Brattleboro: Stephen Daye Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. 105 pages. 24.5 x 17.5 cm. With an illustration of each bridge described, and a curious chapter on why they were covered. More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 200 pages. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. Illustrated with photographs, plans and drawings. No documents or legends exist to explain who the master masons constructed the most impressive buildings of the Middle Ages. Glossary. More
Germantown: Site & Relic Society, 1926. Fourth edition. Hardcover. 167 pages. 12mo, maps and drawings. Index. More than thirty-six historic buildings are discussed, twenty-four are illustrated in line drawings. Bookplate. More
Germantown: Site and Relic Society, 1926. Hardcover. 15.5 x 12.4 cm. Discusses the history of the settlement of Germantown with 36 individual historic buildings of which 24 are illustrated with charming line drawings. A number of sites presented have since been razed. Title printed in red and black. Bookplate. More
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 300 pp. Square 4to, 344 illustrations, each with descriptive text. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Covers the years 1850 to about 1870, the most productive period for Victorian architects, and the age during which a whole range of arts, including furniture, metalwork, ceramics..... More
New York: Walker, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 68 pp. Illustrated with photographs, drawings and plans. Published under the auspices of The American Foundation, a non-profit, private organization, the monograph is a brief,but authoritative history of the development of correctional architecture. Covers dusty. More
Karachi: Elite Publishers, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 151 pages. 29 x 22 cm. 262 illustrations, 145 in color. The author a renown scholar, Director of Archaeology, Government of Pakistan casts a new interpretation of the origin and development of the Gandahara art deviating completely from the traditional point of view..... More
New York: Abrams, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 344 pages. 231 illustrations, including eighteen color plates. Bibliography. Index. Glossary. Steele's work is an essential link between19th Beaux Arts formalism and modern landscape design. The first critical biography of Steele, tracing the development of fifty of his gardens. More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 149 pages in text. 28.5 x 22 cm. 79 black and white illustrations, most full page. The sculptural decoration, and the complexity of its three facades holds a unique place among the great cathedrals of France. More
New York: Abbeville, 1986. Wright, Frank Lloyd. First edition. Hardcover. 190 pages. 33 x 24 cm. Copiously illustrated: color photographs, plans (one fold-out), and black and white plates. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: Pantheon, 1986. First edition. Paperback. 214 pages. More
Portland: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. 200 pages. 30.5 x 24 cm. Illustrated by Edna C. Rogers, Nelson Chase, Eva Melady and others. Lovely illustrations in black and white and in color, approximately seventy-five in total depict contemporary rooms. There are also drawings in the text and floor plans..... More
Pittsburgh: Ober Park Assoc. 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 130 pages. 31 x 24 cm. Copiously illustrated: photographs, elevations and drawings. Index. A selection from the Records of the Historic American Buildings Survey. More
Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 262 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Approximately 40 illustrations. Notes. Index. KARPEL B33. "Perhaps the best early general survey." Clean, fresh copy, owner inscription, some pencil underlining. More
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 461 pages. Folio, more than 500 illustrations, ninety-six in color. Translated by Radka Donnell. Bibliography. Index. The first standard work on thepostmodern architecture of the past 25 years by a leading European architectural critic. More
London: James Sangster, (1845-1846). First edition. Hardcover. 392, 400 pages, Folio, 36 x 27 cm. Chromolitho frontispiece, forty chromolithograph plates, and nearly 3000 wood engravings. General Index. Index to the Engravings. Originally issued in parts, fascinating work containing a wealth of Victorian wood-engraving. Rear endpapers in both volumes foxed, plates..... More
New York: Praeger, 1971. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 161 pages in text. 216 photographs and 108 maps and plans. Bibliography. Index. The author surveys Polish architecture from its medieval beginnings to buildings completed in 1969, and describes the great brick churches of the Baltic coast. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER J266. "A scholarly, well-written..... More
New York: Abrams, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 336 pages. Small folio. Abundantly illustrated in color and black and white. Exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Articles by experts. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: Praeger, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 180 pages. Voluminously illustrated with photographs. Biographicaldata on leading Japanese architects. A comprehensive review of Japanese architecture since 1945. More
London: John Weale, 1846. First edition. Hardcover. Large 4to, 36 x 28 cm. 30 pages in text, twenty ocher tinted, full-page lithographs. A study of the general character of the domestic architecture of the medieval periods in the collection of Sir William Burrell. Detailed text to each lithograph. UNIVERSAL CATALOGUE..... More
Berlin: Konrad Wittwer, 1891. Hardcover. No text. Folio, 41 x 31 cm. Sixty color lithograph plates printed recto only with black and white plans for each design -- one family, duplex and fourplex structures. -- luminous, quality lithographs in subtle tones. Kanter & Mohr, Buchhandling fur Architektur und Kunstgewerge label..... More
New York: Walton W. Rawls, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 292 pp. 4to, 216 illustrations in color and black and white and all, elegantly printed in Japan on quality stock. Index. Errata slip.Introduction by Alan Priest. Notable are the surprising number of houses and gardens in the last part of the..... More
Leipzig: J.J. Weber, 1910. Second edition. Hardcover. 254 pages. 25 x 18 cm, 213 text illustrations -- drawings, photographs and town design layouts; and thirteen mounted color plates, some double-paged of landscape designs. Fresh, bright copy. More
New York: Century, 1906. First edition. Cloth. 363 pages. 26 x 17 cm. More than sixty illustrations from pictures by Jules Guerin and by photographs. Index. Binding firm, rubbing to extremities. More
New York: National Terra Cotta Society, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 63 pages. 31 x 23 cm. Twelve color plates and six black and white photographs. Bibliography. Handsome examples in a wide variety of sites, and time periods -- including University of Texas buildings, and Majestic Theatre in Houston, Texas. Front..... More