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Ackermann, Rudolf.

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... Read More about A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings

Price: $6,000

(Architectural sketchbook).

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. Read More about A sketchbook of 30 detailled pencil drawings, primarily showing details of column ornamentation,...

Price: $350

(Architecture) Bullet, [Pierre].

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... Read More about Traité du Nivellement, contenant la Théorie et la Pratique de cet Art. Avec la Description d'un...

Price: $2,250

(Architecture) Cousins, Frank. and Phil M. Riley.

The Colonial Architecture of Salem.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1919. Number 1129 of 1200 copies. Read More about The Colonial Architecture of Salem

Price: $150

(Architecture) Desgodets, M.

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. Read More about Les Loix des Bâtiments, suivant la Coutume de Paris, Traitant de ce qui concerne les Servitudes...

Price: $750

(Architecture) Kimball, Fiske & George Harold Edgell.

A History of Architecture.

New York: Harper & Brothers, [1918]. Harper's Fine Art Series. Read More about A History of Architecture

Price: $150

(Architecture) Petrie, George.

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. Read More about The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, Anterior to the Anglo-Norman Invasion; Comprising an...

Price: $400

(Architecture) Scott, Chas. E.

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... Read More about Autograph letter, signed. One page to Edward Biddle, Esq. " I have read with much delight...

Price: $75

(Architecture) [Vitruvius, Pollio; Julius FRONTINUS].

[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. Read More about Vitrvvivs itervm et Frontinvs à Iocvndo revisi repvrgatiqve qvantvm ex collatione licvit]....

Price: $750

(Architecture).

The American Home. Ellen D. Wangner, Editor.

Garden City, New York: Published by Doubleday, Doran & Compan, Inc, 1928-1950. Continuing the Garden & Home Builder. Read More about The American Home. Ellen D. Wangner, Editor

Price: $750

(Architecture).

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. Read More about Architectural rendering in watercolors of a wing of a Victorian gabled brick building, surrounded...

Price: $750

(Architecture).

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. Read More about Choix de Plans de Grandes Compositions Exécutées Présentant avec leur Jardins ou leur...

Price: $400

(Architecture).

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]. Read More about Le Concours du Grand Prix de Rome en 1905, (1906, 1907) à l'Ecole Nationale & Spéciale des...

Price: $500

(Architecture).

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. Read More about The Library of Architectural Documents. Vol. II: D’Espouy. One Hundred Selected Plates from...

Price: $175

Arms, Dorothy Noyes.

Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. First edition. Read More about Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy

Price: $150

Avril, Paul.

L'Ameublement Parisien avant, pendant et après La Révolution.

Paris: Alexis Sinjon, 1929. First edition. Read More about L'Ameublement Parisien avant, pendant et après La Révolution

Price: $275

Bajot, Ed.

Recueil de Documents de Styles...tirés des Principaux Musées, Palais, Châteaux, Grandes Collections, etc.

Paris: Charles Schmid, [n.d.]. Read More about Recueil de Documents de Styles...tirés des Principaux Musées, Palais, Châteaux, Grandes...

Price: $450

Beveridge, Thomas J.

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. Read More about English Renaissance Woodwork 1660-1730. A Selection of the Finest Examples of Monumental and...

Price: $200

Brackett, Oliver.

English Furniture Illustrated. Revised and edited by H. Clifford Smith, F.S.A.

London: Spring Books, (c. 1950). Second edition. Read More about English Furniture Illustrated. Revised and edited by H. Clifford Smith, F.S.A

Price: $60

Brettingham, Matthew.

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... Read More about The Plans, Elevations and Sections, of Holkham in Norfolk, the Seat of the Late Earl of Leicester

Price: $3,500

(Bridges) Watson, Wilbur J.

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. Read More about Bridge Architecture: Containing Two Hundred Illustrations of the Notable Bridges of the World,...

Price: $200

(Bristol) Dening, C.F.W.

The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Bristol.

Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, [1923]. First edition. Read More about The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Bristol

Price: $175

Brown, Richard.

Rudiments of Drawing Cabinets and Upholstery Furniture .. Illustrated by appropriate diagrams.

London: Printed and sold by the author, 1820. First edition. Read More about Rudiments of Drawing Cabinets and Upholstery Furniture .. Illustrated by appropriate diagrams

Price: $1,750

Buchotte.

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. Read More about Les Regles du Dessein et du Lavis, pour les Plan Particuliers des Ouvrages & des Bâtimens,...

Price: $1,000

Cantor, Eddie.

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..... Read More about Autograph Note Signed to photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, New York, 1938 [with, on verso:]...

Price: $300