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Principles of Architecture, volumes I and II; 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. Architecture, Peter Nicholson.

[Architecture]. Nicholson, Peter.

Principles of Architecture, volumes I and II; 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, 1795 and 1797. First edition. Half leather, with marbled paper over boards. Octavo (5.5"X8.5"); volume 1 pp. (4) + xi + (1) + xxi + (3) + 263, 58 engraved plates; volume 2 pp. viii + xi + (1) + 91 + (3), 46 engraved plates, plates... More

Price: $250.00

The Small House Volume IX No 6, June 1929. Architecture, The Architects Small House Service Bureau.

[Architecture]. The Architects Small House Service Bureau.

The Small House Volume IX No 6, June 1929.

Minneapolis, MN: The Architects Small House Service Bureau, 1929. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp 40, b/w photographs and period advertising. This month's issue covers trees, stairways, chimney pots, upholstered furniture, varnish, color, texture, architectural drawings, Dutch Colonials, four house plans, contractors, and questions. A lot of interesting content for... More

Price: $50.00

Study of the Orders. Archtectural History, Frank Chouteau Brown, Herman V. Von Holst Frank A. Bourne.

[Archtectural History]. Brown, Frank Chouteau and Frank A. Bourne, Herman V. Von Holst.

Study of the Orders.

Chicago, IL: American Technical Society, 1948. Revised. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 367, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. As long as the unrivaled beautify of classic architecture is appreciated and reproduced, a knowledge of the five Greco-Roman Orders is invaluable. This book offers a key to an understanding... More

Price: $45.00

W. A. S. Benson: Arts and Crafts Luminary and Pioneer of Modern Design. Arts & Crafts Style, Ian Hamerton.

[Arts & Crafts Style]. Hamerton, Ian.

W. A. S. Benson: Arts and Crafts Luminary and Pioneer of Modern Design.

Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club Ltd., 2005. First edition. Original Gray Cloth. Quarto, pp. 303, indexed, with many b/w and color photographs. Letter from the publisher laid in. This is the first work devoted to the life and work of the designer and architect William Arthur Smith Benson (1854-1924). Renowned for... More

Price: $25.00

"Give us this day our daily bread" (Original Linocut). Art, Fritz Eberhardt, calligrapher artist.

[Art]. Fritz Eberhardt (artist, calligrapher).

"Give us this day our daily bread" (Original Linocut).

Portland, ME: Wolfe Editions, 2015/1965. Limited Edition. 18 1/2" x 27 1/2" Original Linocut Print on Magnani Artistico paper, with black ink 13" x 17" image. From the original linocut block. As well as a master book binder, Fritz Eberhardt was an internationally recognized calligrapher, type designer, woodcut artist, graphic... More

Price: $125.00

Art for All: The Colour Woodcut in Vienna around 1900. Art, Max Schröder Natter Hollein, Klaus Albrecht.

[Art]. Natter Hollein, Max Schröder, Klaus Albrecht (Editors).

Art for All: The Colour Woodcut in Vienna around 1900.

New York: Taschen, 2016. First edition. Hardback w/embossed paper covers and Dust Jacket. Folio, pp 416. Gorgeous color images on almost every page. Text in English, French, and German. Together with a traveling exhibition through the Germany and Austria, this volume shows Viennese woodblocks from the turn of the century... More

Price: $65.00

Selling the Dwelling: The Books that Build America's Houses, 1775-2000. Books About Books, Richard Cheek.

[Books About Books]. Cheek, Richard.

Selling the Dwelling: The Books that Build America's Houses, 1775-2000.

New York: Grolier Club, 2013. First edition, Limited. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 288. Illustrated with 749 color illustrations. Limited edition of 1,500 copies. A beautifully produced, visually spectacular catalog for the exhibit of the same name, showing at New York's Grolier Club through February of 2014. Written by exhibit... More

Price: $60.00

Brick, Terracotta & Earth (Practical Building Conservation, English Heritage Technical Handbook, Vol 2) (Practical Building Conservation, English Heritage Technical Handbook, ... English Heritage Technical Handbook, Vol 2). Brick, John and Nicola Ashurst.

[Brick]. Ashurst, John and Nicola.

Brick, Terracotta & Earth (Practical Building Conservation, English Heritage Technical Handbook, Vol 2) (Practical Building Conservation, English Heritage Technical Handbook, ... English Heritage Technical Handbook, Vol 2).

Hants, England: Gower Technical, 1988/1989. Second printing. Hardcover. Small quarto, pp. xiii,126; wonderfully illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. Covers the control of damp and the repair and maintenance of brick, clay and earth structures. The book investigates the causes of damp, methods of mortar analysis and their advantages and... More

Price: $55.00

Clay Masonry Family Fallout Shelters. Building as Envelope, Office of Civil, Defense Mobilization.

[Building as Envelope]. Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization.

Clay Masonry Family Fallout Shelters.

Washington DC: Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, February 1960. First edition. Staplebound wraps. Quarto, pp 15. b/w photographs and architectural drawings throughout. At the height of anxiety about the possibility of nuclear war, this booklet provided the public with five plans for basic fallout shelters which could be built... More

Price: $45.00

A Real Home: Suggestions to Home Builders. Building Materials, Copper, Brass Research Association.

[Building Materials]. Copper and Brass Research Association.

A Real Home: Suggestions to Home Builders.

New York: Copper and Brass Research Association, 1927. Later printing. Original decorated wrappers. Quarto, pp. 48. Well illustrated, glossary of terms. A twenties "infomercial" for the use of copper in home building, but also a great trade piece, giving detailed specifications for copper application(s) in architecture. Very uncommon. More

Price: $65.00

Technics and Architecture; The Development of Materials and Systems for Buildings. Building Materials, Cecil D. Elliott.

[Building Materials]. Elliott, Cecil D.

Technics and Architecture; The Development of Materials and Systems for Buildings

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994. First paperback edition. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp. x, 467, bibliography, index, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. In this richly illustrated history Cecil Elliott focuses on a neglected aspect of architecture, the technics of building form. Concentrating on developments in Europe and North America from... More

Price: $80.00

Home Owners Guide & Catalog. Building Materials, Great National Millwork, Lumber Corp.

[Building Materials]. Great National Millwork & Lumber Corp.

Home Owners Guide & Catalog.

Bronx, NY: Great National Millwork & Lumber Corp. 1941. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Octavo, 80 pp. Thoroughly illustrated with b/w drawings and photos. A scarce wartime catalog, featuring numerous illustrations of the full line of Great National's building materials, such as doors, windows, kitchen cabinets, stair materials, summer cottages, garages... More

Price: $65.00

Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Millwork No. 17. Building Materials, M. A. Disbrow, Co.

[Building Materials]. M. A. Disbrow & Co.

Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Millwork No. 17.

Lyons, IA: General Roofing Manufacturing Company, nd. c. 1910. Original edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 400, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs and some sections in color (stained glass, parquetry floor borders). Disbrow was established in 1856, and manufactured doors, windows, frames, screens, mouldings, stairs, columns, and more. They... More

Price: $85.00

Building Materials. Building Materials, Montgomery Ward, Co.

[Building Materials]. Montgomery Ward & Co.

Building Materials.

Chicago: Montgomery Ward & Co., 1928. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Oblong Quarto, 48 pp. Thoroughly illustrated with b/w drawings and photos, fabulous front and back illustrations. Order form and envelope laid in. A scarce Montgomery Ward catalog from the 1920s, featuring a beautiful color cover and numerous illustrations of the... More

Price: $80.00

Sweet's Architectural Catalogue; A Completely Indexed Catalogue Filing System of Building Materials, Supplies and Equipment. Building Materials, Sweet's Catalog Service.

[Building Materials]. Sweet's Catalog Service.

Sweet's Architectural Catalogue; A Completely Indexed Catalogue Filing System of Building Materials, Supplies and Equipment

New York: Sweet's Catalog Service, 1919. Fourteenth Edition. Original Green Cloth. Octavo, pp. 1955, illustrated. Complete in one volume. Complete Sweet's catalog - an amazing amount of trade literature in one volume. An early example of the definitive building products catalogue from the teens and twenties. Very scarce! While the... More

Price: $325.00

Nairn's 1907-08 Oil Cloth. Building Materials, W., J. Sloane.

[Building Materials]. W. & J. Sloane.

Nairn's 1907-08 Oil Cloth.

New York: W. & J. Sloane, 1907. First edition. Cloth over Boards, beige/black. Oblong quarto, 32 oil cloth design samples with one also reproduced in a heavy-duty format. WOW! What a stunning trade catalog! We've never had a oil cloth catalog before. This is an absolute show-stopping catalog of oil... More

Price: $450.00

How to Read Plans and Take Off Bills of Material; A simple and practical treatise illustrating and explaining the value - to the retail lumberman, the contractor and the mechanic - of being able to read a set of plans intelligently and to arrive at a correct understanding of the character of the work to be done and the quantities of materials of all kinds required, given in simple language and illustrated with plates, diagrams, and detailed drawings that are easily understood. Building Specifications, William A. Radford.

[Building Specifications]. Radford, William A.

How to Read Plans and Take Off Bills of Material; A simple and practical treatise illustrating and explaining the value - to the retail lumberman, the contractor and the mechanic - of being able to read a set of plans intelligently and to arrive at a correct understanding of the character of the work to be done and the quantities of materials of all kinds required, given in simple language and illustrated with plates, diagrams, and detailed drawings that are easily understood

Chicago: Radford Architectural Company, 1917. First edition. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp. 256, indexed, illustrated with drawings and three fold-out plans in pristine condition, with Radford advertising section bound in. The ability to read plans and take off a bill of materials constitutes knowledge dealers and builders should have, for it... More

Price: $75.00

The Home Mechanic and Complete Self-Instructor in Carpentry, Painting, Horse-Shoeing, Soap Making, Candy Making, Baking, Taxidermy, Tanning, &c. Building Technology, R. J. "and other specialists" Schofield.

[Building Technology]. Schofield, R. J. "and other specialists".

The Home Mechanic and Complete Self-Instructor in Carpentry, Painting, Horse-Shoeing, Soap Making, Candy Making, Baking, Taxidermy, Tanning, &c.

New York: Excelsior Publishing House, 1897. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 885, b/w illustrations. This is a title we haven't had before. Chapters on practical carpentry, painting, furniture and cabinet finishing, horse shoeing, diseases of the horses foot, soap making and washing fluids, candy making, baking, taxidermy, tanning... More

Price: $110.00

Cottage Building; or Hints for Improving the Dwellings of Working Men and Labourers. Building Trades, C. Bruce Allen.

[Building Trades]. Allen, C. Bruce.

Cottage Building; or Hints for Improving the Dwellings of Working Men and Labourers

London: Crosby, Lockwood and Son, 1886. Tenth edition, revised and enlarged. Original Green Cloth w/gilt title. 12mo, pp. 160, indexed, includes many b/w illustrations; a 16-page Weale's book catalog, and a 32-page Crosby Lockwood book catalog bound in. In a preface to this edition, the author explained that the book... More

Price: $125.00

Details of Building Construction. Building Trades, Clarence A. Martin.

[Building Trades]. Martin, Clarence A.

Details of Building Construction.

Boston: Bates & Guild, 1899. First edition. Cloth over Boards, Gilt Lettering. Large quarto, pp. 37 with 33 full page plates and 6-page advertising section bound in, housed in a custom box. Signed on front end paper by original owner. A wonderful book of construction detail drawings: most plates include... More

Price: $75.00

Old Houses; A Rebuilder's Manual. Building Trades, George Nash.

[Building Trades]. Nash, George.

Old Houses; A Rebuilder's Manual

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Press, 1980. Fifth edition. Glossy Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp. 366. Indexed, bibliography, illustrated with numerous b/w photos and drawings. Designed as a practical road map of home repairs, this helpful guide shows you how to recover and preserve the spirit of an old dwelling while... More

Price: $25.00

The Mechanic's Companion, or the Elements and Practice of Carpentry, Joinery, Bricklaying, Masonry, Slaying, Plastering, Painting, Smithing, and Turning, comprehending the latest improvements and containing a full description of The Tools belonging to each branch of business; with copious directions for their use, and an explanation of the terms Used In Each Art; also an Introduction to Practical Geometry. Building Trades, Peter Nicholson.

[Building Trades]. Nicholson, Peter.

The Mechanic's Companion, or the Elements and Practice of Carpentry, Joinery, Bricklaying, Masonry, Slaying, Plastering, Painting, Smithing, and Turning, comprehending the latest improvements and containing a full description of The Tools belonging to each branch of business; with copious directions for their use, and an explanation of the terms Used In Each Art; also an Introduction to Practical Geometry.

Philadelphia: James Locken, 1832. Full Leather with some scuffing. pp 331, 40 plates by W. S. Barnard depict tools of the trade and instances of joinery, molding, staircases, and bricklaying. Foxing and page discoloration. Signed on front end paper by original owner. Scarce first edition from 1831 is only available... More

Price: $225.00

A Practical Treatise on Mensuration; for the use of carpenters, builders, and surveyors, and artificers in general; measurement of curved surfaces in particular is clearly explained, by means of their plans, sections, and elevations, accompanied with a scale; being a sequel to the "Carpenter's Guide," by the same author. Building Trades, Peter Nicholson.

[Building Trades]. Nicholson, Peter.

A Practical Treatise on Mensuration; for the use of carpenters, builders, and surveyors, and artificers in general; measurement of curved surfaces in particular is clearly explained, by means of their plans, sections, and elevations, accompanied with a scale; being a sequel to the "Carpenter's Guide," by the same author.

London: Virtue and Company, 1826. Embossed cloth over boards. Quarto, pp. 240 plus 25 engraved plates; plate 22 is inverted. As with most of Nicholson's titles, very well written and illustrated and with great influence on the American architecture and building trades/professions. More

Price: $195.00

ICS #11E, International Library of Technology: Geometry and Mensuration, Electric Wiring and Bellwork, Design of Beams, Design of Columns, Design of Roof Trusses. Building, International Correspondence Schools Editorial Staff.

[Building]. Editorial Staff, International Correspondence Schools.

ICS #11E, International Library of Technology: Geometry and Mensuration, Electric Wiring and Bellwork, Design of Beams, Design of Columns, Design of Roof Trusses.

Scranton, PA: International Textbook Co., 1923. First edition. Half-Leather. Octavo, pp. vi, 392, vii, index, b/w illustrations of electrical components and installation, beam and column sections, construction details, joints, trusses, etc. As with all of the ICS trades-related titles, good solid professional text, well illustrated and aimed at the tradesman... More

Price: $40.00

Lot of Three Books on Construction Costs. Building, Engineering News Record.

[Building]. Engineering News Record.

Lot of Three Books on Construction Costs.

New York: Engineering News Record, 1935, 1936. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 95, illustrated with b/w graphs and charts; Quarto, pp. 128, illustrated with b/w graphs and charts; Octavo, pp. 16, illustrated with 2 b/w photographs. The first two books in this lot are the 1935 and 1936 editions... More

Price: $55.00

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