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[FRANCE]
1. Arms, Dorothy Noyes & John Taylor Arms.
Churches Of France.
New York: Macmillan, 1929. First edition. 179 pages. 29.5 x 22.5 cm. With fifty-one reproductions of etchings and drawings by John Taylor Arms. Reproductions are brilliant and with lettered tissue guards. Wide text margins, interior contents clean, fresh and bright. Orig. aquamarine boards front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Fine in original printed dust wrapper. Spine of latter spotted. $120.00
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[COLONIAL STYLES]
1A. Baum, Dwight James.
The Work of Dwight James Baum Architect With A Foreword by Harvey Wiley Corbett & an Introduction and Commentary Text by Matlack Price.
New York: William Helburn, 1927. First edition. 9 pages in text. Folio, 41 x 31 cm. 191 plates: photographs, plans, elevations and drawings. Baum was awarded a medal of honor of the Architectural League of New York in 1923 "for the simplicity and charm of his residential work." His work included Colonial, English and Dutch Colonial styles. Final chapter on his Miscellaneous work. Interior contents clean. Wear to backstrip extremities Orig. navy blue cloth lettered in gilt. Very good. $250.00
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[BRICK]
2. Boston. Rogers and Manson.
Old Brick Architecture of Holland and Belgium.
Boston: Rogers and Manson, 1900's. First edition. 1 Text page. 52 pages. 35 x 27 cm. Black and white full page photographs, each image described. Book label of publisher front cover paste-down. Interior contents clean and fresh. Front cover board lightly soiled with owner inscription at head. OCLC: 967237817. Half green cloth gilt lettered and beige boards. Very good. $60.00
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[SPAIN/BEAUX-ARTS]
3. Bottomley, Lawrence William.
Spanish Details Drawings, Photographs And Text.
New York: William Helburn, 1924. First edition. (viii) pages. 35 x 28 cm. 104 black and white plates printed recto only on high gloss stock. Full color frontispiece. Bottomley was a beaux-arts trained master of the period revival styles popular in the early to mid-20th century. Errata slip. Interior contents almost as new. Bookplate of Harlow N. Davock with his signature head of title page. Orig. red cloth front cover lettered in gilt. Very good. $250.00
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[CHURCH ARCHITECTURE]
4. Bowler, George.
Chapel and Church Architecture with Designs for Parsonages.
Boston & Cleveland: John R. Jewett & Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1856. First edition. 15 pages in text. Folio, 45.5 x 30 cm. Forty seven lithographed plates, 32 of which are chromolithographs. The superb plates were printed by Bufford's of Boston presenting simple wooden designs of country churches in the Anglo-Italian, Gothic, Byzantine, Romanesque, Norman and Grecian styles, and several parsonages. Materials include wood, granite and brownstone with the basic arrangement of an early 19th century meeting house -- longitudinal nave, tall tower, spine centralized on the gable end. His conservative designs illustrate the inherent conservatism and traditional New England perspective. Plates printed recto only with all plates very fresh and bright. Laid-in the original publisher prospectus for this work. Slight rubbing to extremities. HITCHCOCK 206, first and only edition. Orig. three quarter black roan and brown cloth, front cover decorated and illustrated in gilt. Back cover with same design in blind. Near fine.$795.00
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[AMERICAN HOMES]
5. Cleaveland, Henry W. & William Backus et al.
Village and Farm Cottages. The Requirements of American Village Homes Considered and Suggested; With Designs For Such Houses Of Moderate Cost.
New York: D. Appleton, 1856. First edition. 189 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Additional vignette title and twenty-three plates. Each design with plans. The latter were available for a modest fee; marketed to "the small farmer, and the laboring man generally." HITCHCOCK 272. KARPEL B233. "An important work covering the philosophy and value of a home, interiors, hints on construction, the improvement of grounds and gardens, and giving twenty-three designs, which are characterized by Vincent Scully as belonging to the second phase of the stick style." Scattered light foxing, binding firm and clean, gilt front cover and backstrip lettering. Nicks to backstrip extremities. Orig. brown publisher's cloth embossed in blind and lettered in gilt. Very good. $240.00
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[FARM & MANOR HOUSES]
6. Cram, Ralph Adams (Preface).
Farm Houses, Manor Houses, Minor Chateaux and Small Churches from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries in Normandy, Brittany And Other Parts of France.
New York: Architectural Book, 1917. First edition. 5 pages in text. 28.5 x 21 cm. Ninety-three black and white plates, most of them containing at least two illustrations per plate. Two world wars obliterated many of the buildings described herein. Sharp,bright copy, owner inscription front cover free endpaper. Orig. light brown cloth front cover gilt decorative border and lettering front cover. Near fine. $100.00
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[DOORWAYS]
7. Dahl, George Leighton.
Portals-Doorways and Windows of France With Preface By Professor George H. Edgell.
New York: Architectural Book, 1925. First edition. [xiii] 209 pages. 28 x 21 cm. 209 black and white plates. Each plate carries a scale drawing of a portal or doorway. Interior contents fresh and clean. Owner inscription front cover paste-down. One page advert at rear. A fresh, bright very clean copy. Maroon cloth, front cover decorated in gilt panel, black spine label in gilt. Near fine. $75.00
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[LIMITED EDITION]
8. Dana, Richard Henry.
Richard Henry Dana, (1879-1933) Architect Illustrations Of His Work Selected By Richard H. Dana, Jr. With A Foreword by Harmon H. Goldstone.
New York: Richard H. Dana,Jr., 1965. First edition. Unpaginated. 22 x 18 cm. Seventy-four plates selected by Richard H. Dana, Jr. Foreword by Harmon H. Goldstone. All the commissions here were designed and built between 1915-1930. Limited edition, copy 44 of 500. KARPEL B1183. "Dana worked in the colonial style." Laid-in a note signed by Richard H. Dana, Jr. to Mrs. Buel trusting this work will give her pleasure. Orig. gray cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine. $175.00
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[AMERICAN COLONIAL/NEWPORT]
8A. Downing, Antoinette F. & Vincent J. Scully, Jr.
The Architectural Heritage Of Newport Rhode Island 1640-1915. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1952. First edition. 241 pages in text. 30.5 x 23 cm. 250 plates, most of which contain two or more illustrations per plate; many withdrawings and plans to scale. With key map, a paste-down at back cover. Notes. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER J309. "An exemplary history of the architecture of atown. Meticulous scholarship." KARPEL B755. "This won the Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award... A great book... Contains superb illustrations." Orig. blue-green cloth. Near fine in illustrated dust wrapper nicked at spine with some loss at head. $100.00
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[LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE]
9. Erdberg, Eleanor Von.
Chinese Influence On European Garden Structures.
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1936. First edition. 221 pages. 26 x 20 cm. Ninety-four black and white illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Annotated List of Buildings Mentioned in the Text. Edited by Bremer Whidden Pond. Von Erdberg sums up, "The eighteenth century covered many pages with the pros and cons of the Chinese garden and its buildings. Its charm......helped the Chinese style to an easy victory." Lovely as new copy. Orig. brick cloth. Fine in fine, plain dust wrapper. $200.00
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[AMERICAN COLONIAL]
10. French, Leigh Jr.
Colonial Interiors Photographs And Measured Drawings Of The Colonial And Early Federal Periods With an Introduction by Charles Over Cornelius.
New York: William Helburn, 1923. First edition. 18 pages in text. Folio, 34 x 24.5 cm. 125 plates of Interiors, Stairs, Interior Doors, Interior Windows and Cupboards, Scaled Details. Chronology of Illustrations -- from mid seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. KARPEL B150. "Colonial Interior Series, No. 1." ROOS 375. Title page printed in red and black. Interior contents fresh and clean, illustrations printed recto only on glossy stock. Orig. navy cloth backstrip and front cover lettered in gilt. Very good. $125.00
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[LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE/VERSAILLES]
11. French, Leigh, Jr. & H.D. Eberlein.
The Smaller Houses And Gardens Of Versailles From 1680-1815
New York: Pencil Points, 1929. First edition. Eighteen pages in text. 30 x 22.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with photographs, drawings to scale, and plans. French domestic architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries. Book stamp of Frederick R. Ring Architect & Frederick & Edith Ring, front cover past-down and free front endpaper. Interior contents clean, bright and printed on glossy stock. Orig. thick light blue boards and navy cloth. Front covers toned. Very good. $125.00
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[FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DESIGNS]
11A. Gannet, William C.
The House Beautiful In A Setting Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright And Printed By Hand At The Auvergne Press In River Forest By William Herman Winslow And Frank Lloyd Wright During The Winter Months Of The Year Eighteen Hundred Ninety Six and Seven.
Park Forest: W.R. Hasbrouck, 1963. Reprint. Unpaginated. 35 x 29.5 cm. This is the second publication of The Prairie School Press, the first being "A System of Architectural Ornament" by Louis Sullivan. A facsimile of the original edition with Wright's design faithfully adhered to, printed in red and black on eighty pound antique finished paper and bound as the original, with a small folio of Wright's nature photographs, handsewn in booklet form as was the original tipped inside the front cover. Laid-in, the original type written announcement of this work by the publisher. Interior contents clean and crisp. Orig. brown and green cloth. Fine. $500.00
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[AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE]
11B. Graham Anderson Probst & White.
The Architectural Work of Graham Anderson Probst & White.
London: B.T. Batsford, 1933. First edition. Large folio, 42 x 30 cm.with more than 2000 photogravure plates. Predecessors D. H. Burnham & Co. and Graham Burnham & Co., and among the most lavish architectural monographs devoted to an American firm. Printed for private circulation only, this copy signed and presented by Ernest R. Graham to Mr. James P. Foraker. Later gift inscription by Mr. Foraker below. Graham was involved in the engineering and design of Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and a co-founder of this firm. Founded in 1894, they executed some of the best known buildings in America such as Pennsylvania Station, Philadelphia, Union Stations in Chicago and Washington, D. C., the Field Museum, Chicago, the Flatiron Building, New York, the Wrigley Building, Chicago, and department stores Wannamaker, both Philadelphia and New York branches, Marshall Field, Chicago, and Filenes, Boston. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. tiny paint dot to one volume, some light flecking to gilt rules, marbled endpapers. A very bright, handsome set. Large thick folio gilt-stamped brown morocco. Near fine in slipcases with a few stains. Teg. 2 Vols. $2,150.00
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[MAJOR USA ARCHITECTURE]
12. Hoak, Edward Warren & Willis Humphrey.
Masterpieces Of Architecture In The United States Memorials, Museums, Libraries, Churches, Public Buildings, Hotels, And Office Buildings With An Introduction By Paul P. Cret.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First edition. [X], 225 pages. Folio, 44 x 33 cm. Several hundred photographs accompanied by measured drawings of this great depression production. The Jury: C.H. Aldrich, H.W. Corbett, R.A. Crum, W.M. Mead, R.M. Hood, W.M. Kendall, H. Van B. Magonigle, Paul Cret, R.T. Walker, Henry Sternfield and Milton Medary. Very fresh and bright copy with the interior almost as new. The Church of St. Vincent Ferrar, New York City designed by Grosvenor Goodhue one notable item herein. Slight rubbing to spine head and foot. Orig. quarter navy spine and azure blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Very good. $350.00
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[AMERICAN COLONIAL]
13. Howells, John Mead.
Lost Examples of Colonial Architecture Buildings That Have Disappeared Or Been So Altered As To Be Denatured.
New York: William Helburn, 1931. First edition. 246 pages 33 2 24 cm. 244 plates. With an Introduction by Fiske Kimball. Limited edition, copy 543 of 1100. KARPEL B691. "A fine collection of old photographs arranged in categories: public buildings, semi-public buildings, churches, town houses, doorways, country houses, cottages, interiors, details, and miscellaneous. A bright, very fresh copy, illustrations printed on glossy stock. Small book label of Architectural Book Publishing Co. front cover pastedown. Orig. navy cloth, backstrip and front cover lettered in gilt. Near fine in very good dust wrapper, slight loss at spine bottom and back cover head. $120.00
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[MODERN ENGLISH]
14. James, C.H. & F.R. Yerbury (Edited by).
Modern English Houses And Interiors.
London: Ernest Benn Ltd, 1925. First edition. vii text. 28 x 22 cm. 99 pages of high gloss illustrations all printed recto only -- drawings, plans to scale, interior and exterior photographs. Index to Architects with key to plates. Interior contents very fresh, clean and bright. Orig. red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt. Very good. $85.00
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[AMERICAN MODERN]
15. Johnson, Philip.
Philip Johnson Architecture 1949-1965.
New York: Holt, Rinehart &Winston, 1966. First edition. 115 pages. 28.5 x 26 cm. Signed presentation copy in blue ink to August Heckscher May 1966 (Parks Commissioner under Mayor John V. Lindsay who was long active in public affairs). Introduction by Henry-Russell Hitchcock. Fifty-one color plates with plans present all of Johnson's major buildings. The monograph is completed by a thorough chronology of all of Johnson's architecture and a bibliography of writings by and about the architect. FREITAG 4631. KARPEL B1239. Orig. light beige cloth Fine in fine dust wrapper. $200.00
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[EARLY AMERICAN]
16. Kelly, John Frederick.
Early Connecticut Architecture Measured Drawings With Full Size Details Of Moulded Sections Supplemented By Photographs First and Second Series.
New York: William Helburn Inc, 1924, 1931. First editions. Unpaginated. 36 x 26 cm. 25 & 20 plates respectively printed recto or verso only on glossy stock, each with measured drawings providing scale and elevation. All moulded sections appear at the exact size of the originals. "Connecticut's early architecture has certain qualities that are peculiar to itself....a certain delightful naiveté." KARPEL 770. "....with full size details of moulded sections supplemented by photographs." ROOS 647. Interior contents sharp, fresh and very clean. Owner stamp Second Series front endpaper of Hartford architect Walter P. Crabtree. Jr. Orig. thick, charcoal boards and navy cloth & light green and navy cloth. 2 Vols. $375.00
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[NEW ENGLAND]
17. Kingman, Ralph Clarke.
New England Georgian Architecture 55 Measured Drawings With full Size Details.
New York: The Architectural Publishing Company [Paul Wenzel & Maurice Krakow], 1913. First edition. Unpaginated. Folio, 34 x 29.5 cm. Book label of Architects Richard Hawley Cuttlag, All plates printed recto only with interior contents very fresh, clean and bright. Rubbing to spine head and footl. Orig. quarter beige cloth and decorated boards. Very good. $215.00
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[ITALIAN VILLAS]
18. Lowell, Guy.
More Small Italian Villas & Farmhouses.
New York: Architectural Book, 1920. First edition. 140 pages. Folio, 18 x 12". 140 black and white plates, photographs and sketches made by Edgar I. Williams and by Harold R. Shurtleff. Interior clean and fresh, binding tight. All plates printed recto only on high gloss stock. Lowell is perhaps most recognized for his design of two public buildings: the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the New York State Supreme Court building in New York City. Orig. navy front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Near fine. $200.00
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[COTTAGE ORNES]
19. Lugar, Robert.
The Country Gentleman's Architect: Containing A Variety of Designs For Farm-Houses and Farm-Yards Of Different Magnitudes, Arranged On The Most Approved Principles For Arable, Grazing, Feeding, And Dairy Farms; et al....
London: M. Taylor, 1838. New Edition. 32 pages (text). 30.5 x 24.5 cm. Twenty two plates, many are large foldouts with detailed descriptions for each plate, latter to scale. Interior contents very fresh, bright and clean. COLVIN, pp, 526-528. "Lugar was a skillful practitioner of the picturesque, exploring the fashion of the 'cottages ornes' and castelatted mansions in the manner of John Nash." Some light rubbing to extremities in a very solid binding. Orig. quarter brown cloth and light salmon lettered boards. Very good. $400.00
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[LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE]
20. Marshall, Charles.
An Introduction To The Knowledge And Practice Of Gardening.
London: For the author by John Rider, 1796. First edition. 443, 10 (Index). 17 1/2 x 11 cm. List of Subscribers. HENREY Vol.II, p.468. "This instructive little book, written professedly for the your gardener, remained popular over a long period.....the author was the Vicar of Brixworth, a small village in Northamptonshire." Inked owner inscription title page head, "Dame Susannah Harland 1797." Contains a detailed monthly calendar for planting. Modest, scattered text age-toning, corner wear, backstrip extremities chipped with light loss. Contemporary full sheep. Very good. $300.00
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[NEW ENGLAND]
21. New York. The Architectural Book Publishing Co.
Details From Old New England Houses Measured And Drawn By Lois L. Howe And Constance Fuller.
New York: The Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1913. First edition. Unpaginated. Folio 36 x 27 cm. 50 plates printed recto only of stairs, paneling, window details, mantels, dormer windows, etc. All plates fresh, clean and bright. Two-toned mahogany cloth, paper spine label. Near fine. $175.00
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[FRENCH CHATEAUX/MANOR DESIGNS]
22. Newhall, Louis C.
The Minor Chateaux and Manor Houses of France of The XV and XVI Century. New York: Architectural Book, 1914. First edition. 60 pages. 28.5 x 21. 4 text and sixty pages of photographs, mostly two per page. All text and illustrations printed recto only on glossy stock. A pictorial record which undoubtedly includes no longer extant outuildings destroyed as a result of World War I. Newhall established his architectural career in 1901. Orig. light tan and dark spine with paper spine label and medium brown boards lettered in black. Very good. $125.00
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[ENGLISH HOMES]
23. Phillips, R.
Das Moderne Englische Haus.
Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, Nd. XV.192 pages. 28 x 22.5 cm. Owner inscription free endpaper dated 1927. 361 pages of illustrations -- photographs with plans to scale for every design printed on glossy stock. List of Architects and size for each design. Interior contents fresh and clean. Appears to be the German translation of Phillips, R. Randal's book published 1927. Orig. dark gray cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Very good.$85.00
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[AMERICAN COLONIAL]
24. Poor, Alfred Easton.
Colonial Architecture of Cape Cod Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.
New York: William Helburn, 1932. First edition. 28 x 21 cm. 135 plates including buildings, windows, doorways, interiors and measured drawings; however, there are a total of 200 individual photographs and plans. KARPEL B747. "A superb collection of photographs and measured drawings." ROOS 863. Laid-in his 1988 obituary from the New York Times. Spine slightly faded. Orig. green cloth spine and front cover lettered in black. Very good.$125.00
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[LATE GEORGIAN]
25. Ramsey, Stanley C. & J.D.M. Harvey.
Small Houses of the Late Georgian Period 1750 -1820 [Vol. 1] only.
New York: William Helburn, 1919. Second Impression. Vol.I: 16 pages in text. 100 plates. A review of Georgian architecture with stunning examples; well photographed. Interior contents very fresh and clean. Nicks to corners. Orig. green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Very good. $85.00
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[MODERN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE]
26. Reagan, Oliver & Lewis Mumford (Editors).
American Architecture Of The Twentieth Century A Series Of Photographs And Measured Drawings Of Modern Civic, Commercial And Industrial Buildings.
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc, 1927. First edition. Folio, 50 x 37 cm. The complete set. Two title pages and 140 full page plates of measured drawings and half tones. Buildings by York & Sawyer, A. L. Harmon, Raymond Hood (American Radiator Bldg.); Alfred Kahn (Ford Engineering Lab); Cass Gilbert; Cret, Zantzinger, Borie & c; Wm. Lee Woollett; B. G. Goodhue; John Mead Howells; Holabird & Root (333 North Michigan Ave.); Horace Trumbaure, Shreve & Lamb, etc. Preface by Lewis Mumford. A very important record of major buildings of the twenties. KARPEL B634. Lacks Mumford preface. Small library ink stamps at lower margins. Part one lacks small portion at lower right corner. Green cloth spine and gray boards. Very good. Parts 1-7 in 6 Vols.$395.00
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[LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY]
28. Reilly, C.H. & L.B. Budden.
The Liverpool University Architectural Sketch Book Being the Annual of the School of Architecture of the University of Liverpool.
London: The Architects' Journal & The Architectural Review, 1920. First edition. 108 pages. 30 x 25 cm. The Introduction notes the publication lapse during WWI, the previous edition published in 1913. Contents: Part 1 (Designs) and Part II (Measured Work). All images printed recto only on glossy stock are fresh, clean and bright. Last three pages denotes Staff, Register of Students and Course Certificates in Architecture. Small book seller label: Foyles, London. Quarter faux vellum and printed gray boards. Very good. $95.00
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[DUTCHESS COUNTY: WESTCHESTER NY]
29. Reynolds, Helen Wilkinson.
Dutchess County Doorways and Other Examples of Period-Work in Wood 1730-1830 with Accounts of Houses, Places and People.
New York: WIlliam Farquhar Payson, 1931. First edition. 280 pages in text. 28.5 x 22 cm. Illustrated in black and white with 204 photographic plates. Photographs by Margaret DeM. Brown. A remarkable photographic survey of elegant and early colonial buildings. KARPEL B808. "A fine collection of photographic plates." ROOS 1828. Endpapers are maps of Dutchess County. Rubbing to corners. Orig. two-toned brown cloth front cover lettered in gilt. Very good. $135.00
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[DESIGN/CIVIL]
30. Richardson, A.E. & Hector O. Corfiato.
Design in Civil Architecture Elevation treatments (Vol. 1).
London: The English University Press, Ltd, 1948. First edition. 216 pages. 31 x 24 cm, illustrated with a host of drawings drawings in black and white. Index. Aims to present fresh ideas in the treatment of elevations. Interior contents fresh and bright. Owner inscription front cover pastedown and bookseller label. Slight nick back cover head. Orig. navy cloth lettered in gilt. Very good. $75.00
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[PALACE RESTORATION]
31. Rosenberg, Louis Conrad.
The Davanzati Palace Florence Italy A Restored Palace of The Fourteenth Century Measured And Drawn Together With Short Descriptive Text.
New York: Architectural Book, 1922. First edition. [v] 72 pages. Folio, 35 x 27 cm. Seventy plates -- photographs, drawings, diagrams and plans -- drawings to scale; the book executed in an oversized format. An effort to examine the domestic architecture of the early Renaissance. The restoration was carried out under the supervision of Prof. Elia Volpe who purchased the property. Two pages of adverts at rear. Last few leaves with slight dampstains at head not affecting images. Orig. illustrated brick cloth chipped at backstrip extremities. Very good. $100.00
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[COLONIAL AMERICAN]
32. Shaw, Edward. Civil
Architecture: or a Complete Theoretical and Practical System of Building.
Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1836. Fourth edition. 208 pages. 27 x 22 cm, 100 copperplate engravings. Glossary of Architectural Terms. Glossary of Technical Terms. Rules of Work, Originally Adopted by the Carpenters of the Town of Boston, in 1774, and first published 1830. HITCHCOCK 1145 (Second edition enlarged). KARPEL B108."This was probably the most comprehensive single-volume handbook for American builders and architects published during the Greek Revival era. Of particular importance are the very complete and well-illustrated chapters on cornices, chimney pieces, doors, sliding partitions, windows, stairs, carpentry andbuilding. Scattered age-toning and foxing throughout. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards. Near fine.$495.00
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[COLONIAL AMERICAN]
33. Stotz, Charles Morse.
The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania A Record of Building Before 1860.
New York: William Helburn, 1936. First edition. 290 pages. Folio, 10 3/4" X 14". Introduction by Fiske Kimball. More than 400 photographs; eighty-one full-page plates selected from the most representative of 105 measured drawings. Two, three, or four drawings are devoted to important buildings. In all cases floor plans, principal elevations, details and molding profiles are presented. Fold-out map at rear. List of Structures. General Index. Bibliography. Limited edition, copy 140 of 1000. KARPEL B828. "It is an excellent regional architectural survey, quite superior as a work of scholarship to Eleanor Raymond's study of eastern Pennsylvania architecture." Orig. vermillion cloth slightly rubbed at t backstrip extremities. Very good.$170.00
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[MIDDLE AGES & RENAISSANCE]
34. Strack, Henry.
Brick and Terra-Cotta Work during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Italy With Original Sketches and Drawings.
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co, (1910). First edition. 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. Orig. publisher brown cloth, red leather spine labels printed in gilt (scuffed with slight loss). Very good. $300.00
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[FRENCH GOTHIC]
35. Van Pelt, John V.
Selected Monuments of French Gothic Architecture One Hundred Plates from the Archives de la Commission Des Monuments Historiques. Vol. III.
New York: Pencil Points Press, 1924. First edition. 213 pages. 30 x 23 cm. 105 plates with descriptive text. The Library of Architecture Documents Volume III. The Index names Cathedrals, Monuments and a Table of Plates. All plates printed recto only on glossy stock. Interior fresh, clean and bright. Owner signature front free endpaper dated 1928. Orig. quarter brown cloth and light brown boards front cover lettered in brown. Near fine. $100.00
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[AMERICAN COLONIAL]
36 Wallace, Philip B.
Colonial Ironwork In Old Philadelphia The Craftsmanship of the Early Days of the Republic.
New York: Architectural Book, 1930. First edition. 157 pages. 31 x 25 cm. Introduction by Fiske Kimball. Measured Drawings by William Allen Dunn. Profusely illustrated with excellent photographs and magnificently rendered drawings by Mr. Dunn. Interior contents fresh, clean and bright, illustrations printed on high gloss stock. ROOS 2342. Orig. navy cloth. spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Near fine in very good dust wrapper, spine tanned. $100.00
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[COLONIIAL AMERICAN]
37. Ware, William Rotch.
The Georgian Period Vols. 1-6 Being photographs and measured drawings of Colonial work with text.
New York: U.P.C. Book Company, 1923. 36 x 25.5 cm. 454 plates. Preface to the Revised Edition. List of Contributing Architects and Draughtmen. List of Parts. Numerical Chronology. Alphabetical Chronology. Alphabetical List of Plates. Geographical Index. Subject-Index of Plates. Table of Contents. A host of measured drawings to scale and numerous illustrations in the text. The author, an educator and the founder of the schools of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Columbia University. A towering work and long been regarded as the standard authority on Colonial architecture. Vol. I without cloth tie, balance all with cloth ties and interior flaps. save Vol. VI which lacks the front tie. Minor rubbing to spines head and foot. Nick to spine Vol. II. Interiors clean and bright printed on semi-gloss stock. Orig. quarter brown and cloth and brown boards. Very good. 6 Vols. $695.00
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[COUNTRY HOUSES]
38. Weaver, Sir Lawrence.
Small Country Houses of To-Day Vols 1-2.
London: Country Life, 1919, 1922. xv 222 & xv 212 pages. 29 x 22 cm. Volume I is the Third Edition Revised. Title pages printed in red and black. Host of illustrations printed on high gloss stock: photographs (interior and exterior), plats, and plans to scale. Indexes. Architects include Sir Reginald Blomfield, Baillie Scott, Guy Dawber et al. Interior contents of both volumes clean, fresh and bright. Small bookseller label pastedown front cover in both volumes with bookplate free endpaper of Vol.1. Orig. olive green cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt. 2 Vols. Very good. $195.00
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[AMERICAN ARCHITECT]
39 Whitaker, Charles Harris (Editor).
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue - Architect and Master of Many Arts.
NewYork: Press of the American Institute of Architects, 1925. First edition. 50 pages in text. Folio, 36 x 28 cm. 273 plates, a host of color reproductions. Text by Hartley Burr Alexander, Ralph Cram Adams, George Ellery Hale, Lee Lawrie, C. Howard Walker and Charles Harris Whitaker. Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue was an American architect, celebrated for his work in neo-gothic design. He also designed several notable typefaces, including Cheltenham and Merrymount for the Merrymount Press. KARPEL B1186. "A monumental work ......" Errata slip, decorated endpapers, interior contents immaculate. Slight rubbing to backstrip foot. Orig. cream and navy cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt. Very good. $370.00
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[AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE]
40. Woodward, Geo. W. & Edward G. Thompson.
Woodward's National Architect; Containing 1000 Original Designs, Plans and Details, To Working Scale, To Working Scale, For The Practical Construction Of Dwellings Houses For The Country, Suburb And Village with Full And complte Sets of Specifications And An Estimate Of The Cost Of Each Design.
New York: Geo. E. Woodward, [1869]. First edition. 26 pages in text, 100 lithographic plates, advertisements at end of text with twelve full-color lithographic samples of floor tiles. This volume contains full blown stick style for cottages, houses, an ice house, boat and bath house, schoolhouse,stable, French villa, church, miscellaneous details [french roofs, dormer windows, bay windows and tower roofs, etc]. HITCHCOCK 1437. Backstrip chipped at extremities, lower corners rubbed, Binding tight, plates clean and fresh. Orig. brown publisher's cloth. Very good. $300.00
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[ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN]
41. Wotton, Sir Henry K. T
The Elements of Architecture collected by Henry Wotton Kt from the best Authors and Examples.
London: Longmans, Green, And Co, 1903. 98 pages. 18 x 14 cm. Limited edition, one of 350 copies reprinted from the first impression, 1624 with the addition of the Dedication to Prince Charles. Printed at the Chiswick Press with the ornaments designed by Herbert P. Horne, for S.T. Prideaux. Recased in modern gray boards with original spine label laid-down. Fine.$200.00
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