151. Johnson, Robert J.

Specimens of Early French Architecture Selected Chiefly from the Churches of the Ile de France and illustrated in Geometrical Drawings and Perspective Views.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Published by the author / Printed by Maclure, Macdonald & MacGregor, Lithographers to the Queen, 1864. Large Folio. (3), 100 plates. Original Hardcover / Original half leather with gilt lettering on spine. Bindings corners stronger rubbed and with smaller damage to upper and lower spine. Interior text and illustrations in absolutely clean and excellent condition ! A rare publication !

152. Adams, Marcus.

Child Studies. [Album with seven (7) vintage silver gelatin prints – all signed in a signature album with Adams’ gilted emblemata / supralibro].

London, Marcus Adams, c.1929. Folio. 7 pages. Original Art Deco flexible Hardcover in original slipcase. Extremely beautiful and rare original binding ! Two small coffee-stains on cover of the Volume itself. Slipcase with some minor rubbing and occasional discoloration only. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Besides the vintage photographs all being signed by Marcus Adams, he also signed and dated the Volume on the endpaper: “Marcus Adams – 11/29”.

153. Architectural Design.

Architectural Design & Construction. Collection of nine (9) Issues: Volume I – June 1931 / Volume II – April 1932 / Volume IV – December 1933 / Volume IV – January 1934 / Volume IV – February 1934 / Volume IV – March 1934 / Volume IV – April 1934 / Volume IV – May 1934 / Volume IV – June 1934.

[London], Blackfriars Press, 1931 – 1934. Folio (25 cm x 34 cm). c. 450 pages of essays including a multitude of vintage advertising on design, interior, furniture, bathrooms, Tiles, Modern Stairways, Reform Glazing, Hand Made Sandfaced Tiles, Trent Vale Brick & Tile / Circular Staircases / Art Deco Kitchen Design / Aga Cooker / etc. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor tears to some of the original wrappers. Rare !

154. [English History Collection] – [Komarova, Natalie / Lemarchand, Louis / Fischer, Clifford C.] Stone, E.A. / Poulsen, M. / Bell, Major C.H. / Ramsden, Jas. H. / de Wynter, Ivon.

The London Casino Restaurant – Brochure. [Plaisirs de Paris / Montmartre a Minnit]

London, London Casino Restaurant, no year (c.1930). Quarto (21,5 cm x 28 cm). 32 pages with numerous advertising and revue pictures. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

155. White, John.

Rural Architecture Illustrated in a New Series of Designs for Ornamental Cottages and Villas exemplified by Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details.

Glasgow, John White, 1852. Folio (31 cm x 40 cm). 44 pages text interleaved with 81 full page plates with hundreds of stunning illustrations. Original Hardcover (Half leather with gilt lettering on spine. Stronger rubbed binding but firm. Endpaper ,missing and titlepage with larger tear. But otherwise in good condition (slightly stained only). From the library of irish architect and architectural historian Rudolf Maximilian Butler. Exlibris of R.M.Butler to pastedown. The 1845 edition is more common and this 1852 edition is now a rare publication !

156. Nesfield, William Eden. [Geoghegan, Charles]

Specimens Of Mediaeval Architecture chiefly selected from examples of the 12th and 13th centuries In France & Italy.

[London], Published by Day and Son, 1862. Folio (31 cm x 43 cm). 14 pages Index to the plates and 100 full page plates / Fantastic Illustrations. Original Hardcover with rich gilt ornament to front board. Spine missing. Very few pages cleanly detached. Complete and rare publication. This the copy from the library of Dublin Architect and Engineer Charles Geoghegan, with his name on the titlepage.

157. Riddell, Robert.

The Carpenter and Joiner, Stair Builder and Hand-Railer. With fifty-eight plates and a Series of Card-Board Models.

London / Edinburgh / Glasgow, William Mackenzie, no year [c.1874]. Folio (28 cm x 35 cm). Frontispiece, 124 pages text and 58 plates [The Frontispiece counts as Plate 58]. Original Hardcover with gilt lettering on board and reinforced, contemporary “workshop binding”. Good condition with signs of external wear. Inside a little dusty but firm and complete !!

158. Cross, Alfred W.S. / Cross, Kenneth M.B.

Practical Notes for Architectural Draughtsmen. Series III: Being Selected Drawings of Commercial Buildings and Business Premises by Bradshaw, Gass & Hope / W. Courtney le Maitre / Edward Maufe / Leslie Mansfield / Sir John D. Burnet & Partners / M.E.Collins / Caes Gilbert / W.Curtis Green / Gunton & Gunton / Arthur Hill & Henry H. Hill / Stanley Hamp / Ralph Knott / Smith & Brewer / Arthur Sykes / Trehearne & Norman / P.J.Westwood /

Westminster, The Architectural Press Ltd., no year [c.1923]. Large Folio (33 cm x 50 cm). 44 (of 50) plates. Original Hardcover with plates loosely inserted. The binding with stronger signs of wear but the interior plates in very good condition.

159. Vulliamy, Lewis / Spiers, R. Phene.

Examples of Classic Ornament from Greece & Rome. Drawn from the Originals by Lewis Vulliamy [Architect, Gold Medallist and Travelling Student of the Royal Academy]. A Series of Twenty Plates [Plate No. VI missing]. Selected from the Original Published Work and with Introductory & Descriptive Notes by R. Phene Spiers.

London, B.T. Batsford, 1907. Large Folio (43 cm x 50 cm). Preface and Notes, 19 plates (of 20). Original Hardcover with original ribbons in place. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The plates in excellent condition with only very minor signs of foxing. Very Rare publication !

160. O’Hanlon, John Canon.

Irish – American History of the United States. [=With a chapter: Transportation of Irish Slaves to the American Colonies]. Including American Civil War Maps (25), Portraits (16 plates with numerous portraits) etc.

Dublin / London, Sealy, Bryers and Walker / The Gresham Publishing Co., [1902]. Quarto (23,5 cm x 28,5 cm). Frontispiece Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, XIX, (5), 677 pages plus LXXXIV pages Index and the Large Fold-Out-Map of the USA in the rear. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor dampstaining to the endpaper and frontispiece. Interior otherwise very clean. Binding firm. The large fold-out-map with some tears. Important and rare publication.