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True Remembrances: the memoirs of an architect
London Country Life 1954
175pp illus. with c50 plates incl. major schemes by Tilden such as his scheme at Port Lympe begun by Herbert Baker, un-built work for Selfridge, Chartwell, Saltwell Castle and other projects. Only major account of his work. Good copy with slightly worn dust wrapper.
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Two autographed letters signed on postcards
and two photographs with annotations
Stock ID: 22261More details Price: £80.00
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Une maison - un palais:
A la Recherche d'une Unité Architecturale
Paris Cres et Cie, 1928
228 pages : illustrations. Red cloth with gilt titles. Very good copy. French text. Part of the Collection de '' l'esprit nouveau.''
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Ventilation
A Textbook to the Practice of the Art of Ventilating Buildings with a Supplementary Chapter Upon Air Testing
London Crosby Lockwood and Son 1902 (1891)
Second Edition. Weale's Scientific & Technical Series No. 271. viii + 226pp (+ 16pp +48pp lists of available publications from Weales & Crosby Lockwood). 170 b/w illustrations. Buff coloured cloth boards with black embossed titling. Previous owner's name and date of ownership on front endpapers in ink. Some browning on half title page else a very good copy of this text.
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Victor Bourgeois
Bruxelles: Eles éditions det ateliers d'art graphique Elsevier SA
Monographies de l'Art Belge.16pp text + 28pp superb b/w photographic images and frontis of the Tour Eternit for the Exposition de Bruxelles 1958. This image repeated as paste down on front board. Small 4to. Protected in glassine wrapper. Fine.
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Victorian Buildings of London 1837-1887: An Illustrated Guide.
London, Architectural Press 1980
175pp illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and engravings. Small 4to boards with illustrated dustwrapper, a very good copy. An early collaborative venture between Gavin Stamp and Colin Amery which identified over one hundred of London's most significant Victorian buildings from St Pancreas Station and Hotel to the Infant Orphan's Asylum in Wanstead. This book provides an explanation in part for the huge collection of London related commentaries of the period that were illustrated with photographic plates and which Gavin Stamp had in his collection.
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Village Housing in the Tropics
with special reference to West Africa
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Vladivostok
A Trilogy
New York Rizzoli International Publications, 1989
272pp illustrated. Decorated wrappers. Small stain on upper wrapper else a very good copy Text in English and Russian. Loosely inserted is an invitation to a memorial to him to be held at The Cooper Union Foundation Building and an associated printed letter sent out to Alumni.
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W. R. Lethaby 1857-1931, Architecture, Design and Education.
Lund Humphries, 1984.
127pp, 90 b/w illus. 4to. A companion volume to the exhibition at the Central School of Art and Design which Lethaby helped to found and became the first principal. The contributors examine his many roles and his influence in Britain and abroad.
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Weil Arets Architect
Rotterdam Uitgeverij 010 1989
59pp illustrated. Square 4to. Wrappers. Good copy. Wiel Arets is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist, industrial designer. This is an early assessment of his highly regarded, often minimalist work. Series of projects are illustrated and described, following the introductory section which includes a short essay by Arets. Text in Dutch and English.
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When the Cathedrals Were White:
A Journey to the Country of Timid People
London Routledge 1947
217pp, small line illustrations throughout by Le Corbusier. 8vo. Cloth. some discolouring to the boards + spine else a good copy. First English edition of the French original published in 1936. Le Corbusier examines the architecture and people of New York. He loves the latter but deems the architecture haphazard. He imagines an improved New York.
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Willem M Dudok
(1954) Published with the aid of the Pincs Bernhard Fund, by G can Saane, "lectura architectonica" Amsterdam 1957
2nd impression. 168pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Quarto. Turquoise cloth with gilt blocked lettering on front board and spine. Slightly dusty dust wrapper. Signed by previous owner on the front end paper in neat hand. Material collected for the book by R M H Magnée. Modern typographic layout. Includes reviews of all the major projects with photo illustrations and line ills. Includes the famous Nassau School at Hilveresum, housing schemes, town hall etc and this garden city project alongside other projects undertaken in the Netherlands. Produced for the 70th birthday of Dudok.
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William Burges and the High Victorian Dream
London John Murray, 1981
454 pages illustrated with b/w plates. Slightly shop soiled but very Good in Fine dust wrapper. First edition of this comprehensive reference book on William Burges.
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William Richard Lethaby
The Architectural Press 1986
320pp illus. with b/w plates and line ills. Major assessment of Lethaby's multi faceted carer as an architect, conservationist and educationalist. Square 4to. Very good in dust wrapper.
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Windows for Coventry
Stock ID: 22722More details Price: £20.00
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Working Drawings & Designs Architecture and Building with essays on various subjects richly illustrated with woodcuts
London A. Fullerton & Co. nd c1880
(8) + 32 + 8 + 20 + 8 + 26 + 12 + 14 + 8 + 24 + 8, 48 numbered folding plates, 6 other folding plates and 1 further lettered a-g. Text pages illustrated with woodcut illustrations comprising plans and diagrams and drawings of details. Large folio. Quarter calf, green cloth, gilt lettered spine and upper board. Rubbed on all corners and along spine. Marbled end paper, reinforced. Superb period reference for building details.
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Zodiac 5 International Magazine of Contemporary Architecture
Milano C Olivetti and Co 1959
214pp illus with b/w photographs + period adverts. Perfect bound. Laminated yellow wrappers with example of fantastic architecture. 4to. 27x21cms . Key articles by Le Corbusier on Frank Lloyd Wright with fold out concertina illustrations. Denmark (contributions by Bruno Alfieri, Enzo Fratelli, Keld Helmer-Petersen and others ) and Fantastic Architecture by Ulrich Conrads and Hans Sperlich. Spine split Small tear in front wrap hinge else good copy. Texts in English, Italian, French.
Stock ID: 22134More details Price: £35.00

