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Farmhouses and Small Provincial Buildings in Southern Italy
by Hooker, Marian O
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About This Item
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc, 1925.
Folio. 310 x 240 mm., [12 x 9 ¼ inches]. 13 pp. text. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 126 photogravures. Original gray cloth, decorated with the title in blue; dust jacket, with a chip at the head of the spine. Very good copy.
Rare and attractive architectural history of the provinces of Abruzzi, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania, and Lazio. Photos taken over many years by the intrepid traveler, Marian Hooker, whose interest in the by-ways of the Italian South contrasted with the major productions documenting the major cities of the North. In the preface written by Katherine Hooker, Marian's mother and author of several books on Italy, writes, "a journey to the south-eastern portion [of Italy] is not so easy or so often taken, though it affords the traveler an interesting and surprising field in which to trace the racial records that survive in its architecture." The book also includes an appreciation by Myron Hunt of the Allied Architects Association of Los Angeles.
Marian Hooker was a physician who was educated at University of California and photographer who was and good friend of John Muir. Among her many accomplishments she was the first woman to climb Mount Whitney, a mountain named after her great uncle, the geologist Josiah D. Whitney.
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- De Simone Company, Booksellers
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- 921
- Title
- Farmhouses and Small Provincial Buildings in Southern Italy
- Author
- Hooker, Marian O
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
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De Simone Company is presently offering rare books, manuscripts, illustrated books, broadsides, and ephemera documenting American history during the 19th century. We encourage you to visit our website where you will find numerous catalogues listing our offering. Visit www.desimonecompanybooksellers.com.De Simone Company also specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The Company has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy and is always interested in purchasing book on the subject.In January of 2017, Daniel De Simone retired from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C as the Eric Weinmann Librarian, where he directed the operations of the Central Library. De Simone came to the Folger from the Library of Congress after serving as the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division for 14 years.Before his appointment as Rosenwald Curator in 2000, he operated his own New York based bookselling business for 22 years. Since retirement he has begun bookselling once again and is again a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also a member of the Grolier Club, NY, the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, Paris, and the Print Council of America.
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