With its initial publication in 1983, A Guide to the Makers of American Wooden Planes profoundly transformed the emphasis and direction of tool collecting. After several years of meticulous research, Thomas L. Elliott has completely redesigned, revised, and expanded this fifth edition to include entries and information accumulated since the fourth edition. The heart of this guide is the alphabe…
A price guide is only as helpful as its prices are current. With this in mind, we offer a new fourth edition of Herbert Kean's A Price Guide to Antique Tools, its prices taken from the latest live and internet auctions as well as from private sales. As before, there are over 12,000 prices (individual and chart combinations) that represent extraordinary tools, as well as those found in flea mark…
The Point of it All is a thoroughly documented, researched book about the history of the designs of antique barbed fencing. This book describes hundreds of patents and over 2,000 patent design variations found in antique barbed fencing. Varieties such as mild steel barbed wire strands, sheet metal barbed strips, barbed metal rods, and barbed wooden rails. Antique barbed fencing evolved from the…
Il Baburnama, finora inedito in Italia, non è solo un libro di straordinario interesse storico, ma il primo esempio di opera autobiografica della civiltà islamica. Sorta di Zibaldone centro-asiatico, il Baburnama è un documento di valore inestimabile, degno di stare alla pari con Le Confessioni di Sant'Agostino, con Rousseau, Newton, Beveridge o Leopardi. Discendente di Tamerlano, Babur fu s…
Charles Parsons is one of St. Louis's and the nation's most influential yet little-known figures. He was instrumental to the Union cause as a Civil War quartermaster and advisor to generals, politicians and presidents alike. As a world-traveling art connoisseur, he helped found the first art museum west of the Mississippi, to which he donated his remarkable collection of American, European and …
La herencia cultural del mundo se encuentra en la actualidad amenazada no solamente por el transcurrir del tiempo, las inclemencias de la naturaleza y el desarrollo humano, sino también cada vez más por los conflictos armados. Presenciamos la destrucción causada no solamente por los saqueos y el tráfico ilícito, sino por la iconoclasia y por la manipulación de la herencia cultural por mot…