New York: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1939. Third Printing. Cloth over Boards w/decorated cover. Sm. Quarto, pp 45. b/w photographs and extensive construction details. A lovely mini-manual of garden furniture, each piece photographed and accompanied by construction details and assembling instructions. Home owners and builders can make lawn chairs, trellises..... More
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Paris: Librairies-Imprimeries Reunies Ancienne Maison Morel, nd c. 1892-1907. First edition. Half-Leather Cloth over Boards with Marbled Endpapers. Folio, unpag., contains hundreds of beautiful b/w engraved drawings of architecture and architectural details. Text in French. These three volumes cover Classic and Renaissance, Romanesque, and Gothic styles. The author was an..... More
New York: G. E. Woodward, 1869. First edition. Cloth over Boards, gilt lettering. Quarto, pp. x, 15, 48, plus 100 pp of plates, Hitchcock #1436. A sepia-toned snapshot of a beautiful home is pasted down inside the front cover; a previous owner inscribed his name and address in beautiful handwriting..... More
Tucson, AZ: Canyon Ranch Enterprises, 1989. First edition. Original Wraps. Oblong quarto, pp. 61, illustrated with b/w photographs. A monograph on the resorts of Lenox, Massachusetts, and especially Bellefontaine. Covers the Gilded Age, the Berkshire Cottages, and the history that turned Lenox into a Gilded Age resort. Beautifully illustrated with..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 370, illustrated with nearly 1,000 b/w line drawings. This volume covers everything to do with the built environment in the United States. Over 2,500 definitions describe construction materials and techniques, landscape elements, decorative terms..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1970. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 191, bibliography, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. This volume evokes the purity of Japanese architecture in 86 full pages of magnificent pictures. A general history of Japan leads into a section on the history of Japanese..... More
Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1991. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 105, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. This book offers a condensed history of the technological advancements that resulted in these versatile utensils. With over twenty photos, several recipes, references to earlier works, and observations and recommendations..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, 1977. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 581, illustrated with over 2000 b/w line drawings. This fascinating reference offers a unique tour through the entire history of architecture. It contains clear, concise definitions of over 5,000 terms encountered in historic architecture. Subjects are treated..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Nat'l Cinder Conc. Products Assoc. 1925. First edition. Decorated Boards w/cloth backstrip, brown & tipped-in title. Large quarto, pp 208. 120 pages of b/w photographs on concrete masonry buildings, & finish charts, followed by underwriter's laboratories tests and other technical data. 6 pages of "blue prints" showing details..... More
Wiltshire, UK: The Crowood Press, 2015. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp 224, indexed. Color photographs and illustrations on every page. A guide for architect, artisans, and home owners which teaches techniques for preserving and repairing historic stone and masonry structures. Beautifully illustrated - it depicts how to do..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quatro, pp 400, indexed, illustrated with 335 b/w photographs, including 35 plates in full color. Self-taught as an architect, Eileen Gray stood her ground in a world dominated by men: she built two houses that made architectural history. Her..... More
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Milan, Italy: Ulrico Hoepli, nd (circa 1910). Second edition. Cloth over Boards, teal green. Quarto, pp. 325, illustrated with b/w photographs. Text in Italian. An uncommon early edition of this volume showing iron architectural ornamentation from the Middle Ages through the Neo-classical periods. More
Chicago, IL: Illinois Roofing and Supply Co., 1898. First edition. Folded pamphlet. Quarto, pp. 5. This company sold artistic stamped steel ceilings, roofing tin, eave troughs, conductor pipe, sheet steel and iron, charcoal bright plates, coke plates, heater pipe tin, roofing and siding, paints, and cements. It gives great insight..... More
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Barcelona, Spain: J. F. Villalta, nd c. 1906. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Oblong octavo, pp. 25, illustrated with b/w photographs. Text in Spanish. An advertising brochure for this Spanish construction company, featuring building materials and decoration, hollow blocks of concrete, baluster columns, and more. Includes photographs of completed buildings and..... More
New York: Dover Publications, 1978. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Octavo, pp. ix, 165, indexed, illustrated with 157 b/w plates. The photographs in this book, many never reprinted before, recreate the ambiance of old Brooklyn as it appeared between 1865 and 1919 - a rich, vital and exciting place. Shipbuilding and..... More
Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1970. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp.112, indexed, illustrated with 51 woodcuts. The marvelous woodcuts that illustrate this volume depict modest homes and luxurious mansions, tiny churches and immense cathedrals, one-room schoolhouses and rustic grist mills. Together they provide a capsule history of Long..... More
New York: Dover Publications, 1979. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Octavo, pp. xxix, 125, illustrated with 180 b/w plates. Some slight water damage to a corner of the last 25 pages of the book. The Indians called their island "Nantucket" - Far-Away Land. The first white settlers and later Quakers came..... More
New York: Dover Publications, 1977. Original edition. Wraps. Quarto, pp. 256, illustrated with 321 b/w engravings. This book captures the excitement, wealth and squalor of life in New York during the second half of the 19th century. Most of the engravings are taken from Harper's Weekly, others are from The..... More
Washington, D.C. Byron S. Adams, 1922. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 294, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings, plus a paint color chart. The purpose of this text book is to help educate young men to be first-class journeymen house painters and decorators. Its..... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing, 1917. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto. pp xi, 107 b/w photographic plates. Mild ex-library. The author spent three months sketching, measuring and photographing architecture in Spain during the first World War, in defiance of mines and submarines and "nervously suspicious officials." Possessing admirable photographic..... More
Boston: Columbia, 1892. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 619, indexed, richly illustrated w/ b/w photographs. A nicer copy than flaws make it sound, full of valuable biographical and historical information. Good opportunity at moderate price. More
New York: Dover Publications, 1980. Original edition. Wraps. Quarto, pp. xv, 159, illustrated with 210 b/w photographs. No one living remembers New York harbor as it looked before the turn of the 20th century, when clipper ships, sloops, barks, schooners, steamboats, brigs, lighters and countless other vessels plied its still-clean..... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1925. First edition. Decorated Boards. Quarto, pp. xxiii, plus 209 plates. Quite a striking book, especially in its original dust jacket! Most of the doorways depicted have their corresponding scale drawing on the facing page. A great overview. More
New York: William Helburn, nd c. 1895. First edition. Portfolio with Marbled Boards and Cloth Backstrip, loose plates. Folio (13" x 17"), 52 b/w photolithographic plates. A previous owner signed the inside of the front cover in pencil, and the owner's address has been obliterated with Wite-Out. Handsome plates of..... More
Keokuk, IA: Keokuk Lumber Company, nd c. 1910. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. 3.5" x 6" pamphlet, opens to 3.5" x 8" to reveal roofing sample; pp. 6 of advertising text. Gal-va-nite had a wool felt base, coated with asphalt waterproofing compound, and topped with a flaked mica weatherproof surface. Mica..... More
