Bezsonov, S. V. (Sergei)

Dom Istoricheskogo Muzeia, Byvshii Kologrivovoi, V Gor. Kaluge (the Local History Museum, Former Kologrivov House, in the City of Kaluga)

Kaluga, Gosudarstvennyi oblastnoi muzei, 1928. First Edition. First edition, 1 of 1000 copies; 8 1/2 x 7; pp. [6], 1-31; beige wraps with an Avant-garde design; illustrated with numerous photographs and architectural drawings; rebacked, with some repairs to corners and edges; in good to very good condition. A beautiful work, it was written by architect, educator, author, and local historian Sergei Bezsonov (1885 - 1955), renowned for writing the first book on wooden Empire-style architecture in Russia (published in 1928, the same year as the one of this publication). The current book described the architectural marvel that was the Zolotaryov-Kologrivov house, now the site of the town’s local history museum. The Neoclassical masterpiece was built between 1805 and 1808 for the wealthy merchant Zolotaryov, son of a noted Kaluga silversmith and a descendent of traders in precious metals. The stunning interior design would be the work of the famous Moscow firm of S. P. Campioni. Good .

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Buchzahl: 003601

Katalog: Architecture

Sonstige Stichworte: Architecture

Church, Thomas D.; Vinson, M. A.

General Plan. Tenth Annual California Flower Festival, September 15th - 19th, 1934, Exposition Bldg - Oakland. Alameda County's Most Colorful CIVIC Event

Oakland, California, By the architect, 1934. An architectural layout of the interior of the exposition floor, with booths, facilities, etc. numbered and sections subtitled; 13 x 8 1/2; old vertical fold lines; age-toning to verso only; in very good condition. An unrecorded piece of the San Francisco Bay Area's history, it was created by the pioneer landscape architect, who had founded the Modernist garden design, known as the "California Style." Thomas Dolliver Church (1902 - 1978) studied at UC Berkeley, Harvard, and the American Academy in Rome, before setting up practice in San Francisco in 1933. He would reportedly create over 2000 private gardens around California and 24 other states. He would work on campus master plans for Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, and other institutions. He would also design the grounds of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, the Embassy of the United States in Havana, the General Motors Research Laboratory in Detroit, etc. Very good .

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Buchzahl: 003850

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Sonstige Stichworte: Architecture

Fox, Arthur E. W.

A Short Manual of the Bath Mineral Waters

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 1890. Second edition with plans; 5 x 7 1/2; pp. [13], 4-105, [7] index and publisher's list; original green cloth over boards; gilt title; slight fading and some rubbing to spine; very faint foxing to first several pages only; most pages unopened; large fold-out with 5 separate plans of the Royal Public and Private Baths, the Grand Pump Room, etc. (small cut to edge of lower fold-line); engraved lettrines at beginning of chapters; overall very good. There has been archaeological evidence that humans have been utilizing the natural hot springs around which Bath, England was established since about 8000 B.C. The book comprises part history and part manual - specifically focusing not only on the benefits of the mineral water, but also on the health risks incurred through improper use of the springs. The only copy in the trade in the US (as of May 2021). Ill.: 0. Very good 2.

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Buchzahl: 000628

Katalog: Architecture

Sonstige Stichworte: England, Bath 0

Ludowici - Celadon Company

The Roof Beautiful. A Simple and Concise Story of the Origin and Use of Roofing Tiles

Chicago, IL, Ludowici - Celadon Company, 1921. Third edition; 10 1/4 x 8; pp. [2], 5-32; textured pictorial wraps; numerous color- and black-and-white illustrations; a bit of wear to edges and corners of wraps; staples with small rust spots; pp. 13-14 quite-inexplicably replaced with a thin, transparent film - with the original illustrations and text + a facsimile drawing collaged on it; in good to very good condition. A scarce booklet with beautiful illustrations, it was published as an advertisement for and distributed to customers of the Ludowici - Celadon Company - a business tracing its origins 400 years back to Italy, to the Ludovisi family, known for their expertly crafted roof tiles. In 1857, descendant Carl Ludowici founded Carl Ludowici Ziegelwerke in Ensheim, Germany. Ludowici's American roots began with the founding of the Celadon Terra Cotta Company in Alfred, New York. It would be renamed the Celadon Roofing Tile Company in 1900 and, after purchasing the Imperial Clay Company, the Ludowici-Celadon Company in 1906. Ludowici - Celadon has created roof tiles for many landmarks through the 19- and 20th-centuries and today, including the White House, the New York Life Building and the New York State Capitol, Wrigley Field, and most of the buildings at Disney World. Good .

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Buchzahl: 004176

Katalog: Architecture

Sonstige Stichworte: Roofs, Architecture

Sichynskyi, Volodymyr

Pamiatky Ukrainskoi Arkhitektury (Monuments of Ukrainian Architecture)

Filadelfiia (Philadelphia), Vydavnytstvo "Amerika, 1952. First edition in book form (initially published in 1951 in the "Shliakh" journal); 9 1/4 x 6 1/4; pp. [6], 9-63, [1]; beige wraps, illustrated in green and ruled and printed in brown; illustrated with numerous drawings, photographs, and a map; a bit of wear to corners and tips of spine and a small nick to fore-edge of front wrap; staples showing at hinges (text block solidly attached); overall in very good condition. Volodymyr Sichynskyi (1894 - 1962) was a Ukrainian-American graphic artist, architect, and educator. After co-establishing the Architectural Institute in Kiev, he taught in Lviv and Prague, before he was arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo in 1943. Sichynskyi emigrated to the US in 1949, where he continued writing and working on his architectural designs until his death. His current book, No. I of intended series, but all published, covered Ukrainian church architecture, including the some of the most famous monasteries, churches, and rotundas in the country. Very good .

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Buchzahl: 002804

Katalog: Architecture

Sonstige Stichworte: Ukraine, Architecture, Religion