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New York: William H. Graham, 1851. First edition. Vol. 1 wear to corners, Vol. II rebacked in black cloth with gilt front cover design replicated on vol. 1. cover but not colored. Very good. 2 Vols. Folio, 37" x 28 cm. Sets of both volumes are rare. HITCHCOCK 971. Notes scattered holdings of Volumes I and II, but… Read more about this item

New York: MOMA, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black basket weave cloth, paper spine label. Very good. 198 pages. 22.5 x 20 cm. 87 black and white plates printed recto only, the first solo photography exhibition catalogue produced by MOMA, a major, seminal work to document American life in the 1930's. 50 images in part one and 37… Read more about this item

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1987. Hardcover. Quarter green and salmon cloth decorated in gilt. Fine. 54 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Illustrated. Officers of the Club, 1912-1987. Publications. As new copy.

Boston: L. Prang, 1893. Hardcover. Orig. white boards, front cover lettered and decorated in blue and gilt. Very good. Unpaginated. 29 x 23 cm. Twelve full page color lithographed plates after designs by Crane printed recto only on high gloss stock with Prang's sterling color processing in a multitude of colors. Slight blemish front cover at foot. … Read more about this item

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

New York: C.M. Saxton And Company, 1857. Fifth Edition enlarged. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth decorated in blind. Very good   . 532 pages (2). 24 x 15.5 cm. Enlarged and newly illustrated,eighteen sixteen plates including frontispiece with copious illustrations in the text. Originally published 1841. HITCHCOCK 364. KARPEL B528. "This is the first book devoted entirely to landscape gardening and… Read more about this item

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

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

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

New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1844. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray/green cloth decorated in blind, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt. Very good. 497 pages. 24 x 15.5 cm. Second edition, enlarged and newly illustrated, sixteen plates including frontispiece with copious illustrations in the text. Originally published 1841. HITCHCOCK 355. KARPEL B528. "This is the first book devoted… Read more about this item

New York: John Wiley, 1887. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, front cover in black and red. Very good. 261 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Illustrated with numerous engravings, full page and smaller. HITCHCOCK 346. KARPEL B224. "According to Henry-Russell Hitchcock, `Only with the appearance in 1842 (of this title) were the various Cottage and Villa… Read more about this item

New York: William D. Smith, 1841. leather_bound. Orig. brown roan rebacked with original black spine gilt label. Very good. 119 pages in text. 30 25.5 cm. Small folio, frontispiece, plates 1-53, 56-88. Glossary of Technical Terms. HITCHCOCK 693. KARPEL B107. "Asher Benjamin and Minard Lafever were the two architectural authors most influential in the development of the Greek… Read more about this item

New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1846. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's, forest green cloth. Very good. 594 pages. 20 x 12.4 cm. More than 210 text illustrations. Extensive Index to the Different Fruits. General Index. Abbreviations and Books Quoted.Downing notes, "there are more peaches exposed in the markets of New York, annually, than are raised in all of France;" a… Read more about this item

New York: Orange, Judd, 1871. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Very good/Near fine. 287 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Approximately 150 engravings, including model homes, floor plans and drawings. "Atwood's designs illustrate well the tendency at this period of American building to regard architectural style as a kind of overlay... There are designs… Read more about this item

Chicago: Herbert Stone, 1902. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated tan cloth. Very good. 165 pages. 22 x 17.5 cm . Profusely illustrated with photographs. Taste at the turn of the century for the upward bound -- decorous, decent but never declasse. Published by one ofthe more distinguished Chicago houses. Bumps to corners.