Trevian Books
Stockton NJ: Hidden Valley Nursery, n.d. [c. 1995]. . Trade catalog for the NJ landscape designers showing recent work in a series of very amateur photographs, as well as some sample drawings, plans, and a list of clients. Together with a generic "Landscape Plants for NJ" brochure, in a portfolio.....
Chicago: D. H. Burnham & Co., 1911. First Edition. Hard Cover. A thorough catalog of all the elements and products used in the construction of the 1911 building designed by Burnham at Adams St. and South Michigan Ave. in Chicago. Scarce, OCLC shows five copies. First edition. 32 cm; 79.....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1873. The Philadelphia company's second trade catalog showing factory, construction methods, lists of wrought-iron bridges and viaducts built and now building, reprint of an article on the company from Lippincott's Magazine, 15 plates showing designs for girder bridges, deck and truss bridges, patterns for.....
Ware MA: Cummings, 1929. Trade catalog for this firm of MA contractors documenting recent work (1921-29) in New England. Showing a large number of hospitals, college buildings and schools, residences, hotels, churches, public buildings, infrastructure, etc. With work by, among others, Trowbridge & Livingston, MMW, Peabody, Wilson & Brown, Lockwood.....
Boston: Pennsylvania Tile & Construction Co., 1914. Trade catalog promoting the virtues of the Denison tile, among them that it builds better walls of any thickness, bonds with brick, lays up rapidly, and is extremely fireproof. Many examples of houses, apartment buildings, hotels, office buildings, hospitals, churches, factories, and schools.....
Washington: The Federal Reserve, 1987. Catalog of the 1987 exhibition commemorating the first 35 years of the Federal Reserve. With two essays; a historical study of the System, and a second dedicated to the design and construction of the Eccles Building, a competition won by Paul Cret. First edition. 28.....
Boston: Globe, n.d. (c. 1900). Pamphlet promoting the company's new mantle lamp with the Naptha Process capable of "furnishing a light far more brilliant than gas or electricity". Also showing the company's older product “more than one million in use” using a naptha fixture that can be attached to any.....
London: Thames & Hudson, 2004. Four volumes documenting Hadid's works to 2004, with text by her: Major and Recent Works; Projects Documentation; Texts and References; Process: Sketches and Drawings . Hard cover volumes housed in a red plastic slipcase with an Escher-ish construction to accommodate the various sizes of the.....
Atlanta: Heery & Heery, 1959. H&H's chatty statement of professional principles, as exemplified in the design and construction of this office and warehouse complex in 1959. Showing interiors and exteriors of the finished building, as well as exteriors of four other commercial projects.23 cm; 20 pp.; illustrated from photographs and.....
New York: Thistle Press, 1959. A survey of sixteen Irish houses built during the Georgian period, and visited by Ide, a New York architect who began his career in the Lindeberg office. Showing work by Adam, Chambers, Wyatt, and Nash, but also by Richard Castle and Davis Ducart, two Italian.....
Novosibirisk: n.p., n.d. (2015). A collection of photographs documenting the early years (1893-1926) of the town of Novo-Nikolaevsk, originally founded in 1893 when it, an unpopulated Siberian wasteland, was designated as a stop on the new Trans Siberian railroad. The town grew quickly and became a major Russian population and.....
Buffalo: The Larkin Co., 1906. Small folder with an embossed image of the new building designed by Wright and completed in 1906. Most likely published as part of the dedication ceremony. No indication of other contents but perhaps held a program. Printed poem by Frank H. Jewett to interior. Rear.....
Quakertown: JG Furniture Co., n.d. [c. 1975]. Trade catalog for outdoor and indoor benches designed by LeMay who, while working on the "layout of a public park found that most public seating, although colorful, was in reality uncomfortable, creating a need for series of products offering genuine improvement." Photographs show.....
Frankfurt am Main: Englert und Schlosser, 1929. Issue featuring "Die Wohnung fur das Existenzminimum", with coverage of exhibition, other articles on hygiene in housing, etc. Text in German. 26 cm; pp. 209-227, 8 (ads); illustrated with photographs, plans, and drawings. Complete but no inserts. Fair condition only with wear to.....
Frankfurt am Main: Englert und Schlosser, 1930. Double number issue featuring Romerstadt Colony and others. Text in German. 26 cm; pp. 77-140, [20] ads; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Complete but no inserts. Fair condition only with front wrapper detached but present; wear to spine and wrappers. Sold As-is.....
Pittsburgh: McClintic-Marshall, 1910. Booklet with full-page photographs documenting the construction of the bridge at Beaver, PA. Designed by Albert Lucius. Still in service with two tracks for CSX. First edition. 20.5 cm; 39 pp. (2 pp. text); illustrated from photographs. Wear to wrapper edges; with some splitting to spine; else.....
Stockholm, 2000. A publication appealing for support and contributions to have the Skandia Theatre, Asplund's 1923 cinema, restored and protected as a historic building. With brief essays by Gavin Stamp, Rafael Moneo, and assorted Swedes. Mostly in Swedish with some English text. 25 cm; 23 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans.....
Brooklyn: Downtown Brooklyn Development Committee, Inc., 1971. Third annual report on the work of this private committee devoted to the revitalization of the borough's downtown business district. New circulation systems = More parking. Increased number of people working and shopping downtown = Below grade network of shopping concourses. Showing plans.....
New York: United Lead Company, (1924). Trade catalog for the Hoyt Hardlead product, including spandrels, steeples, conductor heads, gutters, fittings, statuary, roofing, etc. With photographs of the product as used in completed buildings, a catalog of decorative and ornamental fittings, and a partial list of installations, with architects. With decorative.....
Hoboken Planning Board, 2003. Initial submission of the plan, to be revised from additional public comments. "The next version of the plan will look (and read) more like a magazine than a legal document...with a more dynamic design." Draft edition. 28 cm; 131 pp.; illustrated from photographs and maps. A......
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1924. Sixty-one illustrations by Price of ten houses designed by Delano & Aldrich, built on Long Island between 1912 and 1922. Showing houses of Otto Kahn (Cold Spring Harbor), Mrs. Whitney (Westbury), Winthrops and Delano houses, (Syosset); others. (Karpel/Wood B1184.) Scarce. First edition. 36.....
N.p: N.p., 1966. Folded 43 x 28 cm sheet showing a perspective drawing and seven photographs of the building at the University of Folded three times; verso blank. A good copy.
Humlebaek: Louisiana Museum, 1977. A publication of the Danish museum highlighting their current exhibition of 240 examples of Alternative Architecture, "documenting the multi-faceted contemporary movement which has arisen as a reaction to Functionalism." Featuring work by Venturi, Moore, Soleri, Scharoun, Buckminster Fuller, Chavel, Gaudi, Juan O'Gorman, Frei Otto, Pesce. others.....
