American Apartment Houses of today/illustrating Plans, Details, Exteriors and Interiors of Modern City and Suburban Apartment Houses Throughout the United States by Sexton, R.W - 1926

NY: American Art Association, 1907. Octavo. Unpaginated. 409 lots of furnishings, followed by 122 lots of old and modern paintings, water colors and drawings. [24] b/w interior photographs of the house. Illustrated tan wrappers. VG, pencil notations on ffep & a few scattered ticks & prices in catalogue; spine chipped with considerable loss but still tight copy, edges rubbed, lightly soiled. The sale was held on premises at 121 East 21st St.; the catalog is organized by room - from the entrance hall, dining room, music room, library, to the picture gallery. Plus separate catalogue "Supplementary Sale" - Illustrated Catalogue of Valuable Artistic Property Collected by the late Stanford White to be sold at the American Art Galleries on Nov. 25th, 26th, 27th, 1907. Octavo. Not paginated. A total of 651 lots, some b/w photographs of the items in situ. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine has 1" loss at head, closed tear at tail, light edgewear, light soiling. The sale includes a large… Read More

Very good- set of 51 Roman landscape plates in the original paper wraps.In the early 19th century, Italian publishers rushed to bring out collections of views of Rome for the tourist market.Engraved title page with vignette of the Capitoline Wolf and different title, Raccolta delle Principali Veduti di Roma e suoi Contorni, 50 copperplate engravings of ancient Roman ruins and modern scenes drawn by famous artists and engraved on copper by Alessandro Moschetti.Views include the Trevi Fountain, Saint Peter's Square, Spanish Steps, the Vatican, exterior and interior of the Pantheon and the Colosseum, plazas, temples, triumphal arches, cathedrals, etc.Alessandro Moschetti (or Mochetti) was active in Rome from 1843-1864 and engraved many books of Roman views.Oblong quarto, original green printed wraps with some loss on spine, covers grubby, good impressions of the copperplates, a few with light foxing within the plate.

Good copy of a Roman souvenir travel guide with 57 fine engraved views in a damaged bindingIn the early 19th century, Italian publishers rushed to bring out collections of views of Rome for the tourist market.New collection of principal views of ancient and modern Rome, with ruins of the war drawn from life in 1849Engraved title page, 50 views of famous tourist sights in Rome, and 7 views of battles after the Revolution of 1848-49 and the First War of Italian Independnce during June 1849. Some titles in French, some in Italian. The architectural views include the Trevi Fountain, St. Peter's Basilica, Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Spanish Steps, Plaza Popolo, Temple of Vesta, Marcello Theater, Colosseum, Arch of Titus, etc.Pietro Datri or Pierre d'Atri was active in Rome from 1840 to 1867 publishing souvenir books of views.Oblong octavo, black full leather binding with four raised bands, gilt title on spine, insect damage to rear board. Good impressions of the copperplate engravings, mostly clean,… Read More

1839 1st Southwell Minster Cathedral Church of England Illustrated Architecture
A rare 19th-century account of the history of the Southwell Minster, church in Southwell, England. Written by W.B. Killpack, this book contains impressive, illustrated views of the entire cathedral – interior, exterior, façade, etc. This 1839 first edition of Killpack's 'Southwell' contains 22 engravings! An impressive work!

Item number: #19413
Price: $499
KILLPACK, W.B.
The history and antiquities of the collegiate church of Southwell

London : Simpkin, Marshall and Co. : Southwell : James Whittingham, 1839. First edition.
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Language: English
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Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~12.25in X 9.75in (31cm x 25cm)
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1856 American Architecture Houses Economic Cottage Builder Construction Plans
Charles Dwyer's "Economic Cottage Builder" is a rare, mid-19th-century architectural treaise written to instruct designers, surveyors, and builders. It contains building plans, floor plans, and impressive illustrations of homes, cottages, and buildings.

Item number: #19598
Price: $499
DWYER, Charles P
The economic cottage builder
Buffalo, N.Y. : Wanzer McKim, 1856.

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Provenance: Handwritten – Edwd Miller
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Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
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Size: ~9in X 6in (23cm x 15.5cm)
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Paris: Libraries Imprimeries Reunies Book. Fair. Half-Leather. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. not dated, bound in half-leather with marbled boards. spine title indicates (volumes?) 1 through 4, pages sequentially numbered from 1 through 576, component chapters numbered from 1 through 48. spine leather is dried, heavily worn, and sun faded, with tears to gutters and chipping. board edges with wear and wear to fore corners. pages age-toned, with occasional light foxing. text block tight. quite detailed architectural studies of a wide variety of historical structures..

Tokyo: Shokokusha Publishing Co 1964. Signed on the title page and dated by the author. Additionally Inscribed: Aug 26, 1965 To: Frank Jones Best Wishes Masao Kinoshita. First edition / First printing. Brown cloth with gilt title on front cover in English and Japanese title in white on the spine. Fine in very good slipcase With rubbing and wear. Clear plastic jacket is not present. Both white paper flaps with author information in English and Japanese are present and are in near fine condition. Text in English and Japanese. Kinoshita worked with Sasaski, Walker and Associates; Eero Saarinen and Associates, and other prestigious firms and schools.

Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2004. Signed by Rem Koolhaas. Also signed by the architect Joshua Prince-Ramus. First edition / First printing. Pictorial wrappers. Very fine. Rem Koolhaas is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 2000. Joshua Prince-Ramus founded the New York office of OMA in 2000, and was a principal designer, along with Koolhaas, of projects such as the Seattle Public Library and the Guggenheim Las Vegas Museum. In May 2006 the New York office split from OMA to become the firm REX.

Paris: A Morel & Cie, Libraires Editeurs. Very Good. 1873. New Edition. Hardcover. Handsome black leather spines with six bands over marbled boards. Gilt decorated compartments & lettering on spines. Marbled endpapers. Hinges & text are tight & intact. Text & plates printed on heavy stock paper. Collation: **Vol 1**: [4, 52pp text, 66plates]. **Vol 2**: [4, 68pp text, 68 plates (2 plates are labeled XXIV ; there is a double & a triple page fold-out) ]. **Vol 3**: [4,39pp text, 69 plates, 7 brown toned & 5 colored plates, XXVI Appendix) ]. All plates are tissue protected except Vol 1, 1st plate & Vol 3, 1st color plate. Some tissue guards are age toned not affecting plates. Covers have very lightly scuffed edged & rubbed corners. Light scattered foxing. First published in 1863: this is the new edition of 1873. French text. Architecture. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 159 pages .

New York: Privately Printed, 1965. Paperback in very good condition.. 11" x 8.5" single-sided copy of typescript bound in heavy printed wraps; 136 pages plus a fold-out illustration, nine drawings and two page 'About the Author.' Only five copies appear in OCLC.