Search Results: Design from The Owl at the Bridge

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.

New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, [1971].. Soft Cover. 96 p. illus. (part col.) 19.5 x 16.5 cm. "An introduction to the basic elements of the plastic arts." Stock# 40,471. Vg/ softcover.

Des Moines: Better Homes & Gardens Books, ©1998. Hard Cover. 112 p., 160 color illus.; 28 cm. Organised by time requirement. Contains numerous photographs of rooms, with captions pointing out simple design techniques and how to achieve them. Some require only a rearrangement of furniture, while others require skill with needle and thread. Instructions for projects are provided at the end of the book. ISBN(10) 0696209179. Stock#L123. Vg.

Brown University, Providence, R.I., Oct. 28, 1977. Soft Cover. Signed. [25] p. 28 cm. Typescript, stapled In the fifteenth century, the printed book as we know it came into being. This was made possible by the invention of the process of accurately casting movable types in quantity, of assembling them into pages, and of impressing them on sheets of paper on a press. ...This exhibition is designed to illustrate the history of the art ofprinting from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries by a selection of characteristic and significant examples. ...The books have been drawn entirely from the collection of the John Carter Brown Library. (Danial Elliott, Bibliographical Assistant). Stock# 40,897x. Vg/ photocopy. Bibliography, book arts.

In Italian. A compilation of artworks in L'Osservanza, a church on the outskirts of Siena in Tuscany (Italy; consecrated in 1451 by the archbishop Niccolò Piccolomini and completed around 1490). Contents: La basilica e il convento dell'Osservanza; L'architettura della basilica e del convento dell'Osservanza; Opere d'arte all'Osservanza; La libreria di coro dell'Osservanza e la miniatura senese del Quattrocento; I libri del coro; Indice dei nomi e dei luoghi. 359 pages, index, copiously illustrated with color enlargements of illuminated choral music; 31.5 cm.; dust jacket edges slightly curled & shelfworn; Very Good+; essentially new. Stock#ofc0248.

"From Roman peristyle to 20th-century patio, Anne Scott-James conducts us through 2000 years of the English garden... We learn of each age's distinguished botanists, designers and architects ..." 128 pages, index, illus; color pictorial paper covers; minor wear; Good. Stock#ofc0437.

xvi, 271 p., illus.; 21.5 cm. "This book is designed for those who desire elementary teaching in culture history in antiques." Amply illustrated with simple crude woodcuts. Stock#48055.

Museum of Primitive Art, NY, 1968. Soft Cover. 17 p.; 28 cm. "This bibliography is designed as a survey of the writings on Benin art." Contents include Art, History (Chronicles & Travelers' Accounts; General Historical Studies), Anthropology (Ethnography & Ethnology; District Officers' Reports), and Linguistics. Stapled in printed wraps; minor wear; VG. stock#45031.

New York Botanical Garden, 1946, 1947, 1948. Periodical. "A Quarterly Review Published by The New York Botanical Garden." Includes Maguire, New Worlds To Conquer [botanical exploration in tropical South America]; Botany in War; photos from the Flower Show; Spruyt, DDT in the Home Garden; running series Did You Know that--?; Bromley, Care of the Smaller Evergreens; Keessen, Landscaping Your Tulip Garden; Simpson, Garden Beds; Hill, Flowering Crab-Apples; Dodge, Boxwood Troubles; Everett, Time-Table for Advance Seed Sowing & Devil's Tongue & Beware the Anacardiaceae! [poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, cashew plant, mango, rhus vernicifera, gluta renghas] & English Wallflowers & Hot-Weather Transplanting; Degener, Plant Explorer in Fiji; Jungle Cures; King, Small Fruits for the Home Garden; Essen, Practical Pointers on Evergreen Planting; Brass, The Vernay Nyasaland Expedition; Beckett, Why Not Grow Your Own Celery?; De Bevoise, Rock Gardens in New England; Lamson,… Read More

Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, 1956. Periodical. [36] p., [69] illus., 22.5 cm. The 69 pieces illustrated range from the Museum's excellent collection of classical artifacts to some fine Impressionist paintings. Stock# 44,110. Vg / soft cover.

NY, Bantam Books, c1988. Hard Cover. 143 p., 125 color illus.; 26 cm. How surfaces can be painted, printed and papered with a wide variety of textures, patterns and colors. ISBN(10) 0553052527. Stock#46647. Good+, front fly torn out / dj vg.