Search Results: Architecture from Books of Aurora

Walker Publishing Co., 1974. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Walker Publishing Co., 1974. Very Good +/very good. Unmarked copy, firm binding, two-color illustrations throughout. Jacket bears shadow of a price sticker and some rubbing and wear at extremities.

Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2012. Hardcover. New/new. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2012. New/new. "Asylum on the Hill "is the story of a great American experiment in psychiatry, a revolution in care for those with mental illness, as seen through the example of the Athens Lunatic Asylum. Built in Southeast Ohio after the Civil War, the asylum embodied the nineteenth-century "gold standard" specifications of moral treatment. Ziff's fresh presentation of America's nineteenth-century asylum movement shows how the Athens Lunatic Asylum accommodated political, economic, community, family, and individual needs and left an architectural legacy that has been uniquely renovated and repurposed. 

London, 1797. Hardcover. Fair. London, 1797 Leather Fair/No Jacket Issued 4 3/4" x 5 7/8", intended to be a pocket size reference Original leather boards are detached, spine leather is holding firmly to text block The title page has 3 pieces of clear tape holding it together All other pages are intact and clear with an occassional stain There is an introduction plus 46 pages followed by 200 examples engraved on 100 copper plates 99 of these plates are numbered, the final one is not

Medina, OH: McKiernan, King, 1995. Softcover. Near fine. 159 pages, heavily illustrated with b&w photographs and line drawings. A brief history is given of each structure. Indexed. Clean, unmarked and firmly bound.