Selected Drawings Portfolio by Wright, Frank Lloyd

New York & London: G. P. Putnam. Very Good. 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in original tan cloth. Folio folder contains 256 loose pages. ( 222pp + 4 color + 52 Monochromatic plates. Gilt titles on spine and front cover. 1st edition. Text is Intact and clean. Small cloth tear at spine heel. First 3 pages have an curled edge. Two torn cloth ties. Floral decorated paper inside covers has rub marks. Old wooden ceilings are more numerous in Spain than other European Countries. Architecture, Spain; Monochrome & Color Plates; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 256 pages .

Paris: Librairie Victor Lecoffre / J. Gabalda, Éditeur, 1926. First Edition (in French). 1/8th pigskin over boards. Good +. Quartos (11 1/4" H x 8 7/8" W); 5 Volumes (in "Fascicules") published over a 14-year period. These consist of "Jerusalem Antique" in Volume I & "Jerusalem Nouvelle" in Volumes II, III, & IV, plus Volume V, "Planches" [Plates] covering all volumes. 1/8th whitened pigskin over B&W textured boards; Preface by M. le Marquis de Vogüé; Profusely illustrated with B&W line drawings (with occasional red-delineation), schematics, and B&W photographs (especially in Vol. IV "Planches"): Vol. I, Part I. Topographie, xii + 196pp. ; Vol. II., Parts I & II. Aelia Capitolina, Le Saint-Sepulcre et Le Mont des Oliviers, xi + 419pp.; Vol. II, Part III. La Sainte-Sion et Les Sanctuaires de Second Ordre, 421-668pp.; Part IV. Sainte-Ane et Les Sanctuaires Hors de la Ville Histoire Monumentale de 31… Read More

Two volumes of Presuhn's souvenir books with 75 vibrant chromolithographs of wall paintings discovered in PompeiiLes Decorations Murales de Pompeii, 1878.With 24 chromolithographs after original drawings by Geremia Discanno, lithographed by Victor Steeger, and 51 pages of text in French translated from the German by A. Giraud-Teulon. Bound with Choix des Plus Belles et Interessantes Peintures de Pompei, avec Plan de la Ville, 1882With 50 chromolithographs after original drawings by Emile Presuhn and Geremia DiscannoAlong with wall paintings from all four eras of design, the plates depict floor mosaics, portraits, statues, plaster-casts of bodies, and plans of houses and the excavations. Presuhn (1844-1881) was a German archeologist who lived and worked in Italy for almost decade from 1870 publishing books illustrating the latest murals, mosaics and discoveries made in the excavations in Pompeii. Discanno (1839-1907) was an Italian artist and painter who worked in Naples and Pompeii.Red cloth binding… Read More

Very good copy of the "second and very popular edition" of Presuhn's souvenir of excavations in Pompeii from 1874-1881In 10 sections with 80 chromolithographs by Victor Seeger and J.G. Bach after designs by Geremia Discanno and Miss Amy Butts.Pompeii, the latest excavations from 1874 to 1881 for lovers of art and antiquities. Along with murals from all four eras of interior design, the plates depict interior views, mythological wall paintings, floor mosaics, statues, plaster-casts of bodies, wall graffiti, plans of houses and the town. Text in German.Presuhn (1844-1881) was a German archeologist who lived and worked in Italy for almost decade from 1870 publishing books illustrating the latest murals, mosaics and discoveries made in the excavations in Pompeii. Discanno (1839-1907) was an Italian artist and painter who worked in Naples and Pompeii.Half brown leather binding with scuffed edges, spine with black and gold leather title labels, gilt title on green cloth covers, marbled endpapers. Slight… Read More

Set of elephant-folio plates only from Ernst Ewald's important review of European interior design.144 (of 160) huge, 48x32cm chromolithographic plates (35 double page 48x64cm with two plate numbers), many finished with gold, plus b/w plate 77a (lacking plates: 2, 3, 22, 44, 52, 53 in Vol. I, and 63, 64, 74-80 in Vol. II).Extra plate of friezes from Ernest Bodin's Manuel de Peintures, Paris, 1874.With 12 pages of German text in Vol. I, and 15 pages in Vol. II.Chromolithographed by Ernst Wasmuth after designs by Ernst Ewald, Moritz Meurer, Adolf Rettelbusch, Paul Klinka, Richard Hendorf, R. Wolffenstein, A.J. Balcke, etc.The spectacular plates depict walls and ceilings from ancient Pompeii to the Renaissance, from the Baroque and Rococo to Art Nouveau. The buildings include Versailles, the Palace of Fontainebleau and the Louvre, the Vatican and the Villa Madama, the Ducal Palace (Mantua), Uffizi Gallery (Florence), church of Saint Nicolas (Palermo), the Germania (Berlin), Fugger Houses (Augsburg),… Read More

New York & London: G. P. Putnam. Very Good. 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in original tan cloth. Folio folder contains 256 loose pages. ( 222pp + 4 color + 52 Monochromatic plates. Gilt titles on spine and front cover. 1st edition. Text is Intact and clean. Small cloth tear at spine heel. First 3 pages have an curled edge. Two torn cloth ties. Floral decorated paper inside covers has rub marks. Old wooden ceilings are more numerous in Spain than other European Countries. Architecture, Spain; Monochrome & Color Plates; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 256 pages .

1640 Alexandro Francini Italian Architecture Gardens Fountains Arch Engineering

Alessandro Francini was an early 17th-century Italian architect who is best known for his illustrations of garden plans and exquisite fountains. He contributed impressive illustrations of arches, gates, and columns for the 1631 book 'Livre d'Architecture', or simply 'Book of Architecture'.
Item number: #9325
Price: $1500
FRANCINI, Alexandro
Livre d'architecture : contenant plusievrs portiques de differentes inventions sur les cinq ordres de colomnes
A Paris : Chez Melchior Tavernier ..., 1640.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o 40 engraved plates
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Language: French
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Binding: Vellum
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Size: ~15.25in X 11in (38.5cm x 28cm)
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Two volumes of Presuhn's souvenir books with 75 vibrant chromolithographs of wall paintings discovered in PompeiiLes Decorations Murales de Pompeii, 1878.With 24 chromolithographs after original drawings by Geremia Discanno, lithographed by Victor Steeger, and 51 pages of text in French translated from the German by A. Giraud-Teulon. Bound with Choix des Plus Belles et Interessantes Peintures de Pompei, avec Plan de la Ville, 1882With 50 chromolithographs after original drawings by Emile Presuhn and Geremia DiscannoAlong with wall paintings from all four eras of design, the plates depict floor mosaics, portraits, statues, plaster-casts of bodies, and plans of houses and the excavations. Presuhn (1844-1881) was a German archeologist who lived and worked in Italy for almost decade from 1870 publishing books illustrating the latest murals, mosaics and discoveries made in the excavations in Pompeii. Discanno (1839-1907) was an Italian artist and painter who worked in Naples and Pompeii.Red cloth binding… Read More

Very good copy of the "second and very popular edition" of Presuhn's souvenir of excavations in Pompeii from 1874-1881In 10 sections with 80 chromolithographs by Victor Seeger and J.G. Bach after designs by Geremia Discanno and Miss Amy Butts.Pompeii, the latest excavations from 1874 to 1881 for lovers of art and antiquities. Along with murals from all four eras of interior design, the plates depict interior views, mythological wall paintings, floor mosaics, statues, plaster-casts of bodies, wall graffiti, plans of houses and the town. Text in German.Presuhn (1844-1881) was a German archeologist who lived and worked in Italy for almost decade from 1870 publishing books illustrating the latest murals, mosaics and discoveries made in the excavations in Pompeii. Discanno (1839-1907) was an Italian artist and painter who worked in Naples and Pompeii.Half brown leather binding with scuffed edges, spine with black and gold leather title labels, gilt title on green cloth covers, marbled endpapers. Slight… Read More

Set of elephant-folio plates only from Ernst Ewald's important review of European interior design.144 (of 160) huge, 48x32cm chromolithographic plates (35 double page 48x64cm with two plate numbers), many finished with gold, plus b/w plate 77a (lacking plates: 2, 3, 22, 44, 52, 53 in Vol. I, and 63, 64, 74-80 in Vol. II).Extra plate of friezes from Ernest Bodin's Manuel de Peintures, Paris, 1874.With 12 pages of German text in Vol. I, and 15 pages in Vol. II.Chromolithographed by Ernst Wasmuth after designs by Ernst Ewald, Moritz Meurer, Adolf Rettelbusch, Paul Klinka, Richard Hendorf, R. Wolffenstein, A.J. Balcke, etc.The spectacular plates depict walls and ceilings from ancient Pompeii to the Renaissance, from the Baroque and Rococo to Art Nouveau. The buildings include Versailles, the Palace of Fontainebleau and the Louvre, the Vatican and the Villa Madama, the Ducal Palace (Mantua), Uffizi Gallery (Florence), church of Saint Nicolas (Palermo), the Germania (Berlin), Fugger Houses (Augsburg),… Read More