Antiques, vintage and collectables

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Fully illustrated, this study investigates the origins, evolution and use of the mail and scale armour worn by the soldiers and gladiators of Imperial Rome.

A republication of the 1842 edition.

This antiquarian volume contains an interesting treatise on antique clock dials, hands, and corner pieces from long case and lantern clocks, with information on history, production, fashion, evolution, and much more.

This unique collection of short biographies of the Lone Star State's most colorful characters includes headliners Father Miguel Muldoon, the Irish-Spanish Catholic priest and diplomat who helped convert Protestants in order to settle Austin, and six-foot-two prostitute and hotelkeeper Sarah Bowman, who fought as bravely as a man among the Rangers and was buried with full military honors.

As the founder of the longest-lasting of all the Hellenistic kingdoms, not only was Ptolemy I an able soldier and ruler, he was also an historian and, in Egyptian eyes, a living god.

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to horse-brasses, first published in 1928.

Fully illustrated, this study investigates the origins, evolution and use of the mail and scale armour worn by the soldiers and gladiators of Imperial Rome.

Sportschützen, Jäger, Waffenbesitzer und allgemein an Waffen Interessierte erhalten mit dem neuen Buch "Sniperwissen kompakt" einen Einblick in die Welt der Scharfschützen.

This antiquarian book contains a short treatise on the tools and materials of the watchmaker, being an accessible guide to the constituents of the amateur watchmaker's toolkit complete with information on how to make your own tools.

In the wake of tragic shootings in Newtown and Aurora, the anti-gun lobby has launched a campaign of lies, distortion, misrepresentation, and emotional manipulation that is breathtaking in its vitriol and its denial of basic facts.

Will the rare autographed baseball your great-uncle gave you put your children through college?

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Women Art Dealers brings together fascinating case studies of galleries run by women between the 1940s and 1980s.

This book contains a treatise on French furniture from the renaissance to the Empire style.

Coins in Rhodes: From the monetary reform of Anastasius I until the Ottoman conquest (498 - 1522) presents the Byzantine and medieval coins collected by Greek archaeologists in Rhodes over a period of more than sixty years.

Why did collectors seek out posters and collect ephemera during the late-nineteenth and the twentieth centuries?

With the MG 34, the German Wehrmacht introduced an entirely new concept in automatic firepower the general-purpose machine gun (GPMG).

Art Glass Nouveau is an exploration of the magnificent beauty of colored glass art.

A study of how coins, riches and lands were gained and distributed among the soldiers, warriors, and mercenaries in the Antiquity and Early Medieval times.

The perfect resource for coin collectors of all ages!

A comprehensive illustrated study of the RPG The RPG-series of weapons is the most widely used family of lightweight antitank weapons in the world today.

Volume II now extends coverage of the Imperial series from Nerva, the 'thirteenth Caesar' and first of the 'Adoptive' emperors, down to the overthrow of the Severan dynasty in 235.

The Pattern 1853 Enfield Rifle was the first rifled firearm issued to every soldier in the British Army, and gave the infantry a revolutionary increase in firepower.

The Browning 50-cal has become the longest serving weapon in the US inventory.

In the two centuries before the Norman invasion of England, Anglo-Saxon and Viking forces clashed repeatedly in bloody battles across the country.

At the outset of the American Civil War, the Union Army's sharpshooters were initially equipped with the M1855 Colt revolving rifle, but it was prone to malfunction.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to watchmaking, with information on watch and clock cleaning and repairing, tempering in all its grades, making tools, compounding metals, soldering, plating, and more.

A football fan's dream come true every complete UK Panini sticker album 1986-1993 reproduced as facsimiles for the very first time.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Gem Identification Made Easy is the first and only book that explains in non-technical terms how to identify diamonds and colored gems, and how to separate natural gems from imitations, treated stones, synthetics, and look-alikes.

The Wisden Collector's Guide is the definitive companion to one of the world's most important sporting publications.

This antiquarian work contains a fascinating look at a variety of novel clocks and timepieces, with information on their history, manufacture, makers, and much more.

This vintage text contains a comprehensive guide to the clock makers and clock manufacture in the north east of England, being a discussion of celebrated clock manufacture from the golden age of northern horology.

Mary Rockwood Powers reluctantly left her comfortable life as a doctor's wife in Wisconsin in 1856, one of the many women whose destiny as a settler of the West was determined by her husband's wishes.

The Christchurch Fusee Chain Gang is a detailed study of poverty, survival and bygone trades.

The world's first self-powered machine gun, the Maxim gun became a potent symbol of Victorian colonialism in the closing years of the 19th century.

More coin hoards have been recorded from Roman Britain than from any other province of the Empire.

In response to the challenge of the Soviet Dragunov self-loading rifle, the British Army adopted the 7.

'Panini Legends, by the leading authority on the stickers, Greg Lansdowne, charts the changing appearances of football legends.

Want to photograph lions and elephants in Africa, Formula One cars at the Monaco Grand Prix, front-line military jets - or to step back in time and watch George Stephenson's locomotive Rocket make its first run on the Liverpool-Manchester railway line - all without leaving the comforts of home?

The units and formations of the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) have privileged access to the finest weaponry in the world's arsenal.

The first illustration of a cannon in Europe can be dated quite precisely to 1326.

This book charts the changes in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter over the last twenty years, and is the first work to look beyond the area's unique early history and the jewellery trade itself.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to clocking making.