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BEGLEY, W.E. AND Z.A. DESAI.,  Taj Mahal, The Illumined Tomb: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Mughal and European Documentary Sources.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, 1989. Softcover. ISBN: 0295969458. Good but with previous owner's signature and date and wear to back cover. Navy blue wraps with color illustration and white lettering; 320 pp. with 22 color plates and 167 bw and color illustrations. Â
   ¶ Includes sections on the Taj Mahal in Mughal history and documents, inscriptions on the Taj Mahal, the calligrapher Amanat Khan, the architect of the Taj Mahal, and the Taj Mahal in 17-century European sources.
USD 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.75 | £UK 33.25 | JP¥ 4854] Book number: 112366
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BHATT, VIKRAM AND PETER SCRIVER.,  Contemporary Indian Architecture: After the Masters.
Ahmedabad, Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd. 1990. Hardbound. ISBN: 0944142192. Good+/Good. Brown cloth with gold lettering; illus. dj with white lettering; 221 pp. numerous color illustrations and architectural drawings. Â
   ¶ Text in English; with more than 40 buildings featured, including essays, several photos and plans for each. Includes a map of India; with a discussion of India's problems and prospects.
USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 | £UK 24.25 | JP¥ 3530] Book number: 110910
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DAN, NORIHIKO.,  Architecture and Urbanism of Tokyo.
Taipei, Garden City Publishers, 2008. Hardbound. ISBN: 9789867009456. VG/VG. Black boards with grey and white lettering; irridescent cream dj with white and brown lettering; place-holder ribbon; 383 numbered pp. plus vitae, with profuse illustrations in color. Â
   ¶ Divided into two sections: front section about the project and back section with essays and a fold-out timeline. Both include illustrations. Text is in three languages, Japanese, Chinese, and English.
USD 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 40.25 | £UK 36.25 | JP¥ 5295] Book number: 110578
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DONGCHU, HU.,  The Way of the Virtuous: the Influence of Art and Philosophy on Chinese Garden Design.
Beijing, New World Press, 1991. Hardbound. ISBN: 7800051285. VG/VG (price sticker on back cover). Brown boards with illus. dj; 119 pp. with sepia-like photos. Â
   ¶ in four parts; includes plans of gardens.
USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.5 | £UK 39.25 | JP¥ 5737] Book number: 107325
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EVENSON, NORMA.,  The Indian Metropolis: a View Toward the West.
New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1989. Hardbound. ISBN: 0300043333. VG/VG. Blue cloth with brown glossy, color-illustrated dustjacket. ix, 294 pp. profusely illustrated in bw and color.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 105983
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GARVIN, ALEX.,  A New Public Realm for DeKalb County.
New York, Alex Garvin & Associates, Inc. 2008. Softcover. ISBN: 9780615183268. VG-. White wraps with color illustrations and white lettering; 127 pp. with various color photographs and diagrams. Â
   ¶ The plan, implementation, and conclusion of the project to improve the quality of the built environment and quality of life for the communities of DeKalb County, Georgia.
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1765] Book number: 111542
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HOSAGRAHAR, JYOTI.,  Indigenous Modernities: Negotiating architecture and urbanism.
Abingdon, England, Routledge, 2005. Softcover. ISBN: 0415323762. VG. Black pictorial wraps; 234 pp.; Profusely illustrated with bw photos and drawings. Â
   ¶ In-depth look at Delhi, India in the 19th and 20th centuries and its development from a walled city to a metropolis; Discusses the idea of modernity in cities and how this is culturally constructed.
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2648] Book number: 111562
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HOWARD, EDWIN L.,  Chinese Garden Architecture: A Collection of Photographs of Minor Chinese Buildings.
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1931. Hardbound. VG but for art museum library markings; clean and tight;. Red cloth with black cloth spine and yellow title label; decorative mint green end papers; x plus 50 single-sided bw images with descriptions on opposite pages; color frontispiece;.
   ¶ With a foreword by Everett V. Meeks; charming descriptions of each photo, taken in the 1920s.
USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 | £UK 45.25 | JP¥ 6619] Book number: 116748
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MORSE, EDWARD S.,  Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings.
New York, NY, Dover Publications, Inc. 1961. Softcover. VG. Color illus. wraps; 372 pp.; 307 bw illustrations. Â
   ¶ Discusses all aspects of the Japanese home, from the general plan and structural features, to ceremonial and decorative aspects.
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 109015
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RUGGLES, D. FAIRCHILD.,  Islamic Gardens and Landscapes.
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Hardbound. ISBN: 9780812240252. VG/VG. Green cloth with gold lettering; photographic dj with white lettering; 262 pp. with 27 color plates and 98 bw figures, plus additional illustrations. Â
   ¶ Islamic gardens began from the pracical need to organize the surrounding space of human civilization, tame nature, enhance the earth's yield, and create a legible map on which to distribute natural resources. Ruggles follows the evolution of these early farming efforts to their aristocratic apex in famous formal gardens of the Alhambra in Spain and the Taj Mahal in Agra. Richly illustrated with photographs and site plans.
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 | £UK 30.25 | JP¥ 4413] Book number: 111476
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STEWART, DAVID B.,  The Making of a Modern Japanese Architecture, 1868 to the Present.
New York, NY, Kodansha International, 1987. First. Hardcover. ISBN: 0870118447. VG. Grey cloth with white lettering at spine; Beige pictorial dj.; 304 pp.; Profusely illustrated with more than 400 bw photos and drawings. Â
   ¶ Includes ten chapters, including "The Victorian Foundations of Meiji Architecture," "Rebuilding the Imperial in the 1920s: Japan Gained," "Tokyo and the Beginnings of 'Modernism,'" "Ins and Outs of Postwar Urban Rhetoric," and more.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 114140
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