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3 Aluminum door trade pamphlets - ca 1960. [Metal]. VAMPCO; Himco; H&J. VAMPCO; Himco; H&J: Plainville, MI; Hampden, CT; R, 1959. Quarto, pp 8; pp 7; pp 4. b/w photographs, door elevations, and details on each page... more Price: $45.00 Shark River Hills - "The New Asbury Park Suburb" [Real Estate]. Morrisey & Walker. Geiger Bros.: Newark, NJ, nd ca1924. Fan shaped (8" x 10") trade advertisement the sale of tracts at an early New Jersey "Park Suburb" on the shore. Front illustrated with a family beach scene, the back, highlighting the costs, advantage.. more Price: $65.00 Structural Repair of Traditional Buildings. [Structural Engineering]. Patrick Robson. Donhead Publishing Co.: London, 1999. Small quarto, pp 312, indexed. b/w diagrams and drawings throughout... more Price: $125.00 Highlight Your Plans with Skylights of Original Solid Corrugated Wire Glass : Catalog No. 16A-1954 [Windows]. Pennsylvania Wire Glass Company. Pennsylvania Wire Glass Co.: Philadelphia, PA, 1954. Quarto, pp 11. b/w photographs and constructions details on each page... more Price: $40.00 Traite D'Architecture (4 Volume Set - 2 vol. text, 2 vol. plates.) - Premiere Partie - Art de bâtir - étude sur les Materiaux de Construction et les éléments des édifices, and Deuxieume Partie - Composition des Edifices, études sur l'esthétique, L'Histoir [Architectural History]. Reynaud, M. Leonce. Dunod: Paris, 1867, 1870. Folio, 4 volume set pp 605, pp 616, 87 plates, & 92 plates of architectural drawings. Decorated Free End Papers. Text in French.. more Price: $750.00 Pittsburgh Doorways : A.I.A. File No. 16-N-1960 [Glass]. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.: Pittsburgh, PA, 1960. Quarto, pp 23. b/w photographs, door frame details, and elevations on each page... more Price: $50.00 View Gallery ...