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Lighting Books & Ephemera
Empire Decorative Fixtures
by Trade Catalogue
1920. ca. 1920's. Quarto. 16 loose sheets numbered 1-16, in embossed folder with one pocket, lettering on cover. VG, sheets are clean & unmarked except for inked correction to one model number; folder in good shape though covers darkened & title lettering hard to read. The sixteen sheets (one-sided) feature four lines of ceiling and wall fixtures - Valencia, Versailles, Alamo, and Pueblo. The sheets provide sepia image, model No., dimensions, and price. One sheet features five crystal...
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$50.00
Apartment. Stylish Solutions for Apartment Living.
by Powers, Alan
Sydney: Murdoch Books. 2001. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs. 143 pages. Photography by Chris Everard. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Hardback.
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$13.23
Wood Systems. Bulletin No.1079. Direct Connected Type MPL Direct-Current Generators for Power and Lighting August 1, 1907
by [ Fort Wayne Electric Works ]
Fort Wayne, Indiana: Fort Wayne Electric Works, 1907. Staplebound. Good. 12 pages, stapled and two-hole punched. 8 x 10 1/2 inches. Page edges trimmed and then stained red. Staplebound. The second edition of this bulletin. Illustrated. Describes newly designed and updated generators from the company based on their field experience.
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$22.00
Nineteenth Century Lighting: Candle-powered Devices: 1783-1883
by Bacot, H. Parrott
Exton, PA: Schiffer, 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12.3x9.4x1.2in. Dust jacket in clear protector. Illustrated with over 394 photographs. 259pp 4.40lb 12.3x9.4x1.2in
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$40.00
Fire & Light in the Home Pre-1820
by Caspall, John
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1987. Hardcover. As New/As New. 11.1x8.7x1.1in. reprinted 1995. Dust jacket in clear protector. With 601 black and white illustrations. 278pp 3.13lb 11.1x8.7x1.1in
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$75.00
Die Quarzlampe, ihre Entwicklung und ihr heutiger Stand ... mit 47 Textabbildungen
by Pole, Dr. J. C
Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1914. First Edition. Wraps. Good. First Edition. VIII, 84, [4 (ads)] pages. 8vo. Publisher's printed blue wrappers. Paper spine reinforced with old linen tape. With the accession stamp and embossed stamp of the NELA RESEARCH LABORATORY of the National Lamp Works of General Electric Co (received May 9, 1916). Wraps. Title, roughly translated, is "The quartz lamp, its development and its current status" The NELA laboratory was founded in 1908 as the physical...
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$39.00
Collecting Art Nouveau Shades
by Roberts, Darrah L
Des Moines: Wallace-Homestead, 1972. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. 9.3x6.2x0.5in. pictorial boards, price guide laid-in. Illustrated with 24 full-page colored plates, several smaller black and white plates, and examples of signatures. Altogether, 230 shades are illustrated. 120pp 0.97lb 9.3x6.2x0.5in
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$60.00
Lichter Leuchten im Abendland: Zweitausend Jahre Beleuchtungskörper
by Jarmuth, Kurt
Braunschweig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 11.3x9.7x1.2in. dust jacket with 1/2 inch tear at bottom of front panel, light wear at corners. Dust jacket in clear protector. A standard work covering 2000 years of lighting fixtures with 404 black and white illustrations. Text in German. 416pp 4.90lb 11.3x9.7x1.2in
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$300.00
General Catalogue No. 7 Doubleday-Hill Electric Co. Distributors and Manufacturers Electrical Supplies
by [ Doubleday-Hill Electric Co ]
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Doubleday-Hill Electric Co, 1916. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. 1475 pages. Thick 4to. (7 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches) Publisher's printed two tone yellow cloth. Covers soiled, bumped at corners. Sound. Last hundred pages with marginal dampstaining lower right corner. Occasional dampstaining at corner tips elsewhere. Well illustrated, occasionally in color. Cloth. Printed by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. An extensive General Catalogue by this supplier and manufacturer. In...
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$275.00
Lighting in America: From Colonial Rushlights to Victorian Chandeliers
by Cooke, Lawrence S. (editor)
New York: Main Street/Universe Press, 1975. 1st. Soft cover. Very Good. 11.0x8.5x0.5in. long crease to back cover. Reprints from The Magazine Antiques arranged into four areas: Primitive Lamps (10 articles); Oil Lamps (9 articles); Candleholders (10 articles); Other Lighting Devices (13 articles). Each article is illustrated with black and white photos. 159pp 1.04lb 11.0x8.5x0.5in
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$20.00
Wood Systems. Bulletin No.1095. Enclosed Alternating Current Multiple Arc Lamps 104-volt, Type ACM, Form C September 15, 1907
by [ Fort Wayne Electric Works ]
Fort Wayne, Indiana: Fort Wayne Electric Works, 1907. Staplebound. Good. 8 pages, stapled and two-hole punched. 8 x 10 1/2 inches. Page edges trimmed and then stained red. Staplebound. The second edition of this bulletin. Illustrated. Discusses the application of this lamp in industrial settings.
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$22.00
Decorative Art 1937: Thirty-second Annual Issue of the Studio Year Book
by Holme, C.G., ed
London / New York: The Studio, 1937. First edition. Cloth. Extremities worn with some loss at rear corners, small tear to top of front joint, wear at the spine ends, a few minor spots to rear board, owner's signature in year of publication to front pastedown, leaves clean and unmarked, binding solid, plates bright, overall still a very good- copy.. [x], 144, Adv [xxxiv] pp. Illus. with 8 tipped in color plates, 450 b/w photos, & 21 drawings. 4to. Includes the work of 197 designers and architects...
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$150.00
The Landscape Lighting Book
by Moyer, Janet Lennox
New York: John Wiley, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine illustrated dust wrapper. 282 pages. 28.5 x 22 cm. 27 color plates and host of black and white illustrations in the text. Directory of Lighting Manufacturers. Bibliography. Hints on lighting harmony of plants, sculptures, paths, stairways, facades, fountains and waterfalls.
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$50.00
Birmingham Brass Candlesticks
by Burks, Jean M
Charlottesville, VA: The University Press of Virginia, 1986. 1st. Hardcover. New/New. 11.3x8.8x0.6in. Little has previously been written about eighteenth-century English brass candlesticks which, widely used to illuminate British and American homes of the period, represent one of the most important groups of domestic objects. Jean Burks firmly establishes that the seven firms known to have marked their candlesticks were all located in Birmingham, England. The history and working dates of the firms are...
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$60.00
Distinguished Extinguishers
by Horsley, Tony
np: Anthony J. Horsley, 1999. 1st. Soft cover. New. 10.6x8.2x0.5in. Over 100 porcelain candle snuffers are described and illustrated in color. With 8 pages of marks. 140pp 1.61lb 10.6x8.2x0.5in
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$20.00
Arts-Crafts Lamps: How to Make Them
by Adams, John D
Chicago, IL: Popular Mechanics Co, 1911. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine. 6.8x4.8x0.5in. small stain to front cover. Sixteen lamps are described and illustrated with schematic diagrams for construction. 87pp 0.43lb 6.8x4.8x0.5in
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$75.00
Lighting in the Domestic Interior: Renaissance to Art Nouveau
by Bourne, Jonathan and Vanessa Brett
New York: Sotheby's Publications, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. As New/As New. 11.4x8.8x0.9in. Dust jacket in clear protector. This survey of historical lighting is profusely illustrated with 837 figures in color and black-and-white, of which 519 are from auction catalogues with most of the remaining 318 from contemporary paintings, drawings, and engravings. 255pp 2.94lb 11.4x8.8x0.9in
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$50.00
Colonial and Early American Lighting
by Hayward, Arthur H
New York: Dover Publications, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 8.5x5.4x0.7in. faint crease to front cover. With illustrations of 647 lamps. 198pp 0.77lb 8.5x5.4x0.7in
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$10.00
Handel Lamps: Painted Shades and Glassware
by DeFalco, Robert, Carole Goldman Hibel, and John Hibel
Staten Island, NY: H&D Press, 1986. 1st. Hardcover. New/New. 12.3x9.4x1.2in. 254pp 4.21lb 12.3x9.4x1.2in
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$125.00
Pendules et Bronzes d'Ameublement Entrés Sous le Premier Empire
by Samoyault, Jean-Pierre
Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1989. 1st. Soft cover. Very Good. 10.6x8.3x1.0in. light spine crease, faint crease to front cover. The catalogue of the First Empire clocks and lighting in the Museum at Fontainebleau. 333 objects are described and almost all are illustrated in black and white, in some cases with additional photographs. In addition, 16 of the objects are illustrated by full-page color plates. Text in French. 298pp 2.63lb 10.6x8.3x1.0in
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$1,500.00
The Lear Collection: A Study of Copper-Alloy Socket Candlesticks A.D. 200-1700
by Bangs, Christopher
Easton, PA: King's Hill Publications, 1995. 1st. Hardcover. New. 11.3x8.8x1.2in. pictorial boards; in shrinkwrap. With 180 black and white illustrations plus several in color. 398pp 4.24lb 11.3x8.8x1.2in
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$175.00
Illuminating Fixtures of Etruscan Bronze
by Utica, NY. The William Gray Company
Utica: William E. Gray Company, Nd. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff tan boards with embossed lantern front cover. Fine. 71 pages. 25 x 17.5 cm. "Etruscan Bronze -- so named because first used in a crude form by the inhabitants of ancient Etruria, has long been known to metallurgists, but only in recent years has it been successfully used in the manufacture of lighting fixtures." Mostly with one fixture image per page. Clean, fresh oopy.
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$250.00
Wood Systems. Bulletin No.1028 - Enclosed Direct Current Multiple Series Arc Lamps Power Circuit Type - Form C, May 10, 1907
by [ Fort Wayne Electric Works ]
Fort Wayne, Indiana: Fort Wayne Electric Works, 1907. Staplebound. Very Good. 8 pages, stapled and two-hole punched. 8 x 10 1/2 inches. Page edges trimmed and then stained red. Staplebound. The third edition of this bulletin. Illustrated. "For outdoor illumination or for lighting large interiors there is no better source of light than the enclosed arc lamp.
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$22.00
