London: William Pickering, 1833. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 28 x 22 cm. The first of Shaw's great illustrated books. Additional illuminated half title, title page printed in red and black with 59 hand colored lithographs heightened in gold and silver, all with letterpress descriptions. Series of hand-illuminated plates recording ornaments..... More

Cambridge: MIT Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 401 pages. 21.5 x 16.5 cm. 401 pages. Contains more than 260 historic and contemporary photographs, the drawings range in scale from regional plans, site plans of communal domains and building plans of dwellings, assembly halls and furniture configurations. Bibliography. Index. More

Boston: Little, Brown, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 259 pages. 26.5 x 22 cm. 252 black and white illustrations and 17 in color. A definitive history of of the twentieth century roadside marketplace with rare archival images. More

New York: A.S.Barnes, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 171 pages. 26 x 19 cm. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Index. The author notes he is not an advocate of 19th century architecture, rather his emphasis is on the thought and feeling which fostered its development. KARPEL B75. "The wealth of literary..... More

Exton: Schiffer Publishing, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 190 pages. 27.5 x 22 cm. Voluminously illustrated with photographs, plans to scale and drawings. Bibliography. Index. Self imposed restraint brings power to the architecture -- where the adequate becomes art. Each of the sixteen chapters present a separate Shaker community. More

Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1991. Hardcover. 170 pages. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. 105 illustrations. Glossary. Index. More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970. Adam, Robert. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 221 pages 25/5 x 16 cm. Illustrated with thirty-two pages of plates and eight line drawings. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Provides an accurate account of the current state of all Adam's work. FREITAG 45. More

New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 243 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Foreword by Kenneth Conant. 109 black and white plates. Bibliography. Index. Architect of the Trinity Church in New York, one of the most satisfactory examples of the strict Gothic Revival in America. KARPEL B1168. "This..... More

Cambridge: MIT Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 223 pages. 25.5 x 18 cm. Series of essays on aspects of modern architecture to show a proportional system in Palladian and a Corbusian villa. More than 80 plates, mostly photographs, plans and drawings, some to scale. More

Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 193 pages. 26 x 18 cm. Host of photographs, plans to scale. A study of origins shaped by central and western European countries with the Fenno-Scandian settlers exerting the largest degree of influence. Bibliography. Index. More

Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1978. First edition. 221 pages. 26 x 18 cm. 138 photographs. A review of the influence of Egyptian themes on American architecture -- designs by Latrobe and others were inspired by Egyptian revival architecture. Bibliography. Index. More

NewYork: MOMA, 1966. Hardcover. 144 pages. 20.5 x 15.5 cm. Illustrated in black and white with 350 photographs and plans. Introduction by Vincent Scully. Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Notes. The first book in theseries of Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture, concerned with the ideas and opinions of practicing..... More

Cleveland: J.H. Jansen, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 173 pages. Folio, 41 x 31 cm. Black and white photographs with some plans to scale. Signed presentation copy "To Ethel M. Davis from C.D. Arnold," the photographer here. Drawings are by Antonio Di Nardo. Normandy and Brittany share the majority of coverage..... More