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Amsterdam: Np, 1953. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 5 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 inches. Signed copy by Appel in blue ink. Six black and white plates. Title page carries his handwritten Paris address in blue ink and a pencil notation "from the library of photographies Anrold Newman. Text in French by Michel Tapie. Clean. bright… Read more about this item

Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1836. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards. Near fine. 208 pages. 27 x 22 cm, 100 copperplate engravings. Glossary of Architectural Terms. Glossary of Technical Terms. Rules of Work, Originally Adopted by the Carpenters of the Town of Boston, in 1774, and first published 1830. HITCHCOCK 1145 (Second edition enlarged).… Read more about this item

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1837. Hardcover. Three quarter dark green cloth and brown morocco rebacked. Near fine. 74 pages & Alphabetical Index & Chronological Index, Folio, 50 x 33 cm. Etched frontispiece by and after Carter, and 106 etched plates. Originally issued in 27 parts, 'this is Carter's most important book... It was probably the first [work] to… Read more about this item

New York: Cooperative Building Plan Association, Architects, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated taupe cloth lettered in red, beveled edges. Very good. 3 pages in text. Folio, 35 x 28 cm. 700 illustrations, each plan is priced and accompanied with letterpress details. Our copy is No. 9640, attesting that the purchaser can request a loan from the publisher… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1841. New Edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth front cover lavishly illustrated in gilt borders and arabesques. Teg. Near fine. Jones, Owen. Unpaginated, approx. 200 pages in text. Four full-page chromolithograph illustrations with borders, colored titles, and ornamental vignettes [all are color lithographs] designed by Owen Jones. Numerous text illustrations from drawings by William Allan, David… Read more about this item

London: Ackermann and Co, 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth front cover gilt lettered. Very good. 17 text pages. 14.5 x 11 inches. Twenty lithograph plates with multiple images printed recto only. Most plates toned at margins. ABBEY LIFE. 176. Wear to corners, binding tight and firm.

New York: Bicknell & Comstock, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's burnt sienna cloth, front cover gilt lettered. Unpaginated. Small folio, 23.5 x 10 3/4 inches. May sound dramatic, but an almost as new copy, entire contents clean and fresh as are the covers. Plates printed recto only. Corner arabesques.

New York: G.P. Putnam, 1849. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's brown cloth embossed in gilt and blind. Very good. 2 vols. 326 & 373 pages. 24 x 15 cm, two tinted lithographed frontispieces, five folding maps and plans, and a host of plates and woodcuts in the text. Index. BLACKMER 968. The author, English archaeologist whose excavations greatly… Read more about this item

New York: Dingwall-Rock Ltd, 1925. Hardcover. Vellum backed gray boards backsrip lettered in gilt. Teg. Near fine. Clarke, Harry. 254 pages. 27 x 21 cm. Translated from the German by John Anster. With twenty-one full-page plates, one a double-page, eight of which are in color. Spine lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers. Limited edition for the USA, copy 909… Read more about this item

London: James Hagger, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter black calf and black cloth. Very good. (vi), viii, 266 pages. 11.2 x 9 inches. 146 wood engraved plates with 35 printed in colors. Essentially a practical guide to the trade of the period with suggestions for improving the work of masonry, foundations, domes, bridges, windows. Also provides designs… Read more about this item

London and New York: George Virtue, 1850. First and Second Series. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth, front covers decorated in gilt seals, backstrips also in gilt motifs. Very good. 2 Vols. 351, 362 pages. 11.5 x 7 inches. First Series with more than 200 engravings and Second Series illustrated with 27 engravings on steel by W.H. Bartlett, and numerous… Read more about this item

Boston: Geo. H. Polley, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown cloth and lettered blue boards. Very good. Unpaginated. Folio, 13.5 x 11 inches. 60 plates printed recto only. Series of measured drawings and sketches of American colonial styles and designs. HITCHCOCK 1417. Interior clean, wear to corners and rubbing to backstrip extremities.

Philadelphia: Bennet And Walton, 1811. First American edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full calf, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Near fine. 212 pages. 16.5 x 10.5 cm. Four pages of publisher adverts at rear. Scattered foxing, light dampstain one centimeter head of title not affecting text. Cowper was one of the most widely read English poets of his… Read more about this item

Venetia: Appresso Marc Antonio Brogiollo, 1642. leather_bound. Orig. limp vellum, spine lettered in brown. Very good in fine custom slipcase. quarter vellum spine and marbled boards. Folio, 33 x 22 cm. a2, B-G4, H-I4, AA-KK4, AAA6, BBB-EEE4, 4A-4R4, including title and final blank. Illustrated title page, some margin stains and browning. Initial decorated letters throughout. Not in FOWLER.… Read more about this item

London: Printed For the Author by William Ballintine, 1806. Hardcover. Modern quarter dark green morocco and marbled boards. Fine. (viii) 316 pages. 21 x 13 cm. Stamp on title and dedication. Architect and Surveyor to Dulwich College; took over supervision of the construction of Dulwich Picture Gallery from Sir John Soane in 1813. Interior generally clean, raised bands,… Read more about this item

Boston: Hilliard & Metcalf, 1812. First American edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Very good. (xii) (18) 434 pages. 22 x 13 cm. The author's aesthetics played an important part in the development of romantic classicism in American architecture. His essays were popular and came to be considered a textbook for artists and the highly… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1805. First American edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full calf.Very good. 160 pages. 17 x 11 cm. Scattered foxing, ownership signature dated 1807 and pencil notations on back free endpaper and pastedown dated 1806. Nicks to corners and backstrip head and foot.

Boston: American Type Founders Co, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's green cloth front cover decorated. All edges red. Near fine. 946 (2) pages. 20 x 12.5 cm. Laid-in the publisher's original four page "A Brief Synopsis of its Contents Arranged by folios, from page 1 to page 946, Inclusive." printed in red and black. Bookplate of J.D.… Read more about this item

London: Published by the author, 1831. First edition. Hardcover. Modern quarter black cloth and beige boards, backstrip lettered in gilt. Near fine. Unpaginated. 31 x 23 cm. With thirty plates drawn on stone and an Index for latter. Designs adapted to environs of the metropolis and large towns consistent with economy of constructioin. Interior contents very clean and… Read more about this item

Hartford: Case, Tiffany And Burnham, 1847. leather_bound. Contemporary calf over boards. Two Vols. in one. Very good. Folio, 40.5 x 30 cm, 96 pages in text. Thirty-eight wood engravings and fifty lithographed plates, some are double-paged. This edition contains the only published architecture designs of Henry Austin [five plates]. The frontispiece shows a view of the Wadsworth Athenaeum… Read more about this item