Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1967. Reprint. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 639, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. Signed by a previous owner neatly in ink on the front endpaper. A fine and comprehensive history of building methods, materials and tools in England in the Middle Ages..... More
New York: New York World's Fair, 1939. First edition. Pamphlets. Small quarto, each pp. 4. Demonstration home No. 4, the House of Glass sponsored by Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company; Demonstration home No. 3, the Bride's Home, an all-electric house sponsored by General Electric and several other companies; Demonstration home No..... More
Pleasantville, NY: Easi-Bild Pattern Company, 1948. First printing. Fold-out Pattern Pages. 7.5" x 10.5" printed envelope, with five fold-out sheets, illustrated with b/w photographs. Also includes the original 8" x 10" mailing envelope. You can build this swing-up garage door yourself! A list of materials and step-by-step directions guide you..... More
![Item #23455 Palladio: Ville Palazzi Opere Pubbliche [Palladio: Villas, Palaces, Public Works];...](https://rarebookstore-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/23455.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762892939)
Marsciano, Italy: La Rocca Trento, nd c. 1976. Reissue. Decorated portfolio with loose plates, as issued, with three protective folding panels. Folio (13" x 19"), 25 b/w plates, text in Italian. Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek..... More
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1972. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 194, Indexed, richly illustrated with b/w photos and drawings. The middle Georgia area—including Baldwin, Hancock, Jasper, Johnson, Putnam, Washington, and Wilkinson Counties—is a vast living museum of classic southern architecture. First published in 1972, this sweeping..... More
New York: American Homecrafts Company, 1921. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 160, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. Ex-library markings. Good residential architecture is common in Connecticut. The skill of Connecticut craftsmen is proverbial. In order to fully realize how much good domestic designing there is to be found in the..... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1980. Second edition. Decorated Boards. Oblong quarto, pp. 297, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. The history of a city, from its origin as a simple place on earth to its eventual complexity of walls and streets, is visible in its architecture. This book becomes a...... More
Tokyo: Kodamsha International, 2000. First English language edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 124, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings. This book adopts a chronological approach, revealing each succeeding period in all its individuality. The book is not a specious account of a monolithic Japanese way of life that continues unvarying from century..... More
Bay City, MI: Aladdin Co., 1937. Original edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Octavo, pp. 64, plus 1937 price list bound in. Illustrated with color and b/w photographs, drawings, and floor plans. This is a very nice Aladdin home catalog with beautiful color perspective renderings. Included are garage, summer cottage and small..... More
St. Paul, MN: Plan Service Company, nd c. 1935. Twelfth edition. Staplebound Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 32, illustrated with b/w photographs and floor plans. Signed by a previous owner on the front cover. This booklet contains 28 house designs, complete with floor plans. This issue focused on modern bungalow homes..... More
St. Paul, MN: Plan Service Company, nd c. 1935. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 32, illustrated with b/w photographs and floor plans. Stamped by a plan book agency owned by George Garlinghouse on the title page. This booklet contains 28 house designs, complete with floor plans. This issue..... More
Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co., 1936. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 325, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. A previous owner signed the book on the front endpaper in pencil, and a book plated dated 1946 is affixed inside the front cover. Cram was a...... More
New York: Fox Duffield & Company, 1906. Later printing. Decorated Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 165, illustrated with b/w photographs. Bookplate for Library of Duffield & Company affixed inside front cover. Duffield & Company was a publishing house in the early 20th century in New York. There are comparatively few..... More
Amesbury, MA: Powwow River Books, 2025. Second edition. Glossy B/W Pictorial Cover. Octavo, pp. 304. Illustrated with b/w photos and drawings. A useful field guide to identifying Native American and agricultural stone structures one may encounter on hikes throughout the forest and conservation lands in New England. These include cairns..... More
Des Moines, IA: Meredith Publishing Company, 1925-1934. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, each issue pp. ~52, illustrated with b/w photographs, and b/w and color period advertising. January 1925; June 1931; November 1931; May 1933; June 1934; August 1934. Better Homes and Gardens is the fourth most widely circulated magazine in..... More
Boston, MA: Perry, Shaw & Hepburn, 1946. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Folio (12" x 14"), pp. 78, illustrated with b/w photographs. The measurements, preliminary drawings and photographs for the survey of New Castle were made during November and December, 1946, and the finished drawings, of which photostats are included..... More
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp. 122, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. The Nebraska State Capitol was designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue in 1920 and was under construction for a decade. No other statehouse embodies more successfully the union of..... More
Ontario, Canada: Boston Mills Press, 2003. Third revised edition. Perfect Bound. Quarto, pp. xi, 239. Indexed, illustrated with numerous b/w photographs and architectural drawings. This guide to good conservation practice was assembled because the Ontario Heritage Foundation considers it vital that everyone involved in conserving built heritage have ready access..... More
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. Second Printing. Pictorial Wraps. Octavo, pp. 144, illustrated with b/w photographs. In this book, the author considers the tangled responses of ever-changing societies to the monuments and commemorations created by past regimes or outmoded cultural and political systems. Drawing from examples around the world..... More
New York: Excelsior Publishing House, 1865. First edition. Cloth over Boards, brown with gilt lettering. Small octavo, pp. 166, illustrated with b/w drawings. Delves into the actual building of country homes (i.e. more than just a pattern book). Hitchcock 1425. Book plate for Ernest W. Buecheler affixed inside front cover..... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1922. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Folio (12.5" x 16"), pp. 298, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and architectural drawings. Ex-library from Perry, Shaw and Hepburn, a Boston architectural firm that became notable for its designs for educational institutions. A note on the front..... More
New York: The Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1920. First edition. Trade Blue Cloth, with gilded lettering. Folio (12" x 17"), pp. 140, illustrated with b/w photos and sketches made by the author and others (all architects). Gift inscription in ink on front endpaper. The first volume of this series, was..... More
Chicago: The Radford Architectural Company, 1903. First edition. Original dark green cloth w/embossed design, red spine. Small octavo, pp. 196, indexed, illustrated with over 250 b/w drawings and diagrams, with a glossary of terms used in stair building and handrailing. The house plan supplement, pp. 59 bound in, is illustrated..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1945. Second Printing. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 214. Contains index of architects whose work appears in book.. 232 b/w photographs and drawings. Interesting perspective, based often purely on the time, i.e. the absolutely first wave of the post-war era. A publication that exerted..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1916. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 22 with 5 figures and 36 b/w plates. An unusual series of "before and after" comparisons of early 20th century "restorations" of traditional-styled (mostly Colonials) New England homes. A fascinating record of the early "remuddling" category..... More
