Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. xiv, 387, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. The authors take an informative and entertaining look at the history, architecture, and business of motels in the United States. This book explores the effect..... More
Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 1974. First printing. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 198, indexed, illustrated with more than 450 b/w and color photographs. Signed by a previous owner in 1974 on front endpaper. The celebrated cemeteries of New Orleans are one of the most fascinating attractions in a city noted..... More
New York: Munn & Co., February 1892. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Folio, pp 16, plus xvi (advertising), indexed, illustrated with b/w engravings; supplement with two plates in color. Outstanding photographs of historic homes in Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maine, as well as articles about the Washington Street Tunnel in..... More
New York: American Architect, 1935. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 192, illustrated with b/w photographs and architectural drawings. Signed by a previous owner inside front cover in ink. The contents are divided into four sections. The first section is devoted to general design data, with articles such as..... More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1978. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 580, indexed, illustrated with 900 b/w photographs and drawings. Signed by a previous owner inside front cover. This book is not only a major pictorial resource for the architectural historian, but a sort of American album, a scrapbook..... More
London: John Brindley, 1749. First edition. Full Leather. Oblong small quarto, pp. 25 plus the copper engraved plates. Several of the 47 plates are missing (plates 7, 8, 9, 11), and two are fold-out size. Pages 6 and 10 have large, closed tears. William Halfpenny (active 1723-1755) was an English..... More
London: Phaidon Press, 1993. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 240, indexed, illustrated with color photographs. This splendidly illustrated book shows not only the magnificence of the architecture of Elizabethan and Jacobean houses, through specially commissioned photography, but also plunders the great pattern books of the time to reveal..... More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989. Second Printing. Original Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 442, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings. De Re Aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first modern treatise on the theory and practice of architecture. Its importance for the subsequent history of architecture is incalculable, yet this..... More
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1998. First edition. Cloth over Boards, black w/pictorial Dust Jacket. Quarto, pp. 239, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. The National Gallery of Art, the Jefferson Memorial, the Frick and the Metropolitan Museums: some of the most iconic buildings in Washington, D.C. and New..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 200, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. This is the first biography of 19th century America's greatest architect and the first full-color treatment of his rich and marvelous work. This compelling volume situates the architect's life and work..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1935. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. xx, 233, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. This is the story of an architect who has been completely forgotten while his countrymen continually praised his noblest structure. The architect is Robert Mills; his masterpiece is the..... More
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1937. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 128, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings, and period advertisements. This issue features an indepth examination of Los Angeles architect Richard J. Neutra and homes he built, mainly suburban single-family detached homes for wealthy clients, illustrated with many..... More
New York: Abrams, 1990. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 320, indexed, illustrated with 335 photographs, including 60 in color. I. M. Pei has designed some of the 20th century's most elegant and powerful buildings, works as diverse as the rigorously geometric East Building of the National Gallery in..... More
Boston: Rogers and Manson Co., 1915. First edition. Library Binding. Quarto, approx. pp. 318. Richly illustrated with b/w photos, plans, details. A nice copy of all 12 issues of Vol. XXIV of The Brickbuilder, which was the precursor to the influential architectural magazine, "Architectural Forum". This was the penultimate volume..... More
Cleveland, OH: J. H. Jansen, 1923. First edition. Maroon Linen over boards portfolio with tie slips. Quarto, portfolio of 68 loose b/w plates of church exteriors and interiors. This collection of 68 plates is complete as presented. The numbering of the plates is not consecutive in that some of the..... More
New York: Pencil Points, 1928. First edition. Cloth Spine on Boards, brown w/embossed lettering. Quarto, pp. 231, illustrated with b/w photographs, floor plans and architectural renderings. This is an early study of architecture by building type, from hospitals and school buildings, to hotels, commercials buildings, libraries, museums, and more. Space..... More
Chicago, IL: Public Administration Service, 1950. Reprint of 1903 edition. Perfect Bound. Small quarto, pp. xiii, 56, indexed. The Committee on the Hygiene of Housing was organized by the American Public Health Association in the conviction that the home is primarily an instrument of health, and that it is the..... More
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake, 1912. Second Printing. Pictorial Cloth over Boards, azure and black patterns on green background. Octavo, pp. approx. 530, plus index, 50 two-page houseplans each with sketch and floor plan, plus 10 pages Sears Roebuck advertisements. A practical manual giving systematic guidelines for measuring, taking inventory and..... More
Boston, MA: A. Williams and Company, 1883. Eighth Thousand, Enlarged; Subscription Edition. Cloth over Boards, gilt lettering. Small octavo, pp. 210, indexed, includes 45 full page b/w plates. Original owner signed the front endpaper in pencil. Many workmen in the 19th century carried with them a small memo book, in..... More
Wilmington, DE: Winterthur, 2013. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 343, indexed, illustrated with color photographs. This volume presents the definitive story of the Staffordshire-born Stretch family of clockmakers, the clocks they made, and the important role they played in early 18th-century Philadelphia. Illustrated essays address the family history..... More
Chicago, IL: Portland Cement Association, 1941. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 32, illustrated with b/w photographs. Mild ex-library markings. Grandstands are continuously exposed to weather, the destructive forces of wetting and drying, freezing and thawing. It is desirable that they be so built that little maintenance will be required..... More
New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1979. First edition. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp. 232, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. Signed by a previous owner in 1979 inside front cover. This catalog was published for the exhibition of the same name that took place at the Brooklyn Museum in 1979, and..... More
Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 2007. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Quarto, pp. 300, indexed, illustrated with color and b/w photographs. Mild ex-library markings. Beautiful survey of McIntire's career as a carver, published in conjunction with an exhibition of his work at the Peabody Essex Museum. McIntire was one of the..... More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1977. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. vi, 289, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. The author is an authority on the psychological interpretation of the visual arts. In this volume, he turns his experienced eye to the visual aspects of..... More
New York: Whittlesey House, 1936. Second Printing. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 307, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. Stamped by a previous owner on front endpaper. This book is the result of an intensive study of industrial design in the United States. Industrial design is rightly determined by and..... More
