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1852573Worcester: Published by Edward Livermore 1852. Large 4to. 280 x 215 mm. 11 x 8 ½ inches. 148 pp. Illustrated with 200 plates of plans elevations details and practical stair-building on 54 plates and in the text. Contemporary sheep Black leather label with title in gilt on spine; some rubbing to binding; text block clean and bright; six examples of dried leaves inserted and now removed causing browning to paper stock on verso and recto of the page.  Ownership inscription in pencil of "Harvey Bricknell Barnard Vt." on front free endpaper. With faults a very good sound copy in original binding. Fifth edition revised and enlarged with new plates and a chapter on rural architecture. Original issued in 1848 Brown's work became a standard manual for carpenters and builders and went through at least six editions the final one being printed in 1854. Brown was a practicing Lowell Ma. architect whose goal was to produce a manual written in simple terms which explains the techniques of construction without the complexity of a treatise on architecture.  Interesting text which places some focus on existing home built in Worcester and surrounding area with details of construction and design patterns. Hitchcock American Architectural Books 217 for 1851 edition. . Published by Edward Livermore unknown books
1821008696Paris 1821. First Edition. Contemporary Calf. VG. Large folio. Engraved title and 72 plates collated which depict late 18thC Italian homes fountains gardens churches and architectural details finely composed showing all aspetcs of structure and landscape. Contemporary calf lacking strip bottom psine. A few plates have minor foxing overall better than very good copy of an uncommon work. unknown books
1867WRCLIT68157Paris: Neuhaus Lith. 1867. Double-spread decorated lithographed title and twenty lithographed line renderings. Folio 50 x 33.5 cm. Contemporary half red morocco and marbled boards t.e.g. The pictorial title-spread lithographed on cream stock; the renderings are printed on gray stock. Trace of foxing to endleaves toe of spine and edges rubbed otherwise very good. First and evidently sole edition of this production showcasing Tronquois' works. Apart from the several plates of detail work the full scale renderings here are of the main or out-buildings of Château de Bethmont; the Orangerie Observatoir et Sallede Bains a Villers sur Marne; Villa à St. Greaien; Batiment de Communs à Marnes; Château de la Chaumette; Chateau de Bethmont and a pigeon house at St. Arnoult. The format suggests this production may have been undertaken as a promotional for Tronquois' services. Stepping across the channel he was commissioned to design the Chateau Impney in Droitwich for which he completed plans in 1869 and this production could conceivably have some relationship to lobbying for that commission. Little information about Tronquois seems to be accessible except for his identification with specific buildings. A scarce work: OCLC/Worldcat locates three copies in France a copy at Columbia and a copy at the V&A; a sixth copy is noted under a separate entry at ETH-Bibliothek Zurich and is curiously assigned a Baudry imprint but other details are sketchy. OCLC: 39252547. Neuhaus, Lith. hardcover books
18031652361803. ARCHITECTURE - FRENCH GRAND PRIX. Recueil des grands prix d'architecture et autres productions de cet art couronnées en France reduites gravées et lavées par une Societé d'Architectes. Contents includes: manuscript half-title title and table 13 livraison each made up of 6 hand-coloured aquatint engravings printed on thick Holland paper for a total of 78 engravings. Tall folio 530 x 365 mm bound in contemporary green marbled paper covered boards original front wrapper bound in. Preserved in a modern blue half morocco folding box. Paris: Detournelle 1803. First Edition Deluxe issue from the second series of the French Grand Prix d'Architecture. A fine series of architectural aquatints tastefully hand coloured with china ink wash light pink blue yellow and green watercolour. Subjects include: 1 Normand "Colonne rostrale" 1791; 2 Dubut "Grenier publique" 1797; 3 Moitte "Arc de Triomphe" 1795; Famih "Arc de Triomphe" 1801; 5 Moreau "Colonne nationale' 1800; 6 Vignon "Tribute du paix" 1795; and others. The French Grand Prix was first approved for publication by l'Academie d'architecture in 1787 and exhibited a profound influence on contemporary European architects of the time most notably Gilly and Schinkel. The work "may also suggest ideas to the contemporary architect. Indeed it may not be gross an oversimplification to suggest that the work of Le Corbusier is still unconsciously based on some of these traditions which are kept alive in France in spite of the changes in architectural idiom" Roseneau p. 21 Spine professionally restored some marginal staining overall a fine fresh copy of a luxurious publication. PROVENANCE: Engineer Artium Geno followed by Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow with their bookplates on the front past-down. Roseneau Architectural History Vol. 3 pp. 15. hardcover books
