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Vestigi delle Antichita di Roma, Tivoli, Pozzuolo et Altri Luochi
by Sadeler, Marco
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Elaborately engraved title and 50 additional engraved plates, printed recto only, showing finely worked and highly detailed views of Roman ruins still in existence in Rome, Tivoli, Pozzuolo and surrounding areas as of the 16th century, each print with detailed caption. Crease to title, minor old damp-staining, slight soiling and handling wear, small marginal tear to bottom of plate… Read more
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![image of Dom, osiedle, mieszkanie: kwartalnik [Home, housing estate, cooperative apartment: a quarterly]. Group of sixteen early issues: 1929 (1, 7); 1931 (4-8, 11-12); 1933 (2-5, 9-11)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/103/841/1367841103.0.m.jpg)
Dom, osiedle, mieszkanie: kwartalnik [Home, housing estate, cooperative apartment: a quarterly]. Group of sixteen early issues: 1929 (1, 7); 1931 (4-8, 11-12); 1933 (2-5, 9-11)
by Józef Jankowski, Szczęsny Rutkowski, and Teodor Toeplitz, editors
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$9,500.00
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Warsaw: "Rój" (Drukarna Artystyczna and Drukarnia Techniczna Sp. Akc), 1929-1933. Octavos (ca. 22.5 × 16.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; ca. 32-64 pp. per issue. Numerous photographs and several pages of advertisements. Occasional light soil and wear to wrappers; a few issues with somewhat more significant wear, but overall about very good. Sixteen early issues (including two double issues)… Read more
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Profiles of Western Greek Mouldings
by Shoe, Lucy T.
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$850.00
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Two volumes: 191 pp. text volume with 20 reproductions from photographs, together with plate volume with secondary title page "Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome, Volume XIV", comprising list of plates and 32 32 full-page plates displaying outlines of Greek moulding designs. Text volume: 8vo., cloth boards. Plate volume: loose as issued in red cardstock portfolio,… Read more
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Dokumentum: művészeti és társadalmi beszámoló [Document: artistic and social reports], nos. 1-5 (all published)
by Kassák, Lajos, editor
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Budapest, 1926-1927. Large octavos (24.5 × 17 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 52, 40, 36, 36, and 36 pp. Illustrated from photographs throughout. Good to very good copies of these fragile publications, with light wear to wrappers. Two issues with pencil ownership annotation to cover (see below). Complete run of the rare Hungarian avant-garde journal, published by Lajos Kassák… Read more
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Les Ruines de Paris, 1871, together with five views from "Insurrection de Paris, 1871."
by Wulff, Jne
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Photograph album containing a list of plates followed by 20 mounted photographic prints of buildings or locations which were presumably damaged during the defeat of the Commune, including the Tuileries, the Hôtel de Ville, Rue de Rivoli, and the Palais Royal. Oblong folio, images approx. 14.5 x 21.5 cm. Original publisher's gilt-lettered rose coth, recently rebacked. Boards toned along… Read more
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Description accompagnée des plans, coupes et élévations de plusieurs édifices remarquables, construit depuis le commencement de ce siècle à Saint-Pétersbourg, et dans quelques gouvernements de l'Empire de Russie, sur les dessins de Thomas de Thomon...architecte de S.M.l'Empereur de Russie et Roi de Pologne...professeur d'architectur e à l'Académie Impériale des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Pétersbourg (etc)
by Thomas de Thomon, (Jean-François)
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$4,750.00
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Rare volume documenting the principal architectural works executed in Russia and present-day Ukraine between the years 1802 and 1805 by the French architect J.F. Thomas de Thomon, including the Imperial (Bolshoi) Theatre in St. Petersburg, a neo-classical stock exchange building also in St. Petersburg, a theatre in Odessa, a triumphal column in Poltava to commemorate Peter the Great's… Read more
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Der praktische Landschaftsgärtner. Eine Anleitung zur Anlegung oder Verschönerung vom Gärten verschiedener Grösse. Mit Anweisungen zu einer Benützung des Küchengartens.Mit 21 Gartenplänen und vielen Gartenverzierungen
by Hertz, Wilhelm
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$1,750.00
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(1), 145, (5) pp. volume on 19th century German garden design and landscaping, including instructions on how to create or beautify gardens of various sizes and the uses of kitchen gardens, and 4-page publisher's directory, with 24 lithographed plates on 21 pages (first 21 plates with hand-coloring, 6 folding) depicting designs for different gardens as wells as illustrations of… Read more
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Les Châteaux des Croisés en Terre-Sainte. I. Le Crac des Chevaliers: Etude Historique et Archéologique. II. La Défense du Royaume de Jérusalem: Etude Historique, Geographique et Monumentale. III. La Défense du Comté de Tripoli et de la Principauté d'Antioche: Etude Historique, Geographique, Toponymique et Monumentale
by Deschamps, Paul
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Three volumes in six comprising a rare complete collection of the monumental work on the Crusader Castles in the Holy Lands, the first volume covering the history, architecture, and construction of the Syrian Crusader castle Crac des Chavaliers, the second volume on the history of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the construction of its fortresses and castles including Kerak,… Read more
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![image of Divadlo Práce: studie divadelního prostoru [Theater of labor: studies in theater space]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/138/898/1341898138.0.m.jpg)
Divadlo Práce: studie divadelního prostoru [Theater of labor: studies in theater space]
by Kouřil, Miroslav and Emil F. Burian
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Prague: Jaroslav Kohoutek, 1938. Oblong quarto (14.7 × 21.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 53, [3] pp. Wrappers beginning to detach from text block, but still intact; overall about very good. First edition of this study of various aspects of modern theater design, with many examples of historic theatrical constructions, a bibliography, and illustrations showing views, plans, and measured… Read more
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![image of Novaia ideia zemlevladeniia: proekt zemel'nago pereustroistva Rossii [New ideas on land ownership: project for the reformation of Russian agriculture]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/524/054/1330054524.0.m.1.jpg)
Novaia ideia zemlevladeniia: proekt zemel'nago pereustroistva Rossii [New ideas on land ownership: project for the reformation of Russian agriculture]
by Balinskii, P[etr]
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- First Russian edition
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$275.00
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First Russian edition. London: Edinburgh University Press, 1919. First Russian edition. Large octavo. Later cloth with decorative front wrapper preserved; 175, [1] pp. Eight leaves of color plates, one folded. Light soil to wrapper; first few pages slightly spotty; traces of moisture to gutter and lower edges; text and plates bright and clean. A scarce proposal for transforming… Read more
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Plány 1/100 na stavbu domu v Praze II, Karlovo nám. Změny. Original architectural floor and frontal plans for the construction of the "Palác Charitas" on Charles Square, a noted Prague functionalist building
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Prague: [1928]. Large quarto (34.5 × 24 cm). Original quarter-cloth with hand-written label to front board; fourteen bound-in folding maps, hand-colored, with official stamps, hand-written notes, and signatures, various sizes, approximately 49 × 85 cm. each. Boards rubbed and lightly distended; three of the maps have been removed from the binding, but are laid in loosely; occasional light… Read more
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Gruppirovki Sovetskoi arkhitektury [Soviet Architectural Organisatons]
by Mikhailov, A[leksei]
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Moscow-Leningrad: OGIZ-IZOGIZ, 1932. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 133, [2] pp with 11 photo-illustrations. Light discoloration to wrapper edges and chipping to spine; internally very good. Published at a critical moment in Soviet architecture, shortly after the project for the "Socialist reconstruction of Moscow" was announced by the Central Committee in 1931, this book by architectural… Read more
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Gyokei kinen Karafuto takushoku shashincho (Commemoration of the imperial visit: a photograph album of the colonization of Karafuto)
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Printed photograph album commemorating the visit of the Crown Prince to the Karafuto prefecture in the summer of 1925, with preface by Okishima Kamazo and edited by Fujii Shoji, consisting of 20 plates with 73 black and white photographs tracing the Crown Prince's trip including visits to schools, agricultural research stations, naval bases, goverment offices, and mines, as well… Read more
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La Terra dei Vivi: Nuova Estetica del Paesaggio Italiano. Quindicinale di Turismo - Arte - Architettura. No. 2 (25 Giugno 1933) through No. 7 (Ottobre 1933)
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6 out of a total of 7 issues published (lacking the first issue, each issue 8 pp.) of the short-lived Futurist journal dedicated to the new aesthetic of the Italian landscape and exploring art, architecture, and tourism, under the editorial direction of important Futurist figure Fillia, covering varied topics including modern architecture within Italy and abroad, the machinery aesthetic,… Read more
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![image of Dukhat na noviia sviat: sbornik pod redaktsiiata na D. B. Mitov [The spirit of the new world: an anthology edited by D. B. Mitov]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/617/623/1323623617.0.m.jpg)
Dukhat na noviia sviat: sbornik pod redaktsiiata na D. B. Mitov [The spirit of the new world: an anthology edited by D. B. Mitov]
by Mitov, Dimitur, editor and Max Metzger, designer
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Sofia: Azbuka, [1932]. Small quarto (22.3 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Max Metzger; 109, [3] pp. Poor condition; wrappers worn and chipped; traces of four strips of clear tape across spine; possibly lacking title; in protective mylar. First and only edition of a Bulgarian anthology, containing sixteen essays on the "new spirit" as expressed in scientific… Read more
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![image of Rotondy na Ukraini [Rotundas in Ukraine].; Ukrain'ska arkhitektura [Ukrainian architecture, series title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/074/115/1321115074.0.m.jpg)
Rotondy na Ukraini [Rotundas in Ukraine].; Ukrain'ska arkhitektura [Ukrainian architecture, series title]
by Sichyns'kyi, Volodymyr
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Kyiv: self-published, 1929. Octavo (25.3 × 18 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 32 pp. With fifteen smaller illustrations in the text. Very good. Scarce offprint on rotundas in Ukraine, originally published in the scientific journal of the Historical Section of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Sichynskyi (1894-1962) was a Ukrainian architect, artist, publisher, and art historian, educated in… Read more
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![image of Vydaiushchiesia pamiatniki arkhitektury Uzbekistana [Outstanding architectural monuments of Uzbekistan]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/330/984/1316984330.0.m.jpg)
Vydaiushchiesia pamiatniki arkhitektury Uzbekistana [Outstanding architectural monuments of Uzbekistan]
by Pugachenkova, Galina Anatol'evna and Lazar' Izrailevich Rempel'
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Tashkent: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo khudozhestvennoi literatury UzSSR, 1958. Quarto (26.7 × 21.3 cm). Publisher's embossed yellow buckram; 290, [2] pp. With 144 photographic reproductions, many of them full-page. Pinted on better paper stock. Lacks the original dust wrapper; else very good. Well-produced overview of rich heritage of Uzbek architectue, covering the most important archaeological sites , in Bukhara, Samarkand,… Read more
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Das Haus des Bürgers. I. Projekt 1. II. Projekt 2. III. Projekt 3. IV. Projekt 4. V. Projekt 5
by Jochem, Friedrich Wilhelm
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- 1905
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1905. Jochem. 5 volumes, each with a brief textual introduction (6, 3, 4, 4, 4 pp., respectively) prefacing a presentation of 54 total plates across the five booklets showing designs for five different private residences, each of which are excellent examples of the architectural applications of the Jugendstil style, including elevations, cross-sections, floor plans, and interior views of fine… Read more
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Villa Aldobrandina Tusculana, sive varii illius Hortorum et Fontium Prospectus
by Barrière, Dominique
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Folio containing engraved title page, dedication, and ad lectorem leaves followed by fine 19 engraved plates, comprising 11 full page and 8 double-page, depicting expansive views of the Villa Aldobrandini, various façades, fountains and garden grottos, and a number of scenes from Classical mythology, with a particular focus on the life of Apollo, including Apollo and the Cyclops, King… Read more
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Roma Sacra Antica, e Moderna Figurata, e Divisa in Tre Parti. Nella Prima delle quali si contengono tutte le Chiese, Reliquie, Stationi, Indulgenza, Ospedali, Monasteri, Compagnie, Collegii Seminari, Pitture, e Scolture, con la Vita de' Fondatori e Nomi degl'Artefici. Nella Seconda si contiene la Geneaologia di Romolo, la Serie de i Rè, Consoli, e Imperatori, Teatri, Anfiteatri, Naumachie, Cerchii, Fori, Curie, Palazzi, & altre Antichità. Nella Terza si contiene la descrittione dello Stato presente secondo l'ordine di quattordici Rioni, con le loro Strade, Piazze, Fontane, Palazzi, Gallerie, Musei, Librarie, Ville, Giardini, Statue, Quadri, Studii, Accademie, Medaglie, di tutti i Pontefici delineate dal Famoso Tempesta, e Nomi dell'Imperatori, Rè, e Duchi
by Molo, Giovanni Battista
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Three parts in one volume (xx, 456, 256, 142), the parts titled "Le Sette Chiese Principali", "Dell'Origine e Progresso dell'Alma Città di Roma e Sue Antichità", and "Roma Moderna", comprising the late 17th century guidebook to ancient and modern Rome, with information on the city's sacred, ancient, and modern architecture, including churches, basilicas, obelisks, arches, baths, circuses, columns, colosseums,… Read more
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