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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Very good condition hard cover, some wear to cover and spine, internally clean and tidy, in a good readable condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Very good condition hard cover, some wear to cover and spine, internally clean and tidy, in a good readable condition.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. 223 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. Damask table linen has adorned festive dining tables since early modern times. These pure white tablecloths, napkins and hand towels, patterned with discreet, but artfully drawn pictorial compositions and coats of arms, served as status symbols in princely and bourgeois households. Almost all linen damasks of the sixteenth and seventeenth century were woven in the Spanish Netherlands or the United Provinces, from where they were exported throughout Europe. From the eighteenth century onwards, linen damasks were also woven in Scotland, Ireland, Sweden and Russia. This volume presents the papers of an international colloquium hosted at the Abegg-Stiftung in 2021, which brought together scholars to discuss linen damask in its historical context, drawing on surviving table linen, household inventories and pictorial representations.…

Original photograph of President Herbert Hoover and his cabinet, signed by twelve members of his cabinet. The group portrait, photographed outside the White House, shows the President seated at the center of his cabinet, the signatures appearing in ink along the lower margin of the image. Those signing are President Herbert Hoover, Vice President Charles Curtis, Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills, Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley, Attorney General William D. Mitchell, Postmaster General Walter F. Brown, Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams III, Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Commerce Roy D. Chapin, and Secretary of Labor William N. Doak. Framed. In very good condition. A remarkable gathering of signatures from the cabinet of President Herbert Hoover. The entire piece measures 20.5 inches by 15.5 inches. Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) served as the thirty-first President of the United States from 1929 to 1933, taking office months before the stock market crash of October 1929 and leading the country into the first years of the Great Depression. A mining engineer who became internationally famous for directing food relief in Europe during and after the First World War, he served as Secretary of Commerce under Harding and Coolidge before winning the presidency in 1928. His cabinet included Vice President Charles Curtis, Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, and other leading figures of the era.…