Rochester, NY: Steve Jordan, 2021. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp. 57, illustrated with b/w photographs. According to multiple studies and the US Department of Energy, the addition of storm sashes to our prime windows is the best way to increase energy efficiency and indoor comfort. When combined with..... More
London: The Society of Antiquaries, 1981. First edition. Perfect Bound. Small quarto, pp. 112, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. The use of reinforcement in building has a very long history, attempting to resist stresses and strains cause by earthquakes, settling, and enemy attack. Three types of reinforcement are discussed..... More
Edinburgh: J. & J. Gray, 1888. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. x, 138, illustrated with b/w drawings. The author was a Scottish architect based in Edinburgh operating in the late 19th and early 20th century. He specialized in buildings in the Free Renaissance and Neo-Baroque styles and is particularly important..... More
New York: William Helburn Inc., 1931. First edition. Unbound plates. Folio (14.5" x 20"), 20 b/w plates of architectural specification drawings with an inset photograph of the same feature. The examples of early work chosen for this volume were selected with great care from a large amount of material, and..... More
New Orleans, LA: Louisiana Red Cypress Bureau, nd c. 1920s. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 32, illustrated with b/w photographs. The best cypress grows within 200 miles of the sea. The low swamp lands of Louisiana are its natural habitat. Louisiana red cypress is a tree of very slow..... More
Burlington, VT: Robert Hull Fleming Museum, 1979. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Quarto, pp. 111, illustrated with b/w photographs. Papers originally presented at a lecture series and a symposium held concurrently with the exhibition at the Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Oct. 30, 1978 - Jan. 15, 1979. Part 1, The Development..... More
New York: Lippincott, 1980. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Oblong octavo, pp. 207, indexed, illustrated with more than 200 b/w photographs and drawings. This is a beginner's guide to using natural stone - as opposed to quarried or polished stone - as a building material. It includes detailed instructions for..... More
Fitchburg, MA: Webber Lumber & Supply Co., nd c. 1915. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Oblong quarto, pp 100, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings. The sections on color art glass and paint are in color. Doors, windows, moulding, colonnades, clapboards, railing, tools, roofing, ladders, hardware and much more, for a variety..... More
Chicago, IL: Universal Portland Cement Co., nd c. 1930. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 12, iIllustrated with b/w photographs. A photographic journey through numerous projects that used High-Early-Strength Universal Concrete in their construction, including a Wisconsin highway project that aimed to improve the roads that President Coolidge would take..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. viii, 120, richly illustrated from drawings and plans (many in two colors) for houses designed by the author. Many of the houses pictured here had already proven their livability when this book was published, some were still under construction..... More
Cleveland, OH: The George Rackle & Sons Co., nd c. 1930. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 8, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. Laid in: pp. 5 typed, with illustrated wrapper with information about nailing concrete roof tile, and Haydite roof tile, plus pp. 3 blueprints. Rackle concrete tile..... More
Rochester, NY: Steve Jordan, 2015. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp 264, illustrated with b/w photographs. Signed by the author on front endpaper. This practical "how-to" manual is written by a window repair contractor and "old house expert." It contains instructions on basic nomenclature, repairs, replacing parts, glazing, weatherstripping..... More
London: Alec Tiranti, 1967. First edition. Boards. Small quarto, pp. 124, plus 173 full page b/w plates. Several color plates tipped-in to the text. Index, notes, appendix of Dublin Plasterers. Contrary to the widely held belief that the art of stucco decoration in Ireland was mainly the work of foreigners..... More
Cincinnati, OH: American Fluresit Company, nd, c. 1950. Original edition. Advertising wooden ruler. Wooden ruler with black lettering. There are four scales on this ruler. On the front of the rule, the first scale measures inches, but numbers it so that 1 inch = 4 feet. The other scale measures..... More
New York: J. S. Ogilvie, 1890. Third edition, revised and greatly enlarged. Original Cloth, maroon with black embossed lettering. Octavo, pp. viii, 98. Illustrated with nearly 100 woodcuts. A very early and scarce Hodgson title, one which shows the full functionality of the carpenter's steel square, such as obtaining the..... More
New York: Lippincott, 1989. Fourteenth printing, 1995. Color Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp. 192, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. This is a beginner's guide to using natural stone - as opposed to quarried or polished stone - as a building material. It includes detailed instructions for making natural stone..... More
London: John Weale, 1841. First edition. Cloth over Boards, Gilt decoration. Small quarto, pp. 68 plus 10 plates on heavy card stock including frontispiece. Frontispiece is a print of an engraving with colored text, title page is colored, decorated and illustrated, leaves have a decorative border and full gilt edges..... More
London: Caxton Publishing Co. Ltd., March 1948. Second edition, reprinted. Blue Cloth over Boards. Octavo, Vol. 1 pp. 212, Vol. 2 pp. 214, Vol. 3 pp. 244. Indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings and photos, and photographic color frontispieces. A thorough compendium of techniques and details of the bricklayer's craft in..... More
Scranton, SC: Merritt & Tomlinson, Inc., nd, c. 1950. Original edition. Mechanical pencil. Antique mechanical pencil. "Merritt & Tomlinson, Inc. Manufacturers of Quality Masonry Products since 1946 READY MIXED CONCRETE Scranton, S. C. - Phone 2711 - 2721 Lake City, S. C. - 8-2651" This charming pencil has a transparent..... More
Chicago, IL: American Technical Society, 1951. Revised. Decorated Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. vii, 504, indexed, illustrated with over 500 b/w photographs, architectural drawings and construction details. Signed by a previous owner in pencil on the front endpaper. A very thorough examination of timber building construction from roofing to walls..... More
Potomac Falls, VA: Architectural Woodwork Institute, 2009. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp. 632, illustrated with b/w drawings. Includes compact disc (CD) with the full document in searchable PDF format. Like all architectural components of the construction process, woodwork design and configuration possibilities are limited only by the creativity..... More
