Category: Architecture

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Masonry, A Short Text-Book on Masonry Construction, Including Descriptions of the Materials Used, their Preparation and Arrangement in Structures

Price: $180.00

Publisher: New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. : 1915

Seller ID: 5593

Condition: Very Good

Full brown cloth with gilt particulars to spine. Chapters include: Natural Building Stones, Artificial Building Materials, Stone Masonry, Brick and Hollow-Tile Masonry, Concrete Masonry, and Railroad Masonry, Brick Cement, etc. Illustrated with diagrams, illustrations, and black and white photography throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. General wear to exterior boards (see image). ix, 160 pp. 6 x 9 1/4 inches. First Edition.
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Gehry Talks: Architecture + Process. Inscribed.

By: Mildred Friedman

Price: $220.00

Publisher: New York, Rizzoli International Publication Inc. : 1999

Seller ID: 4201

Condition: Fine

Extensively illustrated with color and b&w photographs throughout. Pictorial grey boards, title in black to spine. Diaphanous jacket. Gehry inscription to half-title "For Michael, Best Wishes, Frank Gehry, 99." A very nice, clean copy with no markings other than Gehry's.; 10.3 x 10.3 inches; 299 pages; Signed by Author. Dust jacket present.
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Image for The Carpenter's New Guide: Being a Complete Book of Lines for Carpentry and Joinery. Treating Fully on Practical Geometry, Soffits, Brick and Plaster Groins, Niches of Every Description, Sky-Lights, Lines for Roofs and Domes

The Carpenter's New Guide: Being a Complete Book of Lines for Carpentry and Joinery. Treating Fully on Practical Geometry, Soffits, Brick and Plaster Groins, Niches of Every Description, Sky-Lights, Lines for Roofs and Domes

By: Peter Nicholson

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, John Grigg : 1827

Seller ID: 2962

Condition: Very Good

Full mottled calf. Gross loss to head of spine and part of morocco label; front board detached, rear board weak. Owner's name to front fly. All 84 engraved plates present. Foxing throughout. ; 4to; 127 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
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Image for The New Practical Builder, and Workman's Companion: Containing a full display and elucidation of the most recent and skilful Methods, pursued by Architects and Artificers, in the various departments of Carpentry, Joinery, Bricklaying, Masonry, Slating, Plumbing, Painting, Glazing, Plastering, &c. &c. Including, also, new treatises on Geometry, theoretical and practical, Trigonometry, Conic Sections, Perspective, Shadows & Elevations; A summary of the Art of Building. An extensive glossary of the technical terms perculiar to each department; and the Theory and Practice of the Five Orders, as employed in decorative architecture.

The New Practical Builder, and Workman's Companion: Containing a full display and elucidation of the most recent and skilful Methods, pursued by Architects and Artificers, in the various departments of Carpentry, Joinery, Bricklaying, Masonry, Slating, Plumbing, Painting, Glazing, Plastering, &c. &c. Including, also, new treatises on Geometry, theoretical and practical, Trigonometry, Conic Sections, Perspective, Shadows & Elevations; A summary of the Art of Building. An extensive glossary of the technical terms perculiar to each department; and the Theory and Practice of the Five Orders, as employed in decorative architecture.

By: Peter Nicholson

Price: $400.00

Publisher: London, Thomas Kelly : 1823

Seller ID: 6126

Condition: Very Good

Half supple calf over marbled boards. An apparently little or unused set. First Edition.
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Image for Les fontaines de Paris anciennes et nouvelles, les plans indiquant leurs positions dans les differens quartiers, et les conduites pour la distribution de leurs eaux.... Fontaines publiques de la ville de Paris, elevees par la munificence des rois de France, depuis Philippe-Auguste jusqu'a nos jours.

Les fontaines de Paris anciennes et nouvelles, les plans indiquant leurs positions dans les differens quartiers, et les conduites pour la distribution de leurs eaux.... Fontaines publiques de la ville de Paris, elevees par la munificence des rois de France, depuis Philippe-Auguste jusqu'a nos jours.

By: Pierre Amaury Duval

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Paris, Bance Aine : 1828

Seller ID: 7888

Condition: Good

Quarter calf. 66 engraved plates (some double) with 152 pp of text interleaved. An additional four engraved plates & two maps in the Preface with Frontispiece. In all 73 engraved plates and maps. Occasional foxing. Lacks spine casing; boards detached.; Folio 10x16 in (265x410mm; [xvii],152 pages; Additional images and further information provided upon request.
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The Villa Kerylos.

By: Preface by Karl Lagerfeld. Introduction by Jean Leclant. Text by Francoise Alabe, Alain Renner, Michel Steve, and Regis Vian des Rives. Translated by Jack Liesveld.

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Paris, Les Editions de l'Amateur : 2001

Seller ID: 8321

Condition: Very Good

Pictorial glossy paper wraps. English text. Photography by Martin D. Scott. Minor creasing to spine, but otherwise a clean bright copy without previous owners' names or other markings. 9.25 x 12.25 in
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Accurata e succinta descrizione topografica e istorica di Roma moderna

By: Ridolfino Venuti; Carlo Barbiellini; Francesco Piranesi; Giovanni Battista Piranesi; Jean-Laurent Legeay; Je?ro?me Charles Bellicard; Philothe?e Franc?ois Duflos; Paolo Anesi; P L Magini

Price: $4,800.00

Publisher: Rome, Presso Carlo Barbiellini : 1766

Seller ID: 8177

Condition: Very Good

Two parts in one volume; viii, 548 pages, [54] plate leaves. Plate at page 66 re-inserted with loss to edges; lacks plate called for at p. 47 (though without sign of its removal) but has the elusive Villa Borghesi plate at p. 115. Full gilt ruled/Greek keyed mottled calf; five raised bands with ruled & floriated compartments; red morocco label to spine. Marbled edges and endpapers. Much less common than Venuti's Antiquity. Wear to binding at hinges, otherwise a handsome presentation.8.5 x 11.5 in
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Richmond's Monument Avenue

By: Sarah Shields Driggs, Richard Guy Wilson, and Robert P. Winthrop

Price: $220.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill and London, The University of North Carolina Press : 2001

Seller ID: 8194

Condition: Very Good

Full blue cloth with gilt title on spine and accompanying dustjacket. A nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. 9.5 x 12.25 in Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Sherwin Williams Style Perfect Wallpaper Guaranteed washable and fade-proof wallpaper.

By: Sherwin Williams

Price: $650.00

Publisher: : 1949

Seller ID: 6167

Metal pole bound, 18x18 inches. Several hundred unpaginated leaves each with original strikingly vibrant samples of Sherwin-Williams' offerings for 1949-1950, including embossed papers. Remnants of leather handle. Occasional tears and clippings but overall remarkably preserved examples of walls of the late forties & early fifties.
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Small Country Houses of To-Day (Today) - 3 Volumes, Complete

By: Sir Lawrence Weaver, R. Randal Phillips

Price: $420.00

Publisher: London, New York, The Offices of Country Life; Geroge Newnes, Ltd. : 1922, 1925

Seller ID: 5715

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth boards with gilt particulars to front board and spine; marbled endpapers. Volume 1 is a Third edition, Volume 2 a Second edition, and Volume 3 is First edition. Copiously illustrated throughout with black and white photography. Previous owner's name to half-title page of each volume, otherwise no other markings. Light sunning to spine of vol. 3 (see image). Please expect extra postage. Vol. 1: xv, 212 pp.; Vol. 2: xv, 222 pp.; Vol. 3: xvi, 206 pp., [1]. 8 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches.
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Strasborge [Strasbourg] Original Architectural Rendering

By: W. H. Word

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Strassburg / Strasbourg/ Strasborge, : circa 1900

Seller ID: 7430

Condition: Very Good

Beautiful original graphite rendering of the city of Strasbourg. Large format. Page is 17.25 x 26.5 in. Clean with no markings. Please expect extra postage as this is a large item.
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Aula Bratae Marie Virginis [engraving] [from Oxonia depicta]

By: William (Guilielmo) Williams

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, : 1733

Seller ID: 5143

Condition: Very Good

Plate derives from Oxonia depicta; sive, Collegiorum et aularum in inclyta Academia oxoniensi ichnographica, orthographica & scenographica delineatio, LXV tabulis æneis expressa. Tears to edges of paper far removed from impression (see image). Paper: 25 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches. Image: 17 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches.
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Collegium Baliolense [engraving] [from Oxonia depicta]

By: William (Guilielmo) Williams

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, : 1733

Seller ID: 5146

Condition: Very Good

Plate derives from Oxonia depicta; sive, Collegiorum et aularum in inclyta Academia oxoniensi ichnographica, orthographica & scenographica delineatio, LXV tabulis æneis expressa. Tears to edges of paper far removed from impression (see image). Paper: 25 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches. Image: 18 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches. First Edition.
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Collegium Lincolniense [engraving] Reverendo admodum J. Morley, S.T.P. [from Oxonia depicta]

By: William (Guilielmo) Williams

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, : 1733

Seller ID: 5145

Condition: Very Good

Plate derives from Oxonia depicta; sive, Collegiorum et aularum in inclyta Academia oxoniensi ichnographica, orthographica & scenographica delineatio, LXV tabulis æneis expressa. Tears to edges of paper far removed from impression (see image). Paper: 25 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches. Image: 18 x 14 1/2 inches First Edition.
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