Beyond Bawa by David Robson - 2008: Modern Masterworks of Monsoon Asia

MPS. HARDCOVER. 1/1/1912. B001IU4FKW :1912 hardcover in excellent condition considering age - slight page discoloration and cover scuffs, spine tight . Used - Very Good.

Woolworth Building. [32] pp., with illustrations throughut (many in color). Publisher's gray wrappers with gilt lettering and blue green and gilt border. A very good copy.Color frontispiece of the interior from a painting by E. K. Carter. No marks, some foxing. The booklet was in it's original envelope and the package includes a postcard. Please visit my photographs to see the quality of this collection.

London: Horace Cox, 1896. Hardcover. Good +. 17, [87] p., 44 leaves of plates: plans, views; 19 x 28 cm. Faux vellum over boards with gilt-stamped cover title. Boards have bevelled edges. Floral patterned endpapers. Each plate is accompanied by one or two pages of descriptive text. Cutler's designs perfectly present late 19th-century English rural architecture from cottages of various sizes to a village corner shop to small and large country houses. The volume concludes with his design for the Princess Alice Memorial Hospital at Eastbourne. In Good+ Condition: corners are rubbed; back board is scraped; both hinges are weak; clean and tight.

George Allen. Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent. 1889. 4to. xii, (1), (1), 222, (1) pp. 14 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum, leather labels to spine, some natural discolouration and spotting to vellum, slight nick to bottom edge of upper board. Inner gilt feathered curlicues. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Inscribed to Kenneth Moorsom from his Eton tutor July 29 1897 to first blank: a personal gift rather than a prize. Kenneth James Calvert Moorsom (1878-1907).

Los Angeles , 1935. Original Art Work . No Binding. Good. Original Sketch. Original Drawing, Image Approximately 41" X 26". Some Tears And Chipping. Napolitano Studied At Chouinard And Otis In 1922-1925, Engaged In Work On Architectural Murals 1925-1930 Working For Designer Herman Sachs On Such Prominent Buildings As Bullocks Wilshire, Los Angeles City Hall, The Palm Beach Biltmore, Etc.; Studied Ceramics In Ny In 1929, And Then Studied Mural Painting In Germany 1930-1931, Returned To Architectural And Other Work In Nyc 1931-1932, Completed Many Wpa Murals In Southern California 1934-1936 And Some Private Commissions Including The Bel Air Bay Club Circa 1937, Illustrated Many Books For Merle Armitage 1935-1960 (Including A Book About Napolitano, 1935), Worked As A Set And Prop Designer And Artist In The 1940'S And Early 1950'S (The King And I, Etc.), Worked As A Designer-Craftsman For Judson Studios, Worked With His Wife On Original Textiles, And Did Commissions For Church Art Work For Several… Read More

NY: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1985. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Rizzoli, 1985, first printing. Square 4to., 11 1/4" x 11 1/4", 224pp., illustrated with hundreds of photos and reproductions documenting 123 historic residences in black and white and color. 9" x 53" color map of the Hudson River locating the 123 houses enclosed. Very good in very good minus dust jacket with several closed edge tears. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good Minus. 4to.

London: Phaidon Press, 1999. First edition. Hard cover, no dust jacket as issued. Published London: Phaidon Press, 1999, first printing. Folio, 12" x 12", unpaginated, approximately 180pp. with numerous plates and illustrations. Fine.. 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio.

NEW ~ Nineteenth-century iron structures in Brazil, including markets, railway stations, bandstands, water towers. An important monograph. Very hard to find. 248 pp. B&W photographs and floor plans. Architectural details. Shelf worn, cover scuffed and chipped, pages yellowing at edges, spine creased. In Portuguese.

Zuerich: Centre Le Corbusier : Heidi Weber, n.d.. Paperback. Very Good. Large 8vo. [66] pages. Perfect-bound in stiff, glossy black wrappers printed in red. Illustrations, chiefly color. Typed letter signed by Heidi Weber dated February 23, 1967 and price list laid in. In the letter Weber responds to a request for a price list for lithographs and an inquiry about purchasing Le Corbusier furniture. She advises that a New York licensee for the manufacture of the furniture will be announced sometime that Spring making it easier to buy the furniture in the US rather than to have it imported from Switzerland. Though not mentioned in the letter, Centre Le Corbusier Heidi Weber Museum, the final building designed by Le Corbusier, would open in Zürich in July of that year. Very Good, creasing to cover near spine resulting in some bubbling and peeling to lamination, wear and rubbing to extremities, internally clean and bright.

PLAN, SECTION and ELEVATION of the POO-TA-LA of TEMPLE of the LAMA at ZHE-HOL in TARTARYThis monumental temple which looks more like a fortified tower was drawn by HW Parish in 1793.This antique original copper plate engraving is from Sir George Leonard Staunton's atlas folio of prints to accompany "An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China . Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney". The work was published in London by G.Nicol in 1797. George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737-1806) was dispatched to Beijing in 1792 travelling via Madeira, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope and Indonesia. He was accompanied by George Staunton, and a retinue of suitably impressive size, including Stauntonâ s 11-year-old son who was nominally the ambassadorâ s page. On the embassy's arrival in China it emerged that the 11-year-old was the only European member of the embassy able to speak Mandarin, and thus the only one able to… Read More