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1939306832<p>First edition. 4to. Original brown cloth stamped in yellow. Dust jacket unclipped; slight edgewear; short tear front panel. Very good. 56 pages 22 pages of b/w halftone photographs at end. Signed and inscribed by Wright on the front free endpaper: "To 'Alec with an apology' - Frank." Sweeney 463. Provenance: John Howell Books San Francisco May 21 1966 according to previous owner.</p> Lund Humphries & Co. hardcover books
1943290013Baltimore Md: Anchor Post Fence Company 1943. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. A 32 page catalog issued by the Anchor Post Fence Company; illustrated throughout with halftone ilustrations and drawings of attractive fencing options mostly two to a page. Illustrations and text with a green border on each page. Some light foxing almost entirely limited to the printed wrappers. An uncommon trade catalog dated from a laid-in letter from the company sending the catalog. Laid in as well is an information blank from the company to be filled in if requesting an estimate. Very Good binding. Anchor Post Fence Company unknown books
1948007372NY: Creative Arts Press 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/VG. Very nice copy top a wee dusty firmly bound in dw w/ tanned spine a sliver of loss top of it. Inscribed by author on half title: "All good fortune/ to you and your house/ Jim Reynolds Creative Arts Press hardcover books
19848030Asheville NC: Friends of Anthony Lord / The Asheville Art Museum 1984. First Edition First Printing. Paperback. Near fine in pictorial staple-bound wrappers. Some light spotting to covers. Thin oblong quarto. 19 3 pp. Photograph of of Anthony Lord by Doris Ulmann reproduced on title page; illustrated throughout with black & white reproductions. <br/><br/> (Friends of Anthony Lord / The Asheville Art Museum) paperback books
199430919New York: Rizzoli 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 4to. 232 pp. Fine copy of this monograph compiled by Brad Collins and Juliette Robbins. Near Fine dustwrapper. A large and heavy volume. Rizzoli hardcover books
199215402Japan: Toto 1992. First edition. Paperback. Fine/near fine. Wide quarto in slipcase. 173 pp. Text in English and Japanese. With separate booklet of text in Japanese laid in. One very small blemish to top of spine else a fine copy in wide bound photographic wrappers with wide French folds. Comes in printed cardboard slipcover. Scarce book of photographs by Inakoshi of buildings designed by Kurokawa. Art Direction by Shin Matsunaga. A large and heavy volume. <br/><br/> Toto paperback books
199416768Cambridge: MIT Press 1994. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Large paperbound quarto. 219 pp. Published as Perspecta 28 of the Yale Architectural Journal. Profusely illustrated. A very good copy in thick bound printed wrappers. Neat ownership stamp to front endpaper. Please note: this is a large and heavy volume. <br/><br/> MIT Press paperback books
193812192New York and Tokyo: Architectural Forum & Seisho-Kwan 4 1938. Second edition. Cloth. Very Good . Stated second printing of this book of interior and exterior residential architectural drawings and photographs. 4to. 116 pp. Brief text in English. A well preserved copy spiral bound with burlap covers. Architectural Forum & Seisho-Kwan 4 unknown books
267789New York: Helburn. hardcover. good. 52 black & white plates of plans elevations and details some marginal finger smudging; several plates torn and crudely taped on rear. Folio 1/2 leather edgeworn; spine ends chipped and repaired. New York: Wm. Helburn no date circa 1890.<br/><br/> Helburn unknown books
184987130London: John Henry Parker 1849. hardcover. very good. Engraved frontispiece and numerous engravings and floor plans throughout rubricated chapter headings 283pp. thick 8vo original blind stamped red cloth; hinges weak floor plan on p.124 lightly water-stained. London: John Henry Parker 1849. Very good.<br/><br/> John Henry Parker unknown books
187018204probably English 1870. 1 vols. Matted within the shape of a pointed arch 9 x 10-1/2 inches in a contemporary frame 16 x 17-1/2 inches overall. 1 vols. Matted within the shape of a pointed arch 9 x 10-1/2 inches in a contemporary frame 16 x 17-1/2 inches overall. Fine Victorian Architectural Watercolor. A skillful rendering most likely professional of a portion of a building probably a school or similar institution. unknown books
12412ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE OF INDIA. N.P.: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting 1956. Small folio. Wrapper Frontispiece vi pages 19 plates. First edition. Photographs showing the sculpture and construction of Indian monuments. Worn. unknown books
200541444New Haven:: Yale University Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0300106866 . Black and white photographs throughout. First edition. As new in like dust jacket. . Yale University Press, hardcover books
30243PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE. ARCHITECTURE AND THE UNIVERSITY. Princeton: School of Architecture 1954. 8vo. Cloth spine boards. vi 72 pages. First and only edition. Scarce item. "Proceedings of a conference held at Princeton University Decem eleventh and twelfth nineteen hundred fifty-three." A series of reports presented on the state of architecture as a profession and study by leading architects and professors in the field. Front cover partially sunned else v good. unknown books
1626123538Thick folio in 6s. Paris: Chez Regnauld Chaudiere. 1626. Thick folio in 6s complete with 348 i.e. 350 leaves. Title vignette printer's device and over 160 woodcut illustrations in-text and on folding leaves. Numerous ornamental initials head and tail-pieces. Numerous errors in numbering of the leaves. A handful of paper repairs to worming holes; one partially repaired tear on leaf 207. Old reversed calf quite worn backstrip once richly gilt with red morocco label now rather dull crown and foot of backstrip and joints repaired. § The influential and extensively illustrated treatise by French Renaissance architect Philibert de l'Orme one of the first in the trade to insist that architects needed both formal training and practical experience. This edition not in Fowler but mentioned in the entry for the 1648 edition p.82. In this edition as in that of 1648 the two books of the Nouvelles inventions have been added to the nine original books as Books X and XI. Fowler notes: "Of the three leading early French architectural writers de l'Orme is the most interesting and original. De L'Orme has been called the first modern architect." Hugh Pagan notes of his copy of the first edition 1567: "one of the most extensive architectural treatises of the renaissance period. Its author Philibert de l'Orme 1514-1570 having studied in Rome in the 1530s worked as an architect successively for François I Henri II and Charles IX of France but his most famous building was the Château d'Anet designed and built by him for Henri II's mistress Diane de Poitiers between 1547 and 1552. In the present book he begins by discussing architecture in general and the qualities needed in an architect and then turns first to building materials and construction and then to the classical orders of architecture including a French order of his own invention. The book concludes with a section devoted to chimneys and with some final remarks on architecture in general including well-known woodcut illustrations of the bad architect f.281 and the good architect f.283." In this copy an early reader has charitably drawn eyes and a single rather shaky hand for the bad architect. Chez Regnauld Chaudiere.. unknown books
201128824Milano: Silvana Editoriale 2011. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Thick wide paperbound quarto. 267 pp. Text in Italian and German by Carlo Bertelli Botta Lionello Pappi and others. Profusely illustrated retrospective on this world-renowned architect. Some faint dampstaining to a few pages at rear of volume. Otherwise a sound very good copy. Quite heavy. Silvana Editoriale paperback books
WN56045Authors Beige cloth with gilt lettering' Book and pictorial dust jacket are fine. According to a laid-in letter in Englsish the book is an introductory survey of Chinese Traditional Garden Art and Temples in Changde China done by the Department of Architecture Tianjin University. The book is entirely in Chinese. The many photographs and drawings are beautifully done. . Cloth. Fine/Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Trade. Authors Hardcover books
197130025New York: Viking Press 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Tall wide hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 288 pp. Profusely illustrated in both color and black and white. A history of wood building & Iits techniques in Europe and North America A quite handsome near fine copy in clipped but otherwise near fine dustwrapper. A very large and heavy book. Additionl shipping charges may apply. Viking Press hardcover books
1973WRCLIT81116New York: Informat Publishing 1973. 986pp. Large quarto. Typographically decorated wrappers. Photographs and renderings some in color. Edited by Peter Blake. Very good to near fine. Informat Publishing unknown books
199523999New York: Peter Blum Edition 1995. Second edition. Cloth. Near Fine/very good. Stated second edition of this oversized volume of photographs by Ruff with texts by Steven Holl Hans Kollhoff Rem Koolhaas Eduardo Souto de Moura and Theodora Vischer. Introduction by Terence Riley. Mostly black and white photos with a few tipped on color plates. Bookplate to inside front pastedown else a near fine clothbound copy in very good dustwrapper. A large and heavy volume. Additional shipping charges may apply. Peter Blum Edition unknown books
198330923Fribourg: DVA 1983. First edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Large 4to. 327 pp. Text in German by Claude Mignot. Illustrated with color and b/w photographs. A fine clothbound book in fine dustwrapper. A heavy volume. DVA unknown books
17404004Augsburg:: Andreas Pfeffel 1740. FIRST EDITION. Folio:. 39.5 x 30 cm. 5 folding lvs. 1 letterpress leaf 4 engraved lvs. title dedication frontis. and portrait 50 engraved plates divided into 5 series of 10 plates each. Bound in contemporary German quarter vellum with label “Kupferbuchâ€. The binding has minor wear and there is evidence that these 5 suites of plates were once bound with another work. This is a fine complete copy with only very minor cosmetic blemishes: some light dust soiling to the folds of a few plates scattered finger-soiling to some plate margins blank versos of some plates dusty a few minor marginal tears or marginal creases not affecting the images. Very nice. Bibiena. First edition of this richly illustrated work on architecture and perspective. The finely engraved plates show brilliant baroque compositions for catafalques theatrical scenes a series for the Passion of Christ in elaborate architectural settings and the decoration of the Riding School at Vienna for the marriage of the Archduchess Mariana with Prince Charles of Lorraine. The publication of “Architetture e prospettive†made a major contribution to the modernization of the theater establishing the so-called ‘scena ad angolo’ curved backdrops on Europe’s stages. The second son of the Italian architect Ferdinando Galli Bibiena Giuseppe Galli da Bibiena was to become a distinguished artist and designer of elaborate festivals parties funerals open-air theatrical performances and all manner of ceremony for the Habsburg rulers. He proved himself an excellent illusionistic painter with a deep theoretical understanding of perspective. These attributes coupled with an extraordinary imagination allowed Giuseppe to produce innovative often fantastic imagery. Among his early independent works were decorations for the festivities celebrating the birth of Archduke Leopold of Austria 1716 and an imperial wedding in Munich 1722. In 1727 Emperor Charles V appointed Giuseppe to be “His Majesty's First Theatrical Engineerâ€. Galli Bibiena also designed altars and pulpits for churches constructed a decorative arch in Prague and with his younger brother Antonio designed decorations for theaters. After Charles V’s death Giuseppe served the late monarch’s daughter Maria Theresia. Among his notable achievements in this period Giuseppe transformed the stables at the Hofburg in Vienna into a ballroom for the wedding of Charles Alexander of Lorraine to Marianna of Austria. In 1747 he was commissioned to design Margrave Frederick of Bayreuth’s opera house considered his magnum opus. At the time of his death at Berlin in 1757 Galli Bibiena was in the employ of Peter the Great. “Architetture e prospettive†dedicated to and with a portrait of Charles V was printed in the year of Emperor’s death and at the height of Galli Bibiena’s career. The work is comprised of five series of plates with ten plates each depicting funerary apparatus religious scenery “teatri sacri†and fantastic architectural views. “The range of motifs and views embraces topics that were of great interest at the end of the baroque era such as fantasy-laden reconstructions of classical ruins. In his designs the artist made use of various methods to make the architecture monumental working above all with views from below and cropped sections. In many designs he used the ‘scena ad angolo’ technique and in others in particular for the depiction of festive decorations for imperial ceremonies he used a central perspective as a dignified form… “One of the sets of engravings shows the decoration of the Cavallerizia the riding arena which was transformed in 1744 into a ballroom. The plates were made by Lorenzo Zucchi the engraver at the court of the Elector of Saxony in Dresden. The ‘theatro sacro’ and the stage decorations for the theater festival to mark the marriage of the future Elector of Saxon Frederick Augustus II are also his work. However most of the copperplates are by the imperial printer Andreas Pfeffel d. 1748… “The fusion of architecture and decoration in the two-dimensional medium of drawing is characteristic of Giuseppe Galli Bibiena’s designs… Giuseppe’s father Ferdinando in his book on architecture had also made an attempt to unite painting and architecture from the point of view of perspective using the special art form of scenography. In ‘Architettura e Prospettive’ Galli Bibiena elevated this synthesis of painting architecture and scenography to a form of art in its own right which had its greatest effect in the ‘staging’ of architecture in the service of absolutist power.†Biermann Grönert Jobst and Stewering “Giuseppe Galli Bibiena†in “Architectural Theory from the Renaissance to the Present†p. 156 ff. Fowler 136; Kat. Berlin 4152; not in Millard; not in Vagnetti Andreas Pfeffel, unknown books
196422513Antwerpen: N.p. c. 1964-1969. Some of the tipped in photographs loose from their glue backings and lightly curled appears a final photograph might have been removed else near fine in vinyl album cover with embossing tape lettered labels affixed to front. Album of twenty architectural photographs. Quarto sheets in plastic comb binding. Consists of 9 color and 11 black and white photographs tipped in some now loose from glue. Various sizes ranging from 10 X 8 1/4 inches to 8 1/4 X 6 1/2 inches. Some with pen notations including year either to margin of photograph or directly to page. On the final page in pencil is written "Fans Claeys / Luchbac Antwerpen"; possibly this is the name of the photographer. The images document various mid-century buildings apparently in Belgium. Buildings include two views of an art deco style B.T.M.C. building at night Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company; others appear to be postwar glass and steel curtain wall structures as well as several images of underground highways and industrial warehouses and hangers. Overall a striking collection of Northern European techno-modernism; evokes the Trans-Europ-Express of both Robbe-Grillet and Kraftwerk alike. [Antwerpen: N.p. unknown books
2165As published in a later edition of Antiquae Urbis Splendor orig. 1612-1628. Pl. 74. Engraving. Image: 7 X 9 ¼. Margins: 9 ¼ x 13 ½. Includes the legend below. In fine condition. Giacomo Lauro was a printmaker active in the map and view industry of mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century Rome. unknown books
1986216962Caracas: Armitano 1986. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Illustrated; No pencil or ink markings in text. Decorated cloth binding with brown lettering. Small bumps on book and dust jacket.cover are bumped. DJ protected with Mylar Cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Armitano unknown books
