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SCENES OF MEDIEVAL LIFE. 3 VOLUME SET IN SLIPCASE. 1. LIFE IN A MEDIEVAL CITY. 2. LIFE IN A MEDIEVAL VILLAGE. 3. LIFE IN A MEDIEVAL CASTLE.
by Gies, Joseph and Gies, Frances. Preface by Judith Herrin
London: Folio Society, 2002. 244 pp, 252 pp, 232 pp - 3 volumes, 9" H, bound in blocked printed parchment (colour illustrations on front boards), gilt lettering on spines. Volumes 1 & 3 have map endpapers, all three volumes have colour and b&w plates. Red slipcase with gilt titling on front panel. Volume 1 contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Troyes: 1250; A Burgher's Home; A Medieval Housewife; Childbirth and Children; Weddings and Funerals; Small Business; Big Business; The...
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£53.07
PETERBOROUGH'S ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE: A LISTING OF EXISTING STRUCTURES ERECTED PRIOR TO 1890 IN THE AREA BOUNDED BY THE OTONABEE RIVER, PARKHILL ROAD, PARK STREET AND TOWNSEND STREET.
by Kidd, Martha Ann
(Peterborough, Ontario): Peterborough Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee , 1979. 176 pp, 11" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. Contents: Foreword; Preface; Antrim Street; Aylmer Street; Bethune Street; Brock Street; Charlotte Street; College Street; Dalhouse Street; Dickson Street; Division Street; Donegal Street; Downie Street; Dublin Street; Edinburgh Street; Elcombe Crescent; George Street; Gilchrist Street; Harvey Street; Hunter Street; King Street; London Street;...
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£18.37
SPECTORGROUP. (SPECTOR GROUP.)
by (Spector, Michael Harris.)
Rockport Publishers, Rockport, Massachusetts, (1995), Ist edition. 192 pp, square small 4to (10 1/4" x 10 1/4"), hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with photos, drawings, plans, elevations. "For nearly thirty years, the Spector Group has been creating architecture that has redefined the suburban landscape. Anticipating corporate America's move to greener environments, the Spector Group's early architecture set the precedent for today's...
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£20.41
Wood Systems. Bulletin No.1079. Direct Connected Type MPL Direct-Current Generators for Power and Lighting August 1, 1907
by [ Fort Wayne Electric Works ]
Fort Wayne, Indiana: Fort Wayne Electric Works, 1907. Staplebound. Good. 12 pages, stapled and two-hole punched. 8 x 10 1/2 inches. Page edges trimmed and then stained red. Staplebound. The second edition of this bulletin. Illustrated. Describes newly designed and updated generators from the company based on their field experience.
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£17.96
OLD KENTUCKY ARCHITECTURE. COLONIAL, FEDERAL, GREEK REVIVAL, GOTHIC, AND OTHER TYPES ERECTED PRIOR TO THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.
by Newcomb, Rexford
New York: Bonanza Unpaginated foreword, introductory essay and list of plates plus 130 b&w plates (photographs, plans, drawings) and frontispiece, 4to (12 1/8" H, hard cover in dust jacket. Copyright 1940. "Forming originally a part of the state of Virginia, Kentucky was peopled largely from Virginia and nearby colonies; thus the economic system, the social fabric and the cultural outlook of Kentucky resembles these features of life in the Old Dominion. Bringing with them a love of classic...
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£16.33
THE FIFTH BOOK OF PILGRIMAGES TO OLD HOMES.
by Moss, Fletcher
Didsbury: Published By Author, 1910. 426 pp, 10 1/4" H. Brick-coloured cloth over bevelled boards, gilt lettering on spine and front board, gilt illustration on front board, top edge gilt. 212 b&w illustrations. Contents: A Crusader's Home - Plowden; The Last Stronghold of Caratacus; Worsley Old Hall; Clayton Hall; Turton Tower; Tatton Old Hall; The Roman Wall; The Borderland of Paradise; Lee Hall, Ellesmere; Winfield Manor; Temple Newsam; Crewe Hall; Nantwich to Market Drayton; A Lonely...
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£28.57
BONNETTSTOWN: A HOUSE IN IRELAND.
by Bush, Andrew. Foreword by Mark Haworth-Booth
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989. 13 pp (text section), followed by unpaginated photograph section, 11 1/4" H x 12" D. Profusely illustrated with colour photographs. "A perfect early-eighteenth-century Georgian limestone manor house situated in the wild, overgrown patchwork countryside near Kilkenny, Ireland, is a subject that captivated photographer Andrew Bush and inspired him to create this book. Many times over a three-year period, from 1979 to 1982, Bush visited the 1737 Anglo-Irish...
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£55.11
AMPLE MANSIONS: THE VICEREGAL RESIDENCES OF THE CANADIAN PROVINCES.
by Hubbard, R.H. Foreword by Her Excellency, Jeanne Sauve
Ottawa: University of Ottawa Pres, 1989. 237 pp, oblong (9 1/4" H x 12 1/4" D). Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour photographs, reproductions. "The viceregal residences of the Canadian provinces mirror the idiosyncrasies of their inhabitants, and the tastes and talents of the architects, builders, gardeners, furniture makers and decorators who created them. In 'Ample Mansions' you will see the finest - and sometimes the worst - of Canadian style. There's no...
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£18.37
BAROQUE IN ITALY.
by Lees-Milne, James
London: B.T. Batsford, 1959. 216 pp, large 8vo (9" H). B&w photographs, reproductions, floor plans. "(Lees-Milne writes about) the development of building in Italy from the Mannerist period, that is, the later sixteenth century, to the emergence of Rococo in the early eighteenth century. (He) believes that Baroque in Italy was a religious manifestation, Latin, Catholic and primarily Roman and his book deals largely with ecclesiastical architecture in Rome itself. Piedmont was the next most...
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£36.74
BELGIUM AND LUXEMBOURG.
by Edwards, Tudor
London: B.T. Batsford, 1951. 128 pp, 8 3/4" H. Colour frontispiece, b&w photographs, 2 maps. "Belgium, Luxembourg and French Flanders are included in this survey of an area which is, intentionally, treated more as a cultural than a nationalistic entity. It is an area whose buildings, customs and people share a common quality that traverses national frontiers: a quality which appears equally in the Grandes Places of Antwerp, Malines and Brussels, in the canal-side architecture of Bruges...
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THIS WAS EXPO.
by Fulford, Robert. Picture story texts by Alan Edmonds
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1968. 203 pp, 11 3/16" H. B&w and colour photographs. A pictorial look at Expo 67, the World's Fair held in Montreal in 1967. Contents: Introduction / A heaven-storming ambition: Tomorrow's World; The greatest show on earth: How the world saw the fair; An exultation of form and structure: Architecture's giant stride into tomorrow; The fairest of the fair: That great American dome; The future of the city: Reshaping the environment; A new way of...
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EDINBURGH
by Scott-Moncrieff, George
London: B.T. Batsford, 1947. 122 pp, 8 1/2" H. Map endpapers, b&w and colour plates (photographs, reproductions). Contents: Introduction; Acknowledgment; The Castle; Holyrood; The Mediaeval City; Old Town; Old Town and Canongate; New Town and Augustan Age; Modern Times; Index. Very light edge wear to the boards. Dust jacket has light browning - more on the spine, now protected in removable mylar sleeve.. Not Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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£16.33
ROYAL LONDON.
by Struthers, Jane
London: New Holland, 2005. 128 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H). Colour photographs. "The streets of London are alive with a 2,000-year history that stretches back to its birth as the Roman city of Londinium and is closely intertwined with the history of the monarchy. That profound royal influence is still obvious today, but runs much deeper than simply physical architecture and geography. 'Royal London' reveals the fascinating regal history behind over 130 buildings, parks, gardens, statues and...
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HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE OF THE ROYAL NAVY: AN INTRODUCTION.
by Coad, J.G. (Jonathan)
London: Victor Gollancz, London, 1983., 1983. 160 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H). Profusely illustrated in b&w with photographs, reproductions, plans, elevations, maps. "From the 1690s to the First World War, British maritime power, though often challenged, ruled supreme. It was a key factor in the nation's commercial growth which fuelled and underpinned industrial and imperial expansion. Central to the creation and maintenance of that supremacy were the royal dockyards, and the naval...
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STROLL: PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIC WALKING TOURS OF TORONTO.
by Micallef, Shawn. Foreword By John Bentley Mays
Toronto: Coach House / EYE WEEKLY, 2010. 310 pp, 8 1/2" H. B&w photographs, drawings, maps, colour fold-out map at rear. "What is the 'Toronto' look? Glass skyscrapers rise beside Victorian homes, and Brutalist apartment buildings mark the edge of leafy ravines, creating a city of contrasts whose architectural look can only be defined by telling the story of how it came together and how it works, today, as an imperfect but magnificent machine. Micallef situates Toronto's...
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THE O'KEEFE CENTRE: THIRTY YEARS OF THEATRE HISTORY.
by Walker, Hugh
Toronto: Key Porter, 1991. 310 pp, 4to (11 3/4" H). "Since its opening in 1960, the O'Keefe Centre has been Canada's premier theatre: home of the National Ballet of Canada and the Canadian Opera Company, the chief venue for Broadway musicals and plays, international artists, modern and classical dance companies - everything glorious in the performing arts. Almost 300 black-and-white photographs of distinguished entertainers illustrate this lively history of the O'Keefe Centre from...
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EXPLORE BRITAIN'S CASTLES.
by Cruwys, Elizabeth and Riffenburgh, Beau
Basingstoke: Automobile Association, 1995. 160 pp, 4to (11 1/8" H) - glazed pictorial boards. Profusely illustrated with colour photographs, map. "Britain's heritage of castle building through the ages is uniquely rich and absorbing, and their picturesque ruins provide important clues to the past. This attractively illustrated book tells the story of over 100 of the most spectacular castles all over the country, both inhabited and deserted, making it an essential companion for anyone who...
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£18.37
VERSAILLES AND THE TRIANONS.
by Kemp, G. van der and Levron, J. Translated by Ethel Whitehorn
London: Nicholas Kaye, 1958. 238 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions - fold-out map at rear. Contents: Versailles in Literature; The Park; From the Village of Versailles to the Chateau of Louis XIV; Stages in Construction and Planning; The Splendour of the Reign in the Early Days of the Chateau; Decline and Misfortune; The Time of Louis the Well-Beloved; The Last Queen of Versailles; Neglected Glory; The Great and Small Apartments; The Museum of French...
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THE STORY OF BUCKINGHAM PALACE: THE ROYAL HOME THROUGH SEVEN REIGNS.
by Peacocke, Marguerite D
London: Odhams, 1951. 288 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H). B&w photographs, plans. "(T)ells the story of Buckingham Palace through the reigns of seven British monarchs, describing how and why it was built and the purposes for which it has been used since its foundation. It traces the history of the Palace from its earliest origins as the private home of Sir William Blake, erected in 1623 on a site that was formerly the scene of a rowdy, disreputable pleasure-garden. And it reacalls three centuries of...
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£12.25
GROPIUS: THE MAN WHO BUILT THE BAUHAUS.
by MacCarthy, Fiona
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap / Harvard University Press, 2019. 547 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w and colour photographs, reproductions. "The impact of Walter Gropius can be measured in his buildings - Fagus Factory, Bauhaus Dessau, Pan Am - but no less in his students. I.M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, Anni Albers, Philip Johnson, Fumihiko Maki: countless masters were once disciples at the Bauhaus in Berlin and at Harvard. Between 1910 and 1930, Gropius was the center of European modernism, and avant-garde...
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Wood Systems. Bulletin No.1028 - Enclosed Direct Current Multiple Series Arc Lamps Power Circuit Type - Form C, May 10, 1907
by [ Fort Wayne Electric Works ]
Fort Wayne, Indiana: Fort Wayne Electric Works, 1907. Staplebound. Very Good. 8 pages, stapled and two-hole punched. 8 x 10 1/2 inches. Page edges trimmed and then stained red. Staplebound. The third edition of this bulletin. Illustrated. "For outdoor illumination or for lighting large interiors there is no better source of light than the enclosed arc lamp.
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£17.96
LONDON REVEALED. THE BEAUTIFUL, BIZARRE AND UNEXPECTED INTERIORS OF THE CAPITAL.
by Freeman, John and Dormer, Peter
London: Macdonald, 1989. 240 pp, small 4to (10 5/8" H). Beautifully and profusely illustrated with colour photographs. "John Freeman has spent a year investigating the worlds behind the closed doors of the Capital, unearthing an incredible variety of important interiors. The best and most exciting of these have been brought together in this book, revealing ninety unique views of London, many of which have been photographed here for the first time. The result is the most authoritative and...
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£28.57
THE NETHERLANDS: A STUDY OF SOME ASPECTS OF ART, COSTUME AND SOCIAL LIFE.
by Sitwell, Sacheverell
London: B.T. Batsford 168 pp, 8 3/4" H. Top edge orange. Pictorial endpapers, b&w drawings, b&w and colour plates, fold-out map at rear. Contents: Introduction; Dutch Water Towns (Delft, Dordrecht, Haarlem, Leyden, Utrecht); Amsterdam (Churches, Canals, Houses, and their Interiors); Villages of the Waterland (Broek, Koog aan de Zaan, Krommenie, Monnikendam, Edam, Volendam, Marken); The Hague and the Work of Daniel Marot; Noord Holland (Haarlem, Alkmaar, Hoorn, Enkhuizen, Medemblik);...
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£14.29
LONDON IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
by Shepherd, Thomas. Historical and descriptive text by James Elmes
London: Bracken Books, 1983. 160 pp, 4to(11 1/4" H) Pictorial endpapers, b&w reproductions. "In the early nineteenth century when the cities of Britain were expanding and changing at an unprecedented rate there arose a great interest in the famous buildings that had survived from the past, as well as pride in the new developments which were taking place. This enthusiasm resulted in the production of a number of illustrated books describing the country's most famous towns and cities, of...
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