Search Results: Architecture from The Owl at the Bridge

London, Great Western Railway, 1926. Hard Cover. x, 153 p., [102] p.of plates, illus., fold. map in back pocket; 26 cm. Discusses the abbeys in that area of Western England and Wales served by The Great Western Railway. Stock#46918. Good+, spine tips frayed, paper on boards mottled / no dj.

London, Great Western Railway, 1926. The abbeys in that area of Western England and Wales served by The Great Western Railway. Hard Cover. x, 153 pages, [102] pages of plates, illus., folding map in rear pocket; 26 cm. Vg/ no dj. Stock#NS0206.

NY, Harry N. Abrams, 2004. Hard Cover. 424 p., chiefly illus. (chiefly color); 23 cm. Morgan notes how confusing it is to sort out American styles of architecture; they are eclectic and have proliferated, borrowing from one another and from the past. This reference for homeowners and others contains 15 style-oriented chapters presenting a total of 23 styles (to incorporate regional variations), represented by some 400 houses from 40 states. ISBN (10): 0810949431. Stock#47058. Vg / dj vg.

"From 1890 to 1940, Americans designed and built classical architecture on an extraordinary scale... countless libraries, museums, universities, court houses, capitol buildings... rich with domes, pediments, colonnades... More than any other document of the period, The American Vignola laid the groundwork for this grand resurgence... Its author, William R. Ware... became America's leading teacher of the art of designing classical architecture." New from publisher. Softcover. xiii, 124 pages, 37 plates, 267 text figures; 28.5 cm. Stock#27843/h.

Chapel Hill, UNC, 1986. Soft Cover. xvi, 281 p., facsims, map, plan, 25.5 cm. "Juxtaposes reformers' ideals, producers' constraints, and the realities of middle-class family life during a century and a half of American history."Stock# 31,657. Vg/ soft covers.

Quito, Imprenta Municipal, 1961. Soft Cover. 72 p., 7 folding maps; 25.5 cm. Cover title: Cartografía Quiteña. City planning for the capital of Ecuador. Has SUNY Albany library stamps; good. Stock#30022.

NY, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. Hard Cover. 253 p., illus. (some color); 22 x 28 cm. Contains nearly 300 illustrations, many by Lin's students at Kansas State University. ISBN(10): 0442259530. Stock#46479. Vg, bookplate / dj vg.

[St. Paul, White Pine Bureau] 1919.. Periodical. 13, [3] p. illus. 28.5 cm. The White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs, vol. V, no. 1. Prepared for publication by Russell F. Whitehead..Title within ornamental border. Dwellings in Guilford, Branford, Stratford, South Glastonbury and South Coventry, Connecticut. Stock# 39,505. Vg/ paper.

London, Faber & Gwyer [1926].. Hard Cover. xi, 13-180 p., index, illus.; 23 cm. One of Britain's leading architects develops a Grammar of Design and offers various canons--Number, Punctuation, Inflection--not as rules, but as guides to perceive style. Stock# 34,289. Good+, olive-green cloth boards, extremities rubbed/ no dj.

New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. 401 p. 537 illus. index, 29 cm. Series: History of World Architecture. Includes 75 ground plans and 50 section drawings and elevations. Based on Murray's earlier writings on Italian Renaissance Architecture with material on the rest of Europe. Selected Bibliography: p. 385-386. Arntzen / Rainwater J52 (series) Stock# 43,990. VG/ dj vg.

Contents: Early Settlement; Early Building; Society and Commerce; Richard Munday's Era; Peter Harrison's Era; Newport in the Revolutionary War; Commerce and Building; Greek Revival; Stick Style; Shingle Style; Detailed Histories and Descriptions of Buildings; Spot Restoration Program Recommended for Historic Newport. "With more than 500 illustrations, including drawings and diagrams." xvi, 526 pages, index, illustrations, plates, map; 28.5 cm. Upper edge of color pictorial dust jacket has some tear & is curled over; withal Good+. Stock#ofc0543.

Cambridge, Harvard U. P., 1948. Hard Cover. xiv, 203 p.; illus. 26 cm. "Argues that the architecture of the old South until about 1700 was essentially late English medieval in construction and style." Karpel B854. Stock# 33,589. Good+, boards scuffed, smoker's spine/ no dj.

Paris, I. Gazeau, 1547 / [Ridgewood, N.J., Gregg Press, 1964]. Hard Cover. 155, [23] leaves, illus. (part fold.) 33 cm. Title continues: par Ian Martin ... pour le Roy treschrestien Henry II. Illus. by Jean Goujon. "Svr Vitrvve [par] Ian Govion": leaves [21]-[23] at end. Stock# 36542. Vg/ no dj.

New York Museum of Modern Art, 1949. Hard Cover. 127p. illus., 28.5 cm. From the earliest bridges and Roman and medieval designs to large modern structures. Stock# 36,313. Good, some brown spots from being stored in a damp place,else good/ no dj.

London, E. & F. Spon / NY, Spon & Chamberlain, 1914. Hard Cover. xxiv, 42 pages, 245, [1] plates. "Third Edition With 245 Full-Page Plates. New Impression." A rich encyclopedia of Victorian architectural detail. Some of the plates are architectural  details, plans and elevations, taken from examples in England, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy and the United States.. First published 1890; this is the fullest edition. Avery cat. 7: 758 is 2d ed. of 1895; . Stock#OB286.

Garden City : Doubleday & Company, 1956.. Soft Cover. 197 p. ; 18 cm. First published in 1914, these reflections on architecture, and especially Alberti and the Florentine Renaissance masters, should be read, as I was able to do, on a sunny day in the courtyard of the Pazzi Chapel. Stock# 40,366x. Good+/ used paperback.

New York, N.Y., Facts on File, c1982.. Soft Cover. 253 p., illus. (some col.), index, 19 cm. Translation of: Das grosse Buch der Baustile. Stock# 40,115. Vg/ paper.

North Dartmouth, MA, The Gallery, 1982]. Soft Cover. 15 p., illus., portrait; 22 x 28 cm. This copy contains four extra architectural drawings of Bristol, R.I. buildings. Records buildings in Bristol, Warren, Providence, Newport (R.I.) and Fall River and New Bedford (MA). Soft cover; Very Good. Stock#47451.

Boston, Little, Brown [1961]. First Edition. Hard Cover. x, 595 p. illus. 52 plates, index, 24 cm. The five parts are: I.1600-1860; II. 1860-1885; III. 1885-1913; IV. 1913-1933; V. 1933-1960. Bibliography: p. [513]-517. From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas of the Brown University Department of Philosophy. Stock# 44,026. Vg / no dj.

Some illustrations on lining papers. A young English architect spent a year in Rome and made sketches of Renaissance buildings and of classicism in the architecture of Rome and other visited parts of Italy. Hard Cover. 112 pages, chiefly illus. (some color); index, 20 cm. Stock#40376x. Vg/ no dj.