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A collection of four deeds and legal documents connected with the Paddington Estate, London.
Book ID: 3011More details Price: £60.00 -
A Series of Views Illustrative of Pugin's Examples of Gothic Architecture: Sketched from nature and drawn on stone by Joseph Nash, pupil to Augustus Pugin. With letter-press descriptions by W.H. Leeds.
London: A. Pugin at his office, 1830. First Edition. Original buckram boards with leather spine and gilt titles. A touch of rubbing to the boards and the spine edges, but still an attractive copy. Slight fading to the edges of the boards.
Engraved title, title and a further 21 plates (so 22 plates including title), plus 20 pages of Leed's text. Some foxing /darkening to the plates. [iv], 20, [22] pp. 350 x 265 mm (13¾ x 10½ inches).Book ID: 2826More details Price: £400.00 -
Atlas van LXIII platen behoorende bij de handleiding tot de kennis der Burgerlijke en Militaire Bouwkunst. Bouwkundige Leercursus, ten gebruike der Koninklijke Mlitaire Akademie. 3de herziene druk.
Breda: Broese & Comp, 1863. Hardback marbled boards with buckram spine. [2] + 13 text pp. 63 double page lithographed plates - with more than 852 illustrations by Franciscus Josephus Ensinck (1806 - 1883). This is the plate volume only, showing military and civil architecture. Library stamp of Koninklijk Instituut Van Ingenieurs (KIVI) to title page, and location label to spine. Overall in very good condition. Heavy book. Small folio: 390 x 270 mm (15¼ x10¾ inches).
Book ID: 3848More details Price: £260.00 -
Cours d 'architecture qui comprend les ordres de Vignole avec des commentaires, les figures et descriptions de ses plus beaux batimens, et de ceux de Michel-Ange, plusieurs nouveaux desseins, ornemens et preceptes, contenant la distribution, la decoration, la matiere et la construction des edifices, la maconnerie, la charpenterie... l'art de batir avec une ample explication
Book ID: 1799More details Price: £690.00 -
Cours Rationnel de Dessin à l'usage des Écoles Elementaires.
Book ID: 3142More details Price: £80.00 -
English Decoration and Furniture of the Later XVIIIth Century (1760-1820) An account of its development and characteristic forms
Edition: First Edition
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd: 1922. This is Volume IV of The Library of Decorative Art, but is complete in itself. Gift inscription by Harry Batsford (Chairman of B.T. Batsford) to A. E. Doyle, a member of staff at Batsfords. Original burgundy cloth with gilt titles. 269 pages. 360 by 280mm (14¼ by 11 inches).
Condition: The binding is sound, but slightly loose, with the result that one of the gathers has become detached (but still present). Burgundy boards have a little rubbing and discolouration, mainly to the rear board, but mainly sound. Internally clean throughout. Inscription by Batsford and one other.
Book ID: 2014More details Price: £65.00 -
English Leadwork: Its Art And History.
London: B.T. Batsford, 1909. First Edition. Hardback. Good ex-library copy in bright red cloth with gilt titles to spine. There are 441 b/w illustrations. Expected library stamps inside. Small repair to edge of half title. Two pages reinforced at rear. Good condition. 268 pages. 295 x 225 mm (11½ x 8¾ inches).
Book ID: 3457More details Price: £30.00 -
L'Urbanisme est une clef.
Book ID: 3211More details Price: £60.00 -
Le Nouvel Opera ouvrage contenant 59 gravures sur bois et 4 plans.
Book ID: 3846More details Price: £400.00 -
Lincoln Cathedral, nine plates from Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches, plus manuscript (in Dutch)
1838. First edition. Pages 1 - 24 on Lincoln (from Volume II of Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches) with coloured frontis plus nine b/w plates depicting Lincoln Cathedral from the same, bound together with 58 pages of handwritten Dutch manuscript about the cathedral. With red leather spine, and gilt titles to same. Marbled brown boards. Blue endpapers. Plates have the original protective tissue. Spine has some wear but is good, scuffing / rubbing to boards. 270 x 190 mm (10¾ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 2289More details Price: £75.00 -
Milton Abbey Dorsetshire - Architectural Report and photographs.
Book ID: 3090More details Price: £80.00 -
Modulor 2. 1955. La parole est aux usagers, suite de Le Modulor 1948.
Boulogne: Éditions de l'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, 1959. Limited to 3000 copies. Softcover in original colour illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket in very good condition, under glassine. Inside, pages are age toned but very good condition. Complete with b/w illustrations and photographs. 341 pages. 145 x 145 mm (5¾ x 5¾ inches). Limité à 3000 exemplaires. Couverture souple en jaquette originale illustrée en couleur. Jaquette en très bon état, sous glassine. A l'intérieur, les pages sont vieillies mais en très bon état. Complet avec illustrations et photographies n/b. 341 pages. 145 x 145 mm
Book ID: 3924More details Price: £75.00 -
Paris and its Environs, displayed in a series of two hundred picturesque views. From Original Drawings taken under the direction of A. Pugin, esq. The engravings executed under the superintendence of Mr. C. Heath. With Topographical and Historical descriptions in two volumes.
Book ID: 1914More details Price: £300.00 -
'Perspective'. Portfolio de manuscrits architecturaux français.
Book ID: 3298More details Price: £300.00 -
Serrurerie du Moyen-Age. Les Ferrures de Portes. Avec dessins par Henri Gerente et G. Bouet.
Book ID: 3209More details Price: £175.00 -
The Welsh House. Being volume XLVII of Y Cymmrodor, The Journal of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion
London: The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1940. This work describes the various types of traditional houses and is profusely illustrated with Frontis and other b/w illustrations throughout; including plans and sketches - many folding. Very clean and tidy throughout. Lightly soiled dust wrapper that is slightly darkened to the spine. 230 x 150 mm (9 x 6 inches).
Iorwerth C. Peate was The Keeper of the Department of Folk Cultures and Industries, in The National Museum of Wales. From the library of the Welsh Nationalist John Legonna (1918-1978), author of the book Celtic Odyssey. Has his bookplate to front endpaper. 232 pp.
Book ID: 2230More details Price: £50.00 -
Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro.
Book ID: 2311More details Price: £200.00 -
TimeZone Book and building Kraanspoor
Rimburg: Huis Clos, 2014. First edition. Clean slate grey boards, Japanese style binding. Excellent condition inside and out. The Kraanspoor building at the IJ, Amsterdam, designed by Trude Hooykaas / OTH was photographed by Van Diemen for two years. Her photography and the poetic-philosophical text of Tim Abeling were assembled in the book TimeZone. The book explores the architecture and surroundings of the iconic building in a fugue-like compositional technique. 128 pages. 230 by 205mm (9 by 8 inches).
Book ID: 3247More details Price: £20.00 -
Wallonie. 18 lithograhies originales de Laure Malcles-Masereel.
Book ID: 2563More details Price: £200.00 -
Westminster Abbey. A Guide to the Buildings and the Monuments. With a Plan and an Explanation of English Gothic Architecture.
London: Chatto & Windus: 1955. Original red paper covers with white titles. Third Impression. Frontis plan of the Abbey over two pages. 8 photographs and three further line drawings. A lovely copy of this book. The red covers are clean and tidy with just a touch of handling to them. Internally clean and tidy throughout. 116 pp.
Book ID: 1342More details Price: £12.00