The Old Missions Churches and Historic Houses of California; Their History, Architecture, Art and Lore
by Newcomb, Rexford
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Philadelphia and London: Lippincott, 1925 First edition. Quarto. xvii, [1], 379pp. Profusely illustrated with a color frontispiece, photographic illustrations and line drawings. Navy blue cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. A superior copy, very fine and bright with printed dust jacket. A classic work on the subject. Perhaps the most comprehensive and scholarly work on the architecture of California's Spanish period, with more than 240 photographs, line drawings, plans, etc. Newcomb was a professor of the history of architecture at the University of Illinois and spent many years researching this book..
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- Bookseller
- Argonaut Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7620
- Title
- The Old Missions Churches and Historic Houses of California; Their History, Architecture, Art and Lore
- Author
- Newcomb, Rexford
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lippincott
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia and London
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- Architecture California Spanish
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