4 volumes each 128 pages; each with over 100 illustrations including photographs, plans and drawings. The four volumes contained in a heavy card slipcase with a paper label on the front panel. Clean throughout; tight bindings. View More...
272 pages. A Roman Catholic perspective. The author examines canonical legislation with regard to church building and sacred art. Clean throughout. View More...
pp. 82-96; b&w photo-illustrations. The Brochures, a series of monographs on European architecture. Essay and photographs of buildings, views and architectural details in Dijon, France, "Pavilion of Buildings in the Botanical Garden, Dijon" is accompanied by an architectural scale plan and elevation drawing.. Clean throughout; tight binding; wrappers are age faded and rubbed along edges. View More...
192 pages; beautifully illustrated with full-page color plates and b&w text drawings. Covers doors and windows, ceilings, wall treatments, including paneling, moldings, floors, stairs, fireplaces, casework. The author is a fellow of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America. The book is published "in association with the Institute ....". Clean and bright throughout; tight binding. View More...
569 pages; 113 illustrations; A checklist of works, including published articles, drawings, designs, art criticism. The first volume of the planned 2 volume work. Clean throughout, tight binding. View More...
272 pages; 112 buildings; b&w photographs, some floorplans. A terrific pocketable guide. Clean throughout except for an ink notation on the front cover. View More...
296 pages; b&w illustrations throughout. The transformation of the newly created capital. Numerous plans and b&w photos. Damping to the front wrapper and the early 20 pages causing rippling; text and photos still easily legible. Worn but clean within; tight binding. View More...
96 pages; 79 homes pictured and described. "Introduction to Prarie Architecture", the opening essay. Biographican essays with photo-portraits of eight architects. Map. View More...
296 pages; 304 illustrations in color and b&w. Not a history of Modern Classicism but an examination of the importance of Classicism and its role of influence on design movements, including Modernism. One section examines the work of thirty architects. View More...
123 pages; over 200 illustrations, including 64 in color , 3 four-page foldouts. List of buildings; bibliography; Summaries in French, German, Italian and Spanish. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise nearly fine. View More...
348 pages; illustrated throughout. Introduction by Vincent Scully; 16 sections on notable architects by notable writers, for example Charles Bullfinch by Marshall B. Davidson; Henry Hobson Richardson by John Russell; Bernard Maybeck by Richard Reinhardt; Architects of Today by Paul Goldberger. Deluxe Edition contained in a sturdy pictorial slipcase. Spine faded. View More...
42 pages. Ceramic architectural decoration of Parisian buildings between 1880 and 1930. Includes a walking tour of the buildings with a fold-out map and principal information in French. The body of the book in French, Engish and Japanese text. Clean throughout; pages fresh. View More...
46 pages; thoroughly illustrated in color by Peter Spier. A pocket-sized outline of architecture, ancient to modern. The author taught the history of architecture at Columbia University. An attractive volume; clean throughout, tight binding. View More...
590 pages; numerous illustrations, color and b&w. The 1890s to 1920, a period of remarkable change of Austrian politics, war and art. Dozens of artists form new principles of design; some are in the Secessionist Movement; some join the Wiener Werkstatte. Biographies appear at the end of the book. Clean and bright throughout; backstrip creased but binding tight; slipcase in fine condition. Italian text. View More...
unpaginated. The book is filled with color photographs of Venezuelan architecture and architectural elements. One is impressed with the color in all the architectural forms. Clean and tight except for previous owner's name on front free endpaper. View More...
49 pages; numerous b&w illustrations, usually 4 to 6 to the page. Architecture and ornament from Ancient Egypt through Greece and Rome to Germany from the Renaissance to the 19th-Century. Clean throughout; tight binding; small tear at the margin of one leaf. Backstrip worn, boards discolored and worn at corners and edges; View More...
64 pages; more than 50 photographs: exteriors, interiors, details. White pictorial wrappers sunnes at the edges; corner of the wrapper's back panel creased; innards clean and tight. View More...
270 pages. A facsimile of the first edition published in 1904, "including twenty-six original paintings by Maxfield Parrish" - color and b&w - and a brief history of seventy-five villas and their gardens. The first edition was published with decorative stamping on the front cover, but without a dustjacket, which has been created for this facsimile and which is enclosed in a Brodart removable sleeve. "Elegantly written, informed by Wharton's intelligence and wit." Small "publisher's" bump at the bottom of the front joint Clean throughout; tight binding; as new. View More...
