Guide to Research and Reference Works on Sub-Saharan Africa. [Hoover Institution Bibliographical Series 46].
Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1971. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 1102. More
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The Master Builders: Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 397, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. Signed by a previous owner in ink on the front endpaper. The story of modern architecture is told in this absorbing and beautifully illustrated book through the lives and works..... More
The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto, pp. 224, indexed, bibliography, richly illustrated in b/w & color, foreward by Robert A.M. Stern. Examines 20 buildings by one of America's leading architectural firms of the early 20th century. Scarce title. More
Man and Environment in the Isle of Man (BAR British Series 54, Part i and ii).
Oxford: BAR, 1978. First edition. Blue Cardboard Covers. Quarto, pp. 428. Illustrated with b/w photos, maps, charts and drawings. Very scarce two-part publication edited by an expert in the field. Good ex-library copy. More
Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism.
New York: Abrams, 1998. First American edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 320, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. Of the indisputably great figures in 20th-century architecture, Alvar Aalto is in many ways the most humane, the least rigid, the most relevant to our contemporary sensibility and the emerging..... More
Marcel Breuer: Architect and Designer.
New York: Architectural Record, 1949. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 128. Index, illustrated with b/w photos, drawings and plans. A look at the career and impact of modern architect Breuer, who was involved with the Bauhaus movement in Germany and worked with Walter Gropius in New England. More
Principles of Architecture (3 vols, complete); containing the fundamental rules of the art, in geometry, arithmetic, and mensuration; with the application of those rules to practice, also the true method of drawing the ichnography and orthography of objects, geometrical rules for shadows, various examples of Grecian and Roman antiquities, and many useful and elegant ornaments with the rules for projecting them
London: J. Barfield, 1809. Second edition, with additions; revised and corrected. Full Leather. Octavo (5.5" x 8.5"); volume 1 pp. xxxiii, 263; volume 2 pp. xvi, 81; volume 3 pp. xix, 113; 216 engraved plates between all volumes. All plates are present in all volumes. Volume I is devoted to..... More
Small Colonial Houses (The Monograph Series, Records of Early American Architecture, Volume XVII, No. 6).
New York: Russell F. Whitehead, 1931. Original Stapled Wraps. Octavo, pp. ca 16, numerous b/w photographs. One of the most cherished series in its day, interesting both for its subject matters (cornices, porches, doorways, etc) as well as its regional focal points. More
British Birth Control Ephemera 1870-1947.
Leicester, England: The Barracuda Press, 1969. First edition. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. 42, indexed, illustrated, part of The Collis Collections: I, with an introduction by Professor D. V. Glass. Rare. More
Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change.
Island Pr, 2010. Hardcover /. More
Louis I. Kahn and the Yale Center for British Art: A Conservation Plan.
New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 2011. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Oblong quarto, pp. 200, indexed, illustrated with color photographs. The standing of the Yale Center for British Art as one of the world's great museums and study centers finds expression in its remarkable building, designed by..... More
Why We Make Things and Why It Matters; The Education of a Craftsman
Boston, MA: David R. Godine Publisher, 2013. Stated First Edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 179, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. Woodworking, handicrafts -the rewards of creative practice, bringing something new and meaningful into the world through one’s own vision, make us fully alive. How does the..... More
Progress in Construction Science and Technology No. 2.
Lancaster, England: Medical and Technical Publishing Co., 1973. First edition. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. 223, includes bibliography. Very scarce technical study of building structure issues (strength of concrete, shear strength of glue joints, developments in structural masonry). Written by acknowledged experts in their respective fields. More
Everything for the Garden: 1925 Catalog.
New York: Peter Henderson & Company, 1925. Original edition. Perfect Bound. Small quarto, pp. 208, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color drawings. Order blanks and reply envelope bound in. Some slight foxing to the cover, but text block is unusually clean and bright for an ephemeral piece. This is in..... More
The County of Oxford: A Catalogue of Medieval Stained Glass (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain, Volume I).
London: Oxford University Press, Usa, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto, pp. xxiv, 246, 50 plates, 13 in color. Quite an impressive piece of stained glass research. More
Glock : The New Wave In Combat Handguns.
Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 12 mo (5 1/2 X 8 3/4), pp. viii, 296, illustrated in b/w photos. Uncommon title. More
Coal comfort: An alternative way to heat your house, signed and "warmly" inscribed by the author.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1980. First edition, as stated. Paperback. Square Octavo, pp. 171, illustrated w/ b/w photographs and diagrams. More
Authentic Decor; The Domestic Interior: 1620-1920
New York: Viking Adult, October 1, 1987. First edition. Cloth over Boards, brown, w/gilt lettering & DJ. Oblong quarto, pp 408. Extensive color illustrations and photographs. A description and history of interior decoration of houses in Europe and America, covering the tastes of the middle-class, artists, and aristocrats. Particulars of..... More
Historien und Romanzen: Urpoesie, Oder: Das Scheintote Kind.
Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 1985. First edition. Cloth over Boards. 12 Mo (5 x 7 3/4), pp. 116. More
Burnt Toast: A Novel.
Clinton, MA: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1971. First edition. Decorated Boards. Small octavo, pp 176. More
Holzbock im Sommer und andere aktuelle Lyrik.
Berlin: A.R. Meyer, 1913. First edition. Original Wraps, string binding, brown paper. Small Octavo, pp. 16. Scarce A. R. Meyer publication from pre-WWI Germany. With an arresting front cover illustration. More
Zumutungen (inscribed, signed, and dated, to Haide Russell, Kulturattache in NYC); Essays zur Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts
Düsseldorf: claasen, 1979. First edition. Decorated Boards. 8° (Octavo), pp. 290, Opbd. in sehr gutem Zustand, nur minimal bestoßen. Innen sehr sauber und fest. More
Über den natürlichen Unterschied der Gesichtszüge in Menschen verschiedener Gegenden und verschiedenen Alters;. über das Schöne antiker Bildsäulen und geschnittener Steine; nebst Darstellung einer neuen Art, allerlei Menschenköpfe mit Sicherheit zu zeichnen. Herausgegeben von A. G. Camper. (Aus dem Holländischen) übersetzt von S. Th. Sömmerring. (From the library of Dr. Manfred S. Guttmacher, important forensic psychiatrist and author of many books, including An Interpretation of the Madness of King George III and The Mind of the Murderer, with Guttmacher's ownership signature. This copy also has 14 lines of apparently contemporary notes in French on FFEP. .
Berlin: Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1792. First edition. Original marbled paper over boards. Small quarto, pp. 77 plus 10 fold-out plates inside back cover. Very nice copy of a scarce book, particularly scarce in the United States. A famous anatomist during his lifetime, Camper did much work on the measurement of cranial..... More
Ueber die phantastischen Gesichterscheinungen. Eine physiologische Untersuchung mit einer physiologischen Urkunde des Aristotles ueber den Traum. Den Philosophen und Aerzten gewidmet... (From the library of Dr. Manfred S. Guttmacher, important forensic psychiatrist and author of many books, including An Interpretation of the Madness of King George III and The Mind of the Murderer, with Guttmacher's ownership signature.) .
Koblenz, Germany: Jacob Hoelscher, 1826. First edition. Half-Leather with marbled boards. Octavo, pp. 117. Very nice copy of an important psychological study. In this, his second book, Mueller showed that the eye reacts not only to external stimuli but to internal stimuli caused by disease or by the imagination. In..... More
Nudes, Index I.
Cologne: Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft, 2000. First edition. Original Cloth. Folio (10 1/2 X 12 1/2), pp. 239, the third volume in the Photography Index series, concentrates entirely on contemporary nude photography. Shows work of over 100 photographers. Appendix contains addresses of al the photographers. More