Cemetery buildings at Lowestoft, Suffolk with symmetrical frontage by William Doubleday (1885)Biblio.com
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1885633461Building News London 1885. Unframed Print. Very Good Condition. A double sheet print image area approx. 28 x 38 cms. The illustrations found in leading architectural journals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries such as The Builder Building News and The Architect are masterpieces of visual craftsmanship. These illustrations capture the elegance intricacy and stylistic flair of the period's architecture. Rich in ornamental detail and atmospheric depth they reflect not only the buildings themselves but the artistic sensibilities and design discourse of their age. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL PAGE FROM THE JOURNAL PRINTED AT THE DATE SHOWN IN THE TITLE NOT A REPRINT OR COPY. Category: Builder & Building News; Unframed Prints : Old; Vintage Prints. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Building News unknown
1892622140The Builder London 1892. Unframed Print. Very Good Condition. A double sheet and four single sheet prints image areas approx. 18 x 28 cms and 28 x 38 cms. From The Builder journal. Note; this is an original item separated from the volume not a reprint or copy. The Builder a prominent architectural and building periodical holds immense significance. It serves as a valuable resource for understanding the architectural debates delving into the histories of specific buildings and exploring broader discussions related to the social upheavals triggered by rapid industrialization and urban expansion. Category: Builder & Building News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. The Builder unknown
1898621374The Builder London 1898. Unframed Print. Very Good Condition. A double sheet print image area approx. 28 x 38 cms. This is an original page from The Builder journal. Note; this is an original item separated from the volume not a reprint or copy. The Builder a prominent architectural and building periodical holds immense significance. It serves as a valuable resource for understanding the architectural debates delving into the histories of specific buildings and exploring broader discussions related to the social upheavals triggered by rapid industrialization and urban expansion. Category: Builder & Building News; New Arrivals; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. The Builder unknown
185448328Zürich Meyer und Zeller 1854- 1879. 4to. Contemporary halfcalf. Gilt spine gilt letterinf. Fronthinge weakening. 1. Bericht title without year: pp. 66- 100 - 2.: pp. 110- 155 - 3.: X73- 116 - 4.: 342 pp. - 5.: 4131- 188 pp. - 6.: VIII245- 320 pp. - 7.: 24692XII2 pp. - 8.: VIII58 pp. and 85 lithographed plates each with numerous illustr. 2 views complete. Siebenter berich has 2 titlepages the first: "Résultat des Recherches exécutées dans les Lacs de la Suisse Occidentale depuis l'année 1866 decrit par V. Gross F.-A. Forel et Edm. de Fellenberg". The second: "Pfahlbauten. Siebenter Bericht. Von Ferdinand Keller". A few minor brownspots internally clean.The work was published in "Mittheilungen der antiquarischen Gesellschaft in Zürich" Bde IXXIIXIIIXIV.XVXIX a. XX. The work has successively belong to three well-known Danish archaeologist: Georg Sarauw Axel Steensberg and J. Troels-Smith with their names on front free endpaper.Troels-Smith is internatonally known as one of the pioneers in Pollen Analysis especially with his work "Pollenanalytische Untersuchungen zu einigen Schweizerischen Pfahlbauproblemen" founded on his excavations on the "Pfahlbauten". <br/><br/><em>First edition of this pioneer work in Swiss archaeology exposing in a long series of reports his finds in the Swiss lakes the Swiss lake Dwellings - describing the Swiss "Urbevölkerung" with their Stake Buildings and the rich finds around these in the Swiss lakes. </em> unknown
1862049EV1Government Printing Office Washington DC: . 1862 133 p. 8vo. 225 mm. Disbound. Very Good. 37th Congress 2d Session. House. Report. 137. Includes also: Report of the Commissioner of Public Buildings 1854 U.S. Office of Public Buildings./ Submitted by Mr. Sargent. Laid on the table and ordered printed July 10 1862. A wonderful accounting of the: architecture; construction work; and costs of the U.S. Treasury Building and the U.S. Capitol. We note that laborers were paid under $1.25 per day; teamsters $1.33 per day; and the Engineer $2.00 per day. Brick and stone masons and cutters could earn as much as $2.50 per day. Documents such as this deserve more study by economic and social historians. GEOLOGY 2. (Government Printing Office, Washington, DC: ). unknown
18350009264London: John Weale Architectural Library 1835 / 1836. First edition. Good. 8vo 476 pages plates marginal tear in leaf 169/170; full polished calf extra-gilt spine extremities worn. Note: attempted collation but very complicated despite lengthy mixed-up descriptons in the text and duplicate numberes on different plates. The title-page is dated 1835; the engraved frontispiece is dated 1836; AND another third title-page is 1836 - but with a variant title !! <br/><br/>Embracing Account and Illustrations of St. Stephen's Chapel and its Cloisters . Westminster Hall . The Court of Requests . The Painted Chamber &c &c. This work was inspired by the burning of the Houses of Parliament in 1834. It is illustrated with 48 engravings - 8 more and 100 pages more than promised to their subscribers. John Weale, Architectural Library unknown
1900250301Chicago: Illinois Theatre 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Good minus. Octavo; 45 xvi pages soiled cream cloth a.e.g. <br/><br/>Less than six weeks after Chicago's grandest new theater the Iroquois opened it burned to the ground due to flagrant safety violations and corruption. More than 600 died in America's worst theater disaster. It resulted in new codes requiring outward-opening safety doors. This hardcover book appeared before the opening performance. It relates a history of the theatres in Chicago by Charles E. Nixon; tells why this magnificent venue was built and how with illustrations of the theatre plans and interiors and furnishings. "The Iroquois . will impress even the most superficial observer by its beauty and grandeur . The style architecturally is French renaissance which has a strong suggestion of the classic. designed by architect Benjamin H. Marshall ." Illustrated and with plates of posters and of the builders and equipment suppliers to the theatre. Illinois Theatre hardcover
1854189965Washington D. C.: A.O.P. Nicholson Printer 1854. Hardcover. Good heavy shelfwear to covers cloth spine torn foxing spots and age toning. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering textured stamped design; unpaginated 44 maps and plans many of them folded. Contents: Illustrations accompanying the report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office -- Illustrations accompanying the report of the Commissioner of Public Buildings -- Illustration accompanying the report on the National Hospital for the Insane -- Illustrations accompanying the report of the Colonel of Topographical Engineers -- Illustration accompanying the report of the Chief of Ordnance and Hydrography. "December 4 1854. Read and ordered to be printed; and that 10000 copies in addition to the usual number be printed for the use of the Senate."- title page. A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer hardcover
18880005137Chicago: People's Publishing Co. 1888 circa. New edition. Pictorial Cloth. Good. Steel Engravings and woodcuts. 4to 649 pages recased original covers with new endpapers blue ink stain on bottom edge all edges gilt extremities worn. Uncommon. <br/><br/>"Picturesque Ireland' is designed to embrace and present all the best and most striking features of preceding works on the subject .with hundreds of other views from recent photographs and drawings especially engraved for this work. . In this work every county in Ireland will be noticed and the remarkable features of each illustrated." Each county map is in colour. Steel Engravings and woodcuts. People's Publishing Co. hardcover
18460008413London: Richard Bentley 1846. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Steel Engravings and woodcuts. 8vo; ix 437 pages contemporary 3/4 brown morocco marbled papers rubbed extremities tight all edges gilt <br/><br/>10 steel Engravings and 19 wood engravings. Nathaniel Armstrong Wells was a high-born wealthy man of mixed parentage: three-fourths European one quarter African. Richard Bentley hardcover
188059333No. place no date ca. 1880. Imperial folio. 72 x 495 cm. Contemp. full cloth. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper cover. Containing 9 double-folio plates printed in blue each measuring 70 x 94 cm. hardcover
1896DEMO015047ILondon: Macmillan 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 30 plates 87 engravings. Small 4to 259 pages original beige cloth partially rebacked with new endpapers <br/><br/>Gardner was the Oxford professor of classical archeology and art. Includes pre-historic Greece the Athenian era etc. Illustrated with 30 plates 87 engravings. Macmillan hardcover
18931908200047Philadelphia : Burke & McFetridge Co 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering and bridge on front. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean unmarked pages. 108 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. All edges gilt. Numerous illustrations photographs and ads related to Philadelphia and railroads. Text includes a history of the Association; an interesting essay on the "origin and progress of architecture and building" by George W. Andrews; and an essay on "Associations as an educational factor." Illustrates a number of Philadelphia buildings and gives their architects. Philadelphia : Burke & McFetridge Co hardcover
1866230513New York: John Wiley & Son 1866. New Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mos terra-cotta cloth bevelled edges tips of spines worn <br/><br/>With illustrations drawn by the author. A classic work a classic study of Venice and its architecture. Illustrations on wood. John Wiley & Son hardcover
1891DEMO014105IPhiladelphia: John Y. Huber 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 53 inserted portraits. Quarto 745 pages blue cloth repaired hinge some internal cracking unopened; ex libris Frank D. Kellogg. <br/><br/>In addition to a comprehensive history this work incorporates nearly 200pp. of the Proceedings of the Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Organization of the U.S. Supreme Court. It includes the remarks by Chief Justice Melville Fuller and Justices Field & Harlan. Grover Cleveland spoke and chaired the Executive Committee. Etched portraits by Albert & Max Rosenthal. 53 inserted portraits. Author Carson became Attorney General of Pennsylvania. John Y. Huber hardcover
