Search Results: Architecture, Civil Engineering from Georg Schneebeli :: Rare Books & Prints

Lecture IV Architecture and History, pp. 1–33; and Lecture V Westminster Abbey, pp. 35–50. Lecture Architecture and History was first given by Morris as a paper read before the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) on July 1. 1884. Westminster Abbey was a paper written for the SPAB in June of 1893.
Description: Pale blue paper over boards, with the title page text reproduced on the upper front cover, cloth spine. Octavo: 21 × 14.5 cm; pp. [2] 50. Printed from 'Golden' type on fine mould-made paper.
Ref.: Walsdorf 77
Condition: Some age toning and soiling to covers (back cover has a slightly larger spot at the bottom), a bit of edgewear and slight sunning to spine. Usual age tanning to one side of free endpapers. Pages are clean and bright, hinges are sound.

First edition of Josef Frank's (1885–1967) most important theoretical work on architecture.
Description: Paper covered boards with original dust jacket, lettered in black. Octavo: 19 × 13 cm; pp. viii, 190.
Condition: Dust jacket torn, a longer tear to base of front cover (c. 7 cm), a major loss on the back cover (c. 5 × 2 cm). Binding tight and intact. A small water stain on the first 6 leaves. Otherwise clean and very well preserved.
Notes: Along with Adolf Loos and Josef Hoffmann, Frank was one of the most important protagonists of Viennese Modernism. Frank's critical and polemical texts, which accompanied the development of architecture in Austria, cover the subjects of architecture, housing and urban planning. Frank is rightly regarded as a major critic of functionalism. To the end, he sought to reveal the layers of meaning of modernism and to regain some of the freedom it had lost through its dogmatisation.

First edition of the volume on Renaissance architecture in Germany, Holland, Belgium and Denmark.
Description: Half morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine, raised bands. Quarto: 27 × 19 cm; pp. viii, 269, [2] ll., publisher's advertisements to the rear. With 340 in-text illustrations and 7 plates. Edges red.
Condition: Binding shows very slight shelf wear, spine somewhat discoloured. Internally, clean and free of marks. For its age a very well preserved copy.

A landmark in the literature of naval architecture and shipbuilding.
Description: Contemporary calf, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, raised bands. Contemporary marbled endpapers. Octavo: 25 × 19 cm; pp. [1] ll., xliv, 1-49, ii-xxix, [51]-484. With the frontispiece engraved by Chedel, and engraved by Nicolas Ozanne, 2 vignettes (one on the title page and one on the dedication page), 9 headpieces and 24 numbered plates (on 23 folding plates).
Ref.: Polak: 2859; Scheepvaart Mus.: ii, 747; OL-ID: OL24604183M
Condition: Binding shows some minor bumps and scuffs and a few surface abrasions. The joints are somewhat age brittle. Contents with occasional minor blemish but generally clean. Nonetheless a very good copy.
Notes: Duhamel du Monceau's manual is considered a milestone in the literature of naval architecture and shipbuilding. This second edition, with an additional chapter by the author himself, contains corrections and additional illustrations not included in the first edition of 1752.