Collectables/Antiques

Collectables/Antiques

Collectables/Antiques

Collectables/Antiques

Collectables and Antique books to judge quality and design of collectable items, including books! Miller's antiques price guides to oddities.

 

ENDANGERED ANIMALS
MARTIN JENKINS & TOM FROST    Book Number: 90628
Published price: £15
Bibliophile price: £3.50
Product format: Hardback

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Probably designed for children aged nine and up, all ages will appreciate the striking graphic stamps from printmaker Tom Frost in his beautiful and illuminating journey through the world of endang...
HER MAJESTY A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY 1926-TODAY
CHRISTOPHER WARWICK    Book Number: 88646
Bibliophile price: £45.00
Product format: Hardback

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Born in 1926, married in 1947, crowned as Queen in 1953, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has for over six decades steadfastly and loyally carried out her duty on behalf of her country. German art p...
NATURE'S TREASUREHOUSE:
JOHN THACKRAY & BOB PRESS    Book Number: 90838
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
Product format: Paperback

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As well as extensive holdings of books, journals and manuscripts, the Natural History Museum in London has an unparalleled collection of artwork. The Reeves Drawings are one of many examples of th...
AVRO LANCASTER IN MILITARY SERVICE 1945-1965
MARTIN DERRY & NEIL ROBINSON    Book Number: 91227
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Paperback

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Entering service in the crucial wartime year of 1942, the Avro Lancaster quickly became the supreme RAF heavy bomber of its day in spite of competition from the Handley Page Halifax, with the RAF f...
AVRO SHACKLETON
MARTIN DERRY & NEIL ROBINSON    Book Number: 91228
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £7.50
Product format: Paperback

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Written with modelling enthusiasts in mind, this book focuses on extensive visual coverage of the iconic Avro Shackleton, a post-war machine in the RAF coastal command for the defence of friendly m...
AIRCRAFT AND AVIATION STAMPS
HOWARD PILTZ    Book Number: 91571
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £9.50
Product format: Hardback

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Transport and stamp collecting have been brought together in this special book looking at the way postage stamps have increased our knowledge of transport worldwide. The collecting of stamps or ph...
ENCOUNTERS WITH PEGGY GUGGENHEIM
STEFAN MOSES    Book Number: 91603
Published price: £22.50
Bibliophile price: £4.00
Product format: Hardback

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Sub-titled 'An Intimate Collection of Behind-The-Scenes Photos Featuring the Legendary Art Collector', the renowned photographer took these images between 1967 and 1974, and many have never been se...
200 DIFFERENT COMMONWEALTH STAMPS
RETRO    Book Number: 91646
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Unknown

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Canada, Malaysia, the Cook Islands, Ceylon, Republic of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Australia, Malta, Pakistan, depicting astronauts to the white rhino, seafaring to architecture, some bearing the head...
FIX BAYONETS!
JOHN NORRIS    Book Number: 91866
Published price: £19.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Hardback

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The bayonet is essentially a knife fixed to the end of a gun, used for charging the enemy when firepower fails. There is something chilling about the order to "fix bayonets", heralding as it does u...
TAXIDERMY
ALEXIS TURNER    Book Number: 92255
Published price: £16.95
Bibliophile price: £7.50
Product format: Paperback

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A lavish Thames & Hudson publication with 338 colour illustrations, many double page, of some of the finest examples of taxidermy, many staged and in curious settings and others curiosities such a ...
ART DECO COLLECTABLES: Fashion Objets from the Jazz Age
RODNEY & DIANA CAPSTICK-DALE    Book Number: 92410
Published price: £34.95
Bibliophile price: £17.00
Product format: Hardback

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Individually crafted luxury items and mass-produced wares in the Art Deco style were designed to create a sleek and anti-traditional elegance that symbolised wealth and sophistication. It is hard ...
FROM PLAYGROUNDS TO PLAYSTATIONS
CARROLL PURSELL    Book Number: 92663
Published price: £21.50
Bibliophile price: £3.00
Product format: Paperback

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Sub-titled 'The Interaction of Technology and Play' here is a romp through the changing landscape of 19th and 20th century American toys, games, hobbies and amusements and the ways in which technol...
CHADBURY: A Town and Industrial Scape In '0' Gauge
ERIC BOTTOMLEY    Book Number: 92868
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Hardback

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When you walk into what was a 17ft square double garage you enter another world. There is an 8ft high oil painted backdrop with watercolour landscapes of the Pennine hills, a cotton mill with 166 ...
CLASSIC ROCK T-SHIRTS
LISA KIDNER & SAM KNEE    Book Number: 92912
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Hardback

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Over 400 vintage T-shirts from the 1970s and 80s featuring such famous rock groups as Kiss with the distinctive zigzag Ss and black and white faces, The Rolling Stones with the iconic ruby red lips...
MASSIMO LISTRI CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
GIULIA CARCIOTTO & A. PAOLUCCI    Book Number: 88323
Published price: £
Bibliophile price: £90.00
Product format: Hardback

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Exquisitely bound in a satin cloth decorated with an Archimboldo design of the head with the face made of flowers and plants and this outsize volume has a pink satin pagemarker and double gate cent...
HISTORY OF CIGARETTE AND TRADE CARDS
JOHN BROOM    Book Number: 92985
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £8.00
Product format: Paperback

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Passing hands for many years, cigarette and trade cards are items of social, cultural and advertising history, and many are immensely valuable in monetary terms. The book looks at a wide variety o...
BRITISH MUSEUM BUDDHA
DELIA PEMBERTON    Book Number: 93376
Published price: $15.95
Bibliophile price: £3.75
Product format: Hardback

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The Egyptologist and lecturer for the British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum Delia Pemberton has created a beautiful book on the treasures, wisdom and spirituality of Buddhism. Through carefu...
LIFE IN MINIATURE: A History of Dolls' Houses
NICOLA LISLE    Book Number: 93400
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £12.00
Product format: Hardback

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Popular in Britain since the late 17th century, dolls' houses are tiny slices of social history that give us a fascinating glimpse into domestic life over the last 300 years. In this beautifully i...
MUSEUM BY THE PARK: 14 Queen Anne's Gate
MAX BRYANT    Book Number: 93580
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £9.00
Product format: Hardback

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"Knowing the old, you well understand the new." This motto is inscribed on a bust of the 18th century antiquarian Charles Townley, for whom the house at 14 Queen Anne's Gate, formerly 7 Park Street...
MY COLLECTION OF COLLECTIONS
NINA CHAKRABARTI    Book Number: 93695
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £5.50
Product format: Hardback

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Some collections are put together over a lifetime, while others last a single afternoon. You might be a sucrologist, collecting packets of sugar, or perhaps you would rather collect stamps, matchb...
BRONZE AGE IN EUROPE
JEAN-PIERRE MOHEN ET AL    Book Number: 93720
Published price: £7.95
Bibliophile price: £4.25
Product format: Paperback

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The archaeologist author together with Christiane Eluère takes us back beyond the borders of history. Achilles, Odysseus and other heroes of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey fought with shields and sword...
HISTORY OF OCEAN LINERS IN 50 OBJECTS
MARK BERRY    Book Number: 94071
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £10.00
Product format: Paperback

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A maiden voyage medal and brochure from the SS Imperator, a brass bell from RMS Aquitania, commemorative plaque, propellors, cards posted from sea, pen and ink drawings, a saloon chair, a cutaway r...
MEMORABILIA COLLECTION: British Steam
IGLOO BOOKS    Book Number: 94080
Published price: £17.99
Bibliophile price: £7.99
Product format: Hardback

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Inserted into tissue paper pockets throughout this large spiral bound, magnetic fastening folder are facsimile ephemera such as the front page of The Daily Mirror 1924 with the headline 'The King A...
MUSEUM: From Its Origins to the 21st Century
OWEN HOPKINS    Book Number: 94082
Published price: £40
Bibliophile price: £29.00
Product format: Hardback

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Here are the court battles over ownership of pieces, new building materials and the key institutions include the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, British Museum, Tate Modern, the Hermitage, ...
ROCK CHRONICLES
DAVID ROBERTS    Book Number: 94154
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £11.00
Product format: Hardback

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'A Visual History of the World's Greatest 250 Rock Acts' with striking, colour-coded infographics, the book provides an overview of every aspect of each band's story. See at a glance which musicia...
JEWELS OF THE NILE: Ancient Egyptian Treasures
P. LACOVARA & Y. J. MARKOWITZ    Book Number: 93937
Published price: £34.95
Bibliophile price: £22.00
Product format: Hardback

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Jewels of the Nile celebrates the very first time that the Worcester Art Museum's internationally important collection of Egyptian jewellery - which has undergone conservation and cleaning - has be...