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New York: Co-operative Building Plan Association, Architects, 1889. Hardcover. Orig. green portfolio, lacking top flap and cloth ties. Very good.. 8 pages in text. Folio, 36 x 28 cm. Thirty-two plates (floor plans and perspective views) including one color chromolithograph. Text of the Descriptive Price List of all plans produced by Shoppell, and a page of References from happy customers. HITCHCOCK 1179 notes the complete six volume set produced by the Co-operative, and indicates this series was reissued in 1889. We believe our copy reflects the Hitchcock reissue. Loose as issued, front cover darkened at fore-edge, marginal dampstaining to text.

Taliesin: Np, 1940. Wraps. Cream stationery with four folds. Near fine. Two leaves, 18 x 27. Musson was an architect at Taliesin from 1935-1937. Hand written letter in blue ink Mrs. Wright chastises Musson for going out on his own. She chides Musson: "This endeavor (Taliesen) is a great one. I would have liked to have seen you a part of it.

Rome: Pietro Piale & Mariano de Romanis, 1824. Third edition. leather_bound. Full modern antique niger. Near fine. 2 vols. (2) xvi, xxxii, 256' vi, 238 pages. 27.9 x 20.3 cm. Engraved vignette on title-pages, engraved portrait following title, 2 engraved head-pieces, large engraved folding map, 68 engraved plates after Piranesi, Morel, Rinaldi. Ferrerri, Duflos and others. Complete with 70 copper engraved plates of which 23 are by Piranesi. Included is a large fold-out map of Rome of Pirro Ligorio. An important work on the monuments of Rome. CICOGNARA 3905 (for 1st edition). Some marginal browning and spotting. Raised bands, spine decorations in blind, olive spine labels lettered in gilt.

Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 78 pages in text. Introduction by George B. Tatum. With thirty-three photographs of Hutton's work, most of them by Cortlandt van Dyke Hubbard. Notes. Index. Chronological Commissions of Addison Hunter. A microcosm of most of the essential elements for a history of American architecture from 1850-1900. Orig. black cloth. KARPEL B1111. "...drawn upon her own memories...of his life and career.

Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1994. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. 633 pages. An illustrated state by state guide with an extensive index. Bookplate.

Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated green cloth.Very good. 8vo, 99 pages in text. 115 illustrations in the text and nine plates. A survey of Spanish church architecture. Text in German Interior contents very clean and fresh. Ex-library.

Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 320 pages. Large 4to, plethora of color and black and white plates view 102 sites, two in every state and the District of Columbia -- glorious restorations arecaptured in color.

New York: Praeger, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Fine in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. 275 pages. 26 x 23 cm. 525 illustrations include photographs, drawings and maps. A Note on Method and Bibliography. Index. Scully's thesis here is "to present a history of architecture in which city planning is regarded as an inseparable part of the whole both in immediate physical effect and in ultimate social significance." KARPEL B619 "According to Albert Fein, this is a mature and important scholar's most comprehensive statement regarding American buildings and the cities that contain them.

New York: Rizzoli, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. laminated blue cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 254 pages. 30.5 x 24 cm. Feature 24 of the best examples of work by this firm located in Connecticut, New York, Virginia and Florida, and restoration of six New York town houses. Profusely illustrated with color photographs.

New York: Abrams, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Near fine in near fine dust wrapper. 487 pages. With 839 illustrations, including 166 in full-color. Bibliography. Index. Owner inscription. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER I477 ."An excellent, critical survey of 20th-Century American painting, sculpture and architecture.

Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 193 pages. 26 x 18 cm. Host of photographs, plans to scale. A study of origins shaped by central and western European countries with the Fenno-Scandian settlers exerting the largest degree of influence. Bibliography. Index.

Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Very good. 262 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Approximately 40 illustrations. Notes. Index. KARPEL B33. "Perhaps the best early general survey." Clean, fresh copy, owner inscription, some pencil underlining.

New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Green cloth spine and gray boards. Very good. Parts 1-7 in 6 Vols. Folio, 50 x 37 cm. The complete set. Two title pages and 140 full page plates of measured drawings and half tones. Buildings by York & Sawyer, A. L. Harmon, Raymond Hood (American Radiator Bldg.); Alfred Kahn (Ford Engineering Lab); Cass Gilbert; Cret, Zantzinger, Borie & c; Wm. Lee Woollett; B. G. Goodhue; John Mead Howells; Holabird & Root (333 North Michigan Ave.); Horace Trumbaure, Shreve & Lamb, etc. Preface by Lewis Mumford. A very important record of major buildings of the twenties. KARPEL B634. Lacks Mumford preface. Small library ink stamps at lower margins. Part one lacks small portion at lower right corner.

Washington, DC: National Trust Historical Preservation, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth spine and illustrated boards. 311 pages. 475 black and white illustrations. Appendices including, Preservation Information Sources. Bibliography and Selected Reading List. Index. All the many varieties of architecture worth saving in the United States are documented here. Orig. illustrated gray boards and brown cloth.

New York: Castle Books, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Bookplate.Orig. cloth and boards. Near fine in slightly chipped dust wrapper. 271 pages. Illustrated with photographs of interior and exterior views. A tribute to the preservation movement and a warning to maintain vigilance: to protect the remaining historical landmark buildings.

Berlin: Rudolf Mosse, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. taupe boards lettered in black with black cloth spine lettered in blue. Very good. 222 pages. 35 x 24 cm. 4 page Forward by Mendelshohn and all text in German. Approx. 100 plates with last few leaves depicting the structures illustrated -- New York, Chicago, Detroit and Buffalo landmarks. Along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius, he was one of the founders of the progressive architectural group known as Der Ring. Known for his expressionist architecture, and a pioneer of the Art Deco and Streamline Moderne architecture. Wear to corners and backstrip extremities. Interior clean.

Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in slightly chipped dust wrapper. 314 pages. Eighty-five photographs, plans and drawings.Bibliography. Index. A study of structure, function and meaning in the architecture of the Batammaliba of Togo and Benin.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1837. Hardcover. Three quarter dark green cloth and brown morocco rebacked. Near fine. 74 pages & Alphabetical Index & Chronological Index, Folio, 50 x 33 cm. Etched frontispiece by and after Carter, and 106 etched plates. Originally issued in 27 parts, 'this is Carter's most important book... It was probably the first [work] to analyze the morphological development of English Gothic (or, as Carter insisted, ''the Pointed Arch style'') on a systematic comparative basis - something acknowledged by Britton in a tribute to Carter as ''the first to point out to the public the right way of delineating the component and detached parts of the old buildings of England'' Two volumes in one. AVERY p.172. RIBA I 569.A.

Berlin: Konrad Wittwer, 1891. Hardcover. Orig. three quarter brown morocco and board portfolio, spine stamped in gilt, three sets of cloth ties. Near fine.. No text. Folio, 41 x 31 cm. Sixty color lithograph plates printed recto only with black and white plans for each design -- one family, duplex and fourplex structures. -- luminous, quality lithographs in subtle tones. Kanter & Mohr, Buchhandling fur Architektur und Kunstgewerge label (Distributors) at title page and front cover, skillfully placed. OCLC notes two copies only. Plates clean and bright, slight front cover toning.

London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth. Very good. 189 pages. Fifty-one plates, many are gate-folds. Contents include: "Christian Antiquities of Tripolitania." "The Temple of the Imperial City of Luxor," "Roof-bosses in St. George's Chapel, Windsor," Some Seventeenth-century Houses in Great Yarmouth." Index. Volume 95 (Second Series, Vol. 45).