Search Results: ARCHITECTURE from First Folio

New York, 1937. Slight rubbing, else fine. Quarto. 160p. Magazine featuring "26 pages on houses - from Connecticut to California to Texas". Bound in gilt-titled blue cloth.

New York: Scribner's, 1924. First edition. Light soil, VG. First edition. Tall quarto. xviii, 10p. 110 plates. Illustrated from photos. Tan cloth with gilt titles on brown grounds on spine and upper cover.

Barcelon: Ediciones Atrium S.A., 1991. Fine in slipcase. Tall quarto. 255p. Illustrated throughout in color. Bound in color-printed glazed boards.

New York: Reinhold, 1954. First edition. Near fine in lightly soiled d.j.. First edition. xii, 260p. Gilt-titled red and gray cloth.

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969. First edition. About fine. First edition. Quarto. 179p. Printed on coated stock and fully illustrated from photos and drawings. Bound in publisher's gray fabric with titles in black on spine and upper cover.

New York: Wm. Helburn; Berlin: Ch. Claesen, n.d.. First edition of Buhlmann; second edition of the Laureys. As noted, this is a hand gathered work. The Buhlmann is complete in 27 plates; the Laureys is missing one of its 70 plates. Still quite a useful book.. First edition of Buhlmann; second edition of the Laureys. Folio. Both works have been disassembled (probably due to broken bindings, and each plate mounted by hand on a separate sheet and gathered into fasicules and housed in a portfolio. Both works are quite scarce.

New York: Reinhold, 1954. First edition. VG+ in soiled d.j.'s. First edition. Two volumes. xxii, 513p, [xxiv, tables]; xii, 260p. Gilt-titled red and gray cloth.

Barcelona: V. Casellas Moncanut, 1924. Portfolio worn and faded, text on brittle paper, plates generally VG, some with ragged outer edges. Folio. [iv], 8p. 84 plates loose in portfolio as issued (some in color). Portfolio with green cloth spine and printed boards.

Barcelona: V. Casellas Moncanut, 1920. Portfolio worn and faded, text on brittle paper, plates generally VG, some with ragged outer edges. Folio. [iv], 8p. 84 plates loose in portfolio as issued (some in color). Portfolio with green cloth spine and printed boards. MISSING PLATES 25, 65, and 81.

Barcelona: V. Casellas Moncanut, 1920. Portfolio worn and faded, text on brittle paper, plates generally VG, some with ragged outer edges. Folio. [iv], 8p. 84 plates loose in portfolio as issued (some in color). Portfolio with green cloth spine and printed boards.

London: Ernest Benn, 1932. First edition. Minor wear and fading, VG, contents fine. First edition. Folio. [viii], 45p. + 40 pages of plates from photos, text illustrated with line drawings. Gilt-titled blue over brown cloth.

New York: American Institute of Architects, 1925. First edition. Minor spotting to tan cloth, dust jacket with chips to spine crown and some soiling, quite presentable. First edition. 50p. with 5 inserted color plates, and 273 plates in b&w. Folio. Gilt-titled tan over blue cloth, illustrated endpapers. Provenance: Bookplate of George A. Beltemacchi, Associate Architect, University of Chicago 1914-1991. Increasingly difficult to find in good condition.

Detroit: Omingraphics, 1996. Reprint of the 1954 edition. Fine, review copy with review label pasted to front endpaper. Reprint of the 1954 edition. 821p. Red glazed boards with title and designs in black and white. A reprint of "Colvin's 9154 dictionary which covered about 1000 architects of the 1660-1840 period." (Sheehy BE294).

London: John Murray, 1954. First edition. Fine in VG+ d.j.. First edition. xiv, 821p. Gilt-titled maroon cloth.

London: Elliot Stock, 1909. First edition. Text pages age-tones, plates fine, covers about VG. First edition. Quarto. 32p. Illustrated with 16 plates from photos (not figured in the pagination). Blue cloth spine over blue printed boards.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1923. About fine in fabriciod portfoloio. [viii], 104p. Illustrated from photos of exteriors, interiors, furniture, and drawings of floor plans. Tall, thin 4to. Green cloth spine with green paper boards with color plate mounted on upper cover.

New York: The Century Company, 1906. First edition. Fine. First edition. Quarto. xviii, 363p. Illustrated from photos and color plates by Jules Guerin. Bound by Erbe, Crombie & Lamothe in half dusty blue crushed morocco with cloth sides and marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and panel ornaments of fleur-de-lis.

New York: Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1923. First edition. Slight wear to spine extremes, VG+ in soiled and chipped d.j.. First edition. xx, 102 plates from photos and drawings, 1p ad. Folio. Gilt-titled blue cloth. Illustrated from photos and drawings.

New York: Doubleday, Page, 1908. First edition (but with Putnam's imprint on spine). VG. First edition (but with Putnam's imprint on spine). vii, 459p. Illustrated from photos. Folio. Gilt-titled green cloth. A lovely book divided into four sections: Italian Villas, French Chateaux, English Places, and American Places.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1921. Exceptionally nice copies in dust jackets. Books with just trifling rubbing to edges, front panel of Vol. II dust jacket toned. Slipcase perished.. Two volumes. xviii, 260p; ix, 238p. Illustrated. Small 4to. Green cloth with architectural ornaments in gilt on the upper covers, t.e.g. Burnham (1846-1912) was a major Chicago architect and planner - and the chief architect for the World's Columbian Exposition, as well as many iconic buildings. "Mr. Burnham was the Director of Works at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, where he formed friendships with Theodore Thomas, Charles F. McKim, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Frank Millet, which continued through their lives. In 1901 he was associated with McKim, Saint-Gaudens, and Frederick Law Olmsted in preparing the new plans for Washington, which are now being carried out. Then came plans for West Point, Cleveland, San Francisco, Manila, Baguio, and Chicago. He was deeply interested in the American Academy in Rome… Read More