Neue Garten-Lust: das ist Gründliche Vorstellung wie ein...
[Leipzig]: Moriss Georg Weidmann, 1690. First edition. First edition of the most important late seventeenth century German work... Read More
Price: $12,500
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Fine Early Copy of Ackermann's Oxford
A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings.
London: Rudolf Ackermann, 1814. First edition. Fine Early Copy of Ackermann's Oxford. An early copy. The list of plates in vol. I is the first state (it does not list the portraits of Founders; this copy does not include the Founders). Plate 1, vol.1, is mislabeled “History of Cambridge” and...
Price: $6,000
A sketchbook of 30 detailled pencil drawings, primarily showing details of column ornamentation, apparently from museum specimens.
Germany: 1858. With the pencilled notation in upper corner of initial blanks of “Fr. Kimpler, Berlin 11 [ ] '58.” A card formerly associated with the piece had the name of “Trina N. Hempler” on it.
Price: $350
Surveyer's Handbook
Traité du Nivellement, contenant la Théorie et la Pratique de cet Art. Avec la Description d'un nivellement nouvellement inventé...
Paris: Nicolas Langlois, 1688. First edition. Surveyer's Handbook. Bullet (1639-1716), "Architecte du Roy," was the author of the often reprinted L'ARCHITECTURE PRATIQUE (1691), which became a standard (v. Fowler, pp. 69-70) for the next 100 years. Bullet's Traité is similarly written in a spirit of pure practicality, treating that branch...
Price: $2,250
The Colonial Architecture of Salem.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1919. Number 1129 of 1200 copies.
Price: $150
Building Code, Paris 1748
Les Loix des Bâtiments, suivant la Coutume de Paris, Traitant de ce qui concerne les Servitudes réelles, les Rapports des...
N.p. [Paris?]: 1748. Building Code, Paris 1748.
Price: $750
A History of Architecture.
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1918]. Harper's Fine Art Series.
Price: $150
The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, Anterior to the Anglo-Norman Invasion; Comprising an Essay on the Origin and Uses of the...
Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1845. Second edition.
Price: $400
Autograph letter, signed. One page to Edward Biddle, Esq. " I have read with much delight your article in this...
Bristol, PA: 1913. Letter from Charles E. Scott, cashier of the Farmers National Bank of Bucks County, concerning an article written by Edward Biddle about the bank's architecture. "The only alteration of the interior was the conversion of the river front parlor into a banking room. A country director several...
Price: $75
![[Vitrvvivs itervm et Frontinvs à Iocvndo revisi repvrgatiqve qvantvm ex collatione licvit]. Collection of Architectural Woodcuts from the first Giunta edition of Vitruvius. Architecture, Pollio Vitruvius, Julius FRONTINUS.](/pictures/thumb/311995.jpg?v=1534808939)
[Vitrvvivs itervm et Frontinvs à Iocvndo revisi repvrgatiqve qvantvm ex collatione licvit]. Collection of Architectural Woodcuts from the first Giunta edition...
[Florence: Giunta, 1513]. First octavo edition. Incomplete copy of an important edition of Vitruvius, with the woodcut illustrations in reduction from the 1511 edition.
Price: $750
The American Home. Ellen D. Wangner, Editor.
Garden City, New York: Published by Doubleday, Doran & Compan, Inc, 1928-1950. Continuing the Garden & Home Builder.
Price: $750
Fine Victorian Architectural Watercolor
Architectural rendering in watercolors of a wing of a Victorian gabled brick building, surrounded by trees, against an open sky.
probably English: Ca. 1870. Fine Victorian Architectural Watercolor. A skillful rendering, most likely professional, of a portion of a building, probably a school or similar institution.
Price: $750
Choix de Plans de Grandes Compositions Exécutées Présentant avec leur Jardins ou leur Entourage une Séries d'Ensembles de l'Antiqiuté de...
Paris: Auguste Vincent, Editeur, 1910. First edition. Here you get the plans for the Acropolis, the Forum, Versailles, etc.
Price: $400
Le Concours du Grand Prix de Rome en 1905, (1906, 1907) à l'Ecole Nationale & Spéciale des Beaux-Arts. Section d'Architecture...
Paris: Auguste Vincent, [1905-1907].
Price: $500
The Library of Architectural Documents. Vol. II: D’Espouy. One Hundred Selected Plates from Fragments D’Architecture Antique. Vol. III: Selected Monuments...
New York: The Pencil Points Press, 1923-1924.
Price: $175
Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. First edition.
Price: $150
L'Ameublement Parisien avant, pendant et après La Révolution.
Paris: Alexis Sinjon, 1929. First edition.
Price: $275
Recueil de Documents de Styles...tirés des Principaux Musées, Palais, Châteaux, Grandes Collections, etc.
Paris: Charles Schmid, [n.d.].
Price: $450
English Renaissance Woodwork 1660-1730. A Selection of the Finest Examples of Monumental and Domestic Woodwork of the Later Renaissance in...
London: Technical Journals, 1921. First edition. Monumental study of one of interior woodwork from one of the finest periods of English domestic architecture.
Price: $200
English Furniture Illustrated. Revised and edited by H. Clifford Smith, F.S.A.
London: Spring Books, (c. 1950). Second edition.
Price: $60
The Plans, Elevations and Sections, of Holkham in Norfolk, the Seat of the Late Earl of Leicester.
London: J. Haberkorn, 1761. First edition. Matthew Brettingham was in charge of the building of Holkham from 1734. Here Brettingham does not mention that the original designs of the building and estate of Holkham were drawn up by William Kent, which contribution was explained in a subsequent edition published by...
Price: $3,500
Bridge Architecture: Containing Two Hundred Illustrations of the Notable Bridges of the World, Ancient and Modern.
New York: William Hellburn Inc, 15 East 55th Street, (1927). First edition, with original prospectus.
Price: $200
The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Bristol.
Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, [1923]. First edition.
Price: $175
Rudiments of Drawing Cabinets and Upholstery Furniture .. Illustrated by appropriate diagrams.
London: Printed and sold by the author, 1820. First edition.
Price: $1,750
Les Regles du Dessein et du Lavis, pour les Plan Particuliers des Ouvrages & des Bâtimens, & pour leur Coupes...
Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1754. Nouvelle edition. Preceded by the very scarce editions of 1721 and 1722, this is a beautiful copy of drawing book on architectural drawing, including techniques of wash drawing, with the unsigned engraved plates showing instruments scales and symbols to be used on drawings, plans, and maps.
Price: $1,000
![Autograph Note Signed to photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, New York, 1938 [with, on verso:] Autogtraph Notes Signed by HOFFMANN, Josef, DeMILLE, Cecil B., and DURBIN, Deanna, 1937-38. Eddie Cantor.](/pictures/thumb/40561.jpg?v=1534804371)
Eddie Cantor, Josef Hoffmann, C.B. DeMille to Alfred Eisenstaedt
Autograph Note Signed to photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, New York, 1938 [with, on verso:] Autogtraph Notes Signed by HOFFMANN, Josef, DeMILLE...
Eddie Cantor, Josef Hoffmann, C.B. DeMille to Alfred Eisenstaedt. Eddie Cantor (1892-1964) began his stage career in 1907, and a half-century later was still going strong on TV's “Colgate Comedy Hour”. He was a Ziegfeld Follies star, a radio headliner with his own shows, and a star of screen and.....
Price: $300