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Picturesque Representations Of The Dress And Manners Of The Turks; Illustrated In Sixty Coloured Engravings
by Alexander, William
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- Used - Modern half black morocco and marbled endpapers. Fine
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- 1820
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London: W. Lewis for James Goodwin, 1820. Hardcover. Modern half black morocco and marbled endpapers. Fine. Unpaginated. 24.5 x 17 cm. Sixty hand-colored plates all printed recto only. Exceptional clean and bright copy with watermark dated 1828. No faults save the library stamp on title page. All plates sharp without a hint of toning. ABBEY TRAVEL 370. COLAS… Read more about this item Item Price
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An Antiquarian And Picturesque Tour Round The Southern Coast Of England; Illustrated With Eighty-Four Plates From The Drawings By J.M.W. Turner. R.A.
by Turner, J.M.W.
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- Used - Contemporary three quarter green morocco uniformly faded to brown and marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers. Aeg.Very g
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- First edition
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- 1849
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London: M.A. Nattali, 1849. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter green morocco uniformly faded to brown and marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers. Aeg.Very good. viii, 202 pages. 29 cm. Based on Turner's two-volume work, published in 1826, with the addition of a number of engravings and a completely revised text (So, if not the first edition, then… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Dictionary Of English Furniture From the Middle Ages to the Late Georgian Period; With a General Introduction by H. Avery Tipping
by Macquoid, Percy & Ralph Edwards
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- Used - Orig. green cloth spine and covers lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Teg. Near fine. 3 Vols
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- First edition
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- 1927
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London & New York: Country Life & Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth spine and covers lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Teg. Near fine. 3 Vols. (xii) 262, (xii) 360, (xii) 340 pages. Folio, 16 x 11.3 inches. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER P178. "This authoritative dictionary of English domestic furniture should be on all art reference shelves."… Read more about this item Item Price
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Civil Architecture: or a Complete Theoretical and Practical System of Building
by Shaw, Edward
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- Fourth edition
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- 1836
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CA$687.90
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Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1836. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards. Near fine. 208 pages. 27 x 22 cm, 100 copperplate engravings. Glossary of Architectural Terms. Glossary of Technical Terms. Rules of Work, Originally Adopted by the Carpenters of the Town of Boston, in 1774, and first published 1830. HITCHCOCK 1145 (Second edition enlarged).… Read more about this item Item Price
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Hints On Light And Shadow, Composition, etc. As Applicable To Landscape Painting. Illustrated by Examples
by Prout, Samuel
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- First edition
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- 1838
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London: Ackermann and Co, 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth front cover gilt lettered. Very good. 17 text pages. 14.5 x 11 inches. Twenty lithograph plates with multiple images printed recto only. Most plates toned at margins. ABBEY LIFE. 176. Wear to corners, binding tight and firm. Item Price
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Bicknell's Stables, Out Buildings, Fences and Miscellaneous Details.; Containing Twenty-Four Plates (136-160) Wooden And Brick Buildings With Details, Showing Sixteen Plans, Elevations and Views of Stables, Several Out Buildings and Fences, and over One Hundred Miscellaneous Details; Etc.
by New York. Bicknell & Comstock
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- Used - Orig. publisher's burnt sienna cloth, front cover gilt lettered
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- First edition
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- 1877
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New York: Bicknell & Comstock, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's burnt sienna cloth, front cover gilt lettered. Unpaginated. Small folio, 23.5 x 10 3/4 inches. May sound dramatic, but an almost as new copy, entire contents clean and fresh as are the covers. Plates printed recto only. Corner arabesques. Item Price
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Nineveh And Its Remains: With An Account Of A Visit To The Chaldean Christians of Kurdistan, And The Yezidas, Or Devil-Worshippers, And An Inquiry Into The Manners And Arts Of The Ancient Assyrians
by Layard, Austen Henry
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- Used - Orig. publisher's brown cloth embossed in gilt and blind. Very good. 2 vols
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- First edition
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- 1849
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CA$660.11
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New York: G.P. Putnam, 1849. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's brown cloth embossed in gilt and blind. Very good. 2 vols. 326 & 373 pages. 24 x 15 cm, two tinted lithographed frontispieces, five folding maps and plans, and a host of plates and woodcuts in the text. Index. BLACKMER 968. The author, English archaeologist whose excavations greatly… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Castles And Abbeys Of England, From the National Records, Early Chronicles, And Other Standard Authors
by Beattie, William
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- Used - Orig. brown cloth, front covers decorated in gilt seals, backstrips also in gilt motifs. Very good. 2 Vols
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- First and Second Series
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- 1850
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- Hardcover
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London and New York: George Virtue, 1850. First and Second Series. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth, front covers decorated in gilt seals, backstrips also in gilt motifs. Very good. 2 Vols. 351, 362 pages. 11.5 x 7 inches. First Series with more than 200 engravings and Second Series illustrated with 27 engravings on steel by W.H. Bartlett, and numerous… Read more about this item Item Price
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Old Colonial Architecture And Furniture
by Wallis, Frank E.
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- Used - Quarter brown cloth and lettered blue boards. Very good
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- First edition
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- 1887
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- Hardcover
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Boston: Geo. H. Polley, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown cloth and lettered blue boards. Very good. Unpaginated. Folio, 13.5 x 11 inches. 60 plates printed recto only. Series of measured drawings and sketches of American colonial styles and designs. HITCHCOCK 1417. Interior clean, wear to corners and rubbing to backstrip extremities. Item Price
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Essays On The Nature And Principles Of Taste
by Alison, Archibald
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- First American edition
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- 1812
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- Hardcover
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CA$333.53
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Boston: Hilliard & Metcalf, 1812. First American edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Very good. (xii) (18) 434 pages. 22 x 13 cm. The author's aesthetics played an important part in the development of romantic classicism in American architecture. His essays were popular and came to be considered a textbook for artists and the highly… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Builder's Guide; A Practical Treatise On Grecian And Roman Architecture, Together With Specimens Of the Gothic Style. Also, Practical Treatises On Geometry, Decimal Fractions, Menstruation, Trigonometry, And Carpentry And Joinery. Revised And Improved, With Additions of Villa and School House Architecture, By H. Austin, Architect, and H. Barnard Esq.; Embracing All The Necessary Details, And Particularly Adapted To The Wants Of The Less Experienced
by Hills, Chester
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- Used - Contemporary calf over boards. Two Vols. in one. Very good
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- 1847
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Hartford: Case, Tiffany And Burnham, 1847. leather_bound. Contemporary calf over boards. Two Vols. in one. Very good. Folio, 40.5 x 30 cm, 96 pages in text. Thirty-eight wood engravings and fifty lithographed plates, some are double-paged. This edition contains the only published architecture designs of Henry Austin [five plates]. The frontispiece shows a view of the Wadsworth Athenaeum… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of The Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland With Descriptive And Historical Letterpress
by Morris, Francis Orpen (Edited By)
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- Used - Gilt decorated brown cloth. Aeg. Near fine. 7 Vols
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- First edition
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- 1880
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London: William Mackenzie, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Gilt decorated brown cloth. Aeg. Near fine. 7 Vols. 27.5 x 22,5 cm. 240 color lithographed plates, and with the seventh volume:Fac-Simile of Autographs of Subscribers, published by A. Clarke: London, 1880. This elaborately decorated book depicts the country seats, homes and estates of various British nobles and gentlemen, as well… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Work of Wallace & Warner Philadelphia
by Wallace, Brenton G. & Frederick G, Warner
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- First edition
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- 1930
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Philadelphia: Franklin Printing Company, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter taupe cloth and beige boards Very good. Unpaginated. Folio, 41 x 31 cm. Foreword by George Gibbs. Copy 542 presented to Mr. & Mrs. J. Howard Rew. 16 pages of adverts connected to the building trades follow the designs of Wallace & Warner. Their work for the gentry along… Read more about this item Item Price
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Remarks On Forest Scenery, And Other Woodland Views, (Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty) Illustrated By The Scenes Of New-Forest In Hampshire
by Gilpin, William
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- Used - Contemporary brown tree calf, marbled endpapers, raised bands spines richly gilt in floral arabesques. Near fine. Three vols. in
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- First edition
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- 1791
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London: R. Blamire, 1791. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary brown tree calf, marbled endpapers, raised bands spines richly gilt in floral arabesques. Near fine. Three vols. in two. 22 x 14.5. [*4, A-Y8, **2] & [*1, B-U8, X4, b8, c2]. Double page map and 31 tinted aquatints or soft ground etchings. The plates for this work were divided between… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Life of Benvenuto Cellini; A Florentine Artist. Written by Himself in the Tuscan Language and Translated from the Original
by Nugent, Thomas (translator)
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- Used - Contemporary full brown calf. Near fine. 2 vols
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- First American edition
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- 1812
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Philadelphia: R & T. Desilver, 1812. First American edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf. Near fine. 2 vols. 352, 256 pages. 18 x 11 cm. A variety of curious and interesting particulars, relative to painting, sculpture and architecture. The author Thomas Nugent was an erudite Irish historian and travel writer. The English edition was published in 1772. Elegant… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Practical House Carpenter: Being A Complete Development of the Grecian Orders of Architecture, etc.
by Benjamin, Asher
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- Used - Contemporary three quarter brown calf and boards, marbled endpapers. Very good
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- Third edition
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- 1832
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- Hardcover
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Boston: Published by The Proprietors, 1832. Third edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter brown calf and boards, marbled endpapers. Very good. 119 pages. 27.5 x 22.5. Sixty-four copper engraved plates. Glossary of Architecture Terms. This was unquestionably his most popular work. It went through at least seventeen issues before 1860. HITCHCOCK 119. "The word 'containing' is omitted from the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Detail, Cottage And Constructive Architecture Containing 75 Large Lithographic Plates.; Showing a Great Variety of Designs For Cornices, Brackets, Windows, Window Caps, Doors, Plazzas, Porches, Bay and Dormer Windows, Observatories, Towers, etc...
by Bicknell, Amos Jackson
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- Used - Orig. pebble grained brown cloth, backstrip gilt designs bright and fresh. Front cover lettered in black. Near fine
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- First edition
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- 1873
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CA$1,042.27
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New York: A.J. Bicknell & Co, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pebble grained brown cloth, backstrip gilt designs bright and fresh. Front cover lettered in black. Near fine. Unpaginated. Folio, 35 x 27 cm. Seventy five lithographs plates (most with multiple images) plus lithographic frontispiece -- many plates are tinted, Included are forty-five perspectives, elevations and plans of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Modern American Architecture. Designs and Plans for Villas, Farm-Houses, Cottages, City Residences, Churches, School-Houses, &c. &c. Containing Fifty-Five Original Plates Giving in Detail Plans and Illustrations Suited to All Parts of the Country
by Cummings, M.F. & C.C. Miller
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- Used - Orig. black cloth decorated in blind, front cover gilt lettered. Very good
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- First edition
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- 1868
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- Hardcover
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CA$826.87
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New York: Published By The Authors (A.J. Bicknell, General Agent), 1868. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth decorated in blind, front cover gilt lettered. Very good. 19 text pages. Folio, 36 x 27.5 cm. Fifty-four lithograph plates. Presents a wide variety of dwellings as well as designs for row houses, tenements, fire and school houses and commercial buildings,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Woodward's Architecture and Rural Art. No. 1-1867
by Woodward, George W.
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- Used - Orig. brown cloth, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt. Near fine
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- 1869
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New York: Geo. E. Woodward, 1869. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt. Near fine. 144 pages. 16.5 x 12.5 cm. 144 wood-engravings, fifty-eight designs; cottages, farm houses, various farm out-buildings, a Doctor's residence, ornaments in landscape gardening, a country schoolhouse, grape arbor, etc. HITCHCOCK 1420. "A new issue of the 1867 item, with title:… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Book of a Hundred Houses; A Collection Of Pictures, Plans And Suggestions For Householders
by Chicago. Herbert S. Stone & Company
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- Used - Orig. illustrated tan cloth. Very good
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- First edition
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- 1902
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- Hardcover
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Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated tan cloth. Very good. 403 pages. 22 x 18 cm. Hundreds of halftone illustrations. Presents fifty-four essays by various authors: Joy Wheeler, Claude Bragdon, Harriet Monroe, Edgar Metcalf, Ralph Adams Cram, et al. Printed by the Lakeside Press. Covers a host of American homes from Colonial… Read more about this item Item Price
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