Author: MILLAR, John FitzHugh
Title: The Architects of the American Colonies or Vitruvius Americanus
Description: Barre, MA, Barre Publishers, 1968. Hardcover. Illustrations by Suzanne Carlson. Narrow folio. Beige cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 205pp. Extensive line drawings, text endpapers. Fine/very good. Jacket faintly edgeworn, with spine lightly sunned. Handsome, tight first edition of this study of colonial-era architects, those of the north and those of the south, and the major structures they built. This copy bears a fine and appropriate philatelic addition: Tipped to inner flyleaf is a First Day Cover bearing at upper right the ten-cent four-piece "Bicentennial Era" stamps (one of which depicts Carpenters' Hall, another Independence Hall), 6½" X 3½", cancelled in Philadelphia on 4 July 1974 and with "First Day of Issue" so noted. Fine. Large pictorial color cachet "Commemorating 1774 1st Continental Congress" cachet fills the leftmost side. .
Keywords: Colonial Americana Architecture
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Title: The Architects of the American Colonies or Vitruvius Americanus
Description: Barre, MA, Barre Publishers, 1968. Hardcover. Illustrations by Suzanne Carlson. Narrow folio. Beige cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 205pp. Extensive line drawings, text endpapers. Fine/very good. Jacket faintly edgeworn, with spine lightly sunned. Handsome, tight first edition of this study of colonial-era architects, those of the north and those of the south, and the major structures they built. This copy bears a fine and appropriate philatelic addition: Tipped to inner flyleaf is a First Day Cover bearing at upper right the ten-cent four-piece "Bicentennial Era" stamps (one of which depicts Carpenters' Hall, another Independence Hall), 6½" X 3½", cancelled in Philadelphia on 4 July 1974 and with "First Day of Issue" so noted. Fine. Large pictorial color cachet "Commemorating 1774 1st Continental Congress" cachet fills the leftmost side. .
Keywords: Colonial Americana Architecture
Price: US$ 95.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 48952
- Book number: 48952
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