Architecture

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:: Alice Austin,, 2010.. Edition of 60. 5 x 5.25"; 11 pages plus title. A one-sheet book printed by offset lithography in six colors. Required six runs through the Heidelberg Kors press at the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts. Laid in an illustrated letter fold wrapper. Signed and numbered by Austin and Snyder. Alice Austin: "Nolli, an exploration of textural layers of Rome by Alice Austin and Jon Snyder, was inspired by the Giambattista Nolli map of Rome, 1748. This project is the result of research done as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. The front and back covers show elements from the Nolli map combined with a photo of a litho of the Roman fragments of the city map. The red line that continues throughout the book is the city wall and is shown on the reverse side of the map in white. The first page is a detail photo of the Nolli map. The second page is a watercolor of Bramante's Tempietto [a small commemorative martyrium]. The third… Read More

West Hurley, New York: Society for the Preservation of Hudson Vally. Near Fine. 2005. Limited/Signed/Numbered. Hardcover. 0976599007 . Limited, signed & numbered edition of 500 of which this is #315. Signature dated Nov.7, 2006. Clean pictorial boards. Marbled endpaper. Illustrated with B/W photographs, drawings and floor plans. Pictorial color frontispiece. Text's interior clean, tight and intact. Architecture, Dutch; B/W Photographs; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 449 pages; Signed by Author .

NY: Phaidon Press, 2005. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Phaidon Press, 2005, reprinted 2006. Thick folio, 12 1/4" x 12", 464pp., lavishly illustrated with full color reproductions. Bound in laminated and die cut boards with clear acetate printed dust jacket. Minor rub spot on bottom edge, else fine in near fine dust jacket with light fray and toning. . Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio.

Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2004. Signed by Rem Koolhaas. Also signed by the architect Joshua Prince-Ramus. First edition / First printing. Pictorial wrappers. Very fine. Rem Koolhaas is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 2000. Joshua Prince-Ramus founded the New York office of OMA in 2000, and was a principal designer, along with Koolhaas, of projects such as the Seattle Public Library and the Guggenheim Las Vegas Museum. In May 2006 the New York office split from OMA to become the firm REX.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Boldly Signed by Rem Koolhaas on a large sheet (6" x 8") of archival Arches paper, laid into the book First edition / First printing. Pink paper-covered boards. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light wear to the edges, an outstanding copy of a scarce title. Rem Koolhaas is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 2000.

New York: Rizzoli, 2018. Signed on the half-title page by Stephen Holl and dated 6 26 19. First edition / First printing. Black cloth and laminated pictorial boards. With laminated pictorial slipcase. Very fine in fine slipcase. In 1998, Holl was awarded the prestigious Alvar Aalto Medal. Holl was named the 2012 AIA Gold Medal winner.

Oblong-folio plate volume from Robert von Spalart's multi-volume series on the costumes of ancient civilizations to medieval and modern times.Title on spine reads Spalart Kostum, Foliotafeln 1-5, but collection contains all 112 folio plates to Antiquity parts 1-5, plus 43 plates illustrating the Middle Ages.With allegorical frontispiece, and 154 fine handcolored copperplate engravings A to SSSSS (ancient world from Egypt to Rome including Pompeii and Herculaneum) and I to XLIII (Anglo-Saxon and Norman). Plates engraved by K. Ponheimer, Paul Weindl, after illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Julien-David Le Roy, Johann Just Winckelmann, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Antonio Jolli, Friedrich Justin Bertuch, Sir William Hamilton, Carsten Niebuhr, Jean Chardin, Cornelis Le Bruyn, Juan Bautista Villalpando, Alessandro Galilei, Antoine Augustin Calmet,Karl Gottlieb Guischardt, Gabriel Daniel, Johann Georg Graevius, Ferdinando Galiani, Jean-Claude Richard Abbé de Saint-Non, etc.Robert von… Read More

Faber, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x5x1. Influential Italian architect Bruno Zevi's mid-century study of modern architecture with an emphasis on American activity, more specifically Frank Lloyd Wright's work between the two World Wars. Densely illustrated with many previously unpublished photos, detailed floor plans and renderings. First and only edition. Includes two laid-in handwritten notes and one 3 1/2" x 5" photo of the rear of a Harvey Park Clark designed house at 3900 Sandhill Road in Woodside, California. Photos of the front of this house appear on the front panel of the dust jacket and in one of the photo sections. Clark is also mentioned in the text. See images below of the notes for relevant content on the house. Scarce. 180 pp. 9" x 6". Tight, unmarked copy with minimal shelf wear. Price-clipped dust jacket in archival Brodart sleeve with small areas of loss to head and tail of spine panel and two small tears to bottom edge of front panel. A presentable copy… Read More

Rare complete set of this monumental study of PompeiiComplete with 150 chromolithographic plates in elephant-folio size of wall paintings, statues, figures, furniture, graffiti, plaster-casts of bodies and views of ruins from ancient Pompeii.Originally published in five parts with 30 plates in each.Lithographed by D. Capri after G. Discanno, A de Simone, V. Mollame, V. Loria, S. de Stefani, A. Carelli, A. Magliano, and directed by Antonio Niccolini. Text by Antonio Sogliano, in Italian, German, English and French.Antonio Sogliano (1854-1942) was an Italian archaeologist. From 1906 to 1929, he was professor of the antiquities of Pompeii at the University of Naples Federico II.Antonio Niccolini was grandson of the architect and scenic designer Antonio Niccolini Sr. (1772-1850). Antonio Jr. also published the final two volumes of Fausto and Felice Niccolini's monumental book on the interior design of Pompeii, Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei (Houses and monuments of Pompeii), 1854-1897, after the… Read More

New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 1997. First edition / First printing. The uncommon first edition with the copyright date listed as 1997. Note: any copy listing multiple copyright dates is a later printing. Grayish-white cloth with square spine. (Later printings have a convex, rounded spine). Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Many later printings of this title are misidentified as first editions. Frank O. Gehry is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 1989.

This Book is in overall Very Good Condition. The Dust Jacket (protected by a Dust Jacket Protector, not pictured) has Light Soiling (noticeable as the Dust Jacket is white) and Light Edgewear, including a Small Bump to the Fore Edge of the Front Cover which has caused a Very Small, 1/4" long Tear but No Large Tears, Creases, Stains, or Other Major Damage. The Hardcover Boards have Light Edgewear but No Tears, Creases, Stains, or Any Major Damage. The Binding is Strong, Intact, and Undamaged. The Interior is Clean and Unmarked with No Writing, Highlighting, or Underlining and has No Tears, Creases, Stains, Mold, or Any Major Damage. The Page Edges have No Remainder Mark, Foxing, Stains, or Any Major Damage.

This Book is Conservatively Graded in Very Good Condition. The Hardcover Boards (No Dust Jacket, likely as Issued) have Very Light Bumping at the Head and Base of the Spine but otherwise retain Sharp Corners with No Tears, Stains, or Other Major Damage. The Binding is Strong, Intact, and Undamaged. The Interior is Clean and Unmarked with No Writing, Highlighting, or Underlining and has No Tears, Creases, Stains, Mold, or Any Major Damage. The Page Edges have No Remainder Mark, Spotting, Soiling, or Any Major Damage. Securely Packed and Promptly Shipped.Book Description:Villa Cornaro, in the Venetan village of Piombino Dese, was designed by Andrea Palladio in 1551 as a country manor for the Venetian patrician Giorgio Cornaro. Palladio is regarded as the most influential architect in the history of Western architecture, and Villa Cornaro's dramatic two-story projecting loggia-portico motif has been widely copied in later architecture, bringing recognition to Villa Cornaro as a… Read More

Vitruvius M. Ten books on the architecture of Vitruvius with a commentary by Daniele Barbaro. With the appendix of a treatise by Giuseppe Salviati on the method of accurately drawing the Ionian volute. Translation by A.I. Venediktov, V.P. Zubov and F.A. Petrovsky. Introductory article and notes by V.P. Zubov. / Classics of the theory of architecture. Under the general editorship of A.G. Gabrichevsky. M.: publishing house of the All-Union Academy of Architecture, 1938. XXVIII, 478, [2] p.; from ill. in the text and 2 illus. on separate sheets. 34 x 25.5 cm. Artist I.F. Rerberg. In publisher's binding. Excellent security.Mark Vitruvius Pollio (I century BC) - Roman architect and mechanic, scientist-encyclopedist. Received an architectural education. During the civil war, under the leadership of Julius Caesar, he took part in the construction of military vehicles. Later, being a military engineer, he independently developed and created ballistas and other siege weapons. Among the embodied projects of… Read More

D.W. Kingery, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. NF/NF/1st ed. Signed. A beautiful book, boldly signed on the title page( name only) by the author. Dust Jacket has no nicks or tears, good even color with a high gloss. Jacket now covered with a mylar sleeve. Book is clean and unmarked, firm binding, sharp cornered. Photos on just about every page. 189pp. Comes to you in an acid free document bag for storage. Mailed boxed, and I can have it in the mail tomorrow. BRBC

London: Published at the Offices of "Country Life, 1913. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio. 344, 15 pages. Hardcover bound in white quarter cloth with grey cloth covered boards. The binding is quite worn and stained but sound. Old glass rings and stains on the front cover, especially at the fore edge. The white cloth spine is foxed and the spine is toned and the spine gilt a bit dulled. A sound copy with secure hinges. Text is clean. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. Signed on the back side of the frontis by William Lanier Hunt. William Lanier Hunt (1906-1996) was the "Dean of Southern Horticulture." He donated land along the Morgan Creek in southern Orange County, NC to the North Carolina Botanical Garden and is now known as the Hunt Arboretum.