Benjamin West A Biography
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. West, Benjamin. First edition. Hardcover. 525 pages. Illustrated. Extensive Bibliography. Index. More
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The Architecture of MAXIMILIAN GODEFROY
Baltimore: John Hopkins Univ. Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 246 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. More than 100 illustrations. Index. Most of Godefroy's life in America, 1805-1819 was spent in Baltimore. KARPEL B1097a. "... describes Godefroy's masterful reconciliation of the blunt demands of the industrial age with the tastes of..... More
The Artist In America
New York: W.W. Norton, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 256 pages. Lavishly illustrated with color and black and white plates. A survey of 300 years of American Art with essays by experts. Introduction by Lloyd Goodrich. More
Seattle Memories The Early Years: A Pictorial History
Seattle: The Seattle Times, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. 152 pages. 25 x 28.5 cm. Profusely illustrated in black and white on glossy stock. Index. More
A Rhode Island Chaplain in the Revolution Letters of Ebenezer David to Nicholas Brown 1775-1778
Providence: Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 82 pages. Three illustrations. Preface by Lawrence C. Wroth. Index. Previously unpublished letters which lay in the Brown University business archives. Limited edition, one of 900 copies. More
At Home with the Presidents
New York: Overlook Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 256 pages. 125 black and white photographs and drawings, and fifty-eight color photographs. Index. An architectural and social tour. Bookplate. More
Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayons
New York: Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 111 pges. Thirteen illustrations. Index: Names of Artists. Index: Names of the Sitters. A listing of portrait draughtsmen in crayons, both native American and foreign artists working in America, from the earliest times until 1860. Limited edition, one of 300 copies..... More
Re-Dedication of the Old State House, Boston, July 11, 1882
Boston: Boston City Council, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. 175 pages. 4to, thirty illlustrations. Index. Bookplate, EX-library. More
Peter Harrison First American Architect
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 195 pages. 23 1/2 x 16 cm. Forty-one black and white illustrations. Appendices. Index. Being a Loyalist, Harrison was neglected, his papers and drawings destroyed by a New Haven mob. His buildings happily, survived. FREITAG 4139. ROOS 4217... More
The Life And Letters Of Charles Bulfinch Architect With Other Family Papers
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1896. Bulfinch, Charles. First edition. 323 pages. 24 x 17.5 cm. Thirty-one photogravure illustrations with lettered tissue guards. Introduction by Charles A. Cummings. List of Public Buildings Designed by Charles Bulfinch. FREITAG 1163. KARPEL B1081. "...This is the major primary source, although as Garrett points out, many..... More
American Manners & Morals A Picture History of How We Behaved and Misbehaved
New York: American Heritage, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 399 pp. More than 700 illustrations in black and white and color. Index. The volume startswith Colonial life in the early 1600's and ends in the late 1960's: American society with all its pimples, quirks and extravagances. More
Homes and Gardens in Old Virginia
Richmond: Garrett & Massie, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 544 pages. 24 x 17 cm. Introduction by Douglas S. Freeman. Approximately 125 illustrations. KARPEL B924. "A popular book but still of use." ROOS 3361. More
The Wood-Carver of Salem Samuel McIntire His Life and Work
Boston: Little, Brown, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. 168 pages. 24.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 487 of 930. 127 plates, mostly photographs. One of a family of a notable family of wood-carvers, joiners and housewrights. His windows were usually twelve-paned Georgian type which still finds favor today. Laid-in is..... More
Indian Art in America
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 244 pp. 250 plates with those in color, tipped-in and of excellent color fidelity: first-rate reproductions. There are seventy suchillustrations. Bibliography. A beautiful book written by a well-respected authority on Indian life, custom and artistic tradition. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER I603."An introductory essay is..... More
Early English Churches in America 1607-1807
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 206 pp. With 118 photographs of interiors and exteriors. Notes. Bibliography. Index. A list of churches in each region that were built before 1808 and are still standing provides a guide in each locality to some of the loveliest examples of..... More
The Architectural Heritage Of Newport Rhode Island 1640-1915
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 241 pages in text. 30.5 x 23 cm. 250 plates, most of which contain two or more illustrations per plate; many withdrawings and plans to scale. With key map, a paste-down at back cover. Notes. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER J309. "An exemplary history of..... More
Our Colonial Homes
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 211 pages.Twenty-one illustrations in black and white. KARPEL B128. "The author discusses and illustrates (mostly from photographs) twenty houses, all but three of which are in Massachusetts." Backstrip worn head and foot. More
History Of The American Theatre
New York: J. & J. Harper, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 420 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. Eva La Gallienne's copy with her bookplate front paste-down. Inscribed presentation copy from Harold Moulton, a member of the Civic Repertory Company, dated Oct. 6, 1930. Eva La Gallienne founded the Civic Repertory Theatre..... More
American Painting First Flowers of Our Wilderness
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 368 pages. With several color and over 150 black and white illustrations. Notes. Index. KARPEL H50. "When this book was published in 1947, it was the mostcomprehensive general history of American Painting to 1775, and it remains of value today..." More
America's Historic Houses and Restorations
New York: Castle Books, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 271 pages. Illustrated with photographs of interior and exterior views. A tribute to the preservation movement and a warning to maintain vigilance: to protect the remaining historical landmark buildings. More
Preserving And Maintaining The Older Home
New York: McGraw Hill, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 237 pages. More
Treasury of American Design
New York: Abrams, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Foreword by J. Carter Brown. Introduction by Holger Cahill. Voluminously illustrated with almost 3000 illustrations, about 850 in color. Index of Artists. Index. KARPEL F221. "Latest and fullest published selection of illustrations from the glorious collection of renderings produced by hundreds of artists..... 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 pages. 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
The Guide Book to Historic Germantown, Prepared for the Site & Relic Society
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
Pennsylvania Dutch American Folk Art
New York: American Studio Books, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. 136 pages. Voluminously illustrated, mostly in black and white, but with color plates of brilliant fidelity. Bibliography. KARPEL I1532. "General historical and sociological background is provided, nevertheless, placing the various motifs in the proper religious and ethic context." More