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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS EDITION. Volumes XI-XII, bound one. January-December 1891. New York: 1891. Folio. Publisher's cloth. With 24 color plates. First editio An influential architectural periodical featuring numerous architectural rela articles and large, full-page color plates of domestic residences (both free standing and apartments) and other buildings, each with an elevation and floo plan. Many of this year's houses are in the Shingle Style. Other illustrati include in-text photogravures, drawings, plans and advertisements. Rebacked. Wear to covers and tips. Internally very good.
Het Zegenpralend Kennermerland Vertoont in Veele Heerelyke Gezichten Van Deszelfs Voornamemste Lustplaetzen, Adelyke Huizen, Dorp-En-stede-gebouwen... by Leth, Hendrik De and Matthaeus Brouerius Van Nidek
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Het Zegenpralend Kennermerland Vertoont in Veele Heerelyke Gezichten Van Deszelfs Voornamemste Lustplaetzen, Adelyke Huizen, Dorp-En-stede-gebouwen...
by Leth, Hendrik De and Matthaeus Brouerius Van Nidek
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Amsterdam: Jan Roman Amsterdam: Jan Roman (1729?-1732?). Folio, handsome modern binding of marbled paper-covered boards with gilt-lettered black leather cover label. An attractive clean copy. Two parts in one volume. Etched vignette on title page, etched headpiece on dedication leaf, two frontispieces, folding map and 100 engraved views on fifty leaves with brief descriptions. Scarce documentation of Dutch architecture and gardens of the late 17th and early 18th centuries with plans and views of town and country houses in Kennermerland, a fashionable country district north of Haarlem. The houses are in Dutch Regency style and the gardens, while still symmetrical, show natural elements superseding the formal. References: Berlin Catalogue 2246. Millard Architectural Collection, Northern European Books, 9. . Marbled Paper Boards. Fine. Folio.
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS EDITION
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DECORATED WOODEN CEILINGS IN SPAIN. A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND MEASURED DRAWINGS WITH DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
by Byne, Arthur and Mildred Stapley
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New York & London: G. P. Putnam. Very Good. 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in original tan cloth. Folio folder contains 256 loose pages. ( 222pp + 4 color + 52 Monochromatic plates. Gilt titles on spine and front cover. 1st edition. Text is Intact and clean. Small cloth tear at spine heel. First 3 pages have an curled edge. Two torn cloth ties. Floral decorated paper inside covers has rub marks. Old wooden ceilings are more numerous in Spain than other European Countries. Architecture, Spain; Monochrome & Color Plates; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 256 pages .
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Architect's Documentation Book for the Restoration of the Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, S. C., Federal Emergency Relief Administration Project
by Ellington, Douglas D. (Architect)
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Charleston, SC, 1935. Bespoke project documentation book for the Works Progress Administration restoration of the Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, South Carolina, with the architect Douglas D. Ellington's. personal bookplate. Housed in an embossed calf binder with string tie, gilt lettering. 48 pages listed in table of contents which refer to 48 labelled sections, each with items such as a summary of the project, folder of photographs taken in Stoll's Alley, newspaper clippings, theatre programs and broadsides, research, records of holders of the property, maps, plans, photographs, drawings, and other related ephemera. Very Good, the leather binder with wear at spine ends and folders. Douglas D. Ellington (1886-1960), was a Native of North Carolina and trained at the Ecole des Beauv Arts, being the first American to win the top honor for decorative competitions at the École. In addition to his work on this theatre project, he designed numerous churches, residences, and government…
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Les Decorations Murales de Pompei: a l'Usage des Artistes, des Ecoles Industrielles et des Amis de l'Antiquite
by Emile Presuhn
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Two volumes of Presuhn's souvenir books with 75 vibrant chromolithographs of wall paintings discovered in PompeiiLes Decorations Murales de Pompeii, 1878.With 24 chromolithographs after original drawings by Geremia Discanno, lithographed by Victor Steeger, and 51 pages of text in French translated from the German by A. Giraud-Teulon. Bound with Choix des Plus Belles et Interessantes Peintures de Pompei, avec Plan de la Ville, 1882With 50 chromolithographs after original drawings by Emile Presuhn and Geremia DiscannoAlong with wall paintings from all four eras of design, the plates depict floor mosaics, portraits, statues, plaster-casts of bodies, and plans of houses and the excavations. Presuhn (1844-1881) was a German archeologist who lived and worked in Italy for almost decade from 1870 publishing books illustrating the latest murals, mosaics and discoveries made in the excavations in Pompeii. Discanno (1839-1907) was an Italian artist and painter who worked in Naples and Pompeii.Red cloth binding…
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Pompeji. Die Neuesten Ausgrabungen von 1874 bis 1881: Fur Kunst- und Alterthumsfreunde
by Emile Presuhn
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Very good copy of the "second and very popular edition" of Presuhn's souvenir of excavations in Pompeii from 1874-1881In 10 sections with 80 chromolithographs by Victor Seeger and J.G. Bach after designs by Geremia Discanno and Miss Amy Butts.Pompeii, the latest excavations from 1874 to 1881 for lovers of art and antiquities. Along with murals from all four eras of interior design, the plates depict interior views, mythological wall paintings, floor mosaics, statues, plaster-casts of bodies, wall graffiti, plans of houses and the town. Text in German.Presuhn (1844-1881) was a German archeologist who lived and worked in Italy for almost decade from 1870 publishing books illustrating the latest murals, mosaics and discoveries made in the excavations in Pompeii. Discanno (1839-1907) was an Italian artist and painter who worked in Naples and Pompeii.Half brown leather binding with scuffed edges, spine with black and gold leather title labels, gilt title on green cloth covers, marbled endpapers. Slight…
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS EDITION
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS EDITION. Volumes XI-XII, bound one. January-December 1891. New York: 1891. Folio. Publisher's cloth. With 24 color plates. First editio An influential architectural periodical featuring numerous architectural rela articles and large, full-page color plates of domestic residences (both free standing and apartments) and other buildings, each with an elevation and floo plan. Many of this year's houses are in the Shingle Style. Other illustrati include in-text photogravures, drawings, plans and advertisements. Rebacked. Wear to covers and tips. Internally very good.
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DECORATED WOODEN CEILINGS IN SPAIN. A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND MEASURED DRAWINGS WITH DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
by Byne, Arthur and Mildred Stapley
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New York & London: G. P. Putnam. Very Good. 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in original tan cloth. Folio folder contains 256 loose pages. ( 222pp + 4 color + 52 Monochromatic plates. Gilt titles on spine and front cover. 1st edition. Text is Intact and clean. Small cloth tear at spine heel. First 3 pages have an curled edge. Two torn cloth ties. Floral decorated paper inside covers has rub marks. Old wooden ceilings are more numerous in Spain than other European Countries. Architecture, Spain; Monochrome & Color Plates; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 256 pages .
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Architect's Documentation Book for the Restoration of the Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, S. C., Federal Emergency Relief Administration Project
by Ellington, Douglas D. (Architect)
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Charleston, SC, 1935. Bespoke project documentation book for the Works Progress Administration restoration of the Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, South Carolina, with the architect Douglas D. Ellington's. personal bookplate. Housed in an embossed calf binder with string tie, gilt lettering. 48 pages listed in table of contents which refer to 48 labelled sections, each with items such as a summary of the project, folder of photographs taken in Stoll's Alley, newspaper clippings, theatre programs and broadsides, research, records of holders of the property, maps, plans, photographs, drawings, and other related ephemera. Very Good, the leather binder with wear at spine ends and folders. Douglas D. Ellington (1886-1960), was a Native of North Carolina and trained at the Ecole des Beauv Arts, being the first American to win the top honor for decorative competitions at the École. In addition to his work on this theatre project, he designed numerous churches, residences, and government…
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Les Decorations Murales de Pompei: a l'Usage des Artistes, des Ecoles Industrielles et des Amis de l'Antiquite
by Emile Presuhn
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Two volumes of Presuhn's souvenir books with 75 vibrant chromolithographs of wall paintings discovered in PompeiiLes Decorations Murales de Pompeii, 1878.With 24 chromolithographs after original drawings by Geremia Discanno, lithographed by Victor Steeger, and 51 pages of text in French translated from the German by A. Giraud-Teulon. Bound with Choix des Plus Belles et Interessantes Peintures de Pompei, avec Plan de la Ville, 1882With 50 chromolithographs after original drawings by Emile Presuhn and Geremia DiscannoAlong with wall paintings from all four eras of design, the plates depict floor mosaics, portraits, statues, plaster-casts of bodies, and plans of houses and the excavations. Presuhn (1844-1881) was a German archeologist who lived and worked in Italy for almost decade from 1870 publishing books illustrating the latest murals, mosaics and discoveries made in the excavations in Pompeii. Discanno (1839-1907) was an Italian artist and painter who worked in Naples and Pompeii.Red cloth binding…
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Pompeji. Die Neuesten Ausgrabungen von 1874 bis 1881: Fur Kunst- und Alterthumsfreunde
by Emile Presuhn
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Very good copy of the "second and very popular edition" of Presuhn's souvenir of excavations in Pompeii from 1874-1881In 10 sections with 80 chromolithographs by Victor Seeger and J.G. Bach after designs by Geremia Discanno and Miss Amy Butts.Pompeii, the latest excavations from 1874 to 1881 for lovers of art and antiquities. Along with murals from all four eras of interior design, the plates depict interior views, mythological wall paintings, floor mosaics, statues, plaster-casts of bodies, wall graffiti, plans of houses and the town. Text in German.Presuhn (1844-1881) was a German archeologist who lived and worked in Italy for almost decade from 1870 publishing books illustrating the latest murals, mosaics and discoveries made in the excavations in Pompeii. Discanno (1839-1907) was an Italian artist and painter who worked in Naples and Pompeii.Half brown leather binding with scuffed edges, spine with black and gold leather title labels, gilt title on green cloth covers, marbled endpapers. Slight…
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HOMES FOR YOUR STREET AND MINE: STANDARDIZED TO AVOID WASTE
by Standard Homes Co
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Washington DC: Standard Homes Co., [1956?]. Stapled wraps. Good. 31p. Wrap and pages lightly thumb creased, front wrap fore edge creased and torn. A promotional booklet for houses designed by Standard Homes Company containing examples of more than 40 dwellings, each accompanied by layouts and a photograph or drawing of frontage. These houses come in a variety of styles designed with consideration to cost-saving construction using standard sizes for materials such as lumber, windows, and doors to reduce waste. Intercounty Savings and Loan Association of Philadelphia was the distributor of this copy. A letter dated June 27, 1956, from the savings and loan is laid in. B&w illustrations and halftone photographs. (11-1/2"x8-1/2")
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THE AMERICAN ARCHITECT AND BUILDING NEWS, APRIL 15, 1903, VOL. LXXX, NO. 1426
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Boston, 1903. Covers rather brittle and chipped, some short tears to page edges.. 13.5" x 9"; viii, 25-32, ix-xvi pages; Stapled magazine.
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Casa Del Herrero: The Romance of Spanish Colonial
by Robert Sweeney
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Casa del HerreroHouse of the Blacksmithstands today as one of the most fully developed and intact examples of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture. It was designed and built between 1922 and 1925 as a second house for George Fox Steedman, a St. Louis industrialist. Thought principally to be the work of George Washington Smith, the architect, Steedman himself generated many ideas during the initial design phase that were both a blessing and curse to Smith. Steedmans vision prevailed, and throughout the decade following the houses initial completion, he continued to rework both house and garden, engaging the architects Lutah Maria Riggs, Edwards, Plunkett & Howell, and Floyd Brewster, and garden… Read More
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Gibson Guitar Catolog 50's (reprint???)
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HOME" - An Interesting Monthly Magazine Sent to You Each Month by Your Lumber Merchant: Lot of Nine (9) issues, 1938-1941
by Weil, C.K. and others
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Silver Lake, New Hampshire: John F. Chick & Son, Building Material, 1941. First Editions. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. Lot of nine issues, averaging 16pp each; illustrated throughout from photographs, floor plans and elevations. In the original, pictorial wrappers. Approx 11" x 8.5" The thrust of this magazine is "Now is the time to build your own home." Themes of these issues include: Hollywood Hilltops; Simple Dignity Is the Best Architecture; Cape Cod Cottages; Need Four Bedrooms?; Wood Walls; A Place to Eat in the Kitchen; Twin Level First Floor; Fireplace Ideas; The Case for Home Ownership; Colonial Twins; Summer Cottages; Modernizing A House; Plywood Is Perfect Material; Baseball Grows Up [a four-page departure in one issue]; Historic Walls; Suburban Charm; Log Cabin Siding; Ideas for the Roadside Merchant; Two Farm Homes in 1940 Style; Modernizing Your Farmhouse; Duplicate the Charm of Old World Cottages; Underground Storage Easily Built; Three Modern Farm Homes; Small Summer Cottages;…
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Les Serres Royales de Laeken
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Inbel, Bruxelles: Ducolot, 1989. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Folio. 276 pp. Bound in full green cloth, stamped in gilt on cover and spine, in Illustrated dust jacket. Profusely illustrated, chiefly color, including frontispiece and several fold outs. Text in French. Includes bibliography. Near Fine, bright, clean copy, in Very Good+ dust jacket with wear and rubbing to extremities, overall scuffing.
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Original Resopal; The Aesthetics of Surface
by Schneider, Romana and Ingeborg Flagge
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Pattern Book of New Orleans Architecture, A
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New Orleans architecture as it was, is, and should be. A stunning presentation of 19th-century gouache and watercolor archival paintings of New Orleans neighborhoods, this volume presents what old, renovated, restored, and new buildings not only might look like, but how they should look. An educational tool, architectural pattern book, city planner's handbook, and visual treasure, this resource invites its readers to study the footprints of the city's original edifices in order to rebuild and restore with authenticity. Examples of each New Orleans house type, historic plans for each house, and contemporary adaptive-use floor plans are highlighted.
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Die Würzburger Domorgeln / The Organs in Würzburg Cathedral
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Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Das Musikinstrument , [1970]. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Folio. 128.2] pp. Bound in full, charcoal gray cloth, title stamped in silver on cover and spine. Orgelbeispiele 20. Jahrhundert, Bd. 1. Black and white illustrations, including 3 fold-out plates, and 3 inserts in pocket at rear. Text in German and English. Near Fine, minor age-toning to pages, otherwise tight and clean, in Very Good+ dust jacket with 1" tear to top edge of front cover, wear and peeling of lamination at extremities, overall age-toning.
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Santa Maria Tonantzintla: Un pueblo, un templo
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Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana, 1991. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine/good. 4to. 124 pp. Bound in blue boards stamped in gilt on cover and spine, in illustrated dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in full color, including photographs by Ángela Arziniaga and Everardo Rivera. Text in Spanish. Includes bibliography. Near Fine, bright, clean copy in Good dust jacket, two 1" tears with creasing to lower edge, two 1" tears with creasing to upper edge, overall scuffing and some scarring.
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