Enter the King: Theatre, Liturgy, and Ritual in the Medieval Civic Triumph
London: OUP, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. First edition. 393n pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
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Le Palais De La Societe Des Nations
Paris 1938.
Erich Mendelsohn: architectural Drawings
Berlin: Verlag Willmuth Arenhoevel, (1988). First edition. 4to; 12 pp.; illustrated from drawings and photographs. A fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. Catalog for the 1988 Cooper-Hewitt exhibition of the architect's drawings from the collection of the Kunstbiliothek in Berlin.
Up and Down Main Street: An Informal History of East Hampton and Its Old Houses
East Hampton: East Hampton Star, 1968. " A leisurely stroll through the village of East Hampton in 1855-1858," identifying houses and owners, providing architectural and historical details from local sources. First edition. 30 cm; 152 pp.; illustrated from photographs, maps, and drawings. Missing most of spine; a good copy in.....
Locations: An Anthology of Architecture and Urbanism Volume 01
Novato: ORO 2016. Architects featured in Volume 1 are Kerry Hill, Terunobu Fujimori, C. Anjalendran, Luis Longhi, and Greg Burgess. Articles, reports and interviews form an array of texts by and on Balkrishna Doshi, Kenneth Frampton, Wang Shu, Beili Liu Arindam Chakrabarti, Suha Ozkan, Nayanika Mukherjee, Frederick Deknatel, David Robson.....
Richard Haag: Bloedel Reserve and Gas Works Park
New York: Praeger Publishers & Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1998. An analysis of Haag's two designs for the Seattle area, Bloedel Reserve and Gasworks Park, With essays by Elizabeth Meyer, Patrick Condon, Gary Hilderbrand, and Grant and Ilze Jones. First edition. 21.5 cm; 76 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and.....
Walker Percy: 1916-1990
NY: FSG, 1990. Transcripts of tributes to Percy at his memorial service. Shelby Foote, Wilfrid Sheed, Eudora Welty, others. Signed by Patrick Samway, S.J. First edition. 19 cm; unpaged. A very good copy or better in lightly soiled wrappers.
Ernst Barlach (1870-1938) : sculptures and drawings, March-April 1962
NY: GALERIE ST. ETIENNE, 1962. First edition. 25.5 cm; 39 pp.; illustrated. A very good copy in wrappers.
Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest: Architecture and Landscape Design 1856-1940
New York: Norton, 2003. A survey and history of the prominent architecture of this northernmost Chicago suburb. Showing examples of work by just about everybody. First edition. 4to; 312 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Small bruise to bottom edge rear cover; else a very good copy or better.....
Old Houses of Chappaqua and Millwood: A Rare Architectural Heritage
New Castle: Chappaqua Hist. Soc,, 1981. An examination of the early architecture to be found int he Chappaqua-Millwood metroplex, ffrom pre-Revolutionary times through the Victorian era. Showing exteriors and interiors of 25 outstanding examples. First edition. Owner's stamp to title page; soft crease to front cover; else a good copy.....
Piano Makers in Russia in the Nineteenth Century
Lanham: Rowman/Forbes Univ. Press, 2014. A study of the Russian piano, its makers, and its important role in the culture of Russia in the 19th century. First paperback edition. 23 cm; 187 pp.; illustrated. corners of 3 leaves dog-eared; else a very good copy or better in wrappers.
Selling Good Design: Promoting the Modern Interior
Rizzoli Intl Pubns., (1991), 2003. First paperback edition. 4to; 143 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in original self-wrappers.
The Italian Renaissance Garden: From the Conventions of Planting, Design, and Ornament to the Grand Gardens of Sixteenth-Century Central Italy
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. An examination of the architectural gardens of sixteenth-century central Italy. Using contemporary textual and visual sources, the author attempts to reconstruct their original appearance. With a detailed discussion of the four best preserved grand gardens: the Medici garden at Castello, the Boboli garden at.....
Kyoto Deco Style: Yoshio's Ornamental Metal Works in Architecture
Kyoto: Yoshio, N.d. [c. 2005]. Trade catalog for the Japanese firm specializing in decorative metal work for interiors, gates, fencing, screens, staircases, etc. 20.5 cm; 70 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers.
Volume 13: Ambition
Netherlands: Archis, 2007. First edition. 4to; 153 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in original wrappers. This issue with articles by or about Wigley, Rashid, Bjarke Ingels, Roche, Johnson, Richard Prince, Mayne, Diller, others.
American Splendor: The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer
New York: Acanthus Press, (2002). First Edition. Cloth. A monograph on the residential architecture of Trumbauer, active in the first decades of the 20th century and an acknowledged master of the classical revival style in America. With essay by Henry Hope Reed. First edition. 30 cm; 335 pp.; illustrated from.....
Lumie`re, la couleur invente´e: Les autochromes, photographies couleurs, collection prive´e de la famille Lumie`re, Lyon, 1903
A. Scheibli 1999. Autochrome photographs from a private French family collection, 1903. Later printing. 31 cm; unpaged. Illustrated from color photographs. Bizarre binding of wrappers inside illustrated boards. Text in English and French. A fine copy.
Architecture
Boston: Perry Dean Partners, N.d. [c. 1980]. Trade catalog for the Boston firm specializing in libraries and academic and athletic buildings for schools and colleges. Showing examples of work. Captions, but virtually no text except for a brief paragraph on the firm's history. 21.5 cm; unpaged [approx. 120 printed recto.....
Dessins d'architecture: Les travaux de l'élève architecte Frédéric de Morsier à l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris 1882-1890
Lausanne: Archimages, 2011. Drawings by the Swiss architect de Morsier made when he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1882-1890. Offering not only a look at de Morsier's development as an architect, but also a detailed examination of examples of the kind of work required for classes at the.....
The Northern Cemetery of Cairo
Cairo: The American Universtity in Cairo Press, 2001. Monograph on the Mamluk cemetery in Cairo. First edition. 28 cm; 107 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket.
Yard: The Life and Magnificent Jewelry of Raymond C. Yard
New York: Vendome, 2007. A monograph on the designs of Raymond Yard, showing work through the early development and classic period of the firm in the first half of the 20th century, up to the 21st century. First edition. 28 cm; 223 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A very.....
A Century of Paris-Roubaix
London: Bromley, 1997. First English Edition. Hard Cover. A celebration of the first 100 years of this annual race through the "Hell of the North". First English edition. 28 cm; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A very good copy or better in very good dust jacket.
Harvard Design Magazine 40: Well Well Well
Cambridge: HGSD, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. Issue devoted to the landscape of health, wellness, and illness. First edition, Spring-Summer 2015. 30 cm; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings.A fine copy in original self-wrappers. Paperback.
The Art of Building in the Classical World: Vision, Craftsmanship, and Linear Perspective in Greek and Roman Architecture
New York: Cambridge, 2014. An examination of the application of drawing in the creation of classical architecture and its subsequent influence on science and philosophy. First paperback edition. 25.5 cm; 245 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Scattered underlining to about 10 pp.; else a good copy or better.....
Between Landscape Architecture and Art
Basel: Birkhaeuser Verlag, (1999). A survey of current [1999] trends in landscape archiotecture. Showing work by Finlay, Lassus, Latz, others. First English edition. 30 cm; 247 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy in wrappers.
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