Search Results: Architecture and Decor from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(Cape Town: Caltex, 1966). 253 x 212 mm; pictorial card wrappers; unpaginated; numerous monochrome photographs. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. Articles include: Volksargitektuur in Suid-Afrika (James Walton), Die Nederlandse Boukuns voor Jan van Riebeeck (Jan Ploeger), Die Glorietydperk van die Kaaps-Hollands Boukuns (H. Fransen), Die Interieur van ou Wonings (Victor de Kock), Britse Invloed in Suid-Afrika (R.B. Lewcock), Britse Fortifikasies in Natal (G.A. Chadwick), Die Neo-Renaissance-Boukuns in die Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek en die Oranje-Vrystaat (H.M. Rex), Restourasie van Geboue (Norman Eaton), Historiese Bewaring in Suidwes-Afrika (Olga Levinson). .

(Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1968). Large 4to; original powder blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, and with gilt publisher's device to upper cover; dustwrapper; tinted top edge; pp. xi + (iii) + 49 + (i) + (113) + (vii), incl. index; plans, monochrome photographs and line drawings. Dustwrapper a little sunned, and somewhat worn, with clipped corner to lower flap, and earlier owner's tape repairs; corners of boards slightly bumped; a little foxing to edges; occasional fox spot elsewhere. A very good example of this celebrated monograph. "This is a new edition of what has become widely accepted as a classic and pioneering study of a subject of established importance. Originally published in 1933, Professor Pearse was the first to consider and describe the Cape architecture of the 18th century as an independent style, and to examine this within its historical perspective. In the cultural development of South Africa, there has been no greater achievement. ... The glory of this large… Read More

(London: Penguin, 2008). 197 x 128 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xiii + (i) + 602 + (viii); plates, some of which in full colour. Slightest curl to wraps. Near fine condition. "During his short life Pugin was shipwrecked, bankrupted, widowed twice and driven to madness. Yet by the time of his death at forty he had changed the face of Britain with his visionary Gothic architecture, designing churches, cathedrals, houses and furnishings, and even sketching designs for the clock tower that would become famous as 'Big Ben' in his last moments of sanity. Rosemary Hill's astonishing biography reveals the extraordinary story of his turbulent, romantic life for the first time." .

(London: Phaidon Press, 1999) 0 7148 3480 7. 220 x 160 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 447; lavishly illustrated in colour and monochrome. Slight bump to tail of spine; previous owner's discreet book label to first page. Near fine condition. "At the height of the Victorian period, a passion for the Gothic style swept England and spread far beyond. Gothic architecture, associated with the social and cultural ideals of the Middle Ages, was seen as a means of remaking the modern world. In this lucid exposition, Chris Brooks unravels the layers of meaning that Gothic held for its many reinventors - from the political uses of Gothic history in the seventeenth century to Barry and Pugin's Houses of Parliament in the mid-nineteenth. Yet Gothic is not just buildings: continually recreated, it has taken the form of poetry and fiction, of painting and sculpture, of movies and video games, of Gothic music and Gothic punk. Gothic became a dominant cultural and architectural force not… Read More

(Cape Town: Struikhof, 1989) 0947458018. 4to; laminated pictorial boards; pp. 192; profusely illustrated with line drawings and photographs. Boards partially sunned; some foxing to endpapers and edges. Good to very good condition. "This book extensively covers, in both text and full-colour and historical photographs and illustrations, approximately 300 of South Africa's most important buildings: national monuments as well as undeclared buildings. In addition a great deal of supplementary information is given, in the form of boxes and special features that occur throughout the text, so that the reader may read not only about the buildings, but also about the people associated with them. A glossary of architectural terms and features, a bibliography and an index complete the book. This is, most decidedly, not merely a catalogue of buildings nor a text-book for the single-minded devotee of architecture, but a book that entertains and informs. Equally useful at home or on holiday, it can be… Read More

(London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1926). A study of the time-markers of medieval churches, containing descriptions, photographs, diagrams and analysis of dials, chiefly in Hampshire, but also in various other counties. A volume in "The Historic Monuments of England" series. Demy 8vo; original dark green cloth, titled in gilt on spine; edges of upper board ruled in blind; pp. xx + 203, incl. index; plates; text figures; folding diagram. Very good condition; bottom edge of lower board slightly bumped; cloth a little stippled; accession stamp and date to front free endpaper; a few discreet, informed marginal annotations and a little underlining; regular light browning throughout. "It seems a pity that hitherto so little interest has been taken in this subject, for it undoubtedly forms a very interesting corner in ecclesiology. To many people who take an intelligent interest in the architecture of our parish churches the Mass-clock is quite unknown; they will converse… Read More

(Cape Town: Maskew Miller Ltd, 1952). 4to; original black rexine gilt; no dustwrapper; pp. 80, scraper-board illustrations, colour plates tipped on. Signed edition, limited to 250 copies. .

(London, Mitchell Beazley, 1988). Folio; original black boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper a little rubbed; past owner's name on front free endpaper; upper hinge splitting and reinforced with clear tape; some tape stains and light soiling to endpapers; pp. 408, incl. index/glossary. More than 1000 colour photographs; maps; time charts; cut-out reconstructions and perspective drawings. Good condition. "A definitive visual history of architecture, spanning the pre-classical era to modern times, from the Far East to Europe and the Americas." Please note that this book is heavy, and postage will be charged accordingly. .

(Cape Town: Howard B. Timmins, 1964). 4to; original green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; unpaginated; 31 full-page monochrome photographs on rectos, with captions on facing versos. Dustwrapper very rubbed and somewhat edgeworn; earlier owner's name penned on front free endpaper; some light foxing. Good condition. "A selection of photographs exhibited by the Simon van der Stel Foundation in Cape Town and Pretoria, October 1963." .