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by by Tom Grinsdale. Softbound, 170 pages, 8-1/2" x 11". Tom Grinsdale, Author of best-selling book Flintlock Fowlers, The First Guns Made In America, has gathered together over 180 different horns, most of which have never been published, for this fresh look at powder horns as "documents of history." More than 430 full-color, glossy photographs and Grinsdale's concise background text bring the artwork of the horns and their historic context into focus. A must for every artist, collector and historian! 

by Mary Evans. Softbound, 192 pages, 6-1/8" x 9-1/4". This easy-to-use handbook presents step-by-step instructions and patterns for a tremendous variety of clothes and accessories from colonial times through the Civil War. More than 80 illustrations depict Puritan, Dutch and Quaker garb as well as military uniforms plus the traditional dress of the Iroquois, Seminole, Dakota, and other Native American tribes. A bonus CD features every pattern in the book in Vector-based files for crystal clear enlargements.

by Mark Aspery. Hardbound, 299 pages, 8-1/2" x 11". Volume one of The Skills of a Blacksmith series, designed to lead the blacksmith along a set course of technique and understanding. This book will give you everything you need to develope your skills and master the techniques necessary to make everything from simple forks and hooks to making your own tools, etc. Filled with almost 1200 excellent, close up, black and white photographs to help you along the way. Includes setting up your own anvil and stand, obtaining or making the tools necessary and 18 different projects; with each project using different skills. No matter wether you are a beginner or an experienced blacksmith, there is something here for all levels.

by Jim Hrisoulas. Softbound, 285 pages, 8-1/2" x 11". A companion book to The Complete Bladesmith, this advanced study of steel reveals forging secrets that have for centuries been protected by guilds. Never-before-seen instructions, diagrams and photos explain the tricks behind using Japanese Mokume, differential heat treating, power hammers, and other techniques to make wavy blades, spears and swords that bear the masters mark. The author, with over 20 years of experience at the forge, is a specialist in medieval broadswords, daggers, and damascus pattern welding and shares a wealth of information with the reader.

Companion DVD also available!

by Denis Diderot. Softbound, 9" x 12", 239 pages. A superb replication of copperplates engraved to illustrate Diderot's great 18th century Encyclopedie. The plates offer a unique and invaluable record of manufacturing and the trades just prior to the Industrial Revolution. Each of the major trades is illustrated in sequence detailing machinery and processes from raw material to finished product. Extensive, detailed notes clearly identify and explain objects, procedures and techniques of each industry. Artists, illustrators, collectors, historians of industry, art and invention will welcome this superb reproduction. This volume features Agriculture & Rural Arts, Art of War, Iron Foundry & Forge, Extractive Industries, and Metal Working.  

by Denis Diderot. Softbound, 9' x 12". Plates 209-485. This volume covers Glass, Masonry & Carpentry, Textiles, Paper & Printing, Leather, Gold, Silver and Jewelry, Fashion, Miscellaneous Trades. Also features an index of "Subjects Illustrated In Plates" for both volumes. 

by Anthony L. Tafel. Softbound, 112 pages, 8-1/2" x 11". Over 280 crisp color photographs revela artifacts of early American everyday life that were useful for surveying land, building log homes, farming the land, traveling, blacksmithing and cabinetmaking. From light paper ephemera such as land surveys and playing cards to heavy garden sones and conestoga wagon components, they are pictured and explained.

by Greta Arwidsson & Gosta Berg. Softbound, 90 pages, 8-1/2" x 11". The chest was originally fond in Mastrmyr on the island of Gotland, Sweden in 1936 the chest held more than 200 objects that were found in and around it. Most are tools that were used by blacksmiths and carpenters, many of them amazingly modern in appearance. Contains 32 pages of black and white photos and drawings.

by Philip Walker. Softbound, 32 pages, 6" x 8-1/4". The story of the tools and techniques with which man has learned to manipulate wood. This book gives an idea of what the basic woodworking tools were like in the main historical periods and shows an astonishing variety of forms that these basic tools have assumed at different times and in different places. Heavilly illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings.

by Barbara Alice Mann. Softbound, 295 pages, 6" x 9". Throughout the war, the unwavering goal of the Revolutionary Army, under George Washington, and its associated settler militias was to break the power of the Iroquois League, which had successfully held off invasion for the previious two centuries, and the newly formed Ohio Union. To destroy the Natives who stood in the way of land seizure Washington organized a series of rampages intended to destroy the League and the Union by starvation. Barbara Alice Mann tells how, in the wake of massive assults, Native America won the war in the West and managed to maintain control of the land west and north of the Allegheny-Ohio River systems. 

by David R. Montgomery. Softbound, 256 pages, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". A full color handbook of projects anyone can do and skills anyone can learn. Tanning leather, carving canoes, beading jewelry, and weaving head-dresses. Also includes fish trapping, identifying animal tracks, making tipis, gourd rattles and ornamental breastplates. A clear, step-by-step resource for creating practical and artistic Native American wares. This book will entertain, fascinate and educate.

by Bev Doolittle with text and poems by Elsie Maclay. Hardbound, 9-1/4" x 12-1/2", 160 pages. This beautiful book is a definitive work, presenting all the artist's published prints, plus earlier paintings, many seen here for the first time, all reproduced in full color plus numerous sketches, color studies and photographs. Each work is paired with beautifully written text and poems by literary master Elsie Maclay.

Text by Elmer Kelton. Hardbound, 160 pages, 9-1/4" x 12-1/4". Known for his art documenting Plains Indian history, his mastery of color and his ability to evoke emotion in his viewers, Howard Terpning has become synonymous with Native American art. This beautiful book is a spectacular overview of his work, presenting reproductions of paintings from throughout his career, all splendidly reproduced in full color.