Among the Head-Hunters of FormosaMcGovern, Janet B. Montgomery
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Among the Head-Hunters of Formosa
McGovern, Janet B. Montgomery
Ethnology -- Taiwan; Headhunters
=Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture.= A companion volume
to “Chats on Old Furniture.” By ARTHUR HAYDEN. With a coloured
frontispiece and 75 other Illustrations.
Cloth, 15s. net. Third Impression.
“One gets very much for one’s money in this book. Seventy-three
full-page illustrations in half-tone embellish a letterpress which is
replete with wise description and valuable hints.”
_Vanity Fair._
“Mr. Hayden’s book is a guide to all sorts of desirable and simple
furniture, from Stuart to Georgian, and it is a delight to read as
well as a sure help to selection.”
_Pall Mall Gazette._
“Mr. Hayden writes lucidly and is careful and accurate in his
statements; while the advice he gives to collectors is both sound and
reasonable.”
_Westminster Gazette._
=Chats on Old Coins.= By FRED W. BURGESS. With a coloured frontispiece
and 258 other Illustrations.
Cloth, 10s. 6d. net. Second Impression.
“A most useful and instructive book ... will prove a boon to the
intending collector of old coins and tokens, and full of interest to
every collector. As was to be expected of any volume of this series,
the illustrations are numerous and good, and greatly assist the reader
to grasp the essentials of the author’s descriptions.”
_Outlook._
“The author has not only produced ‘a practical guide for the
collector’ but a handy book of reference for all. The volume is
wonderfully cheap.”
_Notes and Queries._
=Chats on Old Copper and Brass.= By FRED W. BURGESS. With a coloured
frontispiece and 86 other Illustrations.
Cloth, 6s. net.
“Mr. F. W. Burgess is an expert on old copper and bronze, and in
his book there is little information lacking which the most ardent
collector might want.”
_The Observer._
“Italian bronzes, African charms, Chinese and Japanese enamels, bells,
mortars, Indian idols, dials, candlesticks, and snuff boxes, all come
in for their share of attention, and the reader who has mastered Mr.
Burgess’s pages can face his rival in the auction-room or the dealer
in his shop with little fear of suffering by the transaction.”
_The Nation._
=Chats on Household Curios.= By FRED W. BURGESS. With 94 Illustrations.
Cloth, 6s. net.
“Mr. Burgess gives much information about such attractive antiques
as old glass and enamels, old leather work, old clocks and watches,
old pipes, old seals, musical instruments, and even old samplers and
children’s toys. The book is, in short, an excellent and comprehensive
guide for what one may call the general collector, that is, the
collector who does not confine himself to one class of antique, but
buys whatever he comes across in the curio line, provided that it is
interesting and at moderate price.”
_Aberdeen Free Press._
=Chats on Japanese Prints.= By ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE. With a coloured
frontispiece and 56 Illustrations.
Cloth, 6s. net. Third Impression.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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