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A Civic Survey and Plan for the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1949.
115 pgs.54 plates. and many tables and diagrams. Also 25 folding colour maps (3 in pocket at end). Decorative Cloth. Vg with slightly worn dw but which has protected the cloth. Beautifully produced survey and plan for Edinburgh. Previous owner's name on front end paper.
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A concise history and analysis of all the principal styles of architecture :
namely, Egyptian, Grecian, Roman, that of the dark ages, of the Arabians and of the Normans; including a detailed description of the origin, progress and decline of the Gothic. To which is added, a sketch of the architecture of England, down to the present time. / By an amateur.
London Horatio Phillips [1829]
xx, [3]-212pp and 8 plates. 8vo. Edges uncut. Original boards, rebacked & with new spine label. Ex libri Roger Quick with note in pencil about the publication.
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A Concrete Atlantis: U.S. Industrial Building and European Modern Architecture 1900-1925
Cambridge, Mass MIT Press 1986
266pp illustrated. 4to. First edition of this book by author of Theory and Design in the First Machine Age. On the relationship between U S industrial buildings and European design. Very good in good dust wrapper.
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A Description of Fonthill Abbey Wiltshire illustrated by views drawn and engraved by J. Storer
Stock ID: 22299More details Price: £750.00
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Monuments & Tombstones in the Church of St. Nicholas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
London: Hamilton Adams and Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: M & M W Lambert, 1880
[vi], 160pp, xiii[i]pp index and 'corrections and alterations.', 32 steel-engraved plates with tissue-guards, head and tailpieces, decorated capitals. 4to. Original red Morocco binding with gilt decorations and raised bands on the spine. Worn at head and base of spine else a very attractive copy.
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A Guide to Farleigh Hungerford, Co. Somerset
Illustrated with ground plans and plates of arms, and an appendix of ancient manorial and ecclesiastical deeds by the Rev. J.E. Jackson
Stock ID: 22664More details Price: £220.00
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A History of Ford Abbey Dorsetshire
London Hamilton Adams and Co 1846
Frontis, iv+96pp. Small 8vo. Blind stamped red cloth with gilt monogram on upper board. Rebacked. Forde Abbey is a privately-owned former Cistercian monastery and Grade I listed building. Forde Abbey was bought by Edmund Prideaux, MP for Lyme Regis and Oliver Cromwell's Attorney General. Before his death in 1659 Prideaux converted the buildings from a monastic residence to a private home. It has 18th century gardens and a landscape park. This early guidebook describes the early history of the estate from the establishment of it as a monastic foundation to its conversion into a country house. Hard to find.
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A HISTORY OF THE VYNE in Hampshire. being a short account of the building & antiquities of that house situate in the parish parish of Sherborne St. John Co Hants & of persons who have at some time lived there.
Winchester & London., Jacob & Johnson & Simpkin, Marshall & Co. , 1888
x, 173pp. 13 black & white plates including frontispiece, plus numerous black & white illustrations within the text. Half vellum over grey boards. Quarto. First edition. t.e.g. Vellum sl. grubby and titling on spine a little worn, but a very good copy of this late 19th century history of the house. Upper board bumped along top edge. Internally, some discolouration on f.e.p else very clean and bright. Bookplate of Josceline Grove along with descriptions of the books from previous owners pasted down on front end papers. Name of C. L. Chute (Sir Charles Lennard Chute MC 1879 - 1956) inscribed in pen on front paste down.
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A Practical Treatise on Chimneys with a few remarks
on stoves, the consumption of smoke and coal ventilation etc.,
London, John Weale and the author. 1852
xii + 153 + (1) + 9 + (1)pp. Publisher's cloth, rebacked. Rebacked sympathetically. Eckstein was an ironmonger from Lloyd Square, Pentonville, who specialised in stoves and cooking ranges and inevitably with all the associated problems of smoking chimneys and inadequate ventilation he worked to establish solutions to smoking chimneys. This short book is largely devoted to the correct design of flues, so crucial for the effective working of the fire beneath. Hard to find.
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A Series of Monumental Brasses from the 13th to the 16th Century drawn and engraved by 1864
Reprinted 1975 with corrections and additions by J A Goodall F.S.A. London. Phillips & Page 1975
Limited edition
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A Summer's Day at Windsor and Visit to Eton
London, John Murray 1841
iv + 151pp + 4pp list of popular works published by Mr. Murray. c.25 b/w illustrations including 14 engraved plates and folding frontispiece (plan of Windsor Castle). 12mo. Decorative cloth with striking gilt motif on front board. Spine slightly sunned and some small marks on upper and verso boards. Small amount of foxing on a number of the plates, else a good copy.
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A Treatise on Civil Architecture:
with illustrations, notes and an examination of Grecian Architecture by Joseph Gwilt
London Priestley and Weale 1825
Fourth edition in two volumes. Volume 1 [2] iv [1] viii - li 254pp . Volume 2 [4] + 255-514pp. Engraved frontis, 65 plates. The third edition of this book had been published and reached a significant value in terms of reputation just before Chambers died and by the 1820s there was a pressure to reprint. This fourth edition is useful in that Gwilt included for the first time notes on the earlier editions and a biographical memoir of Chambers by the author Thomas Hardwick. A very nice set rebacked preserving the original spine labels. BAL 601
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A W N Pugin Master of the Gothic Revival
London Yale with BGC 1995
415pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Large 4to. Very good indeed with good dust wrapper. Contributions by Megan Aldrich, Clive Wainwright, Andrew Saint, David Meara, Rosemary Hill and others. Important and scholarly collection of essays which assess Pugin's career.
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Aalto Architecture and Furniture
New York Museum of Modern Art 1938
48pp. 8vo. 25 photos and plans of buildings and interiors and 10 photos (6 full page) of furniture Blue textured paper boards with title block screened in white on front cover and spine. Spine and upper edges of boards are age toned else very good. Limited to 3000 copies. The exhibition was the first American survey of the work of the Finnish architect, who was recognised as one of the most important andoriginal modern architects and furniture designers of the preceding decade. Front paste down has bookplate from the RIBA's Ashpitel Prize, 1938 which was awarded to George Gaze Pace.
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Academy Architecture and Annual Architectural Review
[from 1896, Academy Architecture and Architectural Review].
Stock ID: 22608More details Price: £1,350.00
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Addition [Folio IX]
London Architectural Association 1986
28pp booklet + 20 silkscreen prints which assembled form a print 1525x1120mm. Large square 4to in presentation black box with white title on front. Vg. Published to coincide with an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Andrew Holmes. Published as as edition of one thousand numbered 1/1000 this being number 146. Holmes has used this Folio to continue his explorations by creating twenty silkscreen fragments which when put together create dramatic 4 x 5 foot detail of Richard Rogers' hi-tech Inmos building.
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Air-Raid Protection
London Cement and Concrete Association c1935
2nd edition. 28pp pamphlet. Stapled. A little worn on edges else good. The Association's mission was to improve and extend the uses of concrete. Illustrations and text exploring detailed designs to reduce impact of direct and indirect attacks. Information drawn widely from European publications on the subject.
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Airports and Airways 1937
Catalogue to the Exhibition Arranged by the Royal Institute of British Architects
London Royal Institute of British Architects 1937
99pp + lxi advertisements. B/W plates. 4to. illustrated wrapper which is faded on the spine and the first 5cm of the left side of the upper cover. Very good otherwise. An in-depth and technical account of the subject. Consists of three main sections: Progress in the air, Airports and Aerial Photography. From the library of George G. Pace.
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Alfred Waterhouse 1830-1905
London: RIBA Heinz Gallery 1983
64pp with b/w and colour illustrations throughout. Small square 4to. Decorated wrappers, very good indeed. Useful and well-illustrated catalogue on Waterhouse's architecture.
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American apartment houses, hotels and apartment hotels of today:
illustrating plans, details, exteriors and interiors of modern city aand suburban apartment houses throughout the United States
New York Architectural Book Publishing Company, inc nd 1929
v, [1], 332 p. incl. front., illus., plans. Blue lettered cloth. 4to. Head of spine and conners a little worn else good copy. Includes list of contributing architects. Introductory section on the evolution of the American apartment house and then many detailed examples with plans of individual projects.
Stock ID: 20612More details Price: £320.00