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New York: Appleton & Company, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth front cover lettered in gilt. Very good. Oblong folio,. Unpaginated. 34 x 48.5 cm. Preface leaf, contents leaf and 31 photolithographic plates, lightly tinted, apparently by stencil, framed and titled in gold and 20 lithograph floor plans. This is the first major work executed with photolithogrpahic… Read more about this item

Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1836. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards. Near fine. 208 pages. 27 x 22 cm, 100 copperplate engravings. Glossary of Architectural Terms. Glossary of Technical Terms. Rules of Work, Originally Adopted by the Carpenters of the Town of Boston, in 1774, and first published 1830. HITCHCOCK 1145 (Second edition enlarged).… Read more about this item

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1837. Hardcover. Three quarter dark green cloth and brown morocco rebacked. Near fine. 74 pages & Alphabetical Index & Chronological Index, Folio, 50 x 33 cm. Etched frontispiece by and after Carter, and 106 etched plates. Originally issued in 27 parts, 'this is Carter's most important book... It was probably the first [work] to… Read more about this item

New York: Cooperative Building Plan Association, Architects, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated taupe cloth lettered in red, beveled edges. Very good. 3 pages in text. Folio, 35 x 28 cm. 700 illustrations, each plan is priced and accompanied with letterpress details. Our copy is No. 9640, attesting that the purchaser can request a loan from the publisher… Read more about this item

New York: Bicknell & Comstock, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's burnt sienna cloth, front cover gilt lettered. Unpaginated. Small folio, 23.5 x 10 3/4 inches. May sound dramatic, but an almost as new copy, entire contents clean and fresh as are the covers. Plates printed recto only. Corner arabesques.

London: James Hagger, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter black calf and black cloth. Very good. (vi), viii, 266 pages. 11.2 x 9 inches. 146 wood engraved plates with 35 printed in colors. Essentially a practical guide to the trade of the period with suggestions for improving the work of masonry, foundations, domes, bridges, windows. Also provides designs… Read more about this item

London and New York: George Virtue, 1850. First and Second Series. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth, front covers decorated in gilt seals, backstrips also in gilt motifs. Very good. 2 Vols. 351, 362 pages. 11.5 x 7 inches. First Series with more than 200 engravings and Second Series illustrated with 27 engravings on steel by W.H. Bartlett, and numerous… Read more about this item

Boston: Geo. H. Polley, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown cloth and lettered blue boards. Very good. Unpaginated. Folio, 13.5 x 11 inches. 60 plates printed recto only. Series of measured drawings and sketches of American colonial styles and designs. HITCHCOCK 1417. Interior clean, wear to corners and rubbing to backstrip extremities.

Venetia: Appresso Marc Antonio Brogiollo, 1642. leather_bound. Orig. limp vellum, spine lettered in brown. Very good in fine custom slipcase. quarter vellum spine and marbled boards. Folio, 33 x 22 cm. a2, B-G4, H-I4, AA-KK4, AAA6, BBB-EEE4, 4A-4R4, including title and final blank. Illustrated title page, some margin stains and browning. Initial decorated letters throughout. Not in FOWLER.… Read more about this item

London: Printed For the Author by William Ballintine, 1806. Hardcover. Modern quarter dark green morocco and marbled boards. Fine. (viii) 316 pages. 21 x 13 cm. Stamp on title and dedication. Architect and Surveyor to Dulwich College; took over supervision of the construction of Dulwich Picture Gallery from Sir John Soane in 1813. Interior generally clean, raised bands,… Read more about this item

Boston: Hilliard & Metcalf, 1812. First American edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Very good. (xii) (18) 434 pages. 22 x 13 cm. The author's aesthetics played an important part in the development of romantic classicism in American architecture. His essays were popular and came to be considered a textbook for artists and the highly… Read more about this item

London: Published by the author, 1831. First edition. Hardcover. Modern quarter black cloth and beige boards, backstrip lettered in gilt. Near fine. Unpaginated. 31 x 23 cm. With thirty plates drawn on stone and an Index for latter. Designs adapted to environs of the metropolis and large towns consistent with economy of constructioin. Interior contents very clean and… Read more about this item

Hartford: Case, Tiffany And Burnham, 1847. leather_bound. Contemporary calf over boards. Two Vols. in one. Very good. Folio, 40.5 x 30 cm, 96 pages in text. Thirty-eight wood engravings and fifty lithographed plates, some are double-paged. This edition contains the only published architecture designs of Henry Austin [five plates]. The frontispiece shows a view of the Wadsworth Athenaeum… Read more about this item

London: William Mackenzie, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Gilt decorated brown cloth. Aeg. Near fine. 7 Vols. 27.5 x 22,5 cm. 240 color lithographed plates, and with the seventh volume:Fac-Simile of Autographs of Subscribers, published by A. Clarke: London, 1880. This elaborately decorated book depicts the country seats, homes and estates of various British nobles and gentlemen, as well… Read more about this item

London: J.Taylor, 1811. Second edition. Hardcover. Modern half brown morocco, marbled boards. Fine. xxiv, (2) 238 pages. 24.5 x 15 cm. Appendix, two publisher adverts at rear. The first try in English to review the progress of French and European studies of Medieval Architecture. Contents include some of the notable structures -- Notre Dame and other cathedrals. Brilliant… Read more about this item

London: Longman's Green, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 131 pages. 34 x 24 cm, fifty full-page colored plates. Scarce and very collectable work by the doyen of English landscape architecture. Gertrude Jekyll concentrated her design work on applying plants in a variety of settings, woodland gardens,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Franklin Printing Company, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter taupe cloth and beige boards Very good. Unpaginated. Folio, 41 x 31 cm. Foreword by George Gibbs. Copy 542 presented to Mr. & Mrs. J. Howard Rew. 16 pages of adverts connected to the building trades follow the designs of Wallace & Warner. Their work for the gentry along… Read more about this item

New York: C.M. Saxton And Company, 1857. Fifth Edition enlarged. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth decorated in blind. Very good   . 532 pages (2). 24 x 15.5 cm. Enlarged and newly illustrated,eighteen sixteen plates including frontispiece with copious illustrations in the text. Originally published 1841. HITCHCOCK 364. KARPEL B528. "This is the first book devoted entirely to landscape gardening and… Read more about this item

London: R. Blamire, 1791. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary brown tree calf, marbled endpapers, raised bands spines richly gilt in floral arabesques. Near fine. Three vols. in two. 22 x 14.5. [*4, A-Y8, **2] & [*1, B-U8, X4, b8, c2]. Double page map and 31 tinted aquatints or soft ground etchings. The plates for this work were divided between… Read more about this item

Boston: Published by The Proprietors, 1832. Third edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter brown calf and boards, marbled endpapers. Very good. 119 pages. 27.5 x 22.5. Sixty-four copper engraved plates. Glossary of Architecture Terms. This was unquestionably his most popular work. It went through at least seventeen issues before 1860. HITCHCOCK 119. "The word 'containing' is omitted from the… Read more about this item