Rare Antique Books for Your Pleasure

Yuletide season is coming. It’s time to buy the best gifts for your loved ones, especially those who love collecting book of antiques about furniture like the cabinet woods. This is a great gift to buy for all antique collectors who is especially close to you. Here is an example of a rare antique book with complete story and details of the cabinet wood in the history, they were used and employed in America and Europe, and also throughout the world of civilization from the times of Romanesque and Gothic until the beginning of the present century.

An example book of antiques is entitled “Directory of The Historic Cabinet Woods-A Complete Guide to all Hardwoods Used in Furniture Making 1460-1900.” by F. Lewis Hinckley, Crown Publishers, Inc. NY, 1960 First Edition.

The book of antiques is prepared for the antique collectors, dealer of the antiques, museum experts, and the manufacturer of the furniture. A guide uniquely provided by Mr. Hinckley. It has an illustration of over 175 examples of various wood types of furniture, with some photographs focusing the surfaces of the woods. The book is absolutely rare, a book that leads with authority and guide about the subject of the type of woods when it comes to antique furniture. It describes the details growth, the cutting and handling of such woods, development, variety in identifying their characteristics such as the color tones, grains, textures, weights, figures, hardness, relative strength, and other helpful guidelines in distinguishing the variety of materials. Thebook has 186 pages, 8.5″ x 11.2″ hardback with dust. It is in very good condition, covered with protective plastic sleeve.

The other one is “The Cabinet Makers of America -their lives and works” by Ethel Hall Bjerkoe, Bonanza Books, NY, 1957. The book is Black-and-white in illustration. It’s about lives and works of the early cabinet makers in America, and they are about 2,500 approximately. The Author of this book has uncovered the biographies about these cabinet makers through research exhaustively. This book is invaluable resource and reference for collector, historian and early American furniture curator and dealer.