La Casa Rotonda
Italy: Edizioni L'Erba Voglio, 1982. 8.25 x 8.25 inches. 111 pages. Wrappers. In Italian and English.
Architecture
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Hus i Norge en Forste Hjelp til Forstaelse av var Byggeskikk
Oslo: H. Aschehoug, 1944. 4to. 117 pages, including a number of illustrations. A very good copy in original printed paper wrappers.
Sleepy Hollow Restorations: A Cross-Section of the Collections
Tarrytown, NY: Sleepy Hollow Press, 1983. 11 x 8.5 inches. 310 pages. Fully illustrated in color. Original brown cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
Dentro lo Spazio
Lugano: Banca della Svizzera Italiana, 1985. Text in Italian and English. Folio (12.5 x 11 inches). Illustrated in black-and-white and color. Cloth; dust jacket. Limited edition, number 84 of 198 numbered copies from an edition of 1200. A monograph on the architect Claudio F. Pellegrini's work in Lugano, lavishly printed.....
Peter Cook: Six Conversations (Architectural Monographs (Hardcover) #28)
John Wiley & Sons, 1995. 12.25 x 10.5 inches. 144 pages. Cloth; dust jacket.
Trophées contenant divers attributs d'Eglise
Paris: Daumont, circa 1770. 6 parts in one volume, folio (458 x 305 mm). 30 engraved plates including 6 titles and 12 engraved plates by Voisord after Delafosse of trophies from various other countries; 10 engraved plates after Delafosse of mantelpieces laid in. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. Some wear at extremities.....
Architectura privata: das ist: Gründtliche Beschreibung ... inn was Form ... ein ... Bürgerliches Wohnhauss ... erbawet ... worden
Augsburg: Johann Schultes and Mathias Rembold, 1641. Folio (300 x 203 mm). Letterpress title printed in red and black (torn and repaired), 15 double-page or folding engraved plates or plans by Matthäus Rembold (1629–1657), on guards. Contemporary vellum. Some plates trimmed closely. Provenance: purchased from Ars Libri, 1990. FIRST EDITION.....
Towers: A Historial Survey
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1989. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. 343 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. "Looks at natural towers, famous towers of the past, church towers, cathedrals, Islamic towers, pagodas, bell towers, communications towers, and skyscrapers."
The International Style: Architecture Since 1922
New York: W. W. Norton, 1932. 4to. 240 pages. 82 full-page photographs of contemporary buildings, accompanied by plans. Cloth; dust jacket. Provenance: Samuel M. Nickerson (pencil inscription dated Sept. 11 1934 on front free endpaper), possibly a descendent of Samuel M. Nickerson (1830-1914) of Chicago, banker and owner of the.....
Andrew Holmes: Addition (Folio IX)
London: Architecture Association, 1986. Square folio. 28-page pamphlet in wrappers; 20 silkscreens; together in black cloth clamshell box. FIRST EDITION, number 29 of 1000 copies signed by Holmes on the cover of the box.
Toyo Ito
New York: Phaidon Press Inc., 2009. First edition. Folio. 231pp. Profusely illustrated. Original pictorial boards; die-cut dust jacket.
Plus Minus Box
London: Architectural Association, 1985. Square cloth folding case (12 x 12 in.) containing: nine plates, three on board, including the use of silkscreen, relief sculpture, embossed paper, and printed acrylic. And 28-page illustrated text in glazed paper portfolio. FIRST EDITION of this scarce work on the Japanese architect and artist.....
Londres et les Anglais
Paris: Gustave Barba, [nd]. 4to. 380 pages. Frontispiece with 25 engraved plates throughout. Marbled paper over boards with gilt-stamped spine. FIRST EDITION. Text in French.
Ornati e graffiti di varie facciate e sfondi che si ritrovano in antichi palazzi e chiese
[Circa 1788]. 29 plates (of 40) including title, plates 345 x 220 mm, sheets 495 x 330 mm. Some printed on tinted blue paper. Contemporary half vellum, marbled boards. Plates 26-28 with some pale staining. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, a rare proof copy before changes to the title. A CHARMING.....
Boundaries
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. First edition, inscribed by the author. Quarto. Original grey cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed by Maya Lin on the half-title. Best known for creating the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., artist and architect Maya Lin opened her studio in 1987. This is.....
The Historic Houses of Presidio Terrace (and the people who built them)
(Friends of the) Presidio Terrace Association, 1995. 11.25 x 14.25 inches. 96 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. Inscribed by the architect on the title-page and with a typed letter signed by the architect laid in. First Edition. A collection of photographs by Patrick McGrew of the Presidio Terrace.
Life and Shape
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962. 8vo. 372 pp. Plates. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. A near-fine copy with light wear to jacket, a few minor spots to sheet edges. FIRST EDITION. A fine association copy, inscribed by Richard Neutra to the photographer Barbara Morgan on the half-title: “To Barbara Morgan and.....
Rapports au Conseil Général des Hospices, sur Les Hopitaux et Hospices; Les Secours a Domacile; La Direction des Nourrices
Paris: Imprimerie des Hospices Civils, an XI [1802-1803]. Three parts in one volume, 4to (250 x 197 mm). viii, 200; [2], 67; [2], 16 pp. Half-title. Folding table at end. Late 19th-/early 20th-century boards. Provenance: Bibliothèque Imperiale (inkstamp on some text leaves and table, duplicate stamp). FIRST EDITION. Contains a......
Cesar Pell. Buildings and Projects 1963-1990
New York: Rizzoli, 1990. 4to. 288 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by Pelli on the half-title, and with the recipient's address label affixed to title. A fine monograph on the Argentinian-born American architect, including a study of the World Financial Center in Battery Park.....
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Kingswalden Notes [Pentagram Papers 16]
London, New York, San Francisco: Pentagram Design, 1970. Oblong (7 x 9.5 inches). Original printed wrappers. The Kingswalden Notes are Quinlan Terry's journal recording the deign and building of Kings Walden Bury, a new country house in Hertfordshire, which was completed in 1971.
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Kingswalden Notes [Pentagram Papers 16]
London, New York, San Francisco: Pentagram Design, 1970. Oblong (7 x 9.5 inches). Original printed wrappers. The Kingswalden Notes are Quinlan Terry's journal recording the deign and building of Kings Walden Bury, a new country house in Hertfordshire, which was completed in 1971.
Mexican Churches
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. 10.5 x 9.5 inches. 20 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original orange cloth; dust jacket. First edition. "These churches have never before been photographed so thoroughly, with such meticulous attention to their exuberant detail and splendor, providing a glimpse of the setting.....
Louis Kahn
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001. First edition. Folio. Profusely illustrated in color. Original grey boards; dust jacket. New photography by Roberto Schezen. 185 illustrations, including 100 plates in full color.
Case Study Houses: The Complete CSH Program 1945 - 1966
Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2002. 18 x 13.25 inches. 440 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original illustrated boards; printed acetate covering. First edition. "Modernist experimental homes. Prototypes for everyone The Case Study House program (1945-66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day.....
The Architecture of I.M. Pei: With an Illustrated Catalogue of the Buildings and Projects
London: Thames and Hudson, 2001. 11.25 x 9.25 inches. 340 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white and color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, with 356 illustrations included.
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