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Over 800 color photos display Harker Pottery's tablewares from the 1840s to the 1970s, including early Rockingham, Yellowware, Ironstone, and Pate Sur Pate. Dinnerware, kitchenware, rolling pins, shaving sets, tea and punch sets, and ABC plates are shown in many shapes. Decorations include Flow Blue and decals. Values are found in the captions.

Documents the magnificent botanical prints produced by notable artists of the 17th through the turn of the 20th centuries, including Basil Besler, Maria Sybilla Merian, Mark Catesby, Georg Ehert, George Brookshaw, Robert John Thornton, Pierre Joseph Redout, and many others. Illustrated with over 300 full-color images of rare and valuable botanical prints. A range of prices is included to guide you in your collecting and information on archiving, framing, and displaying makes this an indispensable reference.

Explore 31 of Connecticut's most haunted sites along with a clairvoyant with first hand knowledge of the spirits of whom she speaks! On this spectral tour encounter ghosts in famous homes, including the residences of Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The lively spirits in Hartford, Fairfield, Litchfield County, Middlesex, New Haven, New London, Tolland, and Windham County are all revealed. Meet the ghost of a young murder victim haunting the Pettibone Tavern, the prisoners who never left the mines of Old New-Gate prison, and visit an abandoned town so cursed local residents have changed the name of the road leading to it to keep the curious away. Connecticut's history of witchcraft and the Victorian séances of Hartford are also revealed. Fascinating text provides details of ghost-hunting methods used during research, useful methods for cleansing negative spirits, and directions to the sites. Everyone intrigued by ghosts and life beyond death will enjoy the thirty-two images that provide evidence of spirits moving among us.

Photographer Paul Clemence captures the emblematic forms of Miami Beach's Art Deco architecture in 20 dramatic black-and-white postcards. Mail them or frame and hang as the fine art they are! This book is the perfect souvenir, and a must-have for lovers of South Beach, Art Deco, architecture, and photography.