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Competition for the New York Court House MCMXIII. Edited by authority of the Court House Board.
NY, Architectural Book Publishing [1913]. Hefty folio, 52x36cm, loose as issued in publisher's portfolio (rubbed and worn but solid); five leaves of preliminary text and 88 plates: plans elevations and perspectives. Ex library with small stamps on the preliminary pages and the back of the plates; a couple of marginal tears; used but decent enough.
¶ Twelve major architects were invited and a preliminary competition selected another ten to enter the competition for a new New York Supreme Court. Ten were originally invited and the New York Times complained about the regulations and about missing names like Cass Gilbert, George B. Post, Cram Goodhue & Ferguson and a couple of others. Whatever effect this complaint had, Gilbert and Post were included but the competition remained firmly unpublic. Guy Lowell won with a grand circular mass that was then revised, by the time it was built, into a completely different building. The first critics of note were the Supreme Court Justices who said they preferred the old Tweed building to Lowell's design. And the Justices remained critics of note. Despite resiting and revisions over the next few years they remained implacably opposed to a circular court building. But it was economics that killed it in the end. All the entries are included - a fair division of four plates each - and as to be expected the temple is predominant, more or less adapted or added to. McKim Mead and White's design looks they had a hotel in mind and of the few that went upwards, as New York was meant to go, some have put an awkward (or picturesque depending on taste) tower on a temple. George and Edward Blum's tower is the only building that truly looks modern in the New York of 1913 but modernity and elegance don't personify the weight and dignity of the law.
¶ Twelve major architects were invited and a preliminary competition selected another ten to enter the competition for a new New York Supreme Court. Ten were originally invited and the New York Times complained about the regulations and about missing names like Cass Gilbert, George B. Post, Cram Goodhue & Ferguson and a couple of others. Whatever effect this complaint had, Gilbert and Post were included but the competition remained firmly unpublic. Guy Lowell won with a grand circular mass that was then revised, by the time it was built, into a completely different building. The first critics of note were the Supreme Court Justices who said they preferred the old Tweed building to Lowell's design. And the Justices remained critics of note. Despite resiting and revisions over the next few years they remained implacably opposed to a circular court building. But it was economics that killed it in the end. All the entries are included - a fair division of four plates each - and as to be expected the temple is predominant, more or less adapted or added to. McKim Mead and White's design looks they had a hotel in mind and of the few that went upwards, as New York was meant to go, some have put an awkward (or picturesque depending on taste) tower on a temple. George and Edward Blum's tower is the only building that truly looks modern in the New York of 1913 but modernity and elegance don't personify the weight and dignity of the law.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8723
AUD 475.00 [Appr.: EURO 288.75 US$ 309.19 | £UK 248 | JP¥ 48135]
Keywords: architecture design c20th America New York competitions modernism
The International Competition for the Phoebe Hearst Architectural Plan for the University of California.
San Francisco, published by the trustees [1899]. Oblong folio publisher's printed wrapper, cord tied (front wrapper and spine chipped); 150pp - 41 introductory pages in four languages; the rest renderings, plans, elevations, photo illustrations.
¶ Parisian Emile Benard won the competition but wouldn't come to San Francisco to see it built and the university ended up, for the most part, in the hands of local John Howard (fourth prize). It's easy to see Benard's appeal - his design is of the style and scale of an imperial capital which would have pleased both Hearst and Wallot, one of the judges. At first glance I would have said that the design of third prize winners Despradelle and Codman owed something to Burley Griffin, except that of course at this time he was barely up to sharpening pencils for Dwight Perkins. I think all 11 premiated plans are illustrated.
¶ Parisian Emile Benard won the competition but wouldn't come to San Francisco to see it built and the university ended up, for the most part, in the hands of local John Howard (fourth prize). It's easy to see Benard's appeal - his design is of the style and scale of an imperial capital which would have pleased both Hearst and Wallot, one of the judges. At first glance I would have said that the design of third prize winners Despradelle and Codman owed something to Burley Griffin, except that of course at this time he was barely up to sharpening pencils for Dwight Perkins. I think all 11 premiated plans are illustrated.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8578
AUD 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 100.5 US$ 107.4 | £UK 86.25 | JP¥ 16721]
Keywords: architecture town planning design c19th America education competition
![Shop architecture., [Shoten Kenchiku Oyobi Tento Keikaku Zuan].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Shoten11145c.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Shoten Kenchiku Oyobi Tento Keikaku Zuan].
Tokyo, Kenchikushoin 1924 (Taisho 13). Oblong folio, 26x39cm publisher's decorated cloth (a couple of nibbles) and mildly battered printed card case; [10]pp, 50 b/w plates, [4]pp. A nice copy.
¶ Modern and moderne shop buildings and store fronts; essential if you want to rebuild Tokyo after the earthquake and before the fire bombing. This is, of course, part of the post earthquake reconstruction effort: the results of a competition held by the equivalent of the Tokyo chamber of commerce. The plates, elevations and floor plans, are reproduced from measured drawings and look ready to build but I wonder about one (by Shibahara Niro) which, the facade at least, seems to be taken straight from Bruno Taut's crystal alpine architecture. The requirements: frontage, height etc, are spelt out in the introduction and I presume fit an average commercial lot. At the end are designs for shop fronts.
¶ Modern and moderne shop buildings and store fronts; essential if you want to rebuild Tokyo after the earthquake and before the fire bombing. This is, of course, part of the post earthquake reconstruction effort: the results of a competition held by the equivalent of the Tokyo chamber of commerce. The plates, elevations and floor plans, are reproduced from measured drawings and look ready to build but I wonder about one (by Shibahara Niro) which, the facade at least, seems to be taken straight from Bruno Taut's crystal alpine architecture. The requirements: frontage, height etc, are spelt out in the introduction and I presume fit an average commercial lot. At the end are designs for shop fronts.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11145
AUD 1350.00 [Appr.: EURO 820.5 US$ 878.74 | £UK 704.5 | JP¥ 136804]
Keywords: architecture mercantile design mode15/9/2023rnism c20th Japan shops stores commercial advertising competition
Man's Mortality. A story.
London, Heinemann 1933. Octavo, very good in publisher's cloth and dustwrapper.
¶ First edition of Arlen's dystopian science fiction and one of his least successful books. Set fifty odd years in the future, world hegemony is in the hands of a mutli-national company that got its start with a world changing invention in aviation.
¶ First edition of Arlen's dystopian science fiction and one of his least successful books. Set fifty odd years in the future, world hegemony is in the hands of a mutli-national company that got its start with a world changing invention in aviation.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8843
AUD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 24.5 US$ 26.04 | £UK 21 | JP¥ 4053]
Keywords: literature science fiction thrillers c20th England
Turkish Art and Architecture.
London, Faber 1971. Quarto, very good in publisher's cloth and dustwrapper; 422pp, 315 illustrations (33 colour), 67 plans & 3 maps.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 3357
AUD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 61 US$ 65.09 | £UK 52.25 | JP¥ 10134]
Keywords: art architecture Turkey history Central Asia applied arts
Architectural Design of Concrete Bridges. Concrete for permanence.
Chicago, Portland Cement [1937]. Oblong quarto publisher's printed wrapper; 36pp, photo and other illustrations throughout.
¶ 'Fundamental principles', that is the rules of design - appearance as separate from structure - are succinctly set out and illustrated by recent modern and moderne bridges. Mistakes are shown and corrected in diagrams.
¶ 'Fundamental principles', that is the rules of design - appearance as separate from structure - are succinctly set out and illustrated by recent modern and moderne bridges. Mistakes are shown and corrected in diagrams.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8745
AUD 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.5 US$ 39.06 | £UK 31.5 | JP¥ 6080]
Keywords: architecture design aesthetics civil engineering building bridges materials modernism c20th America
Report from the Joint Select Committee on the Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum, together with the proceedings ... and minutes of evidence.
Brisbane, Govt printer 1869. Foolscap disbound; [4],73pp and nine litho plates: plans and elevations.
¶ Woogaro, Queensland's first lunatic asylum, was opened in 1865 and was a disaster: built in the wrong place, badly staffed, badly managed, with woefully inadequate buildings. Two inquiries were held in 1869, one by public servants and this one by a parliamentary committee. The focus here is on the buildings, the general plan and proper management. From this inquiry came the 1869 Lunacy Act. The committee recommend buildings on the "cottage" system and given the choice between plans by Tiffin and Suter - illustrated here - chose Suter's. He crammed twice the number of patients into each building at a saving of £18 per head.
¶ Woogaro, Queensland's first lunatic asylum, was opened in 1865 and was a disaster: built in the wrong place, badly staffed, badly managed, with woefully inadequate buildings. Two inquiries were held in 1869, one by public servants and this one by a parliamentary committee. The focus here is on the buildings, the general plan and proper management. From this inquiry came the 1869 Lunacy Act. The committee recommend buildings on the "cottage" system and given the choice between plans by Tiffin and Suter - illustrated here - chose Suter's. He crammed twice the number of patients into each building at a saving of £18 per head.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10453
AUD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 273.5 US$ 292.91 | £UK 235 | JP¥ 45601]
Keywords: architecture social sciences c19th Australia medicine lunacy lunatics hospitals asylums design government psychiatry reform progress
Laconia. I. Excavations Near Angelona ...[etc]. [bound with] Excavations at Sparta 1906; [bound with] Excavations at Sparta 1907; [bound with] Excavations at Sparta 1908.
Offprints from the Annual of the British School at Athens 1904-5 to 1907-8. Quarto together contemporary cloth (rear hinge splitting but firm enough), printed wrappers bound in; pp81-145, 259-479, 218, 149; plates (a couple colour), numerous illustrations, figures and plans (some folding).
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 6723
AUD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 121.75 US$ 130.18 | £UK 104.5 | JP¥ 20267]
Keywords: archaeology classical Sparta Greece art history
![AUDSLEY, W. & G. [William & George]., Polychromatic Decoration as Applied to Buildings in the Mediaeval Styles.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Audsley9413b.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Polychromatic Decoration as Applied to Buildings in the Mediaeval Styles.
London, Sotheran, 1882. Folio publisher's gilt cloth (wear to tips); [8],32pp and 36 chromolitho plates interleaved with descriptive text. Light browning, quite a good copy.
¶ Careful and plain descriptions and practical advice accompany the sometimes spectacular designs. A chart offers the colours and tints most suitable for decorative painting and patterns are grouped for specific wall areas and features. At the end are four plates of alphabets.
¶ Careful and plain descriptions and practical advice accompany the sometimes spectacular designs. A chart offers the colours and tints most suitable for decorative painting and patterns are grouped for specific wall areas and features. At the end are four plates of alphabets.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9413
AUD 500.00 [Appr.: EURO 304 US$ 325.46 | £UK 261 | JP¥ 50668]
Keywords: architecture art ornament c19th England colour printing pattern books chromolithography design
![[Catalogue - Engraved stamps]. J. Augey, Saint-Claude., 1928. Maison Speciale pour tous Articles Graves.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_stamps7465.jpg "Click to enlarge")
1928. Maison Speciale pour tous Articles Graves.
The company 1928. Octavo printed wrapper; 64pp, numerous illustrations.
¶ An appealing catalogue of engraved metal, wood and rubber stamps - going well beyond mere date stamps (though many of these are quite handsome): trade marks, facsimile signatures and so on. As well are engraved and enamelled plaques and plaques for tombs with permanent photographs incorporated.
¶ An appealing catalogue of engraved metal, wood and rubber stamps - going well beyond mere date stamps (though many of these are quite handsome): trade marks, facsimile signatures and so on. As well are engraved and enamelled plaques and plaques for tombs with permanent photographs incorporated.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7465
AUD 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 54.75 US$ 58.58 | £UK 47 | JP¥ 9120]
Keywords: trade catalogues c20th France stamps engraving graphic art alphabets lettering advertising
Correspondence Relating to Chinese Immigration into the Australasian Colonies, with a return of acts passed by the legislatures of those colonies and of Canada and British Columbia on the subject.
London, HMSO 1888. Foolscap, very good in a modern wrapper; x,87pp.
¶ An essential Yellow Peril document gathering details of policy, procedure and personality during a particularly active, perhaps turbulent, period of antagonism and legislation. Collected here are official dispatches and unofficial enclosures, news from all parts of the world and protests from the Chinese. Much of the proud tradition of strict quarantine in Australia has its origin in intercolonial co-operation in declaring ports of embarkation for Chinese immigrants as Infected Places. Prior to this attempts to establish a national quarantine policy had little success.
¶ An essential Yellow Peril document gathering details of policy, procedure and personality during a particularly active, perhaps turbulent, period of antagonism and legislation. Collected here are official dispatches and unofficial enclosures, news from all parts of the world and protests from the Chinese. Much of the proud tradition of strict quarantine in Australia has its origin in intercolonial co-operation in declaring ports of embarkation for Chinese immigrants as Infected Places. Prior to this attempts to establish a national quarantine policy had little success.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9774
AUD 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 243.25 US$ 260.37 | £UK 208.75 | JP¥ 40535]
Keywords: history Chinese immigration emigration political economy government race Australia China c19th New Zealand Canada yellow peril law England Asia racsim
Prose Halieutics or Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle.
London, Parker 1854. Octavo blindstamped straight grained green/blue cloth; xii,552pp. An excellent, fresh and bright copy.
¶ An enthusiastic delver's book of the best type. Badham has scratched together (much from classical writers) a wealth of recondite facts and fancies about fish - from the water to the table. He begins with ancient and modern fishing and ends with chapters on opsophagy (the eating of delicacies), covering ancient fish-dealers and their tricks, Greek cooks and gluttony. Other chapters wind through such things as fish in medicine, subterranean fish, the Naples fish-market, the etymology of Cod, spurious fish sauces, ancient fishing tackle, the uses of stingray hide, and Pliny's mistakes about Lampreys. While there is enough here to satisfy any student of any aspect of fish (or classics) its greatest value now may well be to those interested in cookery, food and their history.
¶ An enthusiastic delver's book of the best type. Badham has scratched together (much from classical writers) a wealth of recondite facts and fancies about fish - from the water to the table. He begins with ancient and modern fishing and ends with chapters on opsophagy (the eating of delicacies), covering ancient fish-dealers and their tricks, Greek cooks and gluttony. Other chapters wind through such things as fish in medicine, subterranean fish, the Naples fish-market, the etymology of Cod, spurious fish sauces, ancient fishing tackle, the uses of stingray hide, and Pliny's mistakes about Lampreys. While there is enough here to satisfy any student of any aspect of fish (or classics) its greatest value now may well be to those interested in cookery, food and their history.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7523
AUD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 121.75 US$ 130.18 | £UK 104.5 | JP¥ 20267]
Keywords: natural history icthyology fish fishing sports food cooking social history classical literature
Thomas Hart Benton.
NY, Abrams [1974]. Oblong folio publisher's cloth and dustwrapper (this with a couple of small tears); 229 illustrations (101 colour).
¶ Original edition.
¶ Original edition.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 2997
AUD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.5 US$ 32.55 | £UK 26.25 | JP¥ 5067]
Keywords: art c20th America painting monographs
Cabinet Timbers of Australia.
Sydney, Techn. Museum 1913. Oblong quarto publisher's cloth; 186pp. 68 colour plates, hundreds of photo illustrations. One corner a bit bumped but a rather good copy.
¶ Still the bible of Australian timbers - it supplies colour plates of timber grains, properties and uses, illustrated by examples of cabinet work and interiors.
¶ Still the bible of Australian timbers - it supplies colour plates of timber grains, properties and uses, illustrated by examples of cabinet work and interiors.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7898
AUD 750.00 [Appr.: EURO 455.75 US$ 488.19 | £UK 391.5 | JP¥ 76002]
Keywords: technology applied arts c20th Australia architecture interiors furniture materials economic botany trades timber natural history science timber carpentry joinery
Glacieres or Freezing Caverns.
Philadelphia, Allen, Lane & Scott 1900. Octavo publisher's cloth; [8],337pp, 31 illustrations - photo plates and diagrams in the text. A sparkling copy.
¶ First edition. Undoubtedly the essential book on glacieres - not be confused with caves that freeze and thaw according to season. The true glaciere is always frozen - some have been used as ice mines - and, as displayed in the illustrations, can contain spectacular displays of ice forms. Balch became aware of and quickly enamoured with subterranean ice in 1877 and spent quite a bit of time hiking and climbing around Europe and America exploring every ice cave he could find. He provides a list of every glaciere that he knew of around the world, investigates the science, and finishes with an impressive bibliography.
¶ First edition. Undoubtedly the essential book on glacieres - not be confused with caves that freeze and thaw according to season. The true glaciere is always frozen - some have been used as ice mines - and, as displayed in the illustrations, can contain spectacular displays of ice forms. Balch became aware of and quickly enamoured with subterranean ice in 1877 and spent quite a bit of time hiking and climbing around Europe and America exploring every ice cave he could find. He provides a list of every glaciere that he knew of around the world, investigates the science, and finishes with an impressive bibliography.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8696
AUD 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 212.75 US$ 227.82 | £UK 182.75 | JP¥ 35468]
Keywords: travel caves caving speliology mountaineering geology science c19th
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