Search Results: ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN from Aardvark Rare Books

New York: Ivison and Phinney, 1859. Second Printing. Hardcover. Good Only. S.E. Hewes. Green cloth with publisher name and location stamped into both front and rear boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Well-worn and with recent cloth repair to spine. 20 separate designs with bill for labor and materials for each, general instruction, health considerations, design of furniture, importance of school grounds, outbuildings, seating charts, ornamentation. 63 illustrations (illustrations and plans). At time of cataloguing, no copies anywhere on market.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Small Octavo, 7.6 in. x 5.2 in., pp. xiii, [3], 378, [5] (advertising). Tan buckram boards with brown frame, house design, and title to front. Brown title to spine. Unmarked interior. Rugging to dustjacket edges; chips to corners and top/bottom of dustjacket spine. The book was intended for homeowners who were remodeling or building homes at that time, and much of what was written is relevant for restoration or remodeling turn-of-the-century homes today.

New York: George Braziller, 1961. First Printing (8 volumes) / Second Printing (4 volumes). Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. Complete 12-Volume Set. Octavo, 10.5 in. x 7.25 in., pp. 128 per volume. Each volume includes essays and over 100 photographs, drawings, and plans. Gray-brown designer paper boards with embossed architectural design over black cloth spine. Gilt title to spine. Very light rubbing to extremities. Unmarked interiors. Light rubbing to dustjackets with a few small closed tears. Chip to dustjacket spine of "Rennaissance Architecture" and to top of spine of "Chinese and Indian Architecture" First Printings: Greek Architecture, by Robert L. Scranton; Early Christian & Byzantine Architecture, by William MacDonald; Medieval Architecture, by Howard Saalman; Renaissance Architecture, by Bates Lowry; Western Islamic Architecture, by John D. Hoag; Chinese and Indian Architecture, by Nelson I. Wu; Pre-Colombian Architecture, by Donald Robertson; Japanese Architecture, by William Alex.… Read More

Honolulu, HI: Hawaii Chapter of the American Institute of Architecture, 1957. First Edition. Plastic comb. Very Good. Wide 12mo, 7.25 in. x 10.75 in., p. 67. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Pictorial paper covers with clear plastic comb binding. Half-inch surface tear to upper front corner of front cover. Front endpaper map. Foreward written by Harry W. Seckel, President of the Hawaiian Chapter, American Institute of Architects, 1956. Publilshed in celebration of the Centennial Observance of the founding of the American INstitute of Architecture.

New York: George Braziller, 1960. Hardcover. Good Plus. Matching set of eleven volumes: Small Quarto, 10.2 in. x 7.6 in. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Marbled paper boards over gray cloth spines. LIght soiling to spines. Small tear in cloth at top of spine of Le Corbusier book. Interiors unmarked. The complete series of contemporary architect biographies for Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Antonio Gaudi, Walter Gropius, Eric Mendelsohn, Ludwig Mies Van De Rohe, Pier Luigi Nervi, Richard Neutra, Oscar Niemeyer, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Written by Vincent Scully, Ada Louise Huxtable, Arthur Drexler, and others.

Nürenburg: Lochner, 1690. Hardcover. Poor. This seventeenth century book on architectural columns covers 5 main types: Tuscana, Dorica, Ionica, Corinthia, and Composite (Being a blending of the Ionic and the Corinthian - upon the details of the high baroque edifice, as well their incorporation into domestic furnishings (Table, Armoire, Bed). Folio, 12 1/4 in. x 8 in. Brown marbled boards, moderately scuffed with rubbing to extremities. Black cloth spine peeling away at top (1 in.) and bottom (3 in). Binding sound. pp. 3-4, 7-8, 11-32, 2 plates (titlepages) + 42 copperplate engravings. Missing first copperplate architectural titlepage, sign. A1, B1, and C1. Mis-pagination, pp 20 printed as 02 and pp. 29 printed as 92. Leaf A2 damaged, mounted on wove paper, missing approx. 1 1/2 in of text closest to outer margin. Wove paper covering verso side, but transparent enough to read text. Repair strip to outer edge of leaf B2, covering last few words of each sentence, but text readable through wove… Read More