Electricity Supply Board.

Efficient Lighting in Offices.

Dublin, Lighting Section Electricity Supply Board, No Year. 21.3 cm x 30 cm. 45 pages. Black and white illustrations. Original Softcover. With spiral binding. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor creases to cover. Minor foxing to pages throughout. Foreword page contains previous owner’s name in blue ink. Otherwise interior clean.

Schoonbroodt, Leon (Editor).

Info Service: Dossier: Maisons Prefabriquees. Tour d’horizon complet de tous les systèmes de préfabrication: descriptif, plans, photos, prix, détails.

Belgium, Info Service, No Year. 21 cm x 29.9 cm. 146 pages. Black and white illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Cover has some wear. Numbers in black ink on front cover. Minor foxing and discolouration to edges. Interior clean.

Rollin, Mr. [Charles].

The History of the Arts and Sciences of Antients [with all 52 plates complete] – Under the following Heads : In Three Volumes. Volume I: Agriculture, Commerce, Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Music, the Art Military / Volume II: Art Military, Grammar, Philology, Rhetoric, Poetry / Volume III: Poetry, History, Eloquence, Philosophy, Civil Law, Metaphysics and Physics, Physic, Botany, Chymistry [Chemistry], Anatomy, Mathematics, Geometry, Astronomy, Arithmetic, Geography and Navigation. By Mr. Rollin, Late Principal of the University of Paris, Professor of Eloquence in the Royal College and Member of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. Translated from the French. The Second Edition. Illustrated with Fifty-two [52] Copper Plates, representing the Civil and Military Architecture of the Antients, their Temples, Machines, Engines of War, Painting, &c.

3 Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for J. and F. Rivington, 1768. Octavo. Volume I: [12], 374 pages with 12 plates (as called for) / Volume II: [4], 360 pages with 40 plates (as called for) [pages 71 – 74 and the two plates these two pages are holding, loosely inserted], [Plate on page 104 loosely inserted] / Volume III: [4], 516 pages including a thorough Index. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament to spines of all three Volumes. All Volumes in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. All Volumes firm and all plates complete and in really excellent condition and strong imprints. All plates folded beautifully without tears ! From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. Rare in this complete and excellent condition. It is common to find this work with plates missing which makes this complete set extremely scarce.

[Henry, David / Power, Francis / Carnan, Thomas / Sir Christopher Wren] Anonymous.

An Historical account of the Curiosities of London and Westminster, In Three Parts. Part I. Contains a full description of the Tower of London, and every thing curious in and belonging to it. Part II. Contains The History of Westminster-Abbey, from its foundation to the present time ; with its Antiquities, Tombs, and Inscriptions. Part III. Treats of the Old Cathedral of St. Paul’s and the new ; together with a full account of the Monument, London-Stone, the City-wall, Gates, and other Antique [Roman] remains.

With three separate titlepages. London, Printed for Francis Power and Thomas Carnan, 1785 – 1789. Small Octavo (11,5 cm x 17 cm). Part I: IV, 64 pages / Part II: IV, 139 pages plus 5 pages of a thorough Index / Part III: IV, 56 pages. Hardcover / Original half-vellum with marbled paper-covered boards. Binding with some minor signs of wear. Binding and spine firm. Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner Mary Gray written in ink on titlepages.

Milner, Rev. [Bishop John Milner] / [Charles Heath] / [Henry Marten].

Sammelband with several publications bound in one Volume: 1. Rev. Milner – An Historical and Critical Account of Winchester Cathedral with an Engraved View and Ichnographical Plan of that Fabric. Extracted from the Rev. Mr.Milner’s History and and Antiquities of Winchester to which is added “A Review of its Modern Monuments” (Winchester, 1801 / 148 pages) / 2. Heath, Charles – The Excursion Down the Wye from Ross to Monmouth; Comprehending Historical and Descriptive Accounts of Wilton and Goodrich Castles; Also of Court Field, The Nursery of King Henry The Fifth; New Wear, with Every other Object in the Voyage. The Celebrated Family of Swift, who resided at Goodrich, are not overlooked: and, throughout the whole are Interspersed, A Variety of Amusing and Interesting Circumstances, Never Before collected: Particularly Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Life of John Kyrle, Esq. Rendered Immortal by the Muse of Pope, under the Character of “The Man of Ross”. By Charles Heath, Printer, Monmouth. Being Part the First of this Work, – which will include the Whole of the Voyage from Ross to Chepstow. Part II will contain Monmouth. Part III from thence to the Junction of the Wye with Severn. Pointing out every interesting Object in the Course of this much-admired Excursion. (London, 1799 / 246 unnumbered pages with mentioning on the last page of this section: “End of First Part” [This information seems to be the same in all versions of this book in international libraries and it is possible that Parts II and III were not published as advertised on the titlepage but in a different way]) / 3. Henry Marten – Monmouthshire [has its own titlepage but can very well be Part II and III of the previous Volume] – “Monmouthire – Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Chepstow Castle – Including Persfield, with the various Views in those pleasurable Regions – Also, Notices of Caerwent, An Ancient Roman Station; Moyne’s Court, Matherne, and St. Pierre – The Old and New Passages, on both sides of the Water – The Roads to Bristol and Gloucester; and a Variety of other interesting particulars deserving the Stranger’s Notice. Interspersed with curious Biographical Anecdotes relating to the Life of Henry Marten, one of the Judges of King Charles I. confined twenty years in this Castle. Collected from original Papers and unquestionable Authorities by Charles Heath, Printer, Monmouth (c.1802) //

Winchester / London, Ja. Robbins, Charles Heath, 1801 – 1802. Octavo. Pagination of the Sammelband: First Book: Rev.John Milner – Account of Winchester Cathedral Part: Frontispiece of “North West View of the Cathedral), [2], Fold-out-plan of “Ichnography of the Cathedral Church”, 148 pages / Second Book: Charles Heath: “The Excursion Down the Wye…etc.” – First Part: 246 unnumbered pages / Second / [and possibly Third] Part: 188 unnumbered pages. Hardcover / Original, decorative half-leather of the early 19th century with original spinelabel, restored and with new endpapers and new marbled paper-covers on original boards. In protective Mylar. One page with a minor cut (without text-loss). Otherwise in very good condition with some signs of external wear. This very rare work originates from the wonderful Meade – Collection in Ballymartle (near Kinsale, West Cork), with the name of one of the Meade – family-members written on the titlepage and the bookplate / Exlibris of Richard Meade to the original endpaper.

Britton, John.

The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain Represented and Illustrated in a Series of Views, Elevations, Plans, Sections and Details, of [Various] Ancient English Edifices: With historical and descriptive accounts of Each. [Including the rare Volume V: “Chronological History and Graphic Illustrations of Christian Architecture in England – Embracing “A Critical Inquiry into the Rise, Progress and Perfection of this Species of Architecture; Also Eighty-six Plates of Plans, Sections, Elevations and Views with Historical and Descriptive Accounts of each Edifice and Subject; an Alphabetical List of Architects of the Middle Ages and Chronological Lists of Ancient Churches, Sepulchral Monuments, Pulpits, Fonts, Stone Crosses, etc. – A Dictionary of Architectural Terms and copious Indexes].

First Edition. Five Volumes [complete set]. London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme; J.Taylor, Architectural Library and the Author, 1807 – 1835. Quarto (24 cm x 30 cm). Complete with 278 plates. Original Hardcover (Volume I professionally rebound, Volumes 2, 3, 4 and 5, professionally repaired. All Volumes in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Only very few plates with faded dampstain to outer margins. An extraordinary set of architectural scenery in high-quality engravings.

Russell, Michael.

Nubia and Abyssinia: Comprehending their Civil History, Antiquities, Arts, Religion, Literature, and Natural History. Illustrated by a Map and Twelve Engravings, Chiefly by Jackson.

First Edition. Edinburgh / London, Oliver & Boyd / Simpkin & Marshal, 1833. 11 cm x 17 cm. 440 pages. Fold-out-map of Nubia and Abyssinia placed before titlepage. Twelve single-page engraved illustrations. Nine of these are by Jackson, two by Branston and one by Wright. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with ‘Edinburgh Cabinet Library’– label on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Abrasions and tears evident to spine. Binding still firm and strong. Minor, clean tear in fold-out map. Some foxing to map, tissue-guard and titlepage. Private gift-inscription by preowner James Johnstone (possibly the scottish MP for Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire) to his sister A.E.Webster on endpaper. [Edinburgh Cabinet Library – XII].

Pugin, A. Welby / [Geoghegan, Charles].

Details of Antient Timber Houses of the 15th & 16th cent. selected from those existing at Rouen, Caen, Beauvais, Gisors, Abbeville, Strasbourg, etc. Drawn on the spot by A. Welby Pugin.

Rare original edition. [London], Ackermann & Co., 1836. Quarto (24 cm x 31 cm). Illustrated and partially handcoloured titlepage plus 21 plates with tissue – guards. Later 19th century full coth Hardcover with mounted vintage cover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and some very mild foxing only. Rare in this firm condition. / This the copy from the library of Dublin Architect and Engineer Charles Geoghegan, with his name on the titlepage.

Griffith, William Pettit.

Ancient Gothic Churches, their Proportions and Chromatics. [With a 19th century manuscript page on Sound-Design in Architecture / Sounddesign in Architecture: “Comparative Scale for Musical Sounds vs. Geometric Figures”] With Illustrations.

Part One and Part Two (of 3). London, Printed by Gilbert & Rivington / Published by the author, 1847-1848. Quarto. Volume I: VI, (2), 10 pages plus 4 plates. / Volume II: 44 pages plus 7 plates with 37 Illustrations. Original Softcover. The original publisher’s wrappers cleanly detached. A little dusty but the interior very good and clean on excellent paper. According to sources a third part has been published in 1852 but we could not verify this information. Extremely scarce original publication !

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 !

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.

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 !

[Building News].

The Building News and Engineering Journal – Six Volumes bound in Five – With c. 600 original, stunning Lithographs of Architectural Buildings and Designs [Volume XIV (which is the complete Year 1867, January to December, but erroneously says 1868 on spine) / Volume XXII and Volume XXIII (which is the complete Year 1872, January to December) PLUS: Three Volumes with hundreds of plates / illustrations for the years 1873, 1877 and 1878. Being the very rare Illustrations / Plates – Volumes only (no text) for 1873: Volume The Twenty-Fourth / Volume Twenty-Fifth and 1877: Volume The Thirty-Second / Volume The Thirty-Third and 1878: Volume The Thirty-Fourth and Volume The Thirty-Fifth.

London, Office for Publication and Advertisements, 1868 / 1872 / 1873 / 1877 / 1878. (23 cm x 32.5 cm). All Five Volumes together contain c. 600 stunning lithographs / plates of which c. 180 are large, double-page-plates. [c. 60 plates missing or defect.] Original Hardcover / Original half leather with gilt lettering to spine. Overall very firm and in very good condition of the five volumes with occasional pages missing or some illustrations torn (see detailed descriptions of pagination). The 1873 Volume excellent. The Volumes 1877 and 1878 with some stronger fraying and dampstain-damage to the corners (Illustrations NOT effected). The price for these 5 heavy Volumes includes international free UPS Express shipping.

Palm House Conservatory Belfast – Anonymus.

Palm House Conservatory – Botanical Garden in Belfast.

Original 19th century Gouache painting with title in ink mounted separately. Belfast, c. 1880. Beautifully framed. The frame with the Gouache measures: 36 cm x 38.5 cm. The Gouache itself measures: 15 cm high x 19 cm wide. Excellent condition of this beautiful original artwork showing the spectacular 19th century Palm House with surroundings.

Ferrand, J.

Le charpentier-serrurier au XIXe siecle: Constructions en fer et en bois. Charpentes mixtes en fer, fonte & bois Charpentes decoratives pour ateliers, magasins, halles, hangars, pavillons, galeries, passerelles, terrasses, planchers, portes, etc. Avec 87 (sur cent) Planches en Couleurs et Texte.

Edition Originale !! Paris, Librairie Polytechnique de J. Baudry, no date / s.d. [1881]. Folio (36.5 cm x 28 cm). 32 pages texte plus 87 (sur 100) planches. [With 87 of 100 plates] Original Hardcover / Reliure originale. Reliure defraiche. / Binding broken and rubbed. Several planches with tears but overall in still very good condition ! A very rare work on early iron cast construction, architecture and design. Beautiful colour lithographs ! / Bel ouvrage d’architecture ! Bel ouvrage d’architecture décrivant les avancées techniques de la charpenterie de fer et fonte, quelques années avant l’érection de la Tour Eiffel, publié sous le patronage de M. Alphand, inspecteur général des Ponts et Chaussées, directeur des travaux de la ville de Paris. / Beautiful architectural work describing the technical progress of the iron and cast iron carpentry, a few years before the erection of the Eiffel Tower, published under the patronage of Mr. Alphand, inspector general of the Ponts et Chaussées, director of works of the city of Paris.

[Chester Beatty, Sir Alfred] Holme, Charles (Charles Rennie Mackintosh / Charles Voysey and others).

The Studio: an illustrated magazine of fine and applied art. Alfred Chester Beatty’s personal set of “The Studio”; 97 volumes bound in 69 books with the Register for Vols 1-29 [Lacking Volume 61]. With original artwork by James McNeill Whistler and other important artists of the Belle Époque and Art Nouveau Movement.

97 Volumes (bound in 69 Volumes). London, Offices of The Studio, 1893 – 1929. Quarto. c. 20000 pages with illustrations, photographs, original lithographs, engravings. Contemporary private Hardcover (Uniform deep blue buckram with gilt lettering on spinelabels). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only a few of the Volumes a little shaky. With the handwritten entry “A. Chester Beatty – 24 Kensington Palace Gardens – W. 8”.

Burne-Jones, Sir Edward / Morris, William / Hastings, Percy / Whistler, L. McNeill and many others.

The Architectural Review : For the Artist & Craftsman. Volumes 1 – 30 (uninterrupted set of the first 30 Volumes published : Volume I (November – May – 1897 ) – Volume XXX (July – December 1911). The complete 15 years from 1897 to 1911 of the Art Nouveau period is resembled in these beautiful first 30 Volumes. With hundreds of illustrations on architecture and design and including several original lithographs by famous designers and artists of the time (Burne-Jones, Whistler etc.).

First Edition. 30 Volumes. London, Effingham House / Caxton House, 1897 – 1911. 23.5 cm x 32.5 cm. More than 8000 pages with hundreds of illustrations and original artwork. Original Hardcover (Green Publisher’s cloth with beautiful gilted ornament and lettering on spine). Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. All the Volumes firm and only very few Volumes with minor signs of external wear and some darkening to the spines. Important Source for the Arts and Crafts Movement //.

Beale, S. Sophia.

The Amateur’s Guide to Architecture. With Numerous Illustrations.

Edinburgh, John Grant, 1905. 12.5 cm x 18.5 cm. Frontispiece with guard, X, 180 pages. Numerous engraved illustrations throughout text. Prize-Binding in beautifully bound Hardcover (full navy morocco) with gilt lettering on red title-label on spine with raised bands and gilt-tooled decoration to compartments. Gilt amorial stamp of Wimborne Grammar School (now Queen Elizabeth’s School) embossed on front board. Ornate gillt ruling board edges. Marvelously marbled pastedowns, endpapers and edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. With protecive mylar. Few very small abrasions to leather at spine only. Crack to gutter between front endapers. Binding still good and firm. Some very minor foxing to otherwise clean and bright interior. Dated (July 1909) inscription from A.D.H Allan, Headmaster, and discreet stamps on front endpapers

Quennell, C.H.B.

Modern Suburban Houses – A Series of Examples erected at Hampstead & Elsewhere. From Designs by C.H.B. Quennell (Architect).

London, B.T.Batsford, 1906. Folio (28 cm x 36 cm). Frontispiece, XII, 43 plates in photogravure. Original Hardcover with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and cover. All pages loosely inserted. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library / collection of Manchester Architect Joseph “Joe” Sunlight, with his library stamp to the endpaper.

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 !

Moir Bryce, William.

Holyrood. Its Palace and Its Abbey. An Historical Appreciation. With 49 Illustrations (tipped in photographs with their original, titled tissue-guards).

Edition de Luxe (One of only 200 copies printed / this one unnumbered). Edinburgh, Otto Schulze and Company, 1914. 28.3cm x 22cm. xliv, 122 pages. Hardcover / Half leather with gilt lettering on spine and marbled endpapers. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

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.

Richardson, A.E. / Gill, C. Lovett.

Regional Architecture of the West of England.

London, Ernest Benn, 1924. 22.5cm x 28.5cm. XX, 188 pages. Original Hardcover (red cloth with gilt lettering on spine). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Brasfield, John C.

The Architectural Digest – A Pictorial Digest of California’s Finest Homes / A Pictorial Digest of the Best California Architecture. Volume VI. No.I.: Includes: Arthur K. Bourne House, Pasadena (Architect: Wallace Neff) / Geo. Lewis House, Beverly Hills, (Architect: Albert Farr) / A. Sager House, San Francisco (Architect: Roland I. Stringham) / Hart Weaver House, San Francisco (Architect: Henry H. Gutterson) / Walter H. Leimert House, Los Angeles (Architect: Robert D. Farquhar) / J.P.Whitmore House, San Marino (Architect: Kenneth A. Gordon) / Elks Club, San Francisco (Architects: Frederick H. Meyer and Albin R. Johnson) and many more. Issued Quarterly.

Los Angeles, John C. Brasfield, [1926]. Folio. 119 pages with numerous photographs of houses and interior. Original, illustrated softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare !

[James, W. & Co.] Hoare, G.L. / James, E.A. / Thomas W.J. / Anderson, W. (Directors).

Metal Windows – Stained & Leaded Glass. Catalogue No.6.

London, W.James & Co. Ltd., 1928. Folio (24.2 cm x 35.2 cm). 44 pages. Black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover folder with stunning art nouveau & art deco examples of Leaded Glazing. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Folder has some minor wear. Very minor foxing to edges. Minor tanning to page margins. Otherwise very bright and clean. Binding strong. Previous owner name label on introduction page.

Planat, P.

La Construction Moderne [44e Annee: 7 Octobre 1928 – 29 Septembre 1929]. Journal Hebdomadaire Illustré.

Paris, Librairie de la Construction Moderne, 1928-1929. 23.6 cm x 31 cm. 668 pages. With black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover. With quarter leather and marbled boards, pastedowns and endpapers. Raised bands and gilt title on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to edges. Moderate rubbing to cover corners and edges. Title-page loosely inserted / A few loose pages at beginning. Minor tear to rear endpaper. Otherwise binding strong.

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 !

Phillips, Randal.

The House Improved.

London, Country Life, 1931. 17.5 cm x 24 cm. VIII, 144 pages. Numerous monochrome illustrations throughout. Hardcover [publisher’s original quarter binding] with lettering on blue buckram spine and blue front board. With illustrated dustjacket in protective mylar. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior clean and bright.

Cahill, Holger and Barr, Alfred H.

Art in America in Modern Times. [With an essay by Lincoln Kirstein – Photography in the United States / With an essay by Henry-Russell Hitchcock: Henry Robson Richardson – The Development of the Skyscraper]. Edited by Holger Cahill and Alfred H Barr Jr.

First Edition. London, Methuen and Co Ltd, 1934. 24cm x 32cm. 110 pages. Original Hardcover without dustjacket. Titlepage with faint staining only. Otherwise overall in very good condition with only very minor signs of wear to the binding.

Whiteman, G.W.

Some Famous English Country Homes from the the time of Henry VIII to the Regency.

London, Antique Collector Ltd., 1951. 25.5 cm x 31 cm. 172 pages. Numerous mononchrome images throughout. Hardcover [publisher’s original grey cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Corners of boards show some rubbing and spine cloth slightly worn. Interior bright and clean.

Summerson, John.

Architecture in Britain 1530-1830 (Pelican History of Art).

London, Penguin Books, 1953. 18.4 cm x 26.4 cm. XVIII, 373 pages. Illustrated with black and white plates. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. With only minor foxing to edges, front pages and endpaper. Pages slightly tanned. Rear endpaper separated from book block. Gilt lettering to spine and emblem on front cover. Binding strong.

[Vanbrugh, John] Whistler, Laurence.

The Imagination of Vanbrugh and his fellow artists. [Together with the 4 Volume set of Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh (Bloomsbury, The Nonesuch Press, 1927) / Also together with an original, limited engraving of Vanbrugh’s “Pyramid at Stowe” by Artist John Ingamells].

First Edition. London, Art and Technics Limited/B.T. Batsford Limited, 1954. 22cm x 32cm. XV, 269, 86 unnumbered pages of illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to the slightly stained binding. [Including: Vanbrugh, John. The Complete Works of Sir John VanBrugh. The Plays Edited by Banamy Dobree. The Letters Edited by Geoffrey Webb. Volume I: Introduction / The Relapse / The Provok’d Wife / A Short Vindication of the Relapse and the Provok’d Wife from Immorality and Prohpaneness / Volume II containing: Aesop – Parts I and II / The Pilgrim / The False Friend / The Country House – Volume III: The Confederacy / The Mistake / A Journey to London / The Provok’d Husband / The Fourth Volume containing The Letters // Number1295 of 1300 numbered sets on machine-made paper (total 1410). Four Volumes (complete). Bloomsbury, The Nonesuch Press, 1927. 20cm x 26.5cm. XLIV, 239, 257, 290, 284 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with some signs of external wear. The Volumes in firm condition]

Yoshida, Tetsuro.

Das japanische Wohnhaus.

Erste Ausgabe. Tübingen, Wasmuth, 1954. 4. 204 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Originaler Leinenband mit illustriertem Schutzumschlag. Der Umschlag angeraendert und mit kleinen Einrissen. Mit kleinem, eingeklebten Geschenk-Schildchen auf dem Vorsatzblatt. Selten in dieser sehr guten Erhaltung mit dem originalen Umschlag.

Lang, James.

Rebuilding St. Paul’s after the Great Fire of London.

London, New York, Toronto, Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1956. 19.5 cm x 25.6 cm. XI, 269 pages. 22 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine faded. Top corner of front board bumped. Minor foxing to endpapers and hint of tanning to edges but interior otherwise bright and clean.

Wingler, Hans M.

Das Bauhaus – [1919-1933 Weimar – Dessau – Berlin].

First Edition. Bramsche, Gebr. Rasch Verlag, 1962. Quarto (26 cm x 29 cm). Frontispice, 556 pages with hundreds of photographs and tipped-in colour-plates. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

Baker, Geoffrey / Funaro, Bruno.

Motels.

Fifth Printing. New York, Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1963. Folio. 264 pages with numerous illustrations and photographs of Motels in California, Texas, Arizona, Florida, etc. Hardcover / Original, orange publisher’s cloth WITHOUT the original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Hinge slightly shaky. Name of preowner on titlepage.

Makowski, Z. S. (Zygmunt Stanislaw).

Steel Space Structures.

London, M. Joseph, 1965. 26 cm. 214 pages. Illustrations in colour and black and white throughout. Original, illustrated hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some rubbing of outer spine.

Cooke, Robert.

West Country Houses. An illustrated account of some country houses and their owners in the Counties of Bristol, Gloucester, Somerset and Wiltshire being also a guide to domestic architecture from the reign of Henry II to Victoria.

Second Edition. Bristol, Robert Cooke, 1967. 23.5cm x 33cm. 183 pages Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed by Robert Cooke in 1967.

Kaufmann, Anders J.

Residential Construction Systems. An investigation of the Feasibility and Application of a Systems Approach to Residential Construction Utilizing Steel Components. (In South Carolina: Charleston, Columbia, Spartanburg, Greenville). Research Report of the School of Architecture, Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina. June 1967.

First Edition. South Carolina, American Iron and Steel Institute Architectural Grant. 1967. 21.5cm x 27cm. 74 pages. Original paperback (softcover) with protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

National Economic Development Council.

The Future Pattern of Shopping.

London, H.M.S.O., 1971. 25cm. X,112 pages. Illustrations, including maps and plans, in black and white. Original softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Some rubbing and fading of spine.

Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall and Partners.

New Life in Old Towns. Report on two pilot studies on urban renewal in Nelson and Rawtenstall municipal boroughs.

London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1971. 21 cm x 29 cm. 212 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some rubbing to outer spine.

Singelenberg, Pieter/ Several authors.

Nederlandse Architectuur. Volume I: 1856-1934 Berlage (Haags Gemeentemuseum 30/8 – 16/11 1975), Volume II: 1880-1930 Americana (Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller), Volume III: 1893-1918 Architectura (Architectuur Museum Amsterdam 5/9 – 16/11 1975), Volume IV: 1910-1930 Amsterdamse School (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 13/9 – 9/11 1975).

Set of 4 volumes. Amsterdam, van Gennep, 1975. 27,5 cm x 21 cm. Volume I: 96 pagina’s / pages, Volume II: 112 pagina’s / pages, Volume III: 112 pagina’s / pages, Volume IV: 112 pagina’s / pages. Met talrijke illustraties in zwart-wit / With many black-and-white illustrations throughout catalogs. Illustrated Softcover. Afkomstig uit de bibliotheek van de modeontwerper Frans Molenaar. In zeer goede staat met slechts weinig sporen van slijtage / From the library of dutch fashion designer Frans Molenaar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Wharton, Edith / Parrish, Maxfield (illustrator).

Italian Villas and their Gardens.

Facsimile / Reprint of the original 1904 first edition. New York, Da Capo Press, No date (1976). 18 cm x 25 cm. XXII, 270 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Corners slightly bumped. [The Classical America Series in Art and Architecture]

Deilmann, Harald / Bickenbach, Gerhard / Pfeiffer, Herbert.

Wohnbereiche Wohnquartiere / Housing Groups / Zones d’habitat. Text in German, English and French.

Stuttgart, Karl Krämer Verlag, 1977. 22.7 cm x 27.9 cm. 144 pages. With black and white illustrations. With one fold-out table. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor stains to cloth cover. Only very minor foxing to edges. Rear pastedown contains publisher sticker. Stamp dated ‘7 Mar 1978’ and initials in pen on front endpaper. No.11 of the series: Dokumente der modernen Architektur.

[Wagner, Otto], Geretsegger, Heinz, Peintner, Max.

Otto Wagner, 1841-1918. Unbegrenzte Groszstadt, Beginn der Modernen Architektur. Unter Mitarbeit von Walter Pichler. Neu bearbeitete und erweiterte Ausgabe.

Salzburg, Vienna, Residenz Verlag, 1978. 23.5 cm x 28 cm. 283 pages. 306 illustrations, 6 full-page colour illustrations and a map of Vienna. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Pildas, Ave / Irwin Smith, Lucinda.

Movie Palaces – Survivors of an Elegant Era. Text by Lucinda Smith, Foreword by King Vidor.

New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc/Publishers New York, 1980. 23.5 cm x 30.5 cm. 128 pages. Illustrated with 181 full colour photographs and 15 black-and-white photographs by Ave Pildas. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. The dustjacket with some tears but otherwise the publication overall in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.

Argyll – An Inventory of the Monuments – Volume 4: IONA.

Edinburgh, The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1982. Folio. XVI, 296 pages with illustrations and VII plans showing the elevations and sections of Iona Abbey. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Two pages with a verty minor paper-defect due to the pages being stuck together at one corner when the book came fresh from the printer.

Kohlmaier, Georg / von Sartory, Barna.

Houses of Glass: A Nineteenth-Century Building Type.

Cambridge / London, The MIT Press, 1986. 22.5 cm x 28.6 cm. 641 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. The Price of this heavy publication includes international shipping per Courier !

Jones, Owen.

Grammar of Chinese Ornament. Selected from objects in the South Kensington Museum and other collections.

London, Studio Editions, [1987]. 34 cm. 100 Plates with ornaments. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very minor signs of foxing to the endpapers only. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

[van der Rohe, Mies].

Mies van der Rohe’s German Pavilion in Barcelona (1929 – 1986).

Barcelona, Public Foundation for the Mies van der Rohe German Pavilion in Barcelona (Ajuntament de Barcelona), 1987. Folio (24 cm wide x 32 cm high). 119 pages with illustrations and photographs throughout. Original, illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

Graby, John, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland.

150 years of Architecture in Ireland. RIAI, 1839-1989.

Dublin, RIAI : Eblana Editions, 1989. 31 cm. 129 pages. Illustrations in black and white throughout. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes essays by Seamus Heaney and Myles na gCopaleen (Flann O’Brien).

Ní Mhuirí, Niamh.

Pollution in a Social Context with Emphasis on the Significance of Building Structures.

Limerick, Published By Author, 1990. 21.1 cm x 29.8 cm. 40 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to top edges. Otherwise excellent.

Kahn, Deborah

Canterbury Cathedral and its Romanesque Sculpture.

London and Texas, Harvey Miller Publishers and University of Texas Press, 1991. 21.5 cm x 28 cm. 230 pages. 290 Illustrations: 278 black-and-white and 12 colour plates. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

[Morris, William] Hollamby, Edward / Webb, Philip.

Red House – Bexleyheath 1859.

New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991. 29.7 cm x 29.8 cm. 57 pages (unpaginated). With many colour and black and white illustrations and photographs. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor signs of discolouration to page edges. Otherwise bright and clean. (Architecture in Detail, No. 03).

Tschernichow, Jakow.

Konstruktion der Architektur und Maschinenformen. Mit einer Einleitung von Leonid Demjanow. Aus dem Russischen Von N. A. Jepantschin.

Basel / Berlin / Boston, Birkhäuser Verlag, 1991. 22,5 cm x 30 cm. XV, 232 pages, (40) pages. Original Hardcover. Sehr seltene Publikation / Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. [Sowjetische Architektur in der Edition Archibook].

Hall, Michael.

The English Country House. From the Archives of Country Life 1897 – 1939.

First Edition. London, Mitchell Beazley, 1994. 27cm x 36cm. 192 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

Innes, Jocasta.

Scandinavian Painted Decor. Photography by David George.

London, Cassell, 1995. 21.5 cm x 28 cm. Colour Frontispiece. 256 pages. With colour illustrations throughout. Original Softcover. Close to new condition.

Mikule, Václav / Kreuzzieger, Milan / Svatosova, Hana / Valcharova, Vladislava / Halirova, Marie / Müllerova, Vera / Jungmann, Jan / Zapletal, Peter / Jerie, Pavel /

Obecni dum v Praze – Historie a Rekonstrukce. [Municipal House in Prague].

Praha, Enigma, 1997. 4°. 192 pages with 140 illustrations (mainly photographs of buildings / interior / Design / Designelements). Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. With a separate leaf explaining the 140 illustrations of Prague Interiors in english.

Ehrlich, Steven.

Architects. Introduction by Joseph Giovannini. Essay by Steven Ehrlich.

First Edition. New York, Rizzoli International Publications Inc., 1998. 21.5cm x 28cm. 231 pages. Original paperback (softcover). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

Tregenza, Peter.

The Design of Lighting.

London, E. & F.N. Spon, 1998. 28 cm. xi,164 pages with numerous illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

[Gay, Walter and Matilda] Rieder, William.

A Charmed Couple. The Art and Life of Walter and Matilda Gay.

First Edition. New York, Harry N. Abrams Inc, 2000. 22cm x 27.5cm. 239 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

Teehan, Virginia / Wincott Heckett, Elizabeth.

The Honan Chapel – A Golden Vision.

Cork, Cork University Press, 2004. 25 cm x 33 cm. XV, 240 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

Watson, Frank.

The Hush House: Cold War Sites In England.

London, Hush House Publishers, 2004. 29,5 cm x 24,5 cm. [48] pages with Illustrations throughout. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed by the Frank Watson !

Long, David.

Spectacular Vernacular: London’s 100 Most Extraordinary Buildings.

Stround (Gloucestershire), Sutton Publishing, 2006. 20 cm x 27,5 cm. VII, 216 pages with Illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

Bronsky, Eric / Samors, Neal.

Downtown Chicago in Transition. Foreword by Joel Daly.

Second Edition. Chicago, Chicago’s Books Press, 2007. 22,5 cm x 29 cm. 253 pages with illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

Hodges, Rev. Richard J. / Pike, W.T.

Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century / Contemporary Biographies. / [History of Big Houses, Town Houses and Country Estates in Cork, County Cork, North Cork, East Cork & West Cork with original Photographs of Houses and Portraits as well as Biographies of the Men and their Families who lived in these Houses] / [Half-Leather-Version – Limited Edition Reprint]. Edited by W. T. Pike.

Limited Edition Reprint of the First and only Edition by Pike in 1911. [Skibbereen (County Cork)], Inanna Rare Books / Inanna Reprint Series, 2022. 4° (24,5 cm wide x 33,5 cm high). 319 pages with hundreds of photographs and including an Index to Biographies and Illustrations. Hardcover / Half-Leather with marbled-paper-covered boards in protective Collector’s Mylar. [Important Information: This special limited edition has a special feature which makes each volume of this reprint unique: Each version of the book is bound by hand by a craft-bookbindery and the colour of the leather and endpapers, as well as the marbled-paper-covered boards, are always different / This means the interior is always the same while the look of the binding can differ from the image attached to this description]. One of 350 copies of the Half-Leather-version of a limited edition, republished by Inanna Rare Books Ltd. / This high-quality reprint, hand-bound and hand-numbered, includes hundreds of photographs of grand houses in the irish countryside from South Cork to North Cork, from East Cork to West Cork. The stories of the houses are not only accompanied by photographs of now mostly vanished or derelict homes, the images also show the original state of homes which are now restructured etc. The second part of the publication offers an abundance of historical biographies of local irish Nobility (Meade family, O’Callaghan, Browne, Kelly etc.), Gentry and Clergy and general owners of Country Houses etc. [Pike’s New Century Series].

Hodges, Rev. Richard J. / Pike, W.T.

Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century / Contemporary Biographies. / [History of Big Houses, Town Houses and Country Estates in Cork, County Cork, North Cork, East Cork & West Cork with original Photographs of Houses and Portraits as well as Biographies of the Men and their Families who lived in these Houses] / [Full-Leather-Version – Limited Edition Reprint]. Edited by W. T. Pike.

Limited Edition Reprint of the First and only Edition by Pike in 1911. [Skibbereen (County Cork)], Inanna Rare Books / Inanna Reprint Series, 2022. 4° (24,5 cm wide x 33,5 cm high). 319 pages with hundreds of photographs and including an Index to Biographies and Illustrations. Hardcover / Full-Leather with marbled-paper-covered boards in protective Collector’s Mylar. [Important Information: This special limited edition has a special feature which makes each volume of this reprint unique: Each version of the book is bound by hand by a craft-bookbindery and the colour of the leather and endpapers, are always different / This means the interior is always the same while the look of the binding can differ from the image attached to this description]. One of 150 copies of the Full-Leather-version of a limited edition, republished by Inanna Rare Books Ltd. / This high-quality reprint, hand-bound and hand-numbered, includes hundreds of photographs of grand houses in the irish countryside from South Cork to North Cork, from East Cork to West Cork. The stories of the houses are not only accompanied by photographs of now mostly vanished or derelict homes, the images also show the original state of homes which are now restructured etc. The second part of the publication offers an abundance of historical biographies of local irish Nobility (Meade family, O’Callaghan, Browne, Kelly etc.), Gentry and Clergy and general owners of Country Houses etc. [Pike’s New Century Series].