New York: McBride, Nast & Co., 1913. First edition. Decorated Cloth over Boards. 16mo, pp. 52, illustrated with b/w photographs. One plate loose and laid in. Does your fireplace smoke? Here's how to tame it - also how to build new ones of many various types - brick, stone, concrete..... More
New York: Munn & Co., June 1890. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp 18, plus xvi (advertising), indexed, illustrated with b/w engravings; supplement with two plates in colors. Outstanding photographs of historic homes in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York, as well as articles about fireproofing wooden floors, the..... More
New Orleans, LA: Batture Press, Inc., 1997. Second Printing. Boards. Quarto, pp. 207, illustrated with color photographs. A trifold flyer for a cemetery tour by Historic New Orleans Walking Tours is laid in. This book examines thirteen regional burial grounds, focusing not only on gravesite structures but on people profoundly..... More
nd c. 1890. Wooden tool chest. Wooden tool chest with dovetail joints, 38.5" x 23.5" x 24", on wheels. 2 iron handles on the sides, fully functional. Lid locks with key provided. Lid has metal rim. Inside there are 2 hinged boxes and 2 drawers. First hinged box is 35"..... More
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Bonn: Dumont, 2002. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Folio, pp. 384, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. Text in German. The sacred spaces of the occident have an overwhelming effect on each of us to this day. They make us pause, invite us to contemplation and meditation and dissolve everyday..... More
![Von Utopie Zu Utopie [From Utopia to Utopia: Russian Architecture 1919-1939]. International, Alex...](/pictures/thumb/20718.jpg?v=1634588785)
Cologne: Galerie Alex Lachmann, 1993. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 116, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. Text in English and German. This is the exhibition catalog for a show which took place in 1993 at the Galerie Alex Lachmann, an art gallery in Cologne, Germany. After WWI, Russia became..... More
Watkins Glen, NY: American Life Foundation, 1976. Reprint. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. ca 50, reprint of 1886 London edition, illustrated with 50 plates. More
Brooklyn, NY: Louis Bossert & Sons, Inc., 1922. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp. 48. Illustrated with b/w photographs, renderings, and plans. Laid in: 3-page color-printed folded promotional brochure with price list: "A Permanent Summer Vacation. A Bossert Bungalow at Island Park-Long Beach." A lovely house catalog from Louis..... More
Miami, Fl: Miami Design Preservation League, 1979. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 36, illustrated with b/w and color photographs, and period advertisements. This is a single edition commemorative publication marking the designation to the National Register of Historic Places the first 20th century historic architectural district "Old Miami Beach,"..... More
Milan: Edizioni di Comunita, 1988-1990. First edition. Original Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 199, 223, 223, illustrated with b/w and color drawings and photographs, with periods advertisements. Text in Italian and English. Zodiac originally ran between 1957 and 1972. This new generation of Zodiac attempts to restore history to criticism, and..... More
Montreal: McGill University Press, 1966. First edition. Perfect Bound. Oblong small quarto, pp. 132, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. With the growth in the number of students at university, the problem of undergraduate housing had become acute. In this critical survey, two architects consider university residences throughout Canada. Their..... More
Chicago, IL: Art Institute of Chicago, 1981. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp. 108, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. Wight is one of many Chicago architects who, while influential within his own lifetime, has been neglected by recent historians who have stressed Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849. First edition. Buckram. Quarto, pp xvi, 537, illustrated with 5 plates and 98 wood engravings. The first section of this book elaborates a theory of art which stemmed from a study of Indian, Islamic and Gothic architecture. The second section of the book..... More
New York: Universe Books, Inc., 1960. First American edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 131, over 300 b/w illustrations including 120 photographs, 150 architectural drawings and cross sections, and 50 plans of towns and residential areas. The second in a series on modern residential architecture, this title illustrates the..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 1991. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 385, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. Frank Furness was the most unique and prolific American architect of the 19th century. Apprenticed in the atelier of Richard Morris Hunt and inspired by the values of his..... More
New York: Pencil Points Press, 1923. Reprint. Boards with Cloth Spine. Quarto, pp. 11 plus 110 b/w plates, indexed. Preface in English, text in French. This reprint of "Architecture Toscane" is the first book in Pencil Points' Library of Architectural Documents. Here all of the 110 plates of the original..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989. First American edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 263, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. A book of sumptuous elegance which traces the history of taste in relation to the style, furnishing, and decoration of the English country house. Country Life's articles on..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2008. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 240, illustrated with color photographs. From simple hand sketches to the completion of Zen temples, residential projects, grand estates, and modular structures, this book illustrates a singular vision influenced by traditional Japanese woodworking, contemporary life..... More
Boston: Frederick H. Gowing, 1930. First edition. Original Wraps. Quarto. pp 224. illustrated with b/w photographs of home exteriors and floor plans. A nice pattern book of designs, self-published by a Boston architect, selected for artistic design and economy in construction. Many different American and English style homes, from bungalows..... More
New York: Roycroft Shops, Inc., 1989-2005. First edition. Three-ring bound. Quarto, each issue has 12 to 44 pages, illustrated with b/w photographs. Vol I issues 1-4 (1989), Vol 2 issues 1-4 (1990), Vol 3 issues 1-4 (1991), Vol 4 issues 1-3 (1992), Vol 6 issue 4 (1995), Vol 7 issue..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 2006. First edition. Boards, Blue w/Dust Jacket. Quarto, pp 276, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. Beautifully decorated free end papers. Owen Jones was the sort of innovative total designer in the 19th century that Frank Lloyd Wright was in the 20th century. Equally proficient -..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1979. First edition fourth printing. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 192, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. 1920 to 1950 were unusual and exciting years to live in The Bronx. It was during this period that The Bronx grew from a rural and suburban hinterland..... More
Boston: Frank L. Smith, 1891. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Staplebound contract (8.25" x 14"), pp. 14, with period advertising on and inside the front and back cover. Contains the specifications of the labor and materials required in the erection and completion of a one story gambrel roof house to be..... More
nd c. 1890. Hand-held wrought iron roofing tool. 26" x 1.25" total size; blade is 20" long. Located in a barn sale in Connecticut recently, this lovely antique roofing tool has seen a lot of years, and has a lot of years left in it! This was used by inserting..... More
New York: Pencil Points, 1928. First edition. Cloth Spine on Boards, brown w/embossed lettering. Quarto, pp. 231, illustrated with b/w photographs, floor plans and architectural renderings. This is an early study of architecture by building type, from hospitals and school buildings, to hotels, commercials buildings, libraries, museums, and more. Space..... More
