New York: S. W. Green's Son, 1883. Original edition. Half leather with marbled boards. Small quarto, pp. 96 plus 8 pages advertisements, illustrated with b/w drawings. Ex-library. Housed in a custom archival box. "The tide of travel begins to flow back and forth over the great structure which now unites..... More

Rochester, NY: Northeastern Retail Lumbermen's Association, 1929. Original edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp 238, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings. Presentation copy personalized to Frank Parker in gilt on the cover, compliments of Driscoll Brothers; probably the lumber company in Ithaca, New York. This volume was prepared for the..... More

Chicago, IL: Winslow Brothers Company, 1910. First edition. Cloth over Boards with leather spine. Quarto, pp. 234, illustrated with b/w photographs, many full page. An important piece of ornamental ironwork trade literature from a bygone era, both aesthetically pleasing and technically precise. Featuring store fronts, entrances, marquises, canopies, elevator enclosures..... More

London: Macmillan, 1880. First edition. Boards with Gilt Lettering and Decoration. Small Quarto, pp. 383 (volume 1) and 303 (volume 2). Indexed, illustrated with nearly 200 b/w wood block engravings. Stevenson was a British architect of the late-Victorian era, and the first architect to produce designs in the Queen Anne..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1907. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 252, illustrated w b/w diagrams and plates, some fold-out "before and after" landscapes, plus color frontispiece w/ half-plate to show before and after landscaping. Gift inscription to Maria Agassiz in 1914 by Charles L. Peirson, colonel and brevet brigadier..... More

Boston, MA: Ticknor and Company, 1886. First edition. Decorated Boards. Small quarto, pp. 372, indexed, illustrated with 300+ b/w drawings by the author. Signed on front endpaper by T. B. Aldrich in 1886. Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American writer, poet, critic and editor. He is notable for his long..... More

Leipzig: Meister der Baukunst, 1930. First edition. Decorated Cloth Over Boards. Octavo, pp. 123, illustrated with b/w photographs. Inscribed by French architect Pierre Barbe in 1943 with an original drawing on front endpaper. Text in German. A great classic of the genre with many photographs, illustrating work by Le Corbusier..... More

New York: Louis Deck Jr, nd c. 1950. Original edition. Treated cotton sample. 4.25" x 6" cotton roof deck sample, printed with advertising information. "Louis Deck, Jr. announces the presentation for your approval of Deck cotton roof deck / a positive waterproof membrane for repairing a foot or a mile..... More

Leipzig: Friedrich Wolfrum & Co., nd c. 1900. First edition. Decorated Boards. Folio, portfolio format, originally 64 full page b/w photographic plates, but plate 4 is missing. Text in German. Beautiful buildings by noted architects such as Karl Fischl, Arthur Wienkoop, Joseph Hoffman, Friedrich von Dietz, Richard Riemerschmied, Martin Dulfer..... More

New York: Russell F. Whitehead, 1925. Wraps. Octavo, pp. 16, numerous b/w photographs. With much architectural detail. One of the most cherished series in its day, interesting both for its subject matters (cornices, porches, doorways, etc) as well as its regional focal points. wonderful photos with line drawings to scale..... More

Chicago, IL: The Barber Asphalt Company, nd c. 1900. Original edition. Albumen photographs. 3 albumen photographs, 5" x 7", showing buildings featuring Genasco Latite shingle roofs, with advertising information printed on the reverse sides. Three photographs, each featuring Genasco Latite shingle roofs. St. Columba's Roman Catholic Church, Lafond & Hamline..... More

Woodstock, NY: Overlook Hardcover, 1980. Later printing. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 390, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. A nice copy of an uncommon compendium from a pioneering publication in the preservation movement. Features previously published articles from "Old House Journal," covering hands-on solutions to most problem areas..... More

London: Scott, Greenwood & Son, 1903. First edition. Embossed Decorated Boards, Black. Small octavo, pp. 163, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings. Previous owner signed the front endpaper. The materials employed in painting are, perhaps for several reasons, liable to adulteration, and it is not uncommon to find one substance entirely..... More