Comparative Urban Design : Rare Engravings, 1830-1843
by Branch, M.C
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- The architect Peter Eisenman's copy with a non-authorial inscription to him on front free endpaper from one of his partners,
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About This Item
Arno Press Inc., New York, first edition, 1978. Two-tone cloth, cover illustration and gilt cover-title, large oblong 4to, 33 x 37 cm,. 102, [2] pp, colour ills. A facsinating study of 40 city map-plans, which are reproduced with facing commentaries. The cities covered (arranged by country) are: AUSTRIA - Vienna; BELGIUM - Antwerp, Brüssels; DENMARK - Copenhagen ; ENGLAND - Birmingham, Liverpool, London; FRANCE - Bordeaux, Marseille, Paris, Toulon; GERMANY - Berlin, Dresden, Frankfort, Hamburg, Munich; INDIA - Calcutta; IRELAND - Dublin; ITALY - Florence, Genoa, Milan, Naples, Parma, Rome, Turin, Venice; NETHERLANDS - Amsterdam; POLAND - Warsaw . .; PORTUGAL - Lisbon, Oporto; RUSSIA - Moscow, St. Petersburg; Scotland - Edinburgh; SPAIN - Madrid; SWEDEN -Stockholm; SWITZERLAND - Geneva ; TURKEY - Constantinople; UNITED STATES - Boston, New York, Philadelphia. The architect Peter Eisenman's copy with a non-authorial inscription to him on front free endpaper from one of his partners, minor marks to covers, slight wear to foot of rear board, otherwise Very Good.
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- Wykeham Books
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- Title
- Comparative Urban Design : Rare Engravings, 1830-1843
- Author
- Branch, M.C
- Format/Binding
- Two-tone cloth, cover illustration and gilt cover-title, large oblong 4to, 33 x 37 cm,
- Book Condition
- Used - The architect Peter Eisenman's copy with a non-authorial inscription to him on front free endpaper from one of his partners,
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Arno Press Inc., New York, first edition, 1978
- Date Published
- 1978
- Pages
- 102, [2] pp, colour ills
- Keywords
- Branch, Melville Campbell; Clarke, W. B.; Bradley, T.; Davies, Benjamin Rees; Henshall, J. active; Nicholson, T. E.; Shury, James; Starling, Thomas; Turrell, Edmund; Branch, Melville Campbell; J; Walker, C.; Arno, Press; Society for the Diffusion of Usefu
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- Architecture Books;
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