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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.

New York: Hastings House, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 598 pages. With 993 line drawings and over 100 plates. Comprehensive survey of Europe's architectural heritage. Glossary. Index. All the major historical styles are examined in this survey.

New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher brown cloth, red leather spine labels printed in gilt (scuffed with slight loss). Very good. 27 pages in text. Folio, 45 x 36 cm. Translated by Leigh Hunt. Fifty plates printed on glossy stock, most with multiple images -- photographs, drawings, plans, and details -- plus 103 figures in the text. The chief localities of brick -building regions are Tuscany, Umbria, Romagna, the Marches, Lombardy and Venice. Moderate extremity wear, interior contents clean and bright.

London: Phaidon, 1961. 1st English edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth front cover lettered in brown. Fine in nicked dust wrapper. Bruegel, Pieter. 240 pages. 30.5 x 23 cm. Small folio, 240 illustrations. Translated from the German by Luke Hermann. Critical catalogue of Bruegel's own drawings. FREITAG 1120. Chips to dust wrapper backstrip head.

New York: E.P. Dutton And Company, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. heavily gilt decorated front cover and spine. Teg. Very good. 431 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Index. Clean very fresh copy with wide text margins. Images are full page printed recto only on glossy stock. Railton trained as an architect and was one of the leading black and white illustrators of his day. Spine sunned.

London: Faber and Faber, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. ruby cloth. Very good in very good dust wrapper. 71 pages in text .8vo, 24 x 14 cm. More than 100 illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Index of Goldsmiths and Their Marks.

New York: M. Knoedler & Co, 1928. First edition. Paperback. Orig. gray wrappers printed in black. Near fine. 55 pages. Illustrated in black and white. 109 entries.

New York: Architectural Book, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth lettered in gilt. Very good. 102 pages. Folio, 34 x 27 cm. 10 pages in text and 102 plates in black and white. Index to plates with a description for each. From the Costwolds through Surrey, Sussex and Kent the builders were local craftsmen who used the materials at hand in the simplest ways. Host of full-page plans to scale. Bookplate, rubbing backstrip extremities; otherwise, bright, clean copy.

Milan: Gio. Battista Bidelli, 1645. leather_bound. Contemporary full vellum, remants of spine label. Very good. 228 (32) (a4-c4). 25.5 x 19 cm. Two parts in one volume. Engraved title by Blanc, portrait of the author on front leaf. Folded map of Cremona, folded plan map dated 1583, six engravings on four folded plates of Cremona Cathedral, the Torrazzo. Magnificently illustrated history of Cremona, one of the most beautiful illustrated books of the late Cinquecento. The work, divided in four books, contains the history of Cremona chronologically organized from the foundation by the Romans up to 1585. A fifth book, devoted to the description of the Cathedral and other churches, announced by the author was never published. The book is illustrated by 33 medallion portraits of Cremona prominent citizens and the dukes and duchesses of Milan by Agostino Carracci; many of the accompanying letterpress descriptions include a note as to the source of the image, including on page 104 a now lost portrait of… Read More

New York: Hacker Art Books, 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. Orig. tan cloth. Near fine. 67 pages in text. 30.5 x 23 cm. Eighty pages of plates . Foreword by M.J. Friedlaender -- "we have in many respects an ideal means to watch the tendencies of the development of art, firstly because the entire materials preserved intact, and secondly because date and place of origin are known." Clean copy.

New York: Tabard Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. clay cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 264 pages. 30 x 27 cm. 250 illustrations, forty-two in color. An important study in light of the many paintings destroyed in religious controversies. Catalogue herein completes this ground breaking study, listing almost all the significant paintings of the period under review -- the 1400's.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1933. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Very good. Three volumes in one, each with itsown Index and a list of illustrations in black and white. Approximately 300 pages in text total. Backstrip worn at joints and extremities with small tear at head.

Chicago: Art Institute, 1941. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Very good. An exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago Jan.13 - March 2, 1911. Black and white illustrated examples of prints described in text. Chronological Table of Paper and Papermaking. Bibliography. Cello tape remnant lower spine.

Florence & New York: Pantheon & Harcourt, Brace and World, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt and black. Teg. Fine in very good decorated dust wrappers. 2 vols. [XVII], [XVII] 35 & 38 pages in text respectively -- Vols 1-2. 31 x 24 cm. 88 and 112 plates. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER M227. "Trans. of `Die deutsche Buchmalerei.' An older, standard survey of German illumination; valuable for both its brief text and excellent illustrations." Clean, fresh set; plates and text.

London: George Bell & Sons, 1921. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Teg. Very good. 2 vols. 219 & 233 pages. 28 x 19.5 cm. Total of 200 plates, most with plans and drawings to scale. Bibliography. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER J167. "A standard work of French classical architecture." CHAMBERLAIN 846. LUCAS p53. Printed by the Chiswick Press, small owner label and bookseller label of Wm. Helburn, Inc, New York. Slight rubbing to backstrip extremities, interior contents fresh and clean in solid binding.

London: George Bell & Sons, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned cloth. Very good. Teg. 2 vols.. 431 pages in total. 28 x 20 cm. Approximately 250 plates. Title page printed in red and black. General Index. This was Blomfield's second work, which the DNB called "masterly," and noted they were, "learned, admirably written and well-illustrated." This work introduced Blomfield to many owners of historic mansions who employed him as architect. Armorial bookplates of Boies Perose II. Spine wear head and foot. Interior contents clean.

Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. delft cloth. Near fine. 3 vols. Voluminously illustrated in black and white with 178 figures in the text and 168 full-page plates. Vol.I: Notes on the Sculptors and on the Plates. Index of Sculptors. Index of Places to Parts I-III. Vol.II: Text, and Vol.III: Plates. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER K164. "The best introduction to Italian sculpture for the student and art lover. The scholarly notes are most valuable to the specialist." Karl Lunde's copy with his signature.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth lettered in gilt. Very good in worn dust wrapper. 264 pages. 30 x 25 cm. Host of tipped-in color plates. Notes. Index.

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. olive cloth. Near fine in slightly nicked dust wrapper. 546 pages. 28.5 x 21 cm. 266 illustrations: many from unique unpublished sources, include drawings and plans as well as photographs. Bibliography. Index. A definitive study. Slight toning to endpapers and fore-edges.

Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth. Fine in slightly chipped dust wrapper. 321 pages. 100 full-page, color drawings with analysis by the author, and two other specialists; Konrad Oberhuberand Eckhart Knab. This volume is an introduction to the Albertina's great treasures from the anonymous masters of the Florentine Trecento to FrancescoGuardi. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER L59.... includes biographical information, description, provenance, references, and brief discussion.