Historic Preservation
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The Landmark Handbook: Sixteenth Edition 1997/98
by Barrett, Constance (Editor)
Maidenhead: The Landmark Trust, 1996. Sixteenth Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. The Landmark Trust is a British charity which preserves old and interesting buildings by renting them out to holidaymakers, using the money gained for restoration work. Since its foundation in 1965 the Trust has saved over 200 buildings of historic or architectural importance from decay or unsympathetic alteration. Here, then, is a catalogue of these properties as extant in 1997/98. Each entry is accompanied by...
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NZ$11.71
World Heritage Cities of Spain
by Duran, Juan Antonio Fernandez
Madrid: Ediciones Alymar, 2000. Cloth, 195 pages, colour illustrations, colour maps; 31 cm. English-Language Edition. Photographs, Covadonga de Noriega, Agustin Martinez; editor, Alfonso Martinez. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Eight Spanish cities of Spain have been designated World Heritage sites by UNESCO: Avila, Caceres,...
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NZ$101.28
Catalogo Nacional de Monumentos Historicos Inmuebles: Delegacion de Tlalpan
by Espinosa Martinez, Marcela Sonia
Mexico City; Mexico D. F.: Delegacion Politica del Distrito Federal en Tlalpan; Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, 1988. 185 pages, illustrations, maps, plans; 21 x 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. An illustrated catalogue of historic buildings in Tlalpan, Mexico.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.
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NZ$67.24
Preservation of New Technology
by Michael Lesk
Commission on Preservation, 1992-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Very Good. Name on cover. Text block clean and unmarked. Tight binding.
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NZ$42.20
South Dakota's Original 1880 Town
by Nemec, Sonia and Jan Cerney
South Dakota: Published by the author, 2011. Paperback. Good +. Oversize trade paperback. Self-published by the authors, no indication of printing. A good+ to very good copy with minor edge-wear and some scuffing to the pictoral covers. Creasing at the bottom front corner of the cover and title page is the book's main flaw. Interior is clean and unmarked, and tight as if unread. 120 pp., filled with black and white, as well as color, photographs. This is the story of constructed town where...
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NZ$42.56
Dark Water: Art, Disaster, and Redemption in Florence
by Clark, Robert
New York: Anchor Books; Random House, 2009. 354 pages, illustrations, map; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. First paperback edition. An account of the November 4, 1966, flood in Florence, Italy, that threatened to destroy centuries of art.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.
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NZ$16.17
Old English Villages
by Perry, Clay; Gore, Ann and Fleming, Laurence
A beautiful collection of photographs, with accompanying text, which illustrates some of the finest examples of the 'old English village'. Provides a visual time capsule of an architectural style, and way of life, that all too often gets swallowed up and forgotten in this modern world. One to browse beside a roaring fire on a winter's day, with a small glass of something in hand, possibly.
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NZ$11.71
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge: 2 Volumes & Maps, complete
by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1959. Study of notable buildings & structures, including ancient Roman remnants, university & college buildings, churches, public works, large and small houses dating before 1850. Two volumes & map case with four maps & plans, complete. Large hardcovers in jacket, map case with heavy paper sleeve, as pictured. Light wear to books, corners bumped; map case corners badly bumped with some fraying, hinges of volume 2 mended; jackets lightly tanned...
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NZ$212.78
A Hybrid Systems Approach to Preservation of Printed Materials
by Don Willis
Commission on Preservation, 1992-01-01. Unknown Binding. Very Good. Paperback. Very Good. Text block clean and unmarked. Tight binding.
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NZ$25.35
Preserved Steam in Britain
by Whitehouse, Patrick B
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. 1979. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 168 pages. The panorama of Steam preservation in Britain. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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NZ$17.80
The Eagle's Nest: From Adolph Hitler to the Present Day
by Frankel, Andrew (et al)
Berchtesgaden: Druckerei Und Verlag Plenk KG, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Fine/-. Pictorial card covers in Fine condition. Internally, Fine: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings. Contains 80-pages, 29.5 x 21cm, illustrated throughout with colour and b&w photos, plus special artwork and maps. Comprehensive and detailed history of the so-called 'Eagle's Nest' - the mountain lodge overlooking Berchtesgaden, constructed as a 50th birthday present by Martin Bormann for Adolph Hitler....
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NZ$18.10
Wisconsin Lighthouses : A Photographic & Historical Guide
by Wardius, Ken / Wardius, Barb
Black Earth, Wisconsin: Prairie Oak Press. Fine. 2003. First Edition: Third Printing. Soft Cover. 136 pages: 8 x 10 in.: 1.6: KB#006429: Stated First Edition. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Color photographs, full descriptions, fascinating history, and travel tips for visiting more than forty of Wisconsin's best-known lighthouses on Lake Michigan, Green Bay, Lake Superior, and Lake Winnebago. ": Photographs .
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NZ$49.36
Il Nuovo Ponte a Santa Trinita, Disegni di Luciano Guarnieri: Le Varie Fasi della Ricostruzione
by Guarnieri, Luciano; Piccardi, Giacomo (Text by), and Annigoni, Pietro (Preface by)
Firenze; Florence: Montesi, 1958. [7] leaves, 16 leaves of plates, illustrations (some colour); 34 x 50 cm. Text in Italian, English and French. A good copy with a gift inscription from Sandro/front free endpaper in the year of publication, otherwise unmarked: "Here is the story of the bridge we practically inaugurated together." OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Il Nuovo Ponte a Santa Trinita Desegni di Luciano Guarnieri: Le Varie Fasi della Recosturzione. Note...
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NZ$84.26
An Annotated Bibliography for the Development and Operation of Historic Sites
by Historic Sites Committee of the AAM
Washington D.C.: American Association of Museums, 1982. Subject-based bibliography, with sections on site development & planning, structures & objects, interpretation, visitor & support services, professional standards & practices, management & financial planning, bibliographies, organizations, legislation. Large stapled pamphlet, grey covers; typescript pages. Light creasing to covers, sticker & old price blacked out on rear cover. Text clean; 48 pages. . First Edition. Staple...
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NZ$19.58
Airbrush Illustration For Architecture
by Porter, Tom / Dombek, George
Scranton, Pennsylvania: W. W. Norton & Company. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 2003. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 128 pages: 8.25 x 10.25 in.: 2.2: KB#005418: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Stated First Printing, Number Line (0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Guides illustrators - beginners and the experienced alike - from the basics to the achievement of highly complex architectural images. The emphasis is always on the production of...
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NZ$86.81
The Rape of Our Neighborhoods: And How Communities are Resisting Take-overs by Colleges, Hospitals, Churches, Businesses, and Public Agencies
by Worthy, William
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1976. Account of and advice for citizens fighting to keep larger entities from converting habitable neighborhoods to parking lots and shopping malls, based on the author's own fight to save his apartment building from a hospital's expansion plans. Worthy was an important African-American civil rights activist, journalist & teacher. First printing (first edition). Hardcover, ivory cloth over charcoal boards, orange titling. light wear to book; jacket...
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NZ$170.22
OHEKA Castle: Monument to Survival
by Schaffer, Ellen; Joan Cergol
Huntington, NY: OHEKA Castle Hotel & Estate, 2008. Massive & sumptuous account of the history and restoration of Otto Kahn's vast mansion, first built in 1919, stricken by the '29 stock market crash, abandoned & decrepit by 1984, when it barely escaped oblivion. Large green hardcover. Light wear to book, jacket; near fine; slipcase shows minor bumps. Text clean; 291 pages, bibliography, many color & b/w photos.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 10" by...
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NZ$680.88
The Living Past of America: A Pictorial Treasury of Our Historic Houses and Villages That Have Been Preserved and Restored
by Vanderbilt, Cornelius
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1955. xiv, 234 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Foreedge lightly soiled, age toning. Dust jacket slightly soiled on back cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.
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NZ$21.28
American Theaters: Performance Halls of the Nineteenth Century
by Naylor, David, and Dillon, Joan; Harris, Julie (Foreword by)
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Preservation Press, 1997. Cloth, 254 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "This beautifully-photographed book offers the complete history of American theaters, highlighting the 40 best theaters in America-from small town halls, to elaborate urban...
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NZ$24.68
Mission La Purisima: The Civilian Conservation Corps Story
by Palmer, Christine
Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Historical Society, 2004. 49-83 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. A Special Issue of Noticias: Quarterly Bulletin of the Santa Barbara Historical Society, Vol. L, No. 2 (Summer 2004). Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Serial.
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NZ$21.28
The Blue Mansion: The Story of Mandarin Splendour Reborn
by Lin, Lee Loh-lim
Penang, Malaysia: L'Plan, 2012. Cloth, 108 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to boards. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 3rd. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.
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NZ$33.19
Presence of the Past: A History of the Preservation Movement in the United States before Williamsburg
by Hosmer, Charles Bridgham
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1965. Cloth, 386 pages, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Topstained red. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Price-clipped dust jacket, worn at extremities, protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Walter Muir Whitehill; Introduction; The Earliest Attempts: The Pattern for the Future; The Shadow of Mount Vernon; The South and Its Great Men; The Middle Atlantic States: Restoring Memorials of the Revolution; New England, the Home of Militant Private...
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American Ruins
by Drooker, Arthur (Photographs by); Brinkley, Douglas (Foreword by), and Woodward, Christopher (Essay by)
London and New York: Merrell, 2007. 144 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the photographer Arthur Drooker, with a personalized inscription. A fine copy of the first printing. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.
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NZ$33.19
Frank Lloyd Wright Remembered
by Meehan, Patrick Joseph (Edited by)
Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1991. ix, 254 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. First Edition, First Printing. Dust jacket with a slightly faded spine. Architects, clients, apprentices, friends and acquaintances, and family members remember Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). Criticism and interpretation.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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NZ$16.17
The Image of the east: Nineteenth-Century Near Eastern Photographs by Bonfils From the Collections of the Harvard Semitic Museum
by Gavin, Carney E. S.; edited by Ingeborg Endter O'reilly
Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Discussion of the importance & scope of the work of the Bonfils family, Huguenots who moved to Beirut in 1876, where they founded an important photographic studio, traveling & photographing notable sites and scenes, but also ordinary people, throughout the near east. Harvard's Semitic Museum appears to hold the largest organized group of the studio's work, which is frequently the only record of long-vanished lifeways. The book, one...
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NZ$255.33
