Design An Exposition Of The Principles And Practice Of The Making Of Patterns
London: Chapman and Hall, 1902. Hardcover. 182 pages. 24 x 15 cm. 177 illustrations. Comprehensive analysis of design patterns. More
Architecture
"At Taliesin" Newspaper Columns by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship 1934-1937
Carbondale: Souther Illinois Univ. Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 322 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Host of illustrations. Of the 285 columns written, 112 are included here. Index. As new copy. More
Architecture and Rural Life in Central Delaware 1700-1900
Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 271 pages. Profusely illustrated: photographs, drawings and plans. Bibliography. Index. "A pioneering account of mid-Atlantic folk architecture............"Bookplate. More
Architects on Architecture New Directions in America
New York: Walker, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 415 pages. More than 650 photographs, plans, drawings and elevations. Building Index by geographical location and architect. This book presents the ideas and convictions of America's leading architects on the theory and practice of their art. Bibliography. KARPEL B670. "A useful work, especially..... More
America Restored
Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 320 pages. Large 4to, plethora of color and black and white plates view 102 sites, two in every state and the District of Columbia -- glorious restorations arecaptured in color. More
The Nature of Cities Origin, Growth, and Decline Pattern and Form Planning Problems
Chicago: Paul Theobald, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 286 pages. 28 x 22 cm. 252 black and white illustrations, including photographs, sketches, diagrams, maps and plans. Cities: [1] their origin growth and decline; [2] whether they were planned geometric or organic; and [3] cities of our industrial age with no tiesto..... More
Babylon to Brasilia The Challenge of City Planning
Boston: Little, Brown, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 109 pages. More than fifty photographs and drawings. Illustrated Glossary. Bibliography. List of Institutions Offering Programs in City Planning. Index. POWELL 1580. More
The Builder's Guide; A Practical Treatise On Grecian And Roman Architecture, Together With Specimens Of the Gothic Style. Also, Practical Treatises On Geometry, Decimal Fractions, Menstruation, Trigonometry, And Carpentry And Joinery. Revised And Improved, With Additions of Villa and School House Architecture, By H. Austin, Architect, and H. Barnard Esq.; Embracing All The Necessary Details, And Particularly Adapted To The Wants Of The Less Experienced
Hartford: Case, Tiffany And Burnham, 1847. First edition. leather_bound. Folio, 40.5 x 30 cm, Folio, 96 pages in text. Thirty-eight wood engravings and fifty lithographed plates, some are double-paged. This edition contains the only published architecture designs of Henry Austin [five plates]. The frontispiece shows a view of the Wadsworth..... More
Netherlandish Scrolled Gables of the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
New York: New York Univ. Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 157 pages. 106 black and white illustrations. Index. The primary purpose of this book, "has been to bring together a varied array of decorated gables from all regions where Netherlandish craftsmen worked at home and abroad and to arrange them..... More
The Rise of An American Architecture
New York: Praeger, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 241 pages. 24 x 17 cm. Approximately 200 illustrations. Edited with an introduction and exhibition notes by Edgar Kauffmann, Jr. Foreword by James Biddle and Thomas P. Hoving. Selected Bibliography. Index. Four scholars assess the important contributions of 19th century America to the..... More
Buildings of Alaska
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 338 pages. More than 250 photographs, drawings and maps. Glossary. Index. Bookplate. More
Practical Bungalows and Cottage for Town and Country; Perspective View And Floor Plans Of Three Hundred Low And Medium Priced Houses And Bungalows
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co, 1915. Hardcover. 8 text pages. 19.5 x 14 cm. All designs with blue prints, most costing $5.00, presenting length and width. Adverts at rear. More
Common-Sense Stair Building and Handrailing; Handrailing in Three Divisions showing three of the simplest methods known in the art, with complete instructions for laying out and working handrails suitable for any kind of stair, straight circular or elliptical, or for stairs with landings and cylinders. Stair building covers upwards of eighty pages, devoted to newel or platform stairs chiefly, giving instructions for their building, planning and decoration.
London: Crosby Lockwood And Sons, 1890. Second edition. Hardcover. 58 pages. 19.5 x 14 cm. Illustrated with over 250 drawings and diagrams, and containing a glossary of terms use in stair building and handrailing; and in addition, 25 moderate priced house designs, showing the perspective view and floor plans. Ex-Library..... More
Stair-Building Made Easy; Being a full and clear description of the art of building the bodies, carriages and cases for all kinds of stairs and steps. Together with illustrations showing the manner of laying out stairs, forming treads and risers, building cylinders, preparing strings, with instructions for making carriages for common, platform, dog-legged and winding stairs. To which is added an illustrated glossary of terms used in stair-building, and designs for newels, balusters, brackets, Stair-moulding and sections of hand-rails.
New York: The Industrial Publication Company, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. 123 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. Profusely illustrated, more than 100 text figures. Clean, crisp copy, glossary. More
Ludwig Hohlwein; Compiled and Edited by H.K. Frenzel with an Introduction by Walter F. Schubert. Translated by Herman George Scheffauer
Berlin: Phonix, 1926. Hohlwein, Ludwig. First edition. Hardcover. 73 pages in text. 4to, 30 x 23 cm. 223 full-page posters in black and white and color. Text in English and German. Trained as an architect, Hohlwein was self taught as a draughtsman and painter. He was once told by a...... More
Old English Country Cottages
London: The Studio, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 167 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Fifteen full-color plates and voluminous plans, diagrams and drawings in black and white. Owner inscription, light spotting mostly marginal first few leaves, corner of title cut away. More
The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art, 1913
London: The Studio, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. 248 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Profusely illustrated with nineteen color plates: drawings, plans, photographs. Designs by Frank Brangwyn, Murray Adams-Acton, Frederick Vigers, et al. Included are chapters on British, German, Austrian and Hungarian architecture and decoration, plus British stained glass, fireplaces, wall..... More
The Hermitage Home of Old Hickory
Richmond: Garrett & Massie, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 225 pp. 8vo, forty-one illustrations and four drawings. Index. KARPEL B960. "According to Talbot Hamlin, this is `an adequate monograph on an important house, largely from the historical point of view,' with good illustrations of the house." More
The History, Antiquities And Topography Of The County Of Sussex
Lewes: Baxter, 1835. First edition. leather_bound. 592 [15] & 274 [90] [XV] [VIII]. 33 x 26 cm. The Subscriber's Copy with label, priced at 4 pounds, 4 shillings, inside front cover paste down of Vol.I. Profusely illustrated: fifty-six copperplate engravings with tissue guards, eighty wood engravings, plus two folding maps..... More
Architettura Campestre
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827. First edition. Boards. 28 pages in text. 32 x 25 cm. Twelve full-page lithographed plates with descriptive text -- "designs for a summer house and gardener's residence, a garden cottage, a gate lodge. a dairy and gamekeepers residence....a small residence, an orangery..... More
American Art of The 20th Century
New York: Abrams, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 487 pages. With 839 illustrations, including 166 in full-color. Bibliography. Index. Owner inscription. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER I477 ."An excellent, critical survey of 20th-Century American painting, sculpture and architecture." More
Rational Building; Being A Translation Of The Article "Construction" in the Dictionnaire Raisonne De L'Architecture Francaise of M. Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc
New York: Macmillan, 1895. First edition. 367 pages. 22.5 x 17 cm. 156 illustrations in the text. Index. 4 pages of adverts at rear. Owner stamp of J.W. Cresswell Corbusier. More
Sir Christopher Wren A Biography
New York: Stein & Day, 1976. Wren, Christopher. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 191 pp. Black and white illustrations. Appendices. References. Select Bibliography. Index. FREITAG 10354. More
Common Houses in America's Small Towns: The Atlantic Seaboard To The Mississippi Valley
Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 238 pp. Small 4to, copiously illustrated with photographs and drawings. Bibliography. Index. Glossary of Structural Forms. This monograph covers sixty-seven different house types and successfully describes 96% of the houses surveyed. More
Reason in Architecture Lectures Delivered At The Royal Academy of Arts in the Year 1906
London: John Murray, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 189 pp. 8vo, sixteen plates, thirty-seven illustrations in the text. Index. Bookplate, owner inscription. More