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New York: John Wiley, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 173 pages. 24 x 16 cm. An attempt to towards framing a rigorous theory of standardization in the face of the swift changes in building styles and construction methods. Illustrated with charts and photographs. Index. Small portion at dust wrapper rear cover bottom lacking.

Syracuse: Emerson Museum of Art, 1988. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. 57 pages. 28 x 19 cm. Illustrated in black and white -- Magdalena Abakanowicz et al.

Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth rebacked with front corners renewed, gilt deorated front cover image. Very good. 442 pages. 21 x 15 cm. 214 black and white illustrations. Translated by John Peto. A survey with sketches of contemporary architecture in Holland, Germany and Denmark presented to the French public. Beveled edges, front cover, backstrip slightly chipped at extremities. Bookplate.

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1959. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth, front cover illustrated in gilt. Teg. Very good. 264 pages. 31 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 93 of 200, an edition by Gwyn Jones with eleven collotype reproductions, mostly full-page. Printed in Caslon Old Face, a selection of the great folio verse translation by Dryden, Congreve, Addison, Pope, Gay et al. COCK-A-HOOP 209. Backstrip sunned.

Amsterdam: Sumptibus Societatis, 1702. leather_bound. Contemporary gilt ruled speckled brown calf. Very good. 3 Vols. 832, 805, 810 pages with Indices at the end of each volume. 20 x 12.5 cm. Additional engraved titles, portrait and 15 plates. DIBDIN, Vol. II, p.110. "This is emphatically called the variorum edition, and is professed to be an improvement upon N. Heinsius's; it contains many additional notes, and passages are explained by frequent references to ancient history." Free front endpapers mounted over early bookplates on pastedowns. Raised bands, spine panels with gilt motifs, a few nicks with some small loss head of Vol.I. A sound very firm set. Interior contents generally clean.

New York: House of Books, Ltd, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth cover and spine lettered in gilt. Fine in orig. glassine wrapper. Approx. 30 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Limited edition, copy 12 of 250 signed by Nathan in black ink: No. Six of The Crown Octavos printed by the Harbor Press. Purports to be a musical narrative of a monk in the eighteenth century concerning an ocarina and a drum. Almost as new copy.

New York: Sweetwater Editions, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. 114 pages. Oblong quarto, 30 x 42 cm. Limited edition, copy 288 of 475 signed by Neal and Parker, with an original rubbing, "Pompey Brenton, 1772, Rockport, Rhode Island," also signed by Neal and Parker laid-in. Forty-two plates with the names of the deceased. Glossary of Symbols Illustrated in the Book. Bibliography. Quality printing on glossy stock, plates and text bright and clean, an as new copy in the publisher shipping box.

Los Angeles: Press at the Gatehouse, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. orange/red cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine in fine decorated dust wrapper house in publisher's clear plastic case. 22 pages. 7 x 5 cm. Limited edition, one of 150 copies bound by Bela Blau. Color lithograph frontispiece and black an white illustrations in the text. The story of Fred Folio, the brash bibliophile.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter dark olive morocco and matching aubergine cloth. Teg. Very good. 2 vols. Unpaginated. 25 x 16 cm. Ninety-eight plates on India paper. Scattered. marginal plate toning. text generally clean, offsetting to Vol.II title and frontispiece. A review of English church architecture including screens, fonts and monuments. "The churches more fully illustrated here are those of Great and Little Malvern, St. Alban's, Shrewsbury, and Tewksbury Abbeys, the Churches of Stratford-upon-Avon, Croydon, Yarmouth, Thaxted, Cirencester, Melford, and Lavenham, with the principal churches of Oxford and Cambridge." Backstrip gilt lettering bright and fresh, calligraphic owner lettering Vol. I free endpaper.

Honolulu: Univ. Press of Hawaii, 1975. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Very good. 402 pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Ex-library. Early America evinced little interest in aesthetic concerns. Spine sunned.

New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Very good. 128 pages. Illustrated in black and white with nine tables and thirteen charts. Bibliography. Index. Early spin-doctoring.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1998. Hardcover. Orig. emerald green linen boards, gilt lettered title label on spine. Fine in near fine black cloth clam shell box, upper spine and front cover sunned. 32 unnumbered pages. Oblong folio, 31 x 39 cm. Limited edition, copy 13 of 300 on Velin Arches with ten photogravures by Ramey, and signed by the photographer, Edward Ramey and the translator, John Felstiner in the colophon. This edition of Pablo Neruda's poem, Heights of Macchu Picchu printed in English and Spanish. The typography was designed, set in Monotype Centaur, and printed by Dan Carr & Julia Ferrari at Golgonooza Letter Foundry in Ashuelot, New Hampshire. The photogravures were made and printed by Jon Goodman in Hadley, Massachusetts, with additional printing by Peter Pettengill in Hinsdale, New Hampshire.

Milan: Edizioni di Comunita, 1963. First Italian edition. Hardcover. Orig. basket weave beige cloth. Near fine. Nervi, Pier Luigi. 167 pages. Landscape 4to, 22 x 28 cm. Text in Italian. Abundantly illustrated with photographs, drawings and plans to scale. Index. This book continues the author's develop of the international modernism approach; includes many photographs taken during the process of construction and numerous sketches showing his use of prefabricated concrete components. FREITAG 6987 [Citing English edition].

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. mauve cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 328 pages. 26 x 26 cm. The seven album Atget produced between 1909 and 1915 of Paris were prototypes that were never published during the height of the Belle Epoque. They are here presented in sequence. Selected Bibliography.

NY: Gallery Books, 1979. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good in near fine dust wrapper. 390 pages. 377 color plates. Glossary. Index of Names and Works. Bibliography.

Paris: Audot, 1844. First edition. Boards. Later marbled boards with brown leather spine label printed in gilt. Fine. 104 pages in text. 18.5 x 22.5 cm. Twenty-one lithographic plates, one a large foldout (Greenhouse of the Botanical Garden at the University of Louvain), and containing eighty-eight individual illustrations of plats and greenhouses (design details of interior and exterior views). Some drawings to scale. Text covers construction of an orangerie, warm and cold weather greenhouses. The author was Chief gardener of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Lovely copy, slight text age-toning, original wrappers bound-in, marbled endpapers, a few plates with toning at fore-edge not affecting images. OCLC lists three copies only. Text in French.

London: Studio, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. salmon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, beveled edges. Very good. 23 pages in text. 31 z 25,5 cm. Limited edition, copy 27 of 1500. 103 plates, with nearly fifty, tipped-in, color plates with tissue guards. Illustrations after Aiken, Egerton, Howitt, Hunt, Pollard, Stubbs, Turner et al. Interior clean and fresh, spine faded, a few front cover spots.

Ryton, Dymock, Gloucester: New Numbers, 1914. First edition. Wraps. Orig. gray wrappers lettered in black. Near fine. 152 pages. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. Poetry and theater.

Ryton, Dymock, Gloucester: New Numbers, 1914. First edition. Wraps. Orig. gray wrappers lettered in black. Very good. 152 pages. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. Covers slightly shaded at front cover perimeters.

New York: William Helburn, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Very good in worn dust wrapper lacking small portion at spine head. 185 pages. 30 x 22 cm. 130 plates, photographs and measured drawings. KARPEL B966. "A monumental achievement in documentary effort and a fine interpretative study. The author shows how the neighboring states....all contributed to the development of Kentucky architecture." ROOS 2803. Owner label. Interior contents bright and clean.