Architecture

Boston & Nerw York: Houghton Mifflin Co.. Very Good+. 1916. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Clean green pictorial cloth with bright gilt decorations on front cover and spine. (xii) 257pp. This edition printed within a ruled border and is limited to 800 copies of which 750 are for sale. Profusely illustrated with portraits; floor plans; maps; b/w photographs; A genealogical tree chart of the Jumel Estate; A mortuary letter. Interior of text is tight, clean and intact. Printed December 1916. The rise and fall of a famous and old house in NYC. Genealogy, Architecture ; Portraits, Floor Plans, Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 257 pages .

Madrid: Aguilar, 1980. Volume 2 only. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Madrid: Aguilar, 1982, first printing. Folio, 9 3/4" x 13", 308pp., 254 illustrations in black and white, 138 in color. Text in Spanish. Fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.

Philadelphia, PA.: J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1915. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/None Issued. VG/1st ed. Limited. A Very Good copy; a little wear along the heel of the covers, exposing the boards on the very tip of the front cover aswell as some wear and exposure on heel of rear cover. Title on cover bright and vibrant. Also bright on spine. 527pp. Illustrations fall into 8 Parts: Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown (Part 1), Part 2 Hampton Roads and the Lower James, Part 3 Richmond, Manchester and the Upper James. Part 4 Gloucester and the York River Country. Part 5 The Pappahannock and Potomac. Part 6 Piedmont and the South Side. Part 7 Beyond the Mountains. Part 8 The Eastern Shore. Many large and small scale photos in black and white. Interior is clean and unmarked. Hand tied binding is firm. Small attractive book mark from previous owner. I can have this in the mail to you tomorrow.

NEW - B&W photographs and texts documenting Edward James' house, a bizarre construction created in the jungles of Xilitla, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Fine. Erased pencil price and Alla stamp on front endpaper. 95 pp. En espanol.

Chicago & New York : The Radford Architectural Co., 1909. Illustrated, 316 pp. + 4 pp. Index with costs for plans. Very Good, rubbing to boards at edges, 1" diameter ink stain front end page. Half crushed red morocco over marbled boards, gilt stamped title at spine. A quite lovely copy of a rather uncommon book. . First Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Munn & Co, 1892. Paperback. Very Good. 16 pages (paginated [1], 16-30, xvi p.), 2 leaves of color plates: illustrations, plans; 41 cm. Stapled. Illustrated advertisements on 16 pages following text and on back wrapper. Contains plans for: a house for Henry Adams in Greenwich, Conn., by Lamb & Rich; a house for D. F. Merritt in Montclair, N.J., by Edward T. Hapgood; a $2,900-house for Lyman Haskins in Rutherford, N.J., by C. D. Jones; a house for Frank Syrett near Newark, N.J., by Munn & Co.; the North M. E. Church in Chester Hill, N.Y., by Charles E. Miller; a carriage house in Portland, Me., by John Calvin Stevens; a summer cottage on Great Diamond Island, Me., for Dr. Woodman by J. R. and W. P. Richards; a house by Theodore G. Hoster for himself in Rutherford, N.J.; a $3,300-house for Frederick E. Strom on Staten Island; row houses on W. 75th St., N.Y., by James T. Hall; and a house for Edmond F. Crocheron in Rutherford, N.J., by W. D. Peck. Also contains full-page illustration of the… Read More

New York: Munn & Co, 1892. Paperback. Very Good. 14, xviii p., 2 leaves of color plates: illustrations, plans; 41 cm. Stapled. Illustrated advertisements on 18 pages following text and on back wrapper. Contains plans for: a $2,500-house in Chambersburg, Pa., by M. R. Rhoads for himself; a house in Yonkers, N.Y., for Dr. S. G. Perry by Rossiter & Wright; a house in Marina Heights, Conn., for Theodore Sherwood by Henry Lambert; a house in Orange, N.J. for David Burr by Munn & Co.; a house in Portland, Me., for J. H. Drummond by John Calvin Stevens; a house in Bensonhurst, Long Island, for Charles Silvester by Parfitt Bros.; the American Yacht Club House at Milton Point, N.Y., by E. A. Sargent & Co.; a house in Upper Montclair, N.J., for William T. Francisco by Munn & Co.; and a house at Babylon, Long Island, for J. C. Robbins by George Skidmore. In Very Good Condition: front wrapper is lightly soiled, with minor loss at lower corner; otherwise, clean and solid.

New York, Random House, 1979, hardcover, xii-241 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, Very Good+ in Near Fine dustjacket, Signed by the Author without inscription on the front endpaper. Straight, tight, and clean with no markings, light foxing to text block edges, sharp corners. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, very slight edge bumps, in new Brodart sleeve. A social history of the famous 1884 apartment house, star of Rosemary's Baby, and home to New Yorkers such as Boris Karloff, Lauren Bacall, Leonard Bernstein, John Lennon and Yoko Ono as well as a few ghosts and a host of eccentrics. Illustrated with 16 pages of black-&-white plates. Index appended. ISBN 9780394410791

PLAN, SECTION and ELEVATION of the POO-TA-LA of TEMPLE of the LAMA at ZHE-HOL in TARTARYThis monumental temple which looks more like a fortified tower was drawn by HW Parish in 1793.This antique original copper plate engraving is from Sir George Leonard Staunton's atlas folio of prints to accompany "An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China . Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney". The work was published in London by G.Nicol in 1797. George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737-1806) was dispatched to Beijing in 1792 travelling via Madeira, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope and Indonesia. He was accompanied by George Staunton, and a retinue of suitably impressive size, including Stauntonâ s 11-year-old son who was nominally the ambassadorâ s page. On the embassy's arrival in China it emerged that the 11-year-old was the only European member of the embassy able to speak Mandarin, and thus the only one able to… Read More

Rizzoli, 1995-11-15. 1st Ed. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12x9x0. Signed. SIGNED BY FRANK STELLA and dated in the year of publication. First edition in as-new gift-worthy condition. Very heavy; international buyers please request a shipping quote prior to purchase. Signed by author.

D.W. Kingery, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. NF/NF/1st ed. Signed. A beautiful book, boldly signed on the title page( name only) by the author. Dust Jacket has no nicks or tears, good even color with a high gloss. Jacket now covered with a mylar sleeve. Book is clean and unmarked, firm binding, sharp cornered. Photos on just about every page. 189pp. Comes to you in an acid free document bag for storage. Mailed boxed, and I can have it in the mail tomorrow. BRBC

New York: The William T. Comstock Co., 1913. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 208 pages. Hardcover bound in original green cloth with front cover designs in red and white. Housed in a modern clear mylar or plastic jacket. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. A sound copy. The inner hinges have been reinforced with Japanese tissue. Color frontis. The text is illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. Text is clean. Scarce.

A comprehensive tribute to architect Stanford White, designer of the Washington Square Arch in New York, among other projects. White was a member of the famous McKim, Mead, and White Gilded Age architectural firm, designers of New York's original Penn Station and other famous commissions.
Hardbound with no dust jacket, 1920 First Edition, measuring 12.5 by 17.5 inches. 33 pages followed by 56 plates, including sketches, drawings and photographs of White's oeuvre. Boards have edge and corner rubbing, a stain on the upper right front, and a piece of the top edge of the spine is missing. Some inside pages are lightly soiled but most are clean, in VG shape. See photos for more detail on book condition.
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Book cover like new, slight wear at end caps - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
Jacket like new, slight shelf wear.
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From the decision to move the capital of British India to the last architectural detail of Viceroy's House, Imperial The British Capital of the Indian Empire covers the entire scope of the masterful creation of New Delhi by esteemed architects such as Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker. With more than 300 black-and-white and full-colour illustrations, plans and photographs, this book presents the most comprehensive examination to date of how New Delhi was planned and built.

Hardcover revised edition, signed by the author. Excellent condition. Dust jacket in good condition, with some fading and scuffing. Pages bright and unmarked. B & W photos throughout. Comes with 1990 Inventory & Addendum sheet. Proceeds from the sale of this book support public library programming and services.