Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, nd. c. 1890. First edition. Half-Leather with Marbled Boards and Endpapers. Quarto, pp. 245, illustrated with b/w architectural drawings and floor plans. Text in French. A beautiful book featuring many gorgeous 19th century homes in France. Each plate is accompanied by a description of construction..... More

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1947. Original edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. xxii, 290, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs; book plate for Gerhardt Kramer inside front cover. Stamped by Hugo Graf on front endpaper. Both were architects in St. Louis that designed numerous significant buildings in..... More

Glendale, CA: Griffin-Patterson Company, 1945. Later printing. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 64. Illustrated with b/w exterior home drawings and floor plans. Cover reinforced with book repair tape. This is the seventh of Rosebrook's "Distinctive Small Homes" books. In 1938, a group of lumbermen interested the architect in publishing his first..... More

New York: Architectural Book Publishing, 1924. Second Printing. Half-Leather. Folio (12.5" x 17"), pp. ~125, illustrated with b/w drawings. The author was an American architect celebrated for his work in Gothic Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival design. He also designed notable typefaces. He is credited with creating a distinctive interpretation..... More

Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1973. Second edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. xviii, 263, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. The office of Burnham & Root was pre-eminent during the early years of the Chicago School of commercial architecture. As the designing partner, John Root pioneered in developing the..... More

New York: Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1929. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 168, illustrated with b/w photographic plates. A gift inscription dated 1934 is written neatly on the front endpaper. The domestic architecture of Venice represents an unbroken tradition of eight or nine hundred years, to which every..... More

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977. Second Printing. Paperback. Octavo, pp. 487, indexed, illustrated with 288 b/w photographs and drawings. Long considered to be one of the most outstanding architectural biographies of the late 20th century, Saint shows what an original architect Shaw (1831-1912) was, in addition to being..... More

London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1978. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Octavo, pp. 30, illustrated with b/w photographs. This catalog accompanied the exhibition of Scott's work at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1978. It contains a short biography of Scott, a listing and description of his buildings, the restoration of..... More

London: J. Barfield, 1809. Second edition, with additions; revised and corrected. Full Leather. Octavo (5.5" x 8.5"); volume 1 pp. xxxiii, 263; volume 2 pp. xvi, 81; volume 3 pp. xix, 113; 216 engraved plates between all volumes. All plates are present in all volumes. Volume I is devoted to..... More

Los Angeles: John C. Brasfield, 1929. First edition. Original Wraps. Folio (10.5" x 14"), pp. 86, illustrated with beautiful photogravure of interiors and exteriors and floor plans of homes in California. The homes featured are the W. K. Kellogg Ranch near Pomona, designed by Myron Hunt and H. C. Chambers;..... More

Paris: Librairie Polytechnique Baudry et Cie. 1867. First edition. Calf-Backed Boards. Elephant Folio (21.5" x 15"), 20 mounted India proof plates by lithographer Lemercier & Cie, one of the most important Parisian lithographers of the 19th century. The Tuileries Palace stood on the right bank of the River Seine, directly..... More

London: Pleiades Books, 1945. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 64, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. Signed by a previous owner in 1946 in ink inside front cover. England needed four million houses immediately after WWII. Such a program obviously called for wider and more imaginative use..... More

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1967. First edition. Original Cloth. Rectangular Quarto, pp. nn ca 100, illustrations by the author in pen & ink line drawings. Throughout the book is a selection of 8 of Sloane's works in full color, which are preceded by their individual captions. Gift inscription dated..... More