The Minor Ecclesiastical Domestic and Garden Architecture of Southern Spain

New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co, 1917. Hardcover. G- (Substantial soiling and heavy wear to covers; spine strip is half-missing; covers are loose; textblock is cracked; page margins have tanned or aged; plates are clear.). Rust colored cloth, 11 pp. of text, plus 107 leaves of BW plates. Austin Whittlesey won the Le Brun Traveling Scholarship, and set out to photograph these examples of Spanish architecture. "He at once found his path strewn with all manner of obstacles; yet, nothing disheartened, made his way to Gibraltar in defiance of mines, submarines and nervoulys suspicious officials. ... After three months of such sketching, measuring and photographing amid the comparative serenity of semi-barbarism, he learned that, following the course of all the other great civilized nations, his native land had declared war against the modern Attila and his hordes; whereupon he promptly put patriotism before his profession, turned his steps homeward as swiftly as was possible under the circumstances, reached New York on July 16th, and is now in service." (intro, by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue) Here is his first volume of collected photographs, numbering 107 leaves of BW plates.