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  BRUMBAUGH, Thomas and others. ARCHITECTURE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE . 
         

 
 
                                              
Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1974. 4to. Boards, dust jacket. xvii, (i), 170 pages. First edition.

 
 
A part of The Historic American Buildings Survey, edited by Brumbaugh, Martha Strayhorn, Gary G. Gore; photographs by Jack Boucher. Fine.
 

$35.00 

  
CHAMBERLAIN, Samuel and Narcissa. SOUTHERN INTERIORS OF CHARLESTON  SOUTH CAROLINA .      


 
 
  
New York: Hastings House, (1956). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. Frontispiece, (v), 172 pages. First edition.  
 
 
 
One of the best photographic books of Charleston 's historic homes, with notes by the authors. Very good in a chipped dust jacket 


$35.00 

  DAVIDSON, Marshall B. HISTORY OF NOTABLE AMERICAN HOUSES.      
 
 
 
 
 
New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., (1971). 4to. Cloth, slipcase. 383 pages. First edition.
     
 
A presentation of American homes, shown in their historical context, with 650 photographs, drawings, and plans, including 100 color illustrations; with biographical essays by Margot Brill. Very good.  
 
  
 
 $35.00 
 

DAVIS, Deering, (and others). ALEXANDRIA HOUSES, 1750-1830.          
 
 
 
 
  New York: Bonanza Books, n.d. 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. 128 pages (including plates).


The photographs, which include some interiors and two measured drawings, are accompanied by brief historical descriptions of the buildings. Sticker of a "Member of the National Historic Trust", else very good.

 
 $25.00
 
 
 
DAVIS, Deering. ANNAPOLIS HOUSES, 1700-1775.        


 

 
   
 

 New York: Bonanza Books, (1947). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. Frontispiece, 124 pages


With an introduction by Joseph Mullen, interior and exterior views of colonial homes in Annapolis are photographed. Fine, in rubbed dust jacket 

 
$35.00


 
  EARLE, Swepson. MARYLAND 'S COLONIAL EASTERN SHORE .
    



New York: Weathervane Books, (1975). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. xx, 204 pages.


"Historical Sketches of Counties and of Some Notable Structures, Illustrated." Being a facsimile of the 1916 edition. With some underlining and notes on rear flyleaf, else a very good copy.
 
 

$25.00
 
    
FORMAN, Henry Chandlee.  TIDEWATER MARYLAND ARCHITECTURE AND GARDENS.       
       




New York: Bonanza, (1956.) Small 4to. Cloth spine, boards, dust jacket. xv, (i), 208 pages.

A sequel to Early Manor and Plantation Houses of Maryland .  Very good.

 

$45.00



GREIFF, Constance.  LOST AMERICA , FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE MISSISSIPPI .       




 
New York: Weathervane Books, (1971). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. Frontispiece, x, 244 pages.

With a foreword by James Biddle, the disappearance of America's architectural heritage is chronicled, with illustrations.  Dust jacket worn, else very good.

 
$30.00
 

     
 GUINNESS,  Desmond, and Julius Trousdale Sadler, Jr.  NEWPORT PRESERV'D.        
 
  



New York: Viking Press, (1982). 4to. Cloth spine, boards, dust jacket. Frontispiece, 152 pages. First edition.

Newport, Rhode Island's historic landmarks and architectural treasures of the eighteenth century are photographed and described. Ex-library.  Inscription on blank leaf.



$35.00
 

HAAS, Irvin.  AMERICA 'S HISTORIC HOUSES AND RESTORATIONS




New York: Castle Books, (1966). 4to. Cloth spine, boards, dust jacket. Frontispiece, 271 pages. First edition.


A photographic survey of American landmarks.  Minor creases and chips on dust jacket, else fine.


$35.00

  
KAUFFMAN, Henry J.  THE AMERICAN FARMHOUSE.       
  
     

 



New York: Hawthorn Books, (1975). 4to. Cloth spine, boards, dust jacket. xi, (i), 265 pages, 14 plates. First edition.

 
American farmhouses and outbuildings that were built during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries are studied; two hundred photographs and plans, and twenty-two color illustrations.  Very good in lightly handled dust jacket.


$35.00


LOUNSBURY, Carl R.  FROM STATEHOUSE TO COURTHOUSE.
  



( Columbia :) University of South Carolina Press, 2001. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. x, 113 pages. First edition.

Architectural study of the South Carolina statehouse in Charleston from the mid-eighteenth century.  Illustrated with photographs, views and architectural drawings.  Fine. 


$20.00


MURTAGH, William J.  MORAVIAN ARCHITECTURE AND TOWN PLANNING.       
                   


Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, (1967.) 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 145 pages. First edition..
 
On eighteenth century Moravian communities in America including Bethlehem , Pennsylvania .  Very good.


$55.00

 
NICHOLSON, Arnold.  AMERICAN HOUSES IN HISTORY.     
 




New York: Castle Books, (1965). 4to. Cloth spine, boards, dust jacket. 260 pages. First edition.



Being an illustrated look at the historic American houses from New England to California .  Rubbing to extremities, else very good.


$25.00


WILSON, Samuel, and Bernard Lemann.  NEW ORLEANS ARCHITECTURE.  Volume I.       
 



Gretna: Pelican Publishing, 1972. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. Frontispiece, xvi, 159 pages.


Part of a series, this volume is devoted to the Lower Garden District.  Very good.


$
50.00