Trevian Books
Boston: Aberthaw Co., (1925). First edition. 4to; 32 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in original string-bound wrappers with illustration affixed to front cover. Trade catalog for the Boston-based construction/engineering company, showing examples of factory and office buildings, dams, drydocks, etc. built around the country.
Philadelphia: Berte, N.d. [c. 1930]. Catalog for the Berte Fashion Studio in Philadelphia, offering instruction in fashion illustration and costume design. With a description of the school, curriculum, examples of students' work, fees, testimonials from graduates, photograph of building on Locust St., etc. 23 cm; 16 pp.; tipped-in illustrations from.....
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1989), 1989. First edition. Fine in very good dust jacket with tiny rubbed spot to bottom of rear panel.
London: Methuen & Co., (1970). First edition. 8vo; 388 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Owner's name; light soiling to fore edge; spine rubbed; else a good copy in original blue cloth, lacking the dust jacket. The second volume of Acton's memoirs.
Cambridge, MIT, 1942. Brochure describing the curriculum and faculty of the graduate and undergraduate Planning programs at MIT. Laid-in is a circular promoting the 1945 City and Regional Planning Fall Conference at the school. 22.5 cm; 9 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A very good copy in printed wrappers.
DeARBORN: HENRY FORD MUSEUM, 1987. First edition. 8vo; 32 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in original wrappers. Catalog for an exhibition of the role of the automobile in American life from the 1896 Duryea Motor Wagon.
New York: Henry Schuman, (1952), 1952. First edition. 8vo; pp. xii; 253; sixteen illustrations from photographs; bibliography. Owner's name, else a very good copy in original gilt-stamped blue cloth in a good dust jacket with only light edgewear. A history of health and medical practices on the Union side of.....
John Wiley & Son Ltd, 1998. First edition. Square 4to; Fine copy in pictorial wrappers.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First edition. 4to; pp. 62, 40 [ads]; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. One advertisement leaf loose; else a very good copy in original wrappers. Article on Frank Forster; Ernest Flagg on on Working Drawings, Hildreth Meiere's decorative work at the Nebraska State House.....
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover. A collection of essays on Sargent's experiences in Venice and the paintings that resulted. First edition. 31 cm; 223 pp.; illustrated from photographs and map. Crease to corner of front end paper; else a very good copy or better in.....
New York: Thames & Hudson, 2020. A retrospective of Adjaye's work in London to 2007, covering the early years of his practice and the formative period of Adjaye Associates. 35 projects discussed in detail, including houses, and commercial and public buildings. First edition. 26 cm; 299 pp.; illustrated from photographs.....
Zurich: Lars Muller, 2012. A monograph on Adjaye's teaching studios at Princeton 2008-2010, which were given in conjunction with Ritchie, Fernandez, and Pardo, for architect/artist collaborations in NJ, Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, and Merida, Mexico. First edition. 24 cm; 269 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in.....
Zurich: Girsberger, 1959. With Neutra’s article, A Vista Beyond the Present Stage of Asbestos-Cement Application. While Neutra’s article is in German, a study of his Eagle Rock Playground Clubhouse in Los Angeles is in English. Other articles include recent work with asbestos-cement by Gorozo Iizuka, Roland Reiner, others. Text in.....
Turin: Pinacoteca Giovanni & Marella Agnelli, 2016. Catalog for the 2016 exhibition of Aulenti’s architecture and designs, showing her work in the theatre, art museums, exhibitions, and the garden. Text in English and Italian. First edition. 8vo; 103 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in original.....
New York: The Cooper Union Press, 1982, 1982. First edition. Folio; 111 pp.; illustrated from photographs, some in color. A very good copy in original pictorial wrappers. A commemorative monograph published by the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, documenting Chanin's contributions to New York City's.....
Cincinnati: Ahrens-Fox, N.d. [1935]. A detailed sales presentation for the 75 ft. Tower Aerial Ladder Truck manufactured by the company. With detailed specifications for engine, truck, and fire fighting equipment. With additional hand-written specifications, salesman's notes, price, etc. With a list of cities and towns using Aherns-Fox equipment. Illustrated from.....
New York: Press of the AIA, Inc., 1926. Brunner was an American architect educated at MIT and active at the turn of the century in New York. His career began with George Post but in1898 he independently won the competition for the Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, and soon.....
St. Petersburg: Kolomenskya, 2008. A survey of contemporary mosaic art, with a history of the craft, examples of recent art and decorative work, schools. international artists, exhibitions, etc.
Tokyo: Kodansha International, (1970). Second printing. Folio; 251 pp; illustrated. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, in publisher's cardboard slipcase. Volume I in the Art of China Series.
London: Lonard, 2017. A documentation of mosques eligible for the Second Cycle of the Al Fozan Award. With a history of mosque architecture, recent developments in design and construction, etc. Text in English and Arabic. First edition. 32 cm; 245 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy.....
Boston: keith-Albee-Orpheum, N.d. [1928]. First edition. 4to; 32 pp.illustrated from photographs and drawings. Center leaf loose; else a good copy in parchment wrappers. Program for the dedication of the new Keith theatre in Boston, and an elegy for vaudeville, soon to be killed by the movies (and indirectly by these.....
New York: Architectural Catalog Co., (1948), 1948. First Edition. First edition. 4to; 174 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. small abrasion to front fly from price sticker removal; small abrasion to frontispiece and title page; owner's stamp (Der Scutt Architect); else a good copy in original brown cloth. A post-war.....
New York: Visual Profile Books, 2002. First Edition. Cloth. A combination trade catalog and company history documenting the major commissions of the firm, originally formed in 1894 by Albert Kahn, to 2022. First edition. 26 cm; 311 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in a fine.....
Cambridge: MIT, 1989, 1988. Alberti's "De re aedificatoria", the first modern (1450) treatise on the theory and practice of architecture, translated by Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, and Robert Tavenor. Second prtg.; 25 cm; 442 pp.; illustrated from plans and drawings. Bookseller label to rear pastedown; else a very good copy.....
Boston: Geo. H. Polley & Co., N.d. [c. 1890]. American edition. Folio (39 x 29.5 cm); [ii] pp.; 36 lithographic plates. Wear to extremities; minor soiling to edges of a few plates; else a very good set of plates loose as issued in original cloth-backed portfolio. A collection of plates.....
