A group of art and furniture reference books

including Master Craftsmen of Newport, The Pendleton Collection, American Furniture at Chipstone, and others.  Approximately 100 volumes.

Book titles for this lot: Colonial and Early American Lighting, Arthur H. Hayard; Antique Brass Candlesticks 1450-1750, John Robert Grove; Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings, Mary H. Northend; Early American Dress, Warick, Pitz and Wyckoff; Boston Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts; Catalogue of American English Furniture from Property of Mrs. L.H. Littlefield Sholem Asch; Catalogue of Early American Antiques from Collection of Mrs. Charles P. Soden; Catalogue of Fine 18th Century American Furniture; Catalogue of Americana from the Property of Channing Hare; Catalogue of Antique and Contemporary Furniture and Furnishings from the Estates of Harry A. Batten; Clocks and Watches of New Jersey, William E. Drost; The Dunlaps & Their Furniture, The Currier Gallery of Art; Selected titles, Architectural Treasures of Early America; Early American Rooms 1650-1858, Ed. Russell Hawes Kettel; English Looking Glasses, Geoffrey Wills; Old Houses on Nantucket, Kenneth Duprey; Colonial Houses, Philip B. Wallace; Our Governors' Mansions, Cathy Keating; Upholstery Conservation, Ed. Marc A. Williams; Antique Spanish Furniture, Rafael Domenech & Luis Perez Bueno; Art and Artists of the South, Bruce W. Chambers; The Furniture of Our Forefathers, Volumes I & II, Esther Singleton The Arts and Crafts of Newport, R.I. 1640-1820, Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr.; The Hudson Fulton Celebration, Volumes I & II, the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Master Craftsmen of Newport, Michael Moses; Catalogue of Flayderman Collection; First Flowers of Our Wilderness, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art & The University of Arizona Museum of Art; Connecticut Cabinet Making, Bulkeley; Litchfield County Furniture, 1730-1850, Litchfield Historical Society (Two copies); George Dudley Seymour's Furniture Collection, Connecticut Historical Society (Two copies); A Supplement to George Dudley Seymour's Furniture Collection, Connecticut Historical Society; Barbours' Furniture Collection, Connecticut Historical Society (Two copies); The American Chair 1630-1890, Marion Day Iverson; American Furniture from the Collections of King Hooper, Inc., Hyman Kaufman and Herbert Lawton; Catalogue 3787 of the Collection of Israel Sack; Catalogue 3265 the American Heritage Society Auction of Americana; Catalogue of American Art from American Collections, the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Catalogue 2026 of Property of Reginald M. Lewis; The Gentle Art of Faking Furniture, Herbert Crescinsky; Duncan Phyfe & the English Regency, Nancy McClelland; American Interior Design, Rogers; Directory of the Historic Cabinet Woods, F. Lewis Hinckley; Country Furniture of Early America, Williams; A Supplement to John and Thomas Seymour, Cabinetmakers in Boston, 1794-1816, Vernon C. Stoneman; Pine Furniture of Early New England, Russell Hawes Kettel; The Architectural Heritage of Newport, Rhode Island, Downing and Scully Jr.; American Furniture, Beckerdite; Catalogue of Connecticut Furniture Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Cabinetmakers in Boston 1794-1816, John and Thomas Seymour; Catalogue of M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth Century American Arts, Edwin J. Hipkiss; Sales at King Hooper Mansion; The Looking Glass in America 1700-1825, Comstock; The Furniture of Historic Deerfield, Fales; Catalogue of the American Craftsman and the European Tradition, the Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts; Girl Scouts Exhibition 1929; Catalogue of The Great River, Art and Society of the Connecticut Valley, 1635-1820; The Pendleton Collection, Luke Vincent Lockwood; Colonial Furniture of New England, Lyon; New England Furniture of the Colonial Ear, Jobe and Kaye; The Reifsnyder Collection, American Furniture; Sale 3106 Property of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan; The John Brown House, Rhode Island Historical Society; Accessions, Henry Francis Dupont Winterhur Museum; The Decorative Arts of New Hampshire: A Sesquicentennial Exhibition, The New Hampshire Historical Society; The Arts and Crafts in New York, 1726-1776; The Arts and Crafts in New York, 1777-1799; American Furniture, the Federal Period 1788-1825, Charles F. Montgomery; American Firearms Makers, Carey; Five Centuries of Gunsmiths, Swordsmiths and Armourers 1400-1900, Robert Edward Gardner; American Furniture at Chipstone, Rodriguez Roque; Wrought Iron in Architecture, Gerald K. Geerlings; Early Pennsylvania Hardware, Herbert Schiffer; American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, National Gallery of Art; The Brass Book, Schiffe; Worldly Goods, Lindsey; English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton, Cescinsky; Bayou Bend, Houston Museum of Fine Arts; The Mirror Book, Schiffer; British Pewter from the Charles V. Swain Collection; American Pewter from the Charles V. Swain Collection; If These Pots Could Talk, Ivor, Noel and Hume; American Art from American Collections, the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Candleholders in America, 1650-1900, Joseph T. Butler; The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eddy Nicholson; American Painted Furniture 1660-1880, Fales; Catalogue 3964 Louis Guerineau Myers Collection; Colonial Kitchens, Their Furnishings and Their Gardens, Phipps; Masterpieces of American Furniture, Margon; Early American Furniture, John T. Kirk; With Hammer in Hand, Hummel; Colonial Interiors, First Series, French Jr.; Colonial Interiors, Second Series, Sale; An Album of New Netherland; Lighting in America, Cooke; American Furniture in Pendleton House, Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design; Catalogue 3878 Francis P. Garvan Collection
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