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Alvar Aalto, Band I: 1922-1962
Zurich, Verlag fur Architektur Artemis, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy in hardcover oblong format, 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. Beautifully produced in a light brown linen cloth covers, sharp and distinct black lettering to cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. German, French and English text, replete with over 200 black-and-white illustrations, some being full-page. Introduction by Karl Fleig. [4], 5-275 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Very Good,
Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 347231
USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 60.75 | £UK 52.25 | JP„ 10119]
Catalogue: Architecture
Keywords: Alvar Aalto|German language|French language|architecture|art history
Distance Points: Essays in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture
Cambridge, University, MIT Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" 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. 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. Published by the M.I.T. Press, bound in overlarge octavo format. Bound in grey cloth with gold lettering to spine. xxvii + 561 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,
Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 346228
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 32.75 | £UK 28.25 | JP„ 5449]
Catalogue: Architecture
Keywords: architecture|art history|Renaissance art history|Renaissance architecture|James S. Ackerman
Academie de France a Rome, Ses Directuers Ses Pensionnaires, Tome I, Tome II
Paris, Aux Editions Duchartre, 1938. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. This is a sturdy, tightly bound copy of the First Edition, published by DuchĆ¢tre, Paris, 1933, complete in two volumes, being bound in a tall, heavy quarto format. The illustrated, simple card stock wraps are covered with original publisher's gate-fold wraps that are quite finely illustrated with logos and drawings including of the S.P.Q.R. logo. Each volume is housed in a Near Fine condition slipcase covered with a very unusual form of almost wallpaper, edges being covered in a kind of electrical tape. This is an unnumbered copy of a Special Limited Edition of 992, having been printed on Simili-Art paper. Between the two copies there are 412 reproductions in simil-engraving and 16 plates printed via electrotyping. The dedication page by the author is to "A Mon Cher Maitre Victor Laloux," his mentor as an architect, and then opposite is a fine black-and-white portrait painted of Laloux by Doucet and his facsimile note of congratulations. Tome I is 254 pp. in length and with Appendice de Tome Premiere [255-257 pp.], then an Table des Noms Cites [263 p.] and then Table des Hors-Texts en Electrotype (seven plates) [264] and then a Table des Matieres [265]. Tome II features a super-fine black-and-white painted portrait of Bonaparte at frontis, and includes Reglement du L'Academie de France a Rome, a full name index, and more. Several hundred fine black-and-white plates. All in, they comprise an extraordinary record of past members of the Academie de France and with hundreds of fine portraits of its members.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine
Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 345747
USD 115.00 [Appr.: EURO 107.5 | £UK 92.25 | JP„ 17903]
Catalogue: Architecture
Keywords: Jean-Paul Alaux|French language |Doucet|Victor Laloux|architecture|French history and culture
Art and Architecture on the Mediterranean Islands
London, Abelard-Schuman, 1968. First England Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sumptuously illustrated volume that will make you want to travel. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear but for some half-toning at first free endpaper; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Handsomely produced in an oatmeal cloth cover, sharply and distinctly stamped brown letters to cover and spine. Stated first England Edition, having been translated by Edith Anderson. [4], 5-36 pp., followed by 211 plates, mostly black-and-white but with additional in full-color, all printed on high-gloss paper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good
Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 347862
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 32.75 | £UK 28.25 | JP„ 5449]
Catalogue: Architecture
Keywords: The Mediterranean |art history|architecture|Erich Arendt|Ancient Greece|Ancient Rome|Crete|Minoan art
Architects Books & Libraries
Toronto, Canada, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Contributions to this fine collection of essays about libraries and curatorship by Dianna Beaufort, Jonathan Bikker, Kate McCartney, Samantha Mussells, Sandra Richards, and Nicola Spasoff. A collection of essays published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name.Bound handsomely in brick-red stiff card stock wraps, illustrated and printed. Edited and with a Prologue by Pierre de la Ruffiniere du Prey. 46 pp., and flawless of interior. 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. . . . As New
Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 346988
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 20.25 | JP„ 3892]
Catalogue: Architecture
Keywords: books about books|architects|architecture|libraries|bibliography
Das Bildnis in Leipzig Vom Ende Des 17. Jahrhunderts Bis Zur Biedermeierzeit. Tafelband
Leipzig, Germany, Hiersemann, 1912. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Published in Leipzig, Germany, by Hiersemann, 1912, with bound by Emil Herrmann, Sr., in Leipzig. Translated into English as The portrait in Leipzig from the end of the 17th century to the Biedermeier period. Panel tape [binding].Published on behalf of the Stadtgeschichtlichen Museum zu Leipzig 1912 veranstalteten Portraitausstellung. Von ordentlicher Erhaltung. Folio format, with a series of vii + 68 pages of German-language text bound in simple card stock folder, perfect-bound, showing only the very lightest of wear or soiling, and then 162 plates featuring 174 different illustrations. Each plate is mounted on stiff card stock and then protected by tipped-in tissue-guards (affixed at both head and foot of guard). Dr. Albrecht Kurzwelly contributed the Introduction, written in Leipzig in 1912, and then ensues 68 pages of biobiblographical portraits of sort, followed by a list of sorts comprising the names of the artists, the names of the artists depicted, and the owners of the paintings shown.The entirety is then housed in a wing-folder-style box, with front and rear being covered by blue cloth, and the three wings are simple, blue card stock.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine
Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 344899
USD 115.00 [Appr.: EURO 107.5 | £UK 92.25 | JP„ 17903]
Catalogue: Architecture
Keywords: Albrecht Kurzwelly|German language|German architecture|architectural drawings
Angels & Franciscans: Innovative Architecture from Los Angeles and San Francisco
New York and London, Rizzoli International Publications, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition softcover copy in tall trade paperback format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial wraps. Stuffed with full-color and black-and-white illustrations, printed on high-gloss paper. Edited by Bill Lacy and Susan deMenil, with contributions by them and by Frank O. Gehry, Craig Hodetts and Hsin-Ming Fung, Holt Hinshaw PPfau Jones, Frank Israel, Koning Eizenberg, Lubowicki Lanier, Mark Mack, Thom Mayne, Morphosis, Eric Owen Moss, Stanley Saitowitz and Studio Works. 126 pp. and including notes, bibliography and index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New
Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 355851
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 | £UK 9.75 | JP„ 1868]
Catalogue: Architecture
Keywords: design architecture Susan deMenil Bill Lacy Frank O. Gehry Craig Hodetts and Hsin-Ming Fung Holt Hinshaw Pfau Jones Frank Israel Koning Eizenberg Lubowicki Lanier Mark Mack Thom Mayne Morphosis Eric Owen Moss Stanley Saitowitz and Studio Works
Bayer Konzernzentrale Headquarters: Helmut Jahn - Werner Sobek - Matthias Schuler
Basel, Germany, Birkhauser - Publishers for Architecture, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Bilingual texts in German and English and with extensive frontis matter by executives at Bayer. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial covers; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. A gorgeous primer in design and architecture, with black-and-white and full-color reproductions printed on high-gloss paper. Unpaginated, but roughly 60 pp. and with full notes and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New
Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 349004
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 20.25 | JP„ 3892]
Catalogue: Architecture
Keywords: Helmut Jahn |Werner Sobek|Matthias Schuler|Werner Blaser
In What Style Should We Build?: The German Debate on Architectural Style (Texts & Documents)
Santa Monica, California, The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Texts and documents from a number of prominent German architects, including Heinrich Hubsch, 1828; Rudolf Wiegmann, 1829; Carl Albert Rosenthal, 1844; Johann Heinrich Wolff, 1845; Carl Gottlieb wilhelm Botticher, 1846; and Heinrich Hubsch, 1847. Introduction by Wolfgang Herrmann. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [1], 2-202 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New
Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 349081
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.25 | JP„ 1557]
Catalogue: Architecture
Keywords: Heinrich Hubsch|Rudolf Wiegmann|Carl Albert Rosenthal|Johann Heinrich Wolff|Carl Gottlieb|Wilhelm Botticher|Heinrich Hubsch
Chateaux de France Disparus
Paris, Editions Tel, 1947. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of the printed card stock covers, in gate-fold, less to the text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Presentation de Lucien Wilter. 108 pp. plus a Table of Contents. Thirty different works of French architecture covered with the help of 105 black-and-white illustrations and photographs in toto. Quite an evocative, engaging item, equal parts nostalgic and illustrative.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good
Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 347298
USD 23.00 [Appr.: EURO 21.5 | £UK 18.5 | JP„ 3581]
Catalogue: Architecture
Keywords: Philippe de Cosse Brissac|Chateaux de France Disparus|architecture|French history and culture
Michelangelo: Architect
New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1993. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. First English edition, written by Giulo Carlo Argan, and Bruno Contardi provided the history, chronology and documentation for the relevant works in individual entries following each chapter essay. Photographs by Gabriele Basilico. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white and full-color illustrations, bound in a tall, heavy quarto format. 388 pp., bound handsomely in the publisher's original black cloth. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Housed in a heavy, moderately worn slipcase, paper, illustrated, over cardboard. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [5], 6-388 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,
Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 349866
USD 37.00 [Appr.: EURO 34.75 | £UK 29.75 | JP„ 5760]
Catalogue: Architecture
Keywords: Michelangelo|architecture|Giulio Carlo Argan|BrunoContardi
Birkhãâ¤User Architectural Guide Spain, 1920-1999
Basel, Germany, Birkhauser Verlag, 1998. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bound in orange buckram cloth, with white and black titles and details, no jacket, but protected in stiff Mylar. Complete with indices, bibliography, glossary and replete with black-and-white photos and a few in full color. Arranged geographically and thematically and even includes material on Spanish architects outside Spain. [7], 8-400 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New
Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 349989
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.25 | £UK 12.25 | JP„ 2335]
Catalogue: Architecture
Keywords: architectural guides"Spain|Spanish architecture|architectural guides|guidebook
Architecture Transformed: A History of the Photography of Buildings from 1839 to the Present
New York, New York / Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Architectural League of New York / M.I.T. Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. Previous owner was Richard Leon Press of Richard L. Press Fine and Scholarly Books About the Arts, and was inscribed to him with great love at half-title by 15 admirers seemingly from some kind of international workshop, as over a dozen countries are represented. Bound handsomely in a light brown linen cloth-over boards, with sharp and distinct yellow 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. Structured around four historical periods: 1839-1880; 1880-1930; 1930-1970 1970-the present. 193 black-and-white photographic plates. xii + 203 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,
Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 349098
USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.75 | £UK 17.75 | JP„ 3425]
Catalogue: Architecture
Keywords: architecture|Cervin Robinson|Joel Herschman|architectural history of New York
The English Houses
New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1985. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Big, tall, handsomely bound Imperial octavo hardcover format copy, Stated First American Edition, with "1" in number line present. A fine and engrossing survey of the English house from Medieval dwellings to the present-day. Pea-green cloth over boards, with gilt lettering to spien, quite sharp and distinct. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Regency squares, Georgian villas, and Victorian terraces. Sumptuously illustrated in black-and-white and full-color, printed on high-gloss paper, many in full-page. [6], 7-288 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,
Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 349985
USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 15 | £UK 13 | JP„ 2491]
Catalogue: Architecture
Keywords: James Chambers|The English House|Alan Gore|England|architecture
70s Decorative Art
Koln, Taschen, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition flexible hardcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing neither shelf- nor edge-wear to the illustrated covers, in gatefold. 575 pp. The two editors are design consultants of longstanding. Bilingual text, German and English. The transition of design from the Victorian era to the modern age, in architecture, interiors, furniture, glass, metalwork ceramics, lighting, textiles, wall decorations. Another fine contribution to the series published by Taschen, Decorative Arts, focused on the founding of Modernism in design, interiors, and architecture. Profusely illustrated in full color and black-and-white. Interior design, furniture, architecture, assemblage, ceramics and pottery of European origins in the 1970s is treated here. The book measures 10 1/4" x 7 3/4" in height and width.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine
Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 347488
USD 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 | £UK 19.25 | JP„ 3736]
Catalogue: Architecture
Keywords: Charlotte Fiell|Peter Fiell|decorative arts|European art history|design|architecture