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"Sixieme Edition, Réimprimée sur la quatrième, pour servir d'abrégé de la cinquième." xxxvi, 412 p.: 19 folded plates; 17 cm. Contemporary full mottled calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Morocco label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title. Gilt-tooled in other spine compartments. Gilt rules on board edges. All page edges red. Marbled endpapers. Woodcut headpieces and tailpieces. Former owner? inscribed on title page: Cailletiere. P. 412 contains publisher's advertisement for other works by the author. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed with slight loss at ends of spine; lower corners are bumped; fore-edge of plate 15 creased and chipped without impacting image; light foxing on a few pages; otherwise clean and crisp.

Elemens de Fortification, Contenant les principes & la description raisonnée des différens ouvrages qu'on emploie à la Fortification des places; les systêmes des principaux Ingénieurs, la Fortification irréguliere, &c.
Le Blond, Guillaume
Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1766.
Price: $475.00
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Second Edition. viii, 64, iv p., 67 leaves of plates (with approximately 30 leaves of captions): plans; 25 cm. Publisher's maroon ripple-grain cloth. Boards have bevelled edges. Gilt-stamped spine title and cover title with author's initials in cover decoration; gilt-stamped rules on spine and front cover with mirror blind-ruled back cover. Title page in red and black. Lower portion of title page contains number in an old hand and an oval stamp on title page reading: Clinton Hall for the use of the Mercantile Library Association, N.Y. Each of the plates also bears the stamp in one corners. Leaves 57 and 58 are bound between leaf 61 and leaf 62. In Very Good- Condition: ends of spine frayed, with loss of cloth at tail; corners rubbed; small ding in lower edge of front board; front hinge weak; front free endpaper has 6-cm. tear from fore-edge and lacks 6-x-2-cm. section from lower edge; 3-cm. tear from lower edge of title page, without loss; plates are all present and, other than Clinton Hall stamp, clean and bright.

English Country Houses: Sixty-one Views and Plans of Recently Erected Mansions, Private Residences, Parsonage-houses, Farm-houses, Lodges, and Cottages; with Sketches of Furniture and Fittings: and a Practical Treatise on House-building
Wilkinson, William
London: James Parker and Co., 1875.
Price: $150.00
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"New York Issue." 32 p.: drawings, photographs; 28 cm. Stapled red paper covers printed in black. Contents: The Rise of Eclecticism in New York: The Contributions of Four Architects and Two Materials by Talbot Hamlin--The New York Architecture of Richard Morris Hunt by Alan Burnham--The Tall Building in New York in the Twentieth Century by Leopold Arnaud--American Notes. The final section contains: a talk given by R.W.G. Vail on the earliest architectural projects in New York, in the 17th century--notes made in the 1760s by Pierre Eugene du Simitiere on New York architecture--a design for an elevator from 1791 by Nicholas Collin of Philadelphia--an obituary of Leicester Bodine Holland (1882-1952). In Very Good- Condition: covers are soiled; corners of front cover creased; pages are slightly yellowed along spine; otherwise pages are clean and tight.

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians vol. 11 no. 2 May 1952
Society of Architectural Historians
Louisville, Ky.: Society of Architectural Historians, 1952.
Price: $12.00
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"Ohio Sesquicentennial Issue." 32 p.: maps, drawings, photographs, plans; 28 cm. Stapled red paper covers printed in black. Contents: Ohio: Architectural Cross-Road by Frank J. Roos, Jr.--Hudson: Early 19th Century Domestic Architecture by Patricia Smith Ingram--The Ohio State Capitol Competition by Abbott Lowell Cummings--City Planning Under Industrialization: The Case of Cleveland by Edmund H. Chapman--American Notes. The final section contains Tallmadge, Township no. 2, Range 10, Connecticut Fire Lands: An Early Ohio Planned Community by Carl Feiss. In Very Good Condition: covers are slightly soiled; one ding in lower edges; pages are clean and tight.

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians vol. 12 no. 2 May 1953
Society of Architectural Historians
Crawfordsville, Ind.: Society of Architectural Historians, 1953.
Price: $15.00
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32 p.: drawings, photographs, plans; 28 cm. Stapled red paper covers printed in black. Contents: Pagan Monuments Converted to Christian Use: The Roman Diaconiae by Frances J. Niederer--Serrabonne: The Church and the Sculpture by Milton D. Lowenstein--The Arcade in Providence by Robert Alexander--Pullman: Town Development in the Era of Eclecticism by Robert M. Lillibridge--Recording Dates of Buildings by H.V. Molesworth Roberts--American Notes. In Very Good Condition: covers are very slightly soiled; slight fading along fore-edge and lower edge of front cover; lower corners slightly creased; pages are clean and tight.

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians vol. 12 no. 3 Oct. 1953
Society of Architectural Historians
Crawfordsville, Ind.: Society of Architectural Historians, 1953.
Price: $15.00
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32 p.: map, photographs, plans; 28 cm. Stapled red paper covers printed in black. Contents: The Symbolic Sources of Some Architectural Elements by Phyllis Ackerman--Architecture to Painting in the Middle Ages by Paul M. Laporte--The Neumann Bicentennial by John Coolidge--Creative Eclecticism by Carroll L.V. Meeks--Jacksonville, an Oregon Gold-Rush Town by Marion D. Ross--American Notes. The last section contains A French Source of Jefferson's Plan for the Prison at Richmond by Howard C. Rice, Jr. In Very Good Condition: slight fading along fore-edge and lower edge of front cover; lower corners slightly creased; p. 1 lightly soiled; pages have slight darkening in gutters; pages are otherwise clean and tight.

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians vol. 12 no. 4 Dec. 1953
Society of Architectural Historians
Crawfordsville, Ind.: Society of Architectural Historians, 1953.
Price: $15.00
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32 p.: photographs, plans; 28 cm. Stapled red paper covers printed in black. Contents: Henry Adams' Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Ernst Scheyer--Boston Before Bulfinch: Harrison's King's Chapel by Priscilla Metcalf--Some Ledoux-Inspired Buildings in America by Rich Bornemann--The Advent of Modern Architecture in Minnesota by Donald R. Torbert--American Notes. The last section contains The De La Ronde Plantation House (1805?) by Samuel Wilson, Jr. In Very Good Condition: slight fading along lower edge of front cover; lower corner of back cover creased; pages have slight darkening in gutters; pages are otherwise clean and tight.

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians vol. 13 no. 1 March 1954
Society of Architectural Historians
Crawfordsville, Ind.: Society of Architectural Historians, 1954.
Price: $15.00
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32 p.: maps, photographs, plans; 28 cm. Stapled red paper covers printed in black. Contents: Gunston Hall by Fiske Kimball--The Greek Revival House in Georgia by Wilbur Zelinsky--Early Western Architecture in Japan by K. Abe--The Plan of the Back Bay Area in Boston by Bainbridge Bunting--American Notes. The last section contains Fort Necessity--Scene of George Washington's First Battle by J.C. Harrington. In Very Good Condition: pages have slight darkening in gutters; pages are otherwise clean and tight.

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians vol. 13 no. 2 May 1954
Society of Architectural Historians
Crawfordsville, Ind.: Society of Architectural Historians, 1954.
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32, 16 p.: photographs, plans; 28 cm. Stapled red paper covers printed in black. Contents: Architectural Practice in the Italian Renaissance by Janes S. Ackerman--Francesco Milizia, 1725-1798 by William B. O'Neal--More About Asher Benjamin by Florence Thompson Howe--Pugin: Principles of Design versus Revivalism by Phoebe B. Stanton--American Notes. With Addition to William Strickland by Agnes Addison Gilchrist, a Documentary Supplement to the Journal. In Good- Condition: cover is soiled and faded; lower corners are creased throughout; first 3 leaves of Strickland supplement, and first page and last page of regular section foxed (the first leaf of the Strickland significantly); otherwise pages are clean and tight.

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians vol. 13 no. 3 Oct. 1954
Society of Architectural Historians
Crawfordsville, Ind.: Society of Architectural Historians, 1954.
Price: $8.00
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32, 16 p.: photographs, plans; 28 cm. Stapled red paper covers printed in black. Contents: The Commemorative Medal and Architecture by Frank J. Roose, Jr.--The Lebanon Meetinghouse, Lebanon, Connecticut by Theodore Sizer--Bulfinch's Drawings for the Maine State House by Richard B.K. McLanathan--Special Bibliographical Supplement: A Bibliography of the Art Nouveau by James Grady--American Notes. The last section contains Carpenters' School, 1833-42 by James C. Massey, and Washington's Newburgh Headquarters, 1750, 1850 by Dorothy C. Barck. In Very Good Condition: pages have slight darkening in gutters and along edges; otherwise pages are clean and tight.

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians vol. 14 no. 2 May 1955
Society of Architectural Historians
Crawfordsville, Ind.: Society of Architectural Historians, 1955.
Price: $15.00
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2nd ed., "Revue et augmentée par M. Laguerenne." Imprint includes: Lyon: Chez M. Favéro. 3 volumes: 57 folded leaves of plates, some in-text tables; 26 cm. Contemporary binding: calf spines with 6 spine compartments between double gilt rules. Black leather spine labels in the second and fourth compartments with gilt-tooled title and volume numbers. Marbled paper over boards. Page edges are yellow, except for the fore-edges of the plate volume. Dedicated to Louis-Philippe I, last king of France. Volume containing the plates entitled: Atlas de la Science de l'Ingénieur. Civil engineering treatise about the construction of roads, bridges, canals, and aquaducts, with detailed engravings. In Good Condition: leather rubbed, most prominently at the tails of vol. 2 and 3; corners and fore-edges rubbed; fore-edges of vol. 3 boards are dampstained, resulting in the migration of yellow from the leaf edges to the fore-edge margins and the fold edges of most of the first 33 leaves (through plate XXXI) of vol. 3; otherwise both pages and plates are clean and crisp.

La Science de l'Ingénieur, Divisée en Trois Parties, ou l'On Traite des Chemins, des Ponts, des Canaux, et des Aqueducs [3 volumes]
Delaistre, J.R.
Paris: Chez L'éditeur, 1832.
Price: $475.00
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[4], 191, [1] p.: black-and-white photographs and plans (5 folded); 22 cm. Black cloth with white-stamped spine title and cover title. Black-and-white illustrated dust jacket. Inscription on front free endpaper: "Keith Richards '72." Original price written in the same hand on title page verso. Book is in Very Good+ Condition: lower edge of front board sunned; front board slightly bowed; pages are clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good+ Condition: significantly sunned; upper edge rubbed; starting to separate (1 cm.) from head of spine over front joint.

Living Architecture: Japanese; Tomoya Masuda; photographs by Yukio Futagawa
Masuda, Tomoya
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1970.
Price: $12.50
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Title continued: "From original drawings, taken from the objects themselves expressly for this work, by Mr. Thos. H. Shepherd . . . with historical, topographical, and critical illustrations." vi, [7]-12, 96, 16 p., [63] leaves of plates, each with two views: illustrations, map; 28 cm. Half red morocco with gilt-tooled spine title: Views in London. Marbled paper over boards. Added engraved title page dated 1827; the plates are dated 1827 and 1828. Pages after p. 96 are lacking (both 116-page and 172-page copies have been located). Issued in 16 parts. As bound, this volume has, following p. 96, pages 1-16 of Great Britain Illustrated, with 8 leaves of plates (published by Charles Tilt, 1828-29), apparently bound in instead of the final 10 pages in that section of Metropolitan Improvements. [This is the beginning of Great Britain Illustrated: a Series of Original Views of the Principal Towns, Public Buildings, and Remarkable Antiquities in the United Kingdom, from drawings by William Westall, engraved by E. Finden and with descriptions by Thomas Moule.] Rich with architectural commentary by the architect James Elmes. Lacking pages and plates after p. 96, as described above; otherwise in Good Condition: rubbed; slight loss of leather at head of spine; 3.5-cm. tear from fore-edge of first leaf of plates (showing a river view of London and the Bank of England) without loss; light foxing troughout, some plates unaffected and some affected more heavily than others.

Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century: Displayed in a Series of Engravings of the New Buildings, Improvements, &c. by the Most Eminent Artists
Elmes, James
London: Jones & Co., 1828.
Price: $150.00
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[16] p.: wood engravings by John DePol; 27 cm. Brown paper wrappers printed in red. Text by Neil Shaver. This is one of a limited edition of 150 copies hand-printed by Neil Shaver and Joe Shaver at the Yellow Barn Press. With a small errata slip tipped in on the colophon page. In Near Fine Condition: upper corners lightly creased. A crisp and bright copy of this very scarce item.

Not Barn Again: Four Engravings
DePol, John
Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press, 1997.
Price: $145.00
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2 volumes (xxiv, [2], 287, [1] p.; xvi, 279, [1] p.): in-text illustrations and full-page illustrations included in pagination, folded genealogical table, 2 folded maps; 2o cm. Contemporary binding signed "Tout Binder": three-quarter scarlet calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title, author, and volume number in second and third compartments; elaborate gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments with date at tail. Top page edges gilt. Gilt, red, and black marbled paper over boards; matching endpapers. Yellow ribbon bookmarks. This is not one of the 36 limited large-paper edition de luxe copies. Includes indexes. Large bookplate on each front fixed endpaper of Eva Roberts Stotesbury. Lucretia Roberts Cromwell Stotesbury ("Eva" Robert Stotesbury) (1865-1946) was widowed in 1909 with three children when she met Philadelphia banker Edward T. Stotesbury (1849-1938). Following their marriage, they built three mansions: their Pennsylvania home, Whitemarsh (designed by Horace Trumbauer); Wingwood House in Bar Harbor (designed by Louis Maginer); and El Mirasol in Palm Beach (designed by Addison Mizner). Much of the contents of their homes were sold by Parke-Bernet in 1946 and 1947. Given Eva Roberts Stotesbury's active involvement in the design of those three mansions, her interest in the French mansions studied in these volumes is understandable. In Very Good+ Condition: edges are rubbed, most particularly the head of spine on each volume; clean and bright in a very attractive binding.

Old Touraine: the Life and History of the Famous Chateaux of France [2 volumes]
Cook, Theodore Andrea
London: Percival and Co., 1892.
Price: $225.00
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32 p.: map, drawings, photographs; 28 cm. Stapled pale yellow paper covers printed in black. Contents: Seventeenth-Century Sudbury, Massachusetts by Sumner C. Powell; illustrated by Gerhart Liebman--Jacques-François Blondel by W. Knight Sturges--Notre-Dame de Montreal by Alan Gowans--American Notes. The final section contains excerpts from a catalog of "Clemens' Ready Made Sectional Houses" issued by Richards, Norris & Clemens in 1872. In Very Good- Condition: back cover rubbed and sunned; front cover slightly soiled; lower corner of front cover slightly creased; pages are clean and tight.

Society of Architectural Historians
Society of Architectural Historians
Louisville, Ky.: Society of Architectural Historians, 1952.
Price: $10.00
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Volume 2 only. 12, [2], 19-503 p., frontispiece and 8 additional leaves of photogravure plates with captioned tissue guards: many in-text photographs and other illustrations; 24 cm. Yellow cloth with red-and-green-stamped spine and cover titles and illustrations. Top page edges gilt. Original paper-backed green cloth dust jacket with red spine title. Frontispiece is double, with two versions of the portrait of Eleanor Parke Custis: a rectangular photogravure and an oval chromolithograph. Contents: Mount Vernon and the Washingtons.--The Bowne House at Flushing, L.I.--Laurel Hill and the Rawle family.--Monticello.--The Manor of Philipsborough.--Waynesborough.--Preston at Patuxent.--The Schuylers.--Mount Pleasant and the Macphersons. Book is in Very Good- Condition: slightly cocked; cover is slightly soiled; the double frontispiece, title page, and following leaf (Preface) are detached as a unit; otherwise pages and plates are clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; spine slightly soiled.

Some Colonial Mansions and Those Who Lived in Them: With Genealogies of the Various Families Mentioned--Volume 2
Glenn, Thomas Allen
Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1899.
Price: $65.00
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The Builder's Jewel: or, The Youth's Instructor, and Workman's Remembrancer. Explaining Short and Easy Rules, Made familiar to the meanest Capacity, for Drawing and Working
Langley, Batty [and Thomas Langley]
Dublin: J. Williams, 1766.
Price: $350.00
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[6], 90 p.: frontispiece and 5 leaves of photographs, including a portrait of the author; 21 cm. (8.5 inches). Light blue cloth, lacking paper label from front board. Orange endpapers. First edition; reissued in 1970 under the title: The Industrial Revolution Runs Away. Sweeney, 328. In this book Wright presented his concept for improving urban life in the United States, which he called Broadacre City. In Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; cover is sunned and soiled; lacking paper label from front board; internally clean and tight.

The Disappearing City
Wright, Frank Lloyd
New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1932.
Price: $200.00
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xxi, [1], 484 p.: 44 plates of architectural plans (many folded); 23 cm. Original publisher's blue pebble-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and blind-ruled borders on both boards. Dark green endpapers. Wood-engraved title vignette signed Osborne; 19 additional in-text illustrations, and in-text tables. First edition. Includes a history of domestic architecture in England from the 11th century onward, including castles and monasteries, as well as country estates. This influential work on mid-19th-century domestic architecture has been described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as "the most lucid and encyclopaedic account available of mid-Victorian domestic planning." Final section includes detailed description of each plate. Very well illustrated. With an invoice indicating that this book was purchased in 1970 by architect Robert L. Raley. In Very Good- Condition: ends of spine are fraying; spine is sunned; cover is lightly rubbed; plate 25 is partially detached, but intact; occasional light soiling; otherwise pages and plates are clean and tight.

The Gentleman's House; or, How to Plan English Residences, from the Parsonage to the Palace; with Tables of Accomodation and Cost, and a Series of Selected Plans
Kerr, Robert
London: John Murray, 1864.
Price: $550.00
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