Busch, Harald and Bernd Lohse, eds.

Baroque Europe

London, Batsford, 1962. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Another fine contribution to the series, Buildings of Europe, with an Introduction by James Lees-Milne, commentaries on the voluminous illustrations by Eva-Maria Wagner. Stated First English Edition, the original German having been translated in the same year. The paintings of Rubens, the music of Handel, and the Baroque tradition in architecture, art and manners in a multitude of European cities. A superior copy inside and out, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. xxiii pp. of text and then a very lengthy series of fine black-and-white plates.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Keywords: Harald Busch|Bernd Lohse|Baroque Europe|Baroque art history|art history|Baroque churches

Linton, Harold and Scott Sutton

Sketching the Concept: Perspective Illustration for Architects, Designers and Artists

New York, Design Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked of interior, with a bit of discoloration along edges, at tips. Bound in an oblong format, in blue cloth, silver lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Many score black-and-white and full-color illustrations and photographs. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [6], 7-192 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 352338

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Keywords: Scott Sutton Harold Linton

Hasbrouck, W.R., ed.

Architectural Essays from the Chicago School from 1900 to 1909

Park Forest, Illinois, A Prairie School Press Reissue, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Big, tall, folio-sized reissue of an important homage to the so-called Chicago School of drafting and architectural drawing, with a special focus on the works of W.R. Hasbrouckm Thomas Tallmadge, Louis H. Sullivan, Jens Jensen, Frank Lloyd Wright and others. 21 pp. of text in double-columns, black-and-white drawings and illustrations throughout. Stape-bound, lightly sunned along panel edges.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 357116

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: The Chicago School W.R. Hasbrouck Thomas Tallmade Louis H. Sullivan Jens Jensen Frank Lloyd Wright

Altorfer, Sabine, Uli Daster, Jochen Hesse and Frieda Vogt-Baumann, eds.

Gillian White, Tanz in Eisen: Werke Aus 40 Jahren / Dance in Steel: 40 Years Work

Zurich, Switzerland, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Square 4to 9" - 11" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in an oblong format, in black paper over boards, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. A lovely collection of the four decades-long career of Gillian Louise White, based on "Tanz in Eisen, Werke aus 40 Jahren. Zur Ausstellung Gillian White. Tanz in Eisen im Kunstmuseum Olten 26. April bis 21. Juni 2009." Congtributions by the various editors. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Replete with gorgeous full-color reproductions.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,

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Book number: 345450

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Keywords: German language|Gillian White|design|architecture|Anne Blonstein|Erica Pedretti|Sabine Altorfer|Uli Daster|Erica Pedretti|Gillian Louise White

Alfred Heubach

Monumentalbrunnen Deutschlands, Osterreichs Und Der Schweiz Aus Dem 13. Bis 18. Jahrhundert

Leipzig, Chr. Herm. Tachnitz, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A perfectly serviceable set of 59 of 60 finely drawn black-and-white illustrations of monumental architectural forms. Housed in a moderately battered exterior but with a remarkably attractive set of 59 plates interior. Illustrated paper over boards measuring 15 3/4" by 12" tall and wide, the plates 1/4" smaller, respectively. Red linen cloth-backed portfolio, moderate soiling and rubbing to edges, tips, cellophane tape of an accession number at spine bottom. Internally, one of the three wings to the bound-in wing folder is missing, the remaining two present but rubbed and scuffed. Nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy plates interior. Published in Leipzig in 1903. 59 of 60 collotype plates, with explanatory texts, all in German, depicting architectural projects in Germany, Austria and Switzerland from the 13th to 18th centuries. The initial double-elephant folio-sized leaf (stiff card stock) is folded once, with elaborate German lettering to title page, complete with publisher's device, then verso is a Dedication to the author's mentor in architecture, Herr Professor Gabriel von Seidl, in Munchen, Germany. Foreword by the author follows, from Hannover, Oktober, 1903, with Table of illustrations recto of inside page. Then 18 pp. of introduction and extensive notes to each of the 59 of the 60 plates (missing Tafeln #5), quite fine, and in double-column.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 353155

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Keywords: German language Alfred Heubach architecture Germany Austria Switzerland

Spodek, Howard and Doris Meth Srinivasan, eds.

Urban Form and Meaning in South Asia: The Shaping of Cities from Prehistoric to Precolonial Times

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Another fine contribution the series, Studies in the History of Art,, Symposium Papers XV, being Volume 31. Published by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1993, bound handsomely in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 272 pp. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. According to the publisher's blurb, "The rise of urbanism and the origins of urbanization in India, Pakistan, and Nepal are addressed by fifteen scholars from South Asia, Europe, and the United States." Nearly 80 illustrations.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 346229

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: South Asian|South Asian architecture|urban planning|Howard Spodek |Doris Meth Srinivasan

Lagorio, Henry J. and Giulio Brunetta

Universita E Citta: IL Campos E la Citta Universitaria

Padova, Italy, for the Celci Foundation of America, Celci Foundation of America, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Square 4to 9" - 11" tall. Exceedingly scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Italian language text showing many score fine reproductions in black-and-white of illustrations, drawings and photographs of from La Citta Universitaria in Italy. A very scarce, valuable item. [6], 7-62 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 348134

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: Italian language|Henry J. Laroio|Giulio Brunetta|architecture

Jackson-Stops, Gervase, Gordon J. Schochet, Lena Cowen Orlin, and Elisabeth Blair MacDougall, eds.

The Fashioning and Functioning of the British Country House

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1989. . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, Studies in the History of Art, being Volume No. 25, comprising the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Contributions by Henry A. Millon, John Harris, Pierre Du Prey, John Wilton-Ely, Damie Stillman, Brinsley Ford, St. John Gore, Francis Russell, John Cornforth, Oliver Impey, and Anny Somers Cocks, among others. [6], 7-417 pp. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 345728

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: Gervase Jackson-Stops|architecture|British Country House|England

Jacobs, Edwin

Robbie Cornelissen: The Capacious Memory

Rotterdam, The Netherlands, NAi Publishers, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Bilingual texts in double-column, Nederlansch and English, and with sumptuous gray, black and white pictorial wraps, in gate-fold, being a fine homage to the line-drawings of a futuristic architecture by an influential artist in the Netherlands, the draughtsmen, Robbie Cornelissen (born 1954. This exhibition showed pencil drawings and interpretations of viewings of libraries, waiting rooms, circuses, arenas and factories, shopping centers and department stores. 128 pp. and with over 100 illustrations in black-and-white and duotone. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Very light crimping to upper tips, else nearly As New.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 349015

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Keywords: Robbie Cornelissen|architecture|art history

Jardine, Lisa

On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher Wren

New York, HarperCollins, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A brilliant and probing biographical account of the English architect of Saint Paul's Cathedral in London and many other houses and projects of note. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in two-tone brown paper over boards, brown cloth-backed, and with sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Nice long range of photographs in black-and-white and full color of some of Wren's projects and including some facsimiles of his architectural plans. xviii + 600 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,

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Keywords: Lisa Jardine|Christopher Wren|English architecture|art history|architecture

Johnson, Philip, Hitchcock, Henry-Russell

The International Style

New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1995. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine looking copy in octavo hardcover format, being a reprint of the 1932 edition that was reprinted in 1965, featuring a bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Apparently unread, spine still crackles. unread, [12], 13-269 pp. Philip Johnson has added a new Foreword to this edition, too. Preface by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., illustrations galore in black-and-white, complete with notes, bibliography, diagrams, appendix, an an index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,

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Book number: 349132

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: Philip Johnson|Henry-Russell Hitchcock|architecture|design|art history

Vergara, Camilo Jose and Tim Samuelson

Unexpected Chicagoland

New York, The New Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in pumpkin-colored cloth, and with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xxii [2], 164 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 346230

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: Chicago|Illinois|architecture|Timothy J. Samuelson|Camilo Jose Vergara

The Marquis Curzon of Kedleston, K.G.

Bodiam Castle Sussex: A Historical & Descriptive Survey

London, Jonathan Cape, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. First Edition copy, published also in the same year in the U.S. by Houghton Mifflin. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bumping to spine head and foot. Bound handsomely in blue cloth and with gilt lettering over spine. Bumping to spine head and foot. xiv + 165 pp. and including architectural plans for excavation in foldout. Complete with a list of the black-and-white illustrations, an Introduction, seven chapters, then a series of Appendices i-v, an Index. Thirty-two illustrations.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Keywords: The Marquis Curzon of Kedleston|castle|England|architecture|Bodiam Castle Sussex|Sussex England

Kleihues, Josef Paul, with Claus Baldus, Ursula Frohne, Dankwart Guratzsch, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, and Werner Oechslin

Josef Paul Kleihues IM Gesprach

Tubingen, Germany, Wsmuth, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED, being inscribed to the influential Lake Forest, Illinois-based architect and art critic and historian from Lake Forest College, Professor Franz Schulze, in German, by Josef Paul Kleihues himself. Glossy pictorial wraps, in gate-fold. Interviews with the German architect with Claus Baldus, Ursula Frohne, Dankwart Guratzsch, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, and Werner Oechslin. Introductory essay by Fritz Neumeyer. Many score fine reproductions in black-and-white, printed on high-gloss paper. [8], 9-126 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Fine

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Book number: 349051

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Keywords: Josef Paul Kleihues|German language|German architects|Claus Baldus|Ursula Frohne|Dankwart Guratzsch|Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani|Werner Oechslin

Berlepsch, H.E.; Andre Lambert and Eduard Stahl, eds.

Motive Der Deutschen Architektur Des XVI. , XVII. Und XVIII. Jahrhunderts in Historischer Anordnung, Complete in Two Volumes

Stuttgart, Germany, J. Engelhorn, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Two exceedingly large and heavy items in portfolio, publisher's illustrated paper over boards, red linen cloth-backed, accession number under tape at spines, complete in two volumes. Bound in overlarge folio format, 18" x 13" tall and wide, respectively. Erste Abteilung: Fruh- und Hochrenaissance 1500-1650; II.: Barock und Rokoko 1650-1800. Battered and worn covers, some linen cloth ties missing, ink stamps of previous owner (J.E. and F.H. Church) at title page and publisher's brochure pasted inside front flap. Wing folders on their last legs, but they've done their jobs. Interior introductory booklets and plates in easily Very Good condition, a bit sunned along edges, uniformly toned, some slight dog-earing. German language texts. Volume I, published in 1890: xxxv pp. of text, followed by 17 3/4" x 12 1/2" tall and wide, respectively, quite finely rendered in black-and-white, with multiple captions (French and German), location, date and many with a legend, all published by J. Engelhorn in Stuttgart. Missing plates 32-35; 37-40; 42-48; 50; else sharp and bright and clear and distinct, captioned, precise. Occasionally darkened at the edges. Plates feature: Munich, facade d. Theatine Church; Dresden: palace in the large garden; Zurich: town hall; Munich: Nymphenburg, detail d. Pagodenburg; Vienna: Portal d. Palais Kinsky; Fribourg: Loretto Chapel; Augsburg: Episcopal Residence; Munich: Preysing Palace; Potsdam: stable building d. city ​​palace; Stuttgart: Detail d. royal castle Mainz: Portal d. Augustinian Church; Berlin: Pillar d. Hercules Bridge; Mariastein: facade d. Church. Volume II, published in 1893: with publisher's full-size advertisement pasted inside front flap. Missing plates 12, 17 and 19 else with 97 plates, quite fine. Texts in German, in folded sheets, with plentiful additional illustrations in black-and-white hors-text.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Fair,

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Book number: 353158

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: German language Andre Lambert Eduard Stahl H.E. von Berlepsch architecture German art history German architecture