Architecture from Bernett Rare Books Inc

(3), 162 pp. survey of the use of artificial lighting in modern architecture, profusely illustrated. Quarto (11 x 9 inches). Cloth boards with stamped title to cover. Light soiling and minor handling wear, overall very good. Milan (Ulrico Hoepli) 1934. Profusely illustrated survey of Art Deco and modernist lighting fixtures and both interior and exterior settings for lighting designed… Read more about this item

Torino, 1932-1934. Tabloid/folio (approx. 56 x 41.5 cm). Original self-wrappers; each issue 8 pp. Some browning to paper, toning, light scattered foxing, some issues with tears along fold lines, overall good condition. Twelve issues in eleven fascicules (Year I, Nos. 1 and 3-6; Year III, Nos. 3-9) of the important Italian Futurist architecture journal, under the direction of Fillia,… Read more about this item

Milan: Jabik & Colophon Editori, 1973-1975. Quarto (28 x 21 cm). Original black-and-white photomontage wrappers; various paginations ranging from 40 to 174 pp. Some light soiling to covers, minor wear, overall very good. A complete run of 10 issues in 8 fascicules of the historic Italian magazine published under the editorial direction of radical Italian architect and designer Ugo… Read more about this item

[Torino]: S.E.L.P./Studio Editoriale Librario Piemontese, 1931. Quarto (29 x 22 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 22 pp., profusely illustrated. Some light soiling and toning to covers, minor wear to extremities, very mild mildew staining to title page, slight rust to staples, overall very good. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies. This work was published in 1931, only a few months… Read more about this item

St. Petersburg: self-published (Tip. E. Thiele), 1901. Oblong folios (27 × 36.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; [8], 94 pp. With one hundred illustrations in the text, including plans, drawings, and mostly photographs. With thirty-three leaves of photographic plates in a separate printed slipcase. Wrappers of text volume dust-soiled; light soil to corners of first two leaves; the slipcase worn;… Read more about this item

Various: 1965-1966. 52.5 x 35 cm. Original printed self-wrappers; first three issues are a single page, fourth is a special eight-page issue. Very good to fine condition. A rare complete set in four issues of the journal published in conjunction with four different exhibitions by Constant Nieuwenhuys, known as Constant (1920-2005). Constant was a Dutch painter, sculptor, graphic artist,… Read more about this item

Paris: Galerie Vignon, 1933. Duodecimo (15.5 x 12.5 cm). Original printed side-stapled wrappers; unpaginated [16 pp.] Very good condition. Small scarce catalogue from the 2nd annual exhibition of modern international architecture, held at Galerie Vignon in Paris from April 1 through April 13, 1933. Exhibitors came from Austria, Spain, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia, and included Luis Gutierrez… Read more about this item

Vienna: Wagner, 1912. Tall thin 4to. (40.6 x 30.5 cm). Original self-wrappers; 12 pp. Slight dust-staining, minor browning to edges; overall very good. Otto Wagner was an Austrian architect, furniture designer, and urban planner, as well as a leader of the Vienna Secession and Art Nouveau movements. Through his architectural designs within his native city of Vienna, one can… Read more about this item

A complete run of 12 volumes, bound in 4, of the important French journal under the direction of architect Charles Normand, concerned with the monuments and urban preservation of Paris, containing many hundreds of pages of documents and papers on well-known buildings and works of art, collections, demolished structures, archaeological finds, vandalism, and other topics. Profusely illustrated with approximately… Read more about this item

1901. 2 vols. text, x, 535, viii, 663 pp. history and description of the Gothic cathedral and its rich sculptural decoration and works of art, extensive notes including bibliographic information, inscriptions, index, profusely illustrated throughout with 274 text illustrations and 111 fine plates divided between the two vols. Considerable foxing throughout. Large 4to. Cloth portfolios, contents loose as issued,… Read more about this item

2 volumes, VIII, VIII, 160-pp. continuously paginated, by the Belgian-born landscape architect, containing detailed descriptions of 80 gardens for many of the leading estates in 19th-century France, as well as a few examples from abroad, primarily in the landscape or "paysagiste" style prevalent at the time, with 80 superb lithographic plates showing plans of the gardens, the plates in… Read more about this item

226 pp. text, including a 56-page general introduction on landscape design, with descriptions in French, German, and English, notes, index, engraved half-title of a temple among trees, title with engraved vignette of the Porte de Coucy, and 92 engraved plates with 122 numbered views, together with three engraved maps, and eight additional small engraved images with movable elements that… Read more about this item

117 pp. text comprising the comprehensive report regarding "the rectification of the present plan and the development and extension of the city of Hartford on comprehensive lines of order and harmony with recommendations", prepared by the important New York City-based Beaux-Arts architectural firm of Carrére & Hastings, including discussions of avenues and parkways, building height, the city center and… Read more about this item

Printed photograph album commemorating the visit of the Crown Prince to the Karafuto prefecture in the summer of 1925, with preface by Okishima Kamazo and edited by Fujii Shoji, consisting of 20 plates with 73 black and white photographs tracing the Crown Prince's trip including visits to schools, agricultural research stations, naval bases, goverment offices, and mines, as well… Read more about this item

VIII, 90 pp. text concerning the ruins, monuments, reliefs and sculptures of ancient Rome, including 128 engravings, several depicting architectural plans, on 73 numbered plates executed by Dominico Montagu after drawings by Barbault, a former student and later rival of Piranesi. Some extremely minor scattered soiling or toning. Large folio. Full-leather, marbled, hand-tooled and gilt binding; spine with six… Read more about this item

1686. (24), 456, (36) pp. detailed text on artworks in hundreds of Roman churches and palazzi, each building getting its own entry ranging from a paragraph or two to several pages, and including works by Caracci, Mantegna, Gozzoli, Carlo Fontana, Cortese, Domenichino, Borromini, Guido Reni, da Vinci, Lorenzo Lotti, Michelangelo, Gentileschi, Giotto, da Cortona, Luca della Robbia, Masaccio, Raphael,… Read more about this item

Beyaert. 2 vols., titles and lists of contents, 240 excellent plates from engravings by Joseph and Franz Neirynck showing plans, elevations, and views of the Belgian architect's works, incl. many superb details of architectural ornament. Folio. Cloth-backed boards. Brussels (Lyon-Claesen) 1880-1892. Placzek I, p. 206. A rare set documenting the work of Beyaert's work near the close of the… Read more about this item

(10), 1040 pp. description of France, revised and enlarged by the author's son, François Du Chesne, arranged by provinces, (25) pp. index. Some moderate staining and toning throughout, some spots of damp-staining to title page and approximately first 30 pages. 8vo. Vellum. Light soiling, vellum has stiffened and volume no longer closes all the way or opens flat. Paris… Read more about this item

(XIV), 249 pp. text by J. F. Félibien, the son of the early art historian André Félibien and a noted architect and architectural historian in his own right, presenting a systematic approach to the history of European architecture through the 14th century, heavily annotated throughout. 4to. Early calf, rubbed, spine chipped. Paris (Denys Mariette) 1696. Second edition, the first… Read more about this item

2 pp. introductory text by G. B. Milani, 66 fine plates showing beautiful architectural renderings and ground plans of expansive and occasionally opulent palazzi of refinement and elegance, most with observation towers, some with terraces and other outdoor spaces, a few incorporating some Art Nouveau details. Small folio. Original decorative boards portfolio, a bit soiled, spine split at joints.… Read more about this item