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Book shows very light scuffing only. Gilt lettering on spine. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. First English Edition. Translated from the Russian by Kathleen Cook. Fascinating account of buildings, secular and sacred, in Northern Russia. Chapters include Transonega, the White Sea Coast, Rivers Svid and Onega, Vologda and Lower Vychegda, the Northern Dvina and Pinega and along the River Mezen. The ubiquitous use of timber is especially interesting. Profusely and beautifully illustrated with full page photographs in colour and b/w. Gold endpapers printed with mediaeval images of builders. Very clean book. 322 pages with table of contents at back. Previous owner's inscription on title page.
Published around 1968, 32 pages, illustrated, map, list of owners. eng
Book is in excellent condition in black cloth with embossed lettering at cover and spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 352 pages with color photos and mechanical drawings throughout. Text is in Japanese and English. Sectons on Structural engineering, construtional technology, intelligent buildings, miniature cities, green buildingsm, poetic space, tale-of-gengi museum , konami nasu corporate seminar house, Keyence Corporation head office and laboratory building, Museum of Ehime History and culture
Published after 1980, 8 pages, cover illustrations, family trees. eng
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Tall format: 6 1/8"w x 13"h. 166 pages. Black and white photos - one to a page, faced with a quotation about New York on the opposite page. Small indentation to about six pages.
xiv, 366 pages. Subject index. Title index. "Will be of interest and use not only to architectural and urban historians and to historic preservationsists, as well as those concerned with various aspects of the local history of New York City." - from page xiv. Usual library markings. Moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound copy. Book
264 pages. Presents an architectural concept whose time has come. Identifies ten different industrial and public building types - everything from barns to churches to warehouses - mostly belonging to what has been called "The Functional Tradition." Describes and illustrates 73 internationally selected examples of recent significant conversion jobs. Does not shy from some of the technical and financial problems involved. Copiously illustrated with over 229 line illustrations and 520 black and white photographs. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Sunning and average wear to dust jacket. Very nice copy overall. Book
1st edition. VG pbk. Parallel English and German text. Photography by Waltraud Krase. ISBN 0847806375. 19469. eng
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 128pp. A study of significant approaches to architecture taken by contemporary architects in Africa including innovations which link the present with the immediate past. Very well illustrated. Scarce in the UK.
20 pages, illustrated, includes an articles on Isle of Wight National Trust properties. eng
68 pages. A collection of uncommon historical pictures and their descriptions. Chapters include: First Peoples; Mining; Other Industries; Transportation; People; Buildings and Services; Recreation; Local Government; Military; Development. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Illustrated brown card covers. An excellent overview of the history of this dynamic city. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 190 pages. Brand new, still in shrinkwrap. This is a book with large format photos of "resident's cum creators" who have devoted all their ingenuity, energy and determination to constructing what they percieve to be the ideal domestic universe, many with fantastic eccentric flair. These include Ludwig II of Bavaria's Linderhof, the Facteur Cheval's Palais Ideal, Hearst Castle, Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village, Salvador Dali's villa in Port Lligat, the Watts Towers, Edward Jame's villa in Mexico, Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta, etc....
215 pages with 396 colour and 187 black and white illustrations. "Discusses the most important trends in modern architecture and, at the same time, documents increasingly intensive exchanges on an international level, portraying outstanding, future-oriented museum buildings and projects from 2000 to 2010 on four continents... A closer look at twenty-six projects, either completed, planned or still under construction provides a broadly based overview of current museum architecture." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
Oblong folio (245 x 320 mm), 12 tinted lithograph isometrical views, and 12 lithograph plans on 11 sheets (of which one sheet has 2 plans), and an additional 8vo coloured lithograph 'Laying out of mixed plantations' bound at the rear, some light dust-soiling but generally clean, orig. publisher's cloth-backed wrappers, the upper wrapper with a printed label 'Morton's Farm Building, 24 plates. price 10s 6d.' The tinted lithographs provide bird's eye views of barns and other farm buildings, most of considerable size and sophistication. Each view is accompanied with a plan. OCLC records three copies only, at the National Library of Scotland, The National Art Library and Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Published in the 2000s, 6 pages, illustrated, map. eng
Much illustrated, occasionally in colour. 96 pages. Wear to cover extremities. Crease to top corner of front cover and following few pages.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Wear to cover. 48 pages. 9 3/8"w x 8 5/8"h. Illustrations reproduced from the Rome Aeterna (set of 100 engravings of views of Rome) by Peter Schenck, the eighteenth century German printseller and publisher who lived in Amsterdam.
New Turkish Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 84 p., ills. Modernlik ve Türkiye'de modern camiler. Modernity and modern mosques in Turkey. Enlarged Second Edition.
Damaged corners, part of spine is missing, 2 withdrawn stamps on the FEP, library sticker on the spine, illustrations. Text is clean, tight and bright. Ex Library Usual Stamps
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny scratch to fore-edge of front cover and no bumping to corners. 360pp. A useful and wide-ranging work of superior architectural scholarship with very high quality research and analysis.
2nd impression of the 2nd edition, 20 pages, illustrated, rusty staples, postcard of the building attached to inside back cover. eng
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 235 pages, color photos throughout, plans, elevations, many projects featured. 8"w x 9"h.
156 pages plus 61 detailed plates. Index. The six parts include: General Principles governing provision of accommodation in a base and L of C; Hutted Accommodation; Camps; Installations; Work for the RAF; Maintenance of Permanent Buildings. Contains a broad range of detailed and practical instructions to provide infrastructure for a camp of up to 500 men, including various hut designs, storage buildings, military prisons, latrines, incinerators, disinfestor, disinfector, Grease trap and soak pit, ammunition depot, veterinary hospital, stables, and much more. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average external wear. Bit of faint writing atop front cover. Ink stamp of Chief Engineer's Branch, Singapore, atop first leaf. No other markings noticed. A sound copy of this fascinating and very practical work. Book
24 pages, illustrated, plan. eng
4 pages, some light creasing. eng
