The Story of My House .
New York: Appleton, 1890. First edition. Cloth over Boards, gilt lettering. 12 Mo, pp. 286, engraved b/w frontis. by Sidney L. Smith. More
Architecture Miscellaneous
The Five Orders of Architecture, the Casting of Shadows and the First Principles of Construction Based on the System of Vignola. Seventy-Six Plates, Drawn and Arranged by Pierre Esquié.
New York: William Helburn Inc., n.d. ca. 1920. First edition. Boards w/cloth spine, brown. Quarto,, pp. 21 plus 76 engraved plates. A fine book on the five Classical Orders of Architecture, illustrated with 76 engraved plates by author Esquié, a noted French architect who won the Grand Prix de Rome..... More
Der Profanbau.
Leipzig: J.J. Arndt, 1912. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 75, richly illustrated in b/w. Special issue on work of architect Martin Elsasser. More
Evolution of Masonry Construction in American Architectural Styles.
Downer's Grove, IL: SERMAC Surface Maintenance Systems, 1977. First edition. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp. 44. Illustrated with 90 b/w photos and drawings. A useful photographic survey of American architectural styles and their European influences, listing the distinguishing characteristics of each style and the period of their emergence and prominence in..... More
American Building Vol. I - The Historical Forces That Shaped It.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947/1966. Second revised and enlarged edition. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. xii, 350, indexed, profusely illustrated in b/w. We also have Vol II - "American Building - The Environmental Forces That Shaped It" Ex-library Franziska Porges Hosken (1919 - 2006), with her ownership stamp (Viennese born, Smith College..... More
Historic Preservation; Curatorial Management of the Built World
Boston: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1982. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. xii, 433, indexed, profusely illustrated in b/w. Mild ex-library. Written by one of the US's leading authorities on historic preservation, this book focuses on a wide spectrum of strategies available for the adaptation or renovation of..... More
Architecture After Richardson; Regionalism before Modernism--Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow in Boston and Pittsburgh
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 546. Profusely illustrated with b/w drawings, plans, and photos. Notes and Index. A monumental study in the history of American architecture after the career of H.H. Richardson, focusing on the work of three successful architects in Boston..... More
The American House.
New York: Harper & Row, 1981. First paperback edition. Paperback. Square octavo (10 x 10). pp. 298. Over 300 detailed drawings. Forward by James Marston Fitch. If you love American architecture, this has just about every type of American style home sketched with precision, each architectural detail explained. Each home..... More
Prize-Winning Small Houses - 1931 "Better Homes in America" Architectural Competition.
New York: The Architectural Record, April, 1932. Original Reprint from 1932. Original wraps, b/w. Quarto, pp 22. b/w photographs on each page. A photographic portfolio of prize winning homes designed by American architects. They include a two-story colonial, a Spanish style stucco home in Santa Barbara, a cottage in Palos..... More
A History of Architecture.
London: Joseph Masters, 1849. First edition. Marbled paper over boards. Large 12 mo (5 1/2 X 8 3/4), pp.ix, 456, engraved frontispiece by Freeman. The noted historian's third book in which he notes regretfully in the preface that the work was to have originally been a part of Burns' Select..... More
Louisiana Architecture: A Handbook on Styles.
Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1998. First edition. Paperback. octavo, pp. 100. annotated. well documented and illustrated. A wonderful overview in southern architecture, which belongs in any architectural historian's library. More
A Handbook of Stone Structures in Northeastern United States.
Amesbury, MA: Powwow River Books, 2012. Revised First edition, in 100 copies. Glossy B/W Pictorial Cover. Octavo, pp. 302. 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..... More
Homes, and How to Make Them.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874. First edition. Original Blue Cloth w/ gilt design and embossed title on cover. 12 mo (5 X 6 1/2), pp. 314, illustrated with wood engravings. Hitchcock 492. Charles Wood says: "... this is an important work because it gives a sophisticated architect's rationale..... More
Architecture Source Book; A visual reference to buildings around the world
Seacaucus, NJ: Wellfleet Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto, pp. 192, indexed, glossary, illustrated with b/w & color photographs. Shows the extraordinary variety and style of buildings and monuments from all over the world, both religious and secular, public and private. Scarce title. More
The Victorian Country House; revised and enlarged edition
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990. Fourth printing. Perfect Bound. Octavo, pp. vii, 467, indexed, richly illustrated in color and b/w. The great wealth of 19th-century Britain led to an astonishing boom in the building of country houses. These houses were generally of an enormous size and complexity, and..... More
Folk Housing in Middle Virginia: A Structural Analysis of Historic Artifacts.
Knoxville, TN: 1975. Cloth over Boards. An interesting study of "the architecture of past thought--an attempt to reconstruct the logic of people long dead by looking seriously at their houses." A look at Mid-Atlantic architecture through the lens of folklore, which the author considers "a natural center for the historical..... More
Do It Yourself: Home Improvement in 20th-Century America.
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998. First edition, as stated. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp. 109, profusely illustrated w/ b/w and color photographs and reproductions. A beautifully made book with a misleading cover; appears to be an ordinary do-it-yourself handbook, but is actually a well-documented history of the Do-It -Yourself concept..... More
Dream Houses: The Edwardian Ideal.
New York: George Braziller, 1980. First American edition. Boards. Octavo, pp. 247. Indexed, illustrated with 20 b/w photos and numerous b/w drawings, plans, and details. Includes publisher's press release. A well-researched book on the development of Edwardian architecture in England and America, focusing on the work of important architects and..... More
Elements et Théorie de L'Architecture. Cours professé à l'Ecole Nationale et Spéciale des Beaux-Arts. Troisième édition augmentée d'une Notice sur la vie et les oeuvres de Julien Guadet par J.L.Pascal. Tomes 1 and 2.
Paris: Librarie de la Construction Moderne, n.d. (ca. 1900). Original edition. Calf and Marbled Paper, Gilt Top Edge of Pages. Quarto, vol. 1 pp. 663, vol. 2 pp. 712. Richly illustrated with b/w engravings. Prev. owner's name in ink on page of vol. 1 Text in French. This is an..... More
A Primer on New England's Colonial Architecture (signed by the author).
Lexington, MA: Isabella Hagelstein, 1975. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 16. Illustrated with b/w drawings. Signed by the author on title page. An excellent guide to Colonial architecture in New England, including Early Colonial styles and their features. Includes notes on Cape, Salt-box, and Georgian styles and unique New..... More
A New and Compleat System of Architecture Delineated; in a variety of plans and elevations of designs for convenient and decorated houses. Together with offices and out-buildings proportioned thereto, and appropriated to the several uses and situations required. As also an estimate of each by the great Square. Prefix'd to these are ten different sorts of piers, with gates of various compositions suitable to the fame; intended for entrances to courts, gardens, &c. As also new architectonic rules for drawing the members, in all kinds and proportions of the orders. And to them are also added a perspective view of the finking pier of Westminster-Bridge, with the two adjoining arches; and a method proposed by trusses &c. to take 3/4 of the weight, or abutment and pressure now on the pier, and discharge it as set forth on the plate. The whole comprised on 47 copper plates, with explanations thereto in common press-work.
London: John Brindley, 1749. First edition. Full Leather. Oblong small quarto, pp. 25 plus the copper engraved plates. Several of the 47 plates are missing (plates 7, 8, 9, 11), and two are fold-out size. Pages 6 and 10 have large, closed tears. William Halfpenny (active 1723-1755) was an English..... More
Benjamin Henry Latrobe: Architect, Artist, Engineer.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1955. First edition. Boards. Octavo, pp. 633, indexed, illustrated with 104 half tones and 42 line cuts. This is the first full-length biography of America's first professional architect and a valuable contribution to American cultural history. Making full use of the voluminous Latrobe papers -..... More
The Built, the Unbuilt and the Unbuildable: In Pursuit of Architectural Meaning .
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 192, indexed, richly illustrated w/ b/w photographs. An interesting contribution to the body of writing on architecture. More
Shop Planning and Design.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing Company, 1942. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 87, illustrated with b/w photographs, plans and drawings. Owner's signature on front end paper. Hartnell was Managing Director of George Parnall Ltd. He gives sound advice on designing stylish shop fronts and presents examples of good practice, including..... More
The Art of Building in Ancient and Modern Times; or, Architecture Illustrated.
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1856. First edition. Linen over boards w/ pastedown label. Octavo, pp. x, 220, indexed, Hitchcock 586, atlas of sixty steel plates not included. Very scarce in the original edition, especially in this condition. More