Pittsburgh, PA: The Lakeside Press, 1923. Cloth over Boards, brown w/gilt decoration. Quarto, pp 208 and 178. index pp xxii. Illustrated profusely with b/w photographs and several color plates and paint color chip charts. Showing factories, glass manufacturing, paints, brushes, tools, architectural glass, mirrors, store fronts, interiors, display cases, patterned... More
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1986. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps, crimson. Quarto, pp 122. Beautifully illustrated with 80+ color plates and b/w drawings on every page. Mild ex-library. A comprehensive survey of the use of decorative glass in buildings from 1840 to 1920. Also described are glass working techniques and... More
Reston, VA: Brick Institute of America, 1986. Later printing. Original Wraps. Octavo, pp. 337, indexed. More
Bedford, IN: Indiana Limestone Institute of America, nd c. 1977. First printing. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 20, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. This publication is a guide to help architects, builders, masons, building owners and other interested persons examine the causes, prevention and removal of the most common... More
Washington, D.C. US Department of the Interior National Park Service Preservation Assistance Division, nd c. 1981. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp 48. b/w photographs and construction detail drawings. Moisture is probably the greatest source of damage to historic buildings This publication attempts to present sound technical information for architects... More
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1899. Fifth edition. Original Cloth on Boards. 12mo, pp viii. pp 119, indexed, illustrated with 91 woodcuts, 16-page Weale's publishers catalog and 48-page Crosby Lockwood publishers catalog bound in. A wonderful period piece snapshot of the masonry building trades in the late nineteenth century. The... More
Rome, NY: Revere Copper and Brass Inc., nd c. 1965. Original edition. Original Wraps with cloth spine. Quarto, pp. 86, illustrated in b/w with spot color. "Revere ... all you need to know to build better with copper" (1985, pp. 14) laid in. This publication was prepared by Revere engineers... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing, 1930. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 147, sumptuously illustrated with b/w photographs and plans. Four pages of photographs from a 1927 article in Architecture magazine about antique ironwork laid in. An important book and wealth of visual information on this element of Philadelphia's... More
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Akademii Arkhitektury SSSR, 1947. Original edition. Cloth over Boards. Small octavo, pp 328, illustrated with b/w drawings and several color plates. Text in Russian. Chapters on materials, plaster mortars, tools and fixtures, plastering, decorative plaster, plastering architectural details, special types of plaster, organization of plastering. An unusually scarce... More
San Francisco, CA: Charles Hall Page & Associates, 1976. First edition. Original Wraps. Oblong small quarto, pp 106. Illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. Glossary, bibliography. Ink number on front cover. This manual was provided to help the Santa Cruz homeowner plan for the satisfactory rehabilitation of an older home... More
Pittsburgh, PA: United States Steel, nd c. 1955. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 21, illustrated with color drawings. This advertising brochure trumpeted the advantages of steel in strength, durability, safety, ease of construction, variety, beauty and maintenance. Sections include the use of steel in the foundation, framework, basement, kitchen... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1920. Second edition, revised and enlarged, third impression. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp xii, 433, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings. A knowledge of the properties and behavior of the gases found or generated in the mine, and the means for effecting their safe removal... More
New York: Sheldon, Blakeman & Co., 1856. First American edition. Text block with paper adhesive binding. Small octavo, pp 256, appendix, no illustrations. This book was intended to place information and models needed by skillful marble workers within their reach, with the hope that it would draw forth essays and... More
Bedford, IN: Indiana Limestone Institute of America, 1984. First printing. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp. 124, indexed, glossary, illustrated in b/w & color photos & line drawings. A copy of "The Finishing Touch: A How-To and Idea Handbook on Indiana Limestone Standard Products" (1979, 23 pp.) laid in. The ILI serves... More
New York: National Terra Cotta Society, 1914. First edition. Decorated Wraps. Folio, pp 32. b/w photographs and architectural drawings on each page. A handsome volume in this series, featuring 30 plates showing school and university buildings across America. The photographs and drawings include exterior elevations and close-ups of the facades... More
Washington, D.C. National Park Service, 2008. First edition. Staplebound Wraps with 3-ring binder holes. 8 1/2" x 11" pp 14. Illustrated with color photographs and technical drawings. This is the first time we've been able to offer anything on the maintenance and repair of historic aluminum windows. While aluminum windows... More
