1944 Edition of Brown’s signalling. Scarce. Book By W. K. Stewart This is the 1944 Edition, based on Information contained in Vol. I. of the 1931 International Code of Signals.

Title: Brown’s signalling how to learn the international code of visual and sound signals

Medium: book, hardcover, moderate wear of cover, inside fine.

Author: W. K. Stewart

Edition: Brown, Son & Ferguson. Ltd., Nautical Publishers. Glasgow (United Kingdom)

Language:...
Circa: 1944
Publisher: Brown  

Antique Prayer Book, Art Nouveau. 1907 Decorative, antique prayer book, the cover made of celluloid, intact brass locker in Art Nouveau design.

Published in 1907 by Butzon & Berker, an official publishing company of the Vatican. After a decree by Pope Leo XII they were allowed to used this coat of arms in their publications.

The first pages are lithographed religious images.

This prayer book was a present to commemorate...
Manufacturer: Austria  

George Savage. Ceramics for collectors. Limited de Luxe. Savage, George Ceramics for the Collector: An Introduction to Pottery and Porcelain.

Published by Theodore Brun Ltd, 1949. Limited. Leather, hard Cover, 224pp.

Limited edition - copy no. 120 of 200.

Slight scuffing to edges of covers, a few scratches at the back of the cover, a few brown spots. 8.75" by 5.75". Quite a few photos of objects.
Circa: 1949
Publisher: London  

1897: Jewish Prayer Book. Hebrew and German. 1897: Fine old Jewish prayer book, 468 pages in Hebrew and German: " Gebete der Israeliten" ( Prayers of the Israelites. Translated by J. N. Mannheimer. Published in Wien by Josef Schlesinger.

Decorative cover with bone scrimshaw.

There is some aging of the cover ( Normal wear of a payer book in use. Just the spine shows more obvious aging ). There are no tears or folds inside the book. The...
Publisher: J. N. Mannheimer  

Art Nouveau Booklet: Guidebook for Girls. Decorative vintage booklet with hand painted ornament ( lilies ) at the book cover. The image of the praying girl is pasted on it.

The booklet is a counsel, advising girls how to stay clean wile they grow up and become ladies, written by a priest.

15 pages, written on an outdated German, some hand written lines at the end of the text.

4,4 x 6,4 inches. Clean and sound.
Manufacturer: private  

1873. Fabulous Antique Newspaper: Complete with many fine Illustrations This is an original, authentic "The Illustrated London News" Newspaper – 1873, March 1st.

There are quite a few articles and pictorials of e.g, "The colliery in Staffordshire", "Vessels used in the Zanzibar Slave trade", images of 4 ships for slave transportation…and many more.

All in all there are 16 illustrations.

The condition is satisfying as there are no...
Publisher: London News  

Old Brochure of the Hamburg – America Line, cruising to China and Japan 1930s: 16 pages introduction booklet issued by the "Hamburg Amerika Linie ". They offered tours from Germany to China and Japan.

6 x 8 inches with many images depicting Chinese and Japanese scenes as well as details of the cruisier.

The text is in German. Moderately used.

Circa: 1930
Publisher: Hamburg – America Line  

1898: Gutenberg Bible. Phototype Facsimile 1898: 16 x 9,5 inches Chromolithograph depicting a page from the Gutenberg bible, printed in 1455. Printed by Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig. Litho by Meyers Germany 1898. 2 horizontal centerfolds.

This print shows a text from Luke 1 -11: "And an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense".

In the mid-fifteenth century Johannes Gutenberg...
Circa: 1898
Publisher: Meyers  

1878: Beautiful European Prayer Book with Chromo Litho 1878: Prayer book, " Remember Your Confirmation " printed in Austria. Distributor for North America was E. Huesman & Bro in Cincinnati.

The inside of the book is more or less faultless, the cover shows slight wear.

Circa: 1878
Publisher: Huesman  

Beautiful European Prayer Book for Confirmation. Printed 1910 1910: Confirmation keepsake - prayer book, leather, boxed cover.

Chromolithograph of Holy Jesus. Compiled in 1878 in Brixen.

The book has been printed by I. Steinbrenner. Winterberg, Wien and New York.

The inside of the book is clean and without faults, the cover shows slight wear.

Circa: 1910
Publisher: Brixen  

Superman comic: 1981 and 1987. 2 x Special Superman comic: 1981 and 1987. 2 x Special Edition in German Superman Comic: Special Edition Nr. 10 and Nr. 30, ( 1981 and 1987), each 82 pages, quite scarce now.

Condition fine to very fine ( one with minor fault at lower left corner).
Circa: 1981
Publisher: Germany  

Riffles and Guns booklet from 1938. Many Illustrations. WWII: 1938: 24 pages booklet. Prospect of an Austrian producer of guns and rifles. Many illustrations. 30 + weapons are introduced and though it is written in German it is a useful source for specialists. The booklet had a vertical fold otherwise fresh and without any faults. Scarce.
Circa: 1938
Publisher: Austria