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126 pages. Features: Foundation Forms That Insulate; Bed Alcove; Framing a Cross-Gable Roof; Running Baseboard Efficiently; A House Without Barriers; A Dry-Laid Stone Stairway; Cutting Against the Grain; Jewelbox Bathroom; Funds for Fixer-Uppers; Simple Joinery for Custom Windows; Small House, Big Heater; Hand Planes for Trim Carpentry. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
238 pages. Index. Extensively illustrated with black and white photos and diagrams. Charts and tables. A wartime text "especially written for carpenters and other woodworkers who desire to engage in boat or ship building, and as a textbook for schools." - subtitle. Amazingly, a prior owner has neatly handwritten over twenty pages of pertinent notes on and near front and back endpaper! Some additional markings to contents. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average external wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Dag Thorstensen and KnutNot in perfect condition. unknown
19972091502135409609Not Available 1997. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Not Available paperback
19922090502130200525Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum 1992. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 192p Size: 30cm Number of books: 1 Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum paperback
19892083002115708031Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum 1989. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 69p Size: 26cm Number of books: 1 Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum paperback
19942091502135421570Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum 1994. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum paperback
222658Ward Lock & Co. London c. 1890. 816 pp including index followed by publisher's index b&w engraved illustrations advertisements previous owners' details on blank prelim and title page edges foxed else very good copy in illustrated brown cloth boards. 5th edition. 750 illustrations. Ward, Lock & Co., London, c. 1890 hardcover
33568Turnhout, Brepols, 2010 Paperback, 376 p., 220 x 280 mm. ISBN 9782503529875.
MA07C-04365David Williams. Collectible - Acceptable. NY: David Williams 1882 and 1883. 1st edition. 2 volume set. Volume 4 Numbers 1-12 and Volume 5 Numbers 1-12. 4to Hardcover. 246; 256pp. B/W plates and text figures. Ex-Library Set. Both volumes: Heavy edgewear. With usual library markings. Vol 2: Majority of spine chipped away. engineering architecture carpentry buildings Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. David Williams hardcover
168 pages. Index. Text in German. Many black and white illustrations and diagrams. Appears to be circa 1930 as this is when the Foreword was written. Title page missing. Many pencil markings to contents. Covers present but almost loose from textblock. Above-average wear. A worthy copy of this vintage German carpentry text. Book
33402CARPENTRY AND BUILDING. Volume IV. 1882. New York: David Williams 1882. Folio. Contemporary quarter-morocco marbled boards. viii 240 162 pages. First edition. A practical American periodical on carpentry and bricklaying with articles o wrought iron facades and aesthetic designs. Richly illustrated with elevatio plans and architectural details; the complete twelve monthly issues for 1882 Advertisements are bound-in. With the contemporary bookplate of Charles Harw Bethlehem Pennsylvania. Rebacked with original spine as an overlay. Some minor rubbing. Internally very good. unknown books
Full Title: "ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF CARPENTRY. A Treatise on the Pressure and Equilibrium of Timber Framing, the Resistance of Timber, and the Construction of Floors, Centres, Bridges, Roofs; Uniting Iron and Stone with Timber, etc. To Which is Added an Essay on the Nature and Properties of Timber. 4th Edition, Corrected and Considerably Enlarged. With an Appendix Containing Specimens of Various Ancient and Modern Roofs, by Peter Barlow." pp. xxiv, 333 + Fifty-three (53) engraved plates [as called for], some folding. Old age stain. Partially unopened. Small folio. Original full cloth binding, embossed in blind. Thomas Tredgold (1788-1829) was an important English architect and engineer. In 1813 he joined William Atkinson, architect to the ordnance in London, and in 1823 went into private practice as a civil engineer. These 'Elementary Principles of Carpentry' were first published in 1820. He also wrote 'Strength of Cast Iron' (1821), and 'The Steam Engine' (1827). Scarce and significant. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W150 / DC
First Edition, 4to, xx,250,[2]pp., without half-title, 22 engraved plates (3 double-page), some light spotting to text and plates, orig. cloth, a little faded. The rare first edition of a work that was continually reprinted and updated throughout the 19th and well into the 20th centuries.
Folio, Best Edition, with 100 engraved plates and many hundreds of wood-engraved illustrations in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; attractively bound in black half calf, brown cloth sides, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment with red leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, red sprinkled edges, backstrip lightly scuffed at edges else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. Lovely copy of the best edition of this immensely detailed manual, first published in 1857. In this edition several of the plates have been improved by the introduction of new figures, and several new plates added. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Fourth edition, revised and corrected by the author, 4to, [20]pp., signatures: [A]-K4, each leaf of letterpress has its own signature and many of the rectos are blank, 83 engraved plates, text and plates age toned, title page creased, fore-edge a little frayed and repaired with archival paper, some light water staining and foxing throughout, recent half calf in a period style, marbled boards, five raised bands, spine decorated in blind and gilt, red morocco title label. Bound in at the back is a folio sheet: A Catalogue of Modern Books on Architecture, &c. Theoretical, practical, and ornamental; which, with the best Ancient Authors, are constantly on sale at I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library, no. 56, High Holborn, London. [London, s.n., 1788?]. folio, [2]pp., 57 items listed, inner margin repaired with archival paper with the loss of several words, ESTC no. T121354. Archer, 240.4; Harris, 643; ESTC returns a single copy located at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin for this fourth revised edition.
First edition, 4to (270 x 215 mm), 5, [11]pp., with the final advert leaf, [20]pp., 83 engraved plates (the contents of which are well represented in the title), some light foxing throughout, some minor worming to upper blank margin of first few leaves, recent calf calf, red morocco label to spine. Archer, 240.1; Harris, 640.
11071Brush & ink some in color or heightened in color. Late Edo.<br /> <BR> <BR> A fascinating collection of fine and detailed architectural drawings of the Kyoto Palace several Kyoto temples and mansions. This collection can be divided very roughly into three groups:<br /> <BR> <BR> 1. Palace: The Kyoto Palace burned down many times in its long history and the most recent reconstruction was completed in 1855. About 17 sheets of varying sizes some quite large depict ornamental details; floor plans; details of sliding doors; plans for guard offices at entrances buildings for ladies-in-waiting and entranceways to court offices; ornaments for bathrooms; floor plans of the inner palace including the emperor’s residence seiryÅden 清涼殿 the tutors’ living quarters and teaching rooms the layout of the roof beams for the seiryÅden beam measurements sumigi 隅木 roof styles metalwork designs for shitomi 蔀 traditional shutters or doors another complete floor plan of the seiryÅden with labels for placement for each decorative work of art and a diagram of the placement of the weight-bearing wooden pillars color-coded to support the floors; roof-beam styles; palace outer buildings’ floor plans; a very large hand-colored illustration of a decorative drum to perform gagaku 雅楽; pattern sheet of the drum; and a bundle of seven sheets of various palace buildings some in color.<br /> <BR> <BR> 2. Temples: a drawing of a model of elaborate woodwork; ornamental roof details in color; layout for roof beams; a rubbing of an architectural detail; floor plan of the building containing the Great Buddha of the HÅkÅji temple; detailed measurements of the roof beams of the Rokkaku-do temple; plan for a two-story pagoda sheet measuring 1210 x 760 mm.; the design of an ornamental bottle-shaped strut taiheizuka 大瓶æŸ; and a sheet with actual size drawings of other ornaments. Some have the name of the creator Tanaka Heibei ç”°ä¸å¹³å…µè¡› a Kyoto ornamental woodcarver.<br /> <BR> <BR> 3. Miscellaneous: drawings of ornamental aspects of unnamed buildings about 30 sheets of varying sizes.<br /> <BR> <BR> In very good condition. unknown
11074Hundreds of drawings & some text. Nine scrolls all roughly 260 x 4500 mm. & one notebook. Japan: late Edo.<br /> <BR> <BR> Japanese shrines and temples require constant maintenance restoration and rebuilding. These nine scrolls and one notebook are concerned with the architectural aesthetics of shrines and temples and the highly specialized construction techniques used to construct them including the complex joinery methods which did not require the use of nails glue or fasteners. As constant reminders in the texts in the scrolls tell us the crafts illustrated here were to be carefully guarded and passed on to future generations in great secrecy. Apprenticeships could last as long as ten years. Some of the master joiners are named.<br /> <BR> <BR> The drawings in the scrolls are exceptionally detailed oftentimes in extreme close-up depictions showing many of the methods of joining the desired proportions accompanied by measurements names of individual parts of the materials used in construction and the problems in building and maintaining a shrine or temple.<br /> <BR> <BR> These nine scrolls contain hundreds of drawings of plans for all aspects of shrines and temples; each is focused on a different topic. These include the many varieties of traditional shrine gates torii 鳥居 oftentimes with measurements references to known gates and their creators and idealized gates with ratios. There are also examples and styles of hafu ç ´é¢¨ decorative bargeboards or gable end boards including kara hafu undulating or cusped gables irimoya hip-and-gable and mukuri hafu curved gables.<br /> <BR> <BR> The concept of kiwari 木割 the proportional system used to determine the dimensions of building components based on their relationship to other components is also discussed in one of the scrolls along with the methods of measuring and cutting wood to achieve a harmonious structure.<br /> <BR> <BR> Many drawings also illustrate the components of taruki 垂木 rafters used to help support a roof in traditional Japanese wooden construction.<br /> <BR> <BR> One scroll illustrates an idealized temple building with succeeding detailed drawings of its components measurements and ratios along with many illustrations of ornaments. Other scrolls are concerned with the ornamental aspects of shrines and temples all illustrated in great detail again with measurements and ratios.<br /> <BR> <BR> One scroll deals with decorative windows screens wooden sliding doors and shelves in many styles.<br /> <BR> <BR> Another scroll discusses and illustrates a NÅh performing stage and ancillary buildings constructed in August 1774 for Matsudaira Chikuzen no kami in Kaga fiefdom.<br /> <BR> <BR> These nine scrolls are accompanied by a manuscript notebook 37 leaves 8vo 247 x 173 mm. which discusses and illustrates gegyo æ‡¸éš decorative wooden boards or pendants traditionally attached under the roof gables found on Shinto shrines Buddhist temples and castles.<br /> <BR> <BR> At the ends of four scrolls it is indicated that they were copied in 1811 and 1819.<br /> <BR> <BR> In fine condition; all preserved in an old wooden box. unknown
