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181726047United Kingdom: The Society of Antiquaries of London 1817. This original copper-engraved plate only # XVIII of these Newcastle upon Tyne architectural elements published by the Society April 23rd 1817 giving the scale & identification of the various figures. Approx. 14 1/2" x 21 1/4" size including the margins all around. Printed one side extracted from a larger volume with the remains of the rough sewn edge at left margin. Light wear edge-soiling; in very good condition. First Edition. Not Bound. Very Good. The Society of Antiquaries of London paperback books
197820620Italy: Gruppo Editorale Electa S. p. A. 1978. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Square paperbound quarto. Texts in English and Italian. Printed name to inside front and rear covers else a clean very good plus copy in square bound illustrated wrappers. Illustrated in color and black and white. issue 18 of this distinguished architectural journal punlished out of Venice and distributed by Rizzoli in the US. This issue with features on Urbino Marburg Riyadh Kuwait Oporto and Zwolle-Dordrecht. 135 pp. <br/><br/> Gruppo Editorale Electa S. p. A. paperback books
190021803New York City: Turner & Kilian Architects 2291 Broadway 1900. Group of 7 drawings and plans exterior and interior all accomplished via blueprint on durable linen-backed paper stock many with colors added for details; each with the Turner and Kilian Architects 2291 Broadway New York identification and C.T. Ramer owner; scale of 1/4" = 1 ft; including: #1. Side Elevation 19 1/2" x 29" light wear trimmed at part of top no loss to drawing very good condition; #2. Rear Elevation gables ornamented with elaborate scroll- work and with a large porchway 21 1/2" x 37" some edgewear dustiness good; #3. Basement Plan 22" x 36" indicating footings colored fresh air inlets barber shop store bicycle section bar women's and men's servants quarters ice house pastry room coal storage and baggage rooms; #4. First Floor Plan 23" x 37" various chambers waiting rooms parlors dining room pantry butler & serving rooms with coloring on the inner walls and central alcoves some edgewear and rubbing good and with a small cloth tab attached having the date of 1900; #5. Second Floor Plan 23" x 36 1/2" guest chambers stairways balcony toilets fire escape some edgewear and rubbing edge-fraying good; #6. Third Floor Plan 17" x 35" similar to 2nd floor with the addition of store rooms light wear very good; # 7. Attic Plan 18 1/2" x 35 1/2" long storage spaces and hallway light wear very good; these plans reflecting the creation of the early 20th century resort community of this area on the Rockaway Queens Long Island peninsula relatively early in its first period of existence before a devastating storm in 1914 and fire in 1922 destroyed many of the older buildings - "Arverne" originally begun via the investment and real estate development activities of Remington Vernam c.1842 - 1907. . Architectural Plans. Not Bound. Good. Turner & Kilian Architects 2291 Broadway Paperback books
199828949Madrid: El Croquis Books 1998. Revised. Cloth. Very Good /very good. Folio size hardbound volume in dustwrapper over 13" tall. 431 pp. Massive retrospective put on in Madrid circa 1998. Text in Spanish and English by Alejandro Zaera and others. This is the revised omnibus edition. Profusely illustrated. Very small indentation to cover at spine else a sound very good to near fine clothbound book in dustwrapper. Wrapper has some creasing at top of front panel area and a small gouge in same place at spine previously mentioned. A very large and heavy book. Additional shipping charges may apply. El Croquis Books unknown books
197820621Italy: Gruppo Editorale Electa S. p. A. 1978. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Square paperbound quarto. Texts in English and Italian. Printed name to inside rear covers else a clean very good plus copy in square bound illustrated wrappers. Illustrated in color and black and white. Issue 20 of this distinguished architectural journal punlished out of Venice and distributed by Rizzoli in the US. This issue with features on Milano Cubism Kamil Roskot and other features. 126 pp. <br/><br/> Gruppo Editorale Electa S. p. A. paperback books
197820623Italy: Gruppo Editorale Electa S. p. A. 1978. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Square paperbound quarto. Texts in English and Italian. Printed name to inside front cover else a clean very good plus copy in square bound illustrated wrappers. Illustrated in color and black and white. Issue 25 of this distinguished architectural journal punlished out of Venice and distributed by Rizzoli in the US. This issue with features on the theatre of Gardella two projects for Ferrara residences of the Irish prime minister and other features. 128 pp. <br/><br/> Gruppo Editorale Electa S. p. A. paperback books
1900046530London 1900. Later Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. Original patterneed boards worn cloth at front hinge split and front board nearly detached text block loose. Light scattered browning internally. 48 plates; ca. 1900 facsimile of the original 1774 edition. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Architecture; Inventory No: 046530. hardcover books
1971038250England: Gregg International Publishers 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1734 edition; unmarked save for previous owner's name with fold out table. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Previous owner's signature in ink. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Architecture; ISBN: 0576151122. Inventory No: 038250. <br/><br/> Gregg International Publishers hardcover books
199111439London: Academy Editions 1991. First edition. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Large 4to. 220 pp. Illustrated in glossy color. A fine clothbound copy in near fine dustwrapper. A heavy volume. Academy Editions unknown books
16044011Antwerp Nuremberg and elsewhere:: various printers 1557- 1604. Large folio:. 40 x 31.3 cm. Bound in 17th c. stiff vellum boards soiled small defects to the corners and hinges. The contents are in overall excellent condition with only minor flaws a few damp-stains -mainly mild and almost always outside of the plate- occ. light soiling a handful of plates with light wash to give the impression of diaphanous clothing over nude female figures; plate 122 in the third work with a small portion neatly excised. The central portion of the German title page see below in the first work was neatly excised at an early date and replaced in manuscript with a title in French. The four divisional titles in the third work have the same kind of alteration. Provenance: Charles Alexandre de Croÿ 1574–1624 whose armorial bookplate has been pasted to the verso of first title page.This is a rare survival of a popular form of bespoke composite album the contents selected by and intended for use by as the title of Vredeman's "Architectura" states working architects masons stonecutters carpenters other artisans and amateurs "Personne qui cultive un art une science pour son plaisir sans en faire profession". These types of composite albums although widely used eventually became extremely rare – quite likely because they were so widely used; for they did not go into libraries but into the workshops of architects and decorators where they were copied and recopied worn out and in the end discarded. This album a fortunate survivor was assembled for Charles Alexandre de Croÿ 1574–1624 Marquis of Havré Count of Fontenoy Knight of the Golden Fleece from the Habsburg Netherlands. Murdered in 1624. Charles Alexandre had a distinguished military and diplomatic career. He fought in the Siege of Amiens 1597 led an elite cavalry in the Siege of Ostend 1602 and in the 1620s at the outbreak of the Thirty Years War served with the Imperial army in the Battle of White Mountain. Shortly after his retirement in 1624 he was shot dead through a window of his house in Brussels. Charles Alexandre whose interest in contemporary architecture is attested by his extensive renovation and expansion of Havré castle Château d'Havré in Mons Belgium where he welcomed Rubens in 1622.1. Vredeman de Vries Jan 1527- ca. 1607Architectura Ou art de bastir des Antiques tiré de Vitruve: qui sont cincq ordres de colonnes don't l'on peut tirer toutes sortes de bastimens selon l'usance et coustume de chascun pays: utile à tous Architects Massons Tailleurs de pierre Menuisiers et à tous amateurs de l'Architecture. Mis en Lumiere par Iean Vredeman dict Vriese.Antwerp: Andreas Bacx for Cornelis de Jode 1597Large folio: 40 x 31.3 cm. Etched title page 5 unsigned lvs. of text in French 23 etched plates in their first and only state numbered in Roman in the plate. Without the dedication text leaf not found in all copies.THE RARE SECOND FRENCH EDITION of this suite of architectural plates etched by the brothers Jan act. 1551-1606 and Lucas van Doetecum 1510-1570 after drawings by Jan Vredeman de Vries. This edition was published by Andreas Bacx for Cornelis de Jode successor to Gerard de Jode who produced the first French edition in 1577. The original publisher and date appear on the etched title; the 1597 imprint appears on the fifth text leaf. This copy lacks the dedication leaf present in a minority of copies lacking for example in the V&A and BM Lyon copies. While the text of this edition is in French the etched title page that was used was that of the 1581 German edition See Holstein. The text of the divisional title pages of the Dietterlin see 4. below have also been replaced by manuscript French versions by the owner or compiler of this sammelband.The plates represent the five orders: Tuscan 5 plates numbered 1-5 Doric 7 plates numbered 6-12 Ionic 4 plates numbered 13-16 Corinthian 6 plates numbered 17-22 and Composite 1 plate numbered 23. The accompanying text one leaf describing each order was translated from the first German 1577 by Theodore Kemp of Antwerp. Before and during the time that Vredeman produced work for Hieronymus Cock he also worked with the publisher of this work Gerard to Jode with whom he began his association in 1555.Each chapter deals with a different order. In each section there are five plates showing columns with various decorative embellishments followed by examples of building façades. "Foremost among sixteenth-century Netherlandish author-artists was Vredeman de Vries—an engraver architect and painter of prodigious imagination and talent. Born in the Friesland town of Leeuwarden he first studied painting with Reijer Griesten before assisting Coecke van Aelst on the decoration of triumphal arches built for the entry of the future emperor Philip II into Antwerp in 1549. Work on these designs laid the foundation for Vredeman's classical development as it brought him into contact with the publisher of various editions of Vitruvius and Serlio and with a circle of artists that included the architect Floris…"Through his contact with this Antwerp circle Vredeman began to study seriously the writings of Vitruvius and Serlio and expand his classical horizons. Political instability however continually interrupted his career. After marrying he moved to Antwerp in 1561 but was forced to flee the city for reasons of religious persecution. His life then became unsettled. He lived in Aachen Liege and Antwerp once again before moving to Wolfenbüttel in 1585. He next settled in Hamburg worked as a painter in Gdansk Danzig for the Polish court and later in Prague for Emperor Rudolf II. In the last decade of his life he returned to the Netherlands and lived in Amsterdam and The Hague. Throughout his wanderings and work as a decorative painter he continued to publish his increasingly famous engravings. Over thirty-three years between 1555 and 1587 he produced twenty-seven volumes consisting of 483 etched engravings. He remained active in fact until his death around 1606. His work in this field altogether eclipsed his paintings and few architectural commissions."The themes of Vredeman were extremely varied as well as always being elaborate and complex in character. In his 'Architectura oder Bauung der Antiquen aus dem Vitruvius' Vredeman came close to producing what might be called a column book. He acknowledged his architectural masters to be Vitruvius Serlio and the French theorist Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. Vredeman however was not content simply to adopt the classical orders as presented by other European masters but rather he sought to adapt them to the different national and climatic conditions of the North indeed to invest them with northern European ornamentation of his own creation."Millard III Northern European BooksHollstein Dutch & Flemish XLVIII 408-431Bound with:Vredeman de Vries' First Two Architectural Publications – Published by Volcxken Diericx Hieronymus Cock's Widow2. Vredeman de Vries Jan 1527- ca. 1607Das Erst Buch Gemacht Auff de Zvvey Colommen Dorica und Ionica sampt iren podien bases cornicen capitelen architraben phrisen und coro- namenten eyn jede inn drey manieren gezieret und getailet zu mehrer zierd und schone Gezogen auss dem berumpten Architecten Vitruuio Sampt noch anderen zierden dazu dienlich den Malern Bildhavvern Stainmetzern Schreinern Glazmaler und sunst allen liebhabern den selben zu gutenAntwerp: Volcxken Diericx ca. 1578-1581And3. Das ander Buech Gemacht auff die zvvay Colonnen Corinthia und Composita sampt jren podien basen cornicen capitellen architraben phrisen und coronamenten: Iede inn vier manieren ghezieret und getailet zu mehrer zierd und schoene. Gezogen auß den berumpten Architecten Vitruuio Sampt noch anderen zierden dar zu dienlich den Malern Bildhavvern Stainmet- zen Schreinren Glaesern und sunst allen Liebhabren zu gutem.Antwerp: Volcxken Diericx ca. 1578-1581 Folio: 40 etched plates: 18 in the first volume in 3 sequences of 6 and 22 in the second. Without title pages see below. All plates in both series in first state.Two complete suites of plates without letterpress title-pages The titles above are taken from the first editions of 1565. The two editions of "Das Erst Buch" published by Cock's widow Volcxken Diericx in 1578 and 1581 were issued without title pages. And although her editions of "Das ander Buech" did have title pages these are often absent in extant copies where both works are found together. There is the possibility that these plates are from Cock's earlier editions but less likely.The plates in the first volume are marked A through S; some are signed in the plate by Cock. They depict architectural details floral elements grotesques etc. of columns Doric and Ionic in the first set Composite and Corinthian in the second bases and entablatures. These series mark the elevation of Vredeman the draftsman to the prominence heretofore enjoyed by his publishers Cock and Jode in his print projects.Two books by Jan Vredeman de Vries containing a great many etchings of columns and their details but without explanatory text preceded the 1577 book on architecture. In 1565 'Den Eersten Boeck' dealing with the Doric and Ionic orders came out at Hieronymus Cock's publishing house in Antwerp. 'Das ander Buech' on the Corinthian and composite orders came out the same year."Lombaerde Volcxken Diericx ca. 1525-1600In 1556 Hieronymus Cock and his wife Volcxken Diericx had established what was to become one of the most successful printing houses of the 16th century Aux Quatre Vents. Between 1557 and 1565 the firm published Vredeman's series exclusively and continued to print editions of his works to the end of the century. After Cock's death in 1570 Volcxken Diericx ran the Quatre Vents for thirty more years far longer than her husband and it is to her that we owe the preservation of 1604 of the plates. That she was a central figure is revealed in the firm's slogan: "Let the rooster "Cock" cook what the people "volcx" want.""Diericx jointly ran the business from the outset. Although she is a remarkable figure in the 16th-century cultural history of the Low Countries she has tended to be overshadowed by her husband. Her precise duties are unclear but are likely to have included working in the shop and selling prints as shown in an engraving from 1560. After Cock's death on 3 October 1570 she firmly guided the publishing house for some thirty years through the most turbulent period in Antwerp's history including the sack of the city by Spanish troops in 1576."Jan Van der Stock in Hieronymus Cock: The Renaissance in Print 2013Hollstein Dutch & Flemish XLVII 183-200 & 201-222.Bound with:Architectural Fantasy4. Dietterlin Wendel ca. 1550-1599Architectura de constitutione symetria ac proportione quinuqe columnarum. Nuremberg: Balthasar Caymox 1598Folio: 209 lvs. of 210 lacking the colophon leaf comprising 5 engraved title pages 5 lvs. of text re-margined presumably at the time of binding and 199 etched plates including divisional titles. Plate 6 is repeated. The engraved folio numbers that go up to 209 include the letterpress leaves main title portrait and divisional titles. The verso of the general title re-margined at an early date has an engraved portrait of the author which is usually printed on a separate sheet.ENLARGED SECOND EDITION of both parts. The first part appeared at Stuttgart in 1593 the second at Strasbourg in 1594. The text of this copy is in Latin and French. A German edition appeared in the same year. A complete set these beautiful and fantastic plates by the painter draftsman and architectural theorist Wendel Dietterlin whose achievements include the famed now destroyed ceiling for the upper room of the Lusthaus at Stuttgart."The book is organized around the five orders of architecture primarily expressed in the columns of a building and the entablature architrave frieze cornice which rests upon them. But these orders are also the basis for all other decorative elements of the building and complex sets of rules have been developed around them."It must be emphasized that Dietterlin's orders have only a blurred resemblance to the classical orders based on Vitruvius developed in the Renaissance by Vignola Serlio Palladio and others and propagated in Germany by the Swiss Hans Blum. For Dietterlin the five orders are merely a take-off point or framework for his ungovernable imaginative flights. The weirdest and richest forms are invented the most varied effects of light shade and perspective are introduced; animal and plant ornaments proliferate over the basic architectural elements. Only occasional touches remind the viewer that these are meant to be let us say Doric or Ionic. They are decorations no artisan could ever have realized. They turn into an overwhelming confusing and enchanting play of fantasy. Included are chimneys door frames portals fountains tombs and monuments. The German High Baroque is forcefully anticipated; the magic of the late Gothic style is still conjured up in several plates; some designs are derived from the late Italian Renaissance; some are purely personal phantasies. Some seems as if they were meant for stage designs although of course they are not. A 'Doric' kitchen interior turns into a glutton's nightmare; a 'Tuscan' stove into an elephant; and the door in the concluding plate leads to the triumph of death – the symbolic Finis for the work of a genius who in the words of his dedication considered life miserable and dreary but art as a source of pleasure and grace"PlazekMillard III Northern European Books 29; Avery's Choice 47; See Fowler 105 for a copy also lacking the colophon of the 1598 German edition.Bound withFantastic Grotesques5. Floris de Vriendt Cornelius II before 1514-1575Veelderley niewe inventien van antycksche sepultueren: Diemen nou zeere ghebruvkonde is met noch zeer fraeye grotissen en compertimenten zeer beqwame voer beeltsniders antycksniders schilders en alle constenaers ; libro secundoManuscript title in French: Diverses figures et pourtraicts de grottesques Compartimens et Sepultures antiques usitees au temps present: fort utiles por tous Tailleurs d'images Peinctres etc. Inventees pr C. Floris. Impremees par Jéromme Cock Antwerp: Hieronymus Cock 1557Folio: Title with central section pasted over with a piece of paper on which is written a French title and imprint and 15 unnumbered etched plates showing fantastic decorations and funerary monuments. Published by Cock and etched by Jan and Lucas van Doetecum. The book is styled "Libro Secundo" due to the publication a year prior of another set of plates on similar themes.FIRST EDITION of Cornelis Floris' suite of extraordinary grotesque decorations and designs for tombs. Very fine with just a few light stains. A few of the nude figures have been adorned with delicate diaphanous blouses and floral arrangements in ink.In the 16th century The Netherlands developed its own version of the grotesque characterized by heavy three-dimensional forms. Cornelis Floris pioneered the style in Antwerp inspired by a visit to Rome in 1538. An architect as well as a sculptor Floris populated this superstructure with satyrs caryatids terms and masks. Some of his favorite devices are also visible--string birds with string holes and figures enclosed by straps. In the upper cavity smoke trails from Vulcan's forge."Etched by the brothers Jan act. 1551-1606 and Lucas van Doetecum 1510-1570 after Floris' designs these plates demonstrate the power of the Doetecums' distinctive technique which produced "a smooth gradation of tone varying the weight of lines by both variable biting and the use of échoppe. Their technique chiefly consists in the subjection of etched lines to a rigid system and the supplementing of etching with a larger or smaller amount of burin work. It is very likely that Hieronymus Cock himself had instructed the Van Doetecum brothers because he was the only Netherlandish etcher at the time to make extensive use of variable biting. But the Doetecums' use of the method to produce variation in the weight of a single line is unprecedented. Their technique was especially successful at landscape prints and maps. Their even tightly controlled line also suited their other works such as architectural and ornamental prints."New HollsteinCornelis Floris II or Floris de Vriendt was born in Antwerp and made his name as a designer and sculptor of funerary monuments notably those of King Christian III reigned 1535–59 of Denmark in Roskilde Cathedral c. 1568–75 that commissioned c.1549 by Duke Albrecht I of Prussia reigned 1525–68 for his wife Dorothea with additions for his second wife Anna Maria c.1570 and that for the Duke himself 1569–73—destroyed the last in the Domkirche Königsberg now Kaliningrad. After a visit to Rome he became the most influential designer of Renaissance and Mannerist ornament in Flanders. Floris designed and made the Rood-screen in Tournai Cathedral 1573–4 and the stone tabernacle in the St Leonarduskerk Zoutleeuw 1550–2 both in Belgium. His decorative style was much disseminated by de Vries influenced designers in the northern Netherlands and his monuments were made familiar by the engravings published 1557 by Hieronymus Cock c. 1510–70. His work was typical of Antwerp Mannerism."New Hollstein Van Doetecum Part I The Antwerp Years 35-50; See Hollstein Dutch & Flemish VI p. 250.Bound with:Gates Portals Furniture6. Vredeman de Vries Jan 1527- ca. 1607; Galle Philippe 1537-1612Differents pourtraicts de menuiserie asçauoir Portaux Bancs Escabelles Tables buffets friezes ou corniches licts-de camp ornaments a pendre l'essuoir a mains fontaines a lauer les mains. Propre aux Menuiziers et autres amateurs de telle science. De l'inuention de Jehan Vredeman dict de Vriese et mis en lumiere par Philippe Galle.Antwerp: ca. 1583Etched title and 16 etched plates of ornate gates portals furniture. Plate 4 in first state of three all others in first and sole state. These plates were engraved and presumably published by the important publisher designer and engraver Philippe Galle.Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Vredeman de Vries XLVIII 491-507Bound with: A Rare Series of Engraved Pilasters7. Munting also Muntinck Heinrich; Munting also Muntinck Adriaen active 1570-1617Etliche zierliche und underscheidliche Termen . gar dientlich vor Schreinwerkren Bilthawren Stainmetzen Glesern und allen Liebhebren der ArchitectureManuscript title in French: Divers beaus termes dresses sur l'ordre des 5. Colonnes… Inventez par Henry Munting. Taillez et Imprimez par Adrian Munting. 1604.Amsterdam: Adriaen Munting 160411 plates including title numbered 1-11 all mounted on larger sheets. Title plate 1 within an engraved border signed the printed portion excised and replaced in manuscript. Plates 2-11 show various ornate engaged pilasters with capitals based on the architectural orders. Unlike the Rijksmuseum copy and the set recorded in Hollstein which have 9 plates each this copy has 11 plates the last two of which have human heads or helmets in place of traditional column capitals. Also while the Rijksmuseum copy has "Clement de Jong Excudit" on the first plate ours has "Michiel Colyn Excudit". This is an extremely rare set of prints. The engraver and Goldsmith Adriaen Munting of Groningen was active in Amsterdam between 1570 and 1617.Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum II: the 17th century 9564-9574; See Hollstein Dutch & Flemish XIV p. 118 suite of 9 plates 'Columns'. various printers, 1557- books
2414New York: The Architectural Book Publishing Co. 1923. First edition Folio 212 pages bound in original blue cloth with gilt spine titles. A most impressive study of the architectural firm of Mellor Meigs & Howe with photographic images as well as architectural drawings of some of their most important commissions. The preface was written by Owen Wister in praise of the mission of the architects of this prestigious concern to allow "life to determine the character of a building". This particular volume is concerned primarily with residential and farm buildings displaying the firm's dedication to standing against the commercialization of art and architecture by applying the deepest philosophical and aesthetic elements of the Arts and Crafts movement. Indeed the influence of the British architectural principles seen in the work of Bailey Scott Philip Webb and others is in keen evidence. The book retains its original dust wrapper exhibiting some light wear but complete and bright. This title has been reprinted but the new version is a sad representative of this substantial handsome work. Quite scarce in this condition. hardcover books
000644FarrarStraus&Giroux 1990 Book. As New. Signed by Authors. F. As New. First Trade. Presentation By Illustrator. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0-374-46204-6. Farrar,Straus&Giroux, 1990 unknown books
175320316London: C. and J. Ackers 1753. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 11.25 x`9.25 inches pp 14 v 78 1 ad with 13 leaves of plates one folding. Illustrations engraved by Pierre Fourdrinier after Francis Price. Contemporary calf boards rebacked with new spine with raised bands original black leather spine label. Armorial bookplate of British civil engineer and architect W.C. Mylne 1781-1863 on front pastedown. Boards show moderate scuffing and general wear rear board has staining to the lower quadrant near the spine. Binding sound text and plates very clean though slightly rippled. Price was an architectural surveyor who held the position of "surveyor and clerk of the fabric of Salisbury Cathedral" for seventeen years. This was one of the first serious architectural studies of a Gothic building. C. and J. Ackers hardcover books
193127077Northford CT: Sol's Path 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Cloth spine over boards. 52 pp. With numerous black and white photographs of the interior and exterior of a New England house that has sheltered eight generations. Faint sunning to board edges. A handsome very good copy. Minor corner wear. Sol's Path hardcover books
257400New York: New York State Office of Parks and Recreation. Spiral Bound. Very Good binding. Rubbing to front cover; no markings in text; illustrated throughout with fold out plans. Very Good binding. New York State Office of Parks and Recreation unknown books
184331210Rugeley: John Thomas Walters 1843. 1st edition. Later light orange paper wrappers. Wrappers starting to detach otherwise VG. 25 1 blank pp. 7 plates inserted after text. 8vo. <br/><br/> John Thomas Walters unknown books
1965231909Ottawa: National Research Council Canada Division of Building Research 1965. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Illustrations; Previous owner's name written on front paste-down. No pencil or ink markings evident in text. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering. Light to moderate edgewear to boards with heaviest wear at head and tail of spine. Creasing at top corner area of front board; NOT Ex-Library. near Very Good binding. National Research Council Canada, Division of Building Research unknown books
1983872Harvard UP 1983. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Illus. Designing in Islamic Cultures #3. Proceedings of the 3rd seminar. <br/><br/> Harvard UP paperback books
199111074London and New York: Academy Editions & St Martins Press 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First edition. Quarto. Nice monograph on this architectural firm. Introduction by Peter Blundell-Jones. 176 pp. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Near fine clean copy in near fineunclipped dustwrapper. <br/><br/> Academy Editions & St Martins Press hardcover books
199115789Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press 1991. First edition. Cloth. Very Good /very good . 4to. 300 pp. Illustrated primarily in full color. Introduction by Diane Ghirardo and with extended essay by Karen Stein and a separate essay by Aldo Rossi. A clean very good plus copy in blue cloth binding in attractive unclipped dustwrapper. Monograph. INSCRIBED by Stein on the title page. A large annd heavy volume. <br/><br/> Princeton Architectural Press hardcover books
1996008373Cambridge: MIT Press 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine first edition. Book analyzes nearly 400 architectural books and articles published over the past century and a half to reveal changing societal preferences in architecture. This copy INSCRIBED by Bonta to architectural historian William J. Jordy. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> MIT Press hardcover books
198525899Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Small hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 193 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs plus some diagrams. The book studies the European roots of American log architecture. A lovely fine copy in dustwrapper. University of North Carolina Press hardcover books
1990222757Buchan Laird International Pty 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket is protected in a mylar cover; no marks of any kind. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Buchan Laird International Pty unknown books
1916List1025Siberia Petrograd et al. 1916. First Edition. Various documents and letters most legal format roughly 200 pages in total with three publications and several newspapers on the subject and thirteen hand drawn architectural plans for a new camp at Omsk measuring between 25 x 17 and 13 x 8 inches. During World War One a staggering number of prisoners - roughly 2.4 of the five million in total who were sent to the Eastern Front - ended up as prisoners of war in Russia. Of that number roughly two million were from Austria-Hungary. Though often neglected by historians due to the attention given to the Russian Civil War and the atrocities of World War Two the subject has drawn increased historical interest with the historian Gerald H. Davis and others calling attention to its importance in the 1980s. Davis and others have written on the relationship between the large prisoner population and the dissolution of their nations as well as the abhorrent conditions many were forced to endure partially due to hierarchical structure of treatment due to differing attitudes by their Russian hosts toward different nations and ethnicities and partially due to the lack of appropriate infrastructure and resources to support such a large prisoner population. <br /> <br /> Offered here are the papers of Herbert H.D. Pierce the Special Aide to Embassador George T. Marye in Petrograd containing a substantial amount of firsthand accounts of prison conditions from the early years of the war as well as a striking series of manuscript architectural plans for a new prison camp that was built in Omsk. Pierce a diplomat who was most famously involved with a case involving seal fishing in the Berings Strait was appointed as a Special Aide out of his retirement and served until his death in 1916. It is possible that he was assigned the task of dealing with the prisoner of war situation as nearly all of his papers that we recovered from his estate from this period deal with the subject. Pierce was involved specifically with the disbursal of relief funds received from the German and Austro-Hungarian governments that were to be disbursed to their citizens. <br /> <br /> The highlight of the collection is a series of hand drawn architectural plans for a series of POW camp structures in Omsk bearing the signature of a N. Alexandrow architect. It is unclear what Pierce's exact relationship was to this project. The plans are translated into English in ink. Of particular interest are the separate officers' barracks plans as one of the violations of POW laws in Russia was the varying levels of treatment given to different prisoners in particular in their recognition of German and Austro-Hungarian ranking officers. There were twenty-eight prison camps in Omsk this one is not identified specifically. The Siberian camps often held up to 35000 prisoners this one shows plans for 10000. There were 128 camps in the Moscow region where camps typically housed 2000-5000 prisoners. The conditions of the camps were generally abysmal with camp capacities routinely exceeded by roughly 50-100%. Frequent disease outbreaks killed thousands of prisoners during the conflict in Omsk Novo-Nikolaevsk Sretensk and Totskoe specifically. <br /> <br /> The group includes letters written to Marye describing conditions in the camps as well as reports of the Americans' own observations in Siberia Moscow and elsewhere. Most are in English though several original documents in German are included. Also included are Pierce's working copies of the Second Hague Convention guidelines of 1907 Order 697 of the War Department that established the regulations regarding prisoners of war in 1914 and a copy of the agreement made between Germany and Russia in August of 1914 which allowed for all women and all men over 45 years and younger than 17 to leave the country unheeded. Some of the letters document violations of this agreement for example a fifty-five year old Austrian man writing to the embassy stating that he had been detained. The authorship of some of the reports is often unclear - one report is credited to "A Russian Lady" another from Krasnaya-Ratchka near Khabaraovsk is an uncredited 18 page description of prisoner conditions. One uncredited report nineteen pages long on the conditions of prisoners in the Moscow Circuit may have been written by Pierce himself and is addressed to Marye. Another 44 page report on Siberian prison conditions is uncredited and likely produced by the embassy itself. A portion - perhaps 25% or so - of the reports are incomplete or unclear in origin though there is much to glean from them regardless. <br /> <br /> Also included are three printed publications. The first is entitled Rapport du Conseiller Prive E.G. Chinkevitch Membre du Comte special de secours aux prisonniers de guerre sur la visite des camps des prissoniers Austro-Hongrois dans l'arrondissement militair d'Omsk printed in 1915. OCLC locates a single copy in France. The report outlines the observed conditions and includes twenty-six photographs of prisoners. The second is a forty-three page report addressed to James Gerard the American ambassador in Berlin by an unidentified author which outlines the prisoner of war conditions in England written in February of 1915. The third is a scarce map of Russian prisoner of war camps printed by L. Friederichsen in Hamburg in 1915 entitled Karte vom Europäischen und Asiatischen Russland mit Angabe der hauptsächlichsten Orte in denen sich Kriegsgefangene und zurückgehaltene Zivilpersonen befinden sowie mit Bestimmungen über den Postverkehr nach diesen Orten. The map shows locations of prison camps throughout the Russian Empire and also shows the mail routes. It is in fine condition overall and we locate six copies in OCLC. <br /> <br /> Overall a scarce survival of primary source material on a somewhat overlooked but important period in Russian history with relevance to diplomatic historians as well worthy of further study. <br /> <br /> Works cited: <br /> <br /> Grekov N. V.: Germanskie i avstriiskie plennye v Sibiri 1914-1917 German and Austrian prisoners in Siberia 1914-1917 in: Vibe P. P. ed.: Nemtsy. Rossiia. Sibir' Germans. Russia. Siberia Omsk 1997 p. 159.<br /> <br /> Nachtigal Reinhard: Seuchen unter militärischer Aufsicht in Rußland. Das Lager Tockoe als Beispiel für die Behandlung der Kriegsgefangenen 1915/16 in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 48/3 2000 pp. 367-368; Brändström Kriegsgefangenen 1922 pp. 41-48.<br /> <br /> Nachtigal Reinhard; Radauer Lena: Prisoners of War Russian Empire. In: 1914-1918 Online. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/prisoners_of_war_russian_empire Accessed 5/21. unknown books
190144208London: George Bell & Sons 1901. Green cloth stamped in black elaborate scrollwork decoration stamped in relief. Worn and lightly soiled; slight bowing to front board; light foxing to eps; gutter break at half-title. Good. 6 91 7 pp. B/w frontis intratextual photographic images floor plan and map. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/8" <br/><br/>Bell's Cathedral Series. George Bell & Sons hardcover books
