratford-on-Avon, Thames River trip, and Windsor/Eton/Ascot. Includes maps. Endpapers are maps of England...