BAGNATO. Gubler, Hans Martin.
Johann Caspar Bagnato 1696-1757 und das bauwesen des Deutschen Ordens in der Ballei Elsass-Burgund im 18. Jahrhundert.
Sigmaringen. Jan Thorbecke Verlag. 1985. 4to. pp. 456. Over 300 colour and black and white illustrations. Cloth, dust jacket. Private library stamp on back of title page and last text leaf. Otherwise a fine copy.
ref: 38533
BOFILL. Futagawa, Yukio (editor).
Ricardo Bofill. Taller de Arquitectura. Introduction by Christian Norberg-Schulz.
New York. Rizzoli. 1985. Square 4to. pp. 196. 280 illustrations, including 70 in colour. Cloth, dust jacket.
ref: 38536
DHAKY, M.A. (editor).
Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture. Volume 2 North India. Part 3. Beginnings of Medieval Idiom c. AD 900-1000.
New Delhi. Amercian Insitute for Indian Studies. 1998. 2 vols. 28.5 x 22.5cm. pp. xxviii, 426; 12, 913 illustrations on unnumbered pages. 207 diagrams and plans in text volume Hardbacks in dust jackets. VG.
ref: 37902
GIROUARD, Mark.
Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History.
New Haven. Yale University Press. 1979. 4to. pp. i-v, 344. 250 plates, including 33 in colour. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket.
ref: 38224
HOOKER. Root, Edward W.
Philip Hooker: A Contribution to the Study of the Renaissance in America.
New York. Scribner's. 1929. 4to. pp. xiv, 242. Over 200 black-and-white illustrations. Publisher's cloth. Small corner clipped off the top corner of the front free endpaper. Else fine.
A source book of documents and photographs of Hooker's buildings in New York, including the first Capitol building and the North Dutch Church, Albany; Hamilton College Chapel; Albany Academy, and Hyde Hall. Edition limited to 750 copies. .
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LOOSJES, A.
Sprokkelingen in Nederland. Reeks A, B & C.
Amsterdam. Scheltema & Holkema's Boekhandel. n.d. [c. 1925]. 3 vols. 4to. pp. 576; 648; 558. With over 2,700 black and white illustrations. Publisher's gilt decorated brown buckram.
Complete set of 26 parts in three volumes. A well-illustrated survey of Dutch architecture. Volume 1 deals with the ports and municipal buildings of the Netherlands, the second volume with houses and private dwellings, and the third volume with churches and religious buildings.
ref: 38544
LUTYENS. Butler, A.S.G., Stewart, George and Christopher Hussey.
The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens.
Suffolk. Antique Collectors' Club. 1984. 3 vols. Folio. pp. 72; 73; 77. 110 pages of plans, 271 half-tones; 121 plans, 279 half-tones; 107 plans, 173 half-tones. Publisher's cloth, dust jackets.
One of an edition limited to 1,500 copies, this is a reprint of the 1950 first edition.
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MALLGRAVE, Harry Francis; Beasley, Gerald; Baines, Claire.
Catalogue of the Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection. Volume Three: Northern European Books: 16th through 19th Centuries.
Washington. National Gallery of Art. 1993. 31.5 x 23cm. pp. 416. Illustrated throughout. Hardback in dust jacket. Fine.
ref: 37090
NEUTRA, Richard J.
Amerika. Die Stilbildung des neuen Bauens in den vereinigten Staaten.
Vienna. Verlag von Anton Schroll. 1930. 4to. pp. 163. With 260 illustrations. Publisher's limp cloth with dust-jacket, minor losses to edges of jacket and its spine, all expertly repaired.
Volume II of the "Neues Bauen in der Welt" series edited by Joseph Gantner. The Austrian-American ... (more)
ref: 38228
OLBRICH.
Art to Hear. Joseph Maria Olbrich 1867-1908. Architect and Designer of Early Modernism.
Darmstadt Mathildenhöhe. 2010. 22.5 x 22cm. pp. 60. 49 colour plates. Hardback.
With the 80 minute CD of the audio guide for the Olbrich Retrospective at the Institut Darmstadt Mathildenhöhe set in the cover
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PHYSICK, John & Michael Derby.
'Marble Halls' Drawings and Models for Victorian Secular Buildings.
London. Victoria and Albert Museum. 1973. 4to. pp. 220. Illustrated throughout in monochrome and colour. Wrappers.
Exhibition catalogue.
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SMITH, Edmund W.
Portfolio of Indian Architectural Drawings. Part I [all published]. Archchaeological Survey North-West Provinces and Oudh.
London. Issued by the Government of North-West Provinces and Oudh. 1897. Folio. pp. 8,104 Title page and 52 plates, 2 in colour, printed on rectos only photo-lithographed by W. Griggs. Loose, as issued, in publisher's cloth-backed portfolio, re-rebacked.
Library ex-libris on front paste-down, blind stamps in the margins of the plates, occasional frayed margins. A good example of this rare portfolio. Fine architecural drawings of some of the most important features of the great Moghul city of Fathpur Sikri.
ref: 27780
SPRING GARDENS SKETCH BOOK [Vols 1-8 all published].
London. 1866 - ca. 1890. 8 vols. folio. Each volume has a title page, list of members of the ... (more)
With a 4 page leaflet Spring Gardens Sketching Club Rules,9th. of May, 1882 loosely inserted. The ... (more)
ref: 39055
STIRLING, James. Arnell, Peter & Ted Bickford (eds.)
James Stirling. Buildings and Projects. James Stirling Michael Wilford Associates. Introduction by Colin Rowe.
London. The Architectural Press. 1984. 4to. pp. 349. Illustrated with nearly 1,000 photographs, plans and drawings, 203 of which are in colour. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. A good copy.
Stirling was one of Britiain's foremost architects of the twentieth-century and this book documents virtually all of his projects - built or unbuilt - up until 1984.
ref: 39071
VANBRUGH. Downes, Kerry.
Sir John Vanbrugh. A Biography.
London. Sidgwick & Jackson. 1987. 8vo. pp. 560. 40 hors texte illustrations, 22 text figures. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket.
The first biography to deal with his architecture, his plays and his life.
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WENTZINGER. Krummer-Schroth, Ingeborg.
Johann Christian Wentzinger. Bildhauer. Maler. Architekt. 1710-1797.
Freiburg & Breisgau. Schillinger Verlag. 1987. 4to. pp. 319. Tipped-in colour frontispiece, 249 monochrome and colour illustrations. Cloth, dust jacket.
Catalogue raisonne of drawings, paintings and architecture.
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