‎Europe‎

‎De Gaulle, Charles‎

‎The War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle -- Documents; Translated from the French by Joyce Murchie and Hamish Erskine 2 volumes‎

‎New York: Simon and Schuster 1960. Hardcover. Near Fine. 2 volumes in slipcase -- Unity: 1942-1944 Documents 1959; Salvation 1944-1946 Documents 1960. 424 p.; 404 p.; 22 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine titles. Grey slipcase; red and grey label on the front with title: The War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle Documents volumes 2 and 3. Each volume has an index. In Near Fine Condition: black remainder marks on lower page edges; otherwise clean and tight. Slipcase is in Very Good Condition: corners are slightly rubbed; clean and solid. Simon and Schuster hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 010386

‎Holmes, Martin‎

‎The Crown Jewels at the Tower of London‎

‎London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1970. Paperback. Very Good -. Second impression of the third edition. 35 1 p.: illustrations some in color; 20 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover; stapled. Scarce. In Very Good- Condition: cover is lightly soiled; lower corners slightly creased; pages are clean and bright. Her Majesty's Stationery Office paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 010392

‎Grand-Carteret, John‎

‎L'Histoire La Vie Les Moeurs et la Curiosité par l'Image le Pamphlet et le Document 1450-1900 -- vol. 5‎

‎Paris: Librairie de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts 1928. Hardcover. Very Good . Vol. 5 only: 2 474 2 p. color frontispiece 28 leaves of plates some in color some folded: 572 in-text and full-page illustrations; 32 cm. Full leather; boards are dark green; gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Gilt-stamped decoration on spine and illustration on front board; blind-stamped decoration on front board. Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Tri-color ribbon bookmark. Title page printed in red and black. This is no. 357 of a limited edition of 1500 copies. Entirely in French. This volume contains material from the 19th century. Includes an index of artists. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Doris Ryer Nixon 1893-1948. A heavy book; for international shipping the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority/expedited shipping. In Very Good Condition: joints spine ends and corners are rubbed; pages and plates are clean and tight. Librairie de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 010253

‎Grand Carteret John‎

‎L'Histoire La Vie Les Moeurs et la Curiosité par l'Image le Pamphlet et le Document 1450-1900 -- vol. 2‎

‎Paris: Librairie de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. Vol. 2 only: 6 470 2 p. color frontispiece 28 leaves of plates some in color some folded: 453 in-text and full-page illustrations; 32 cm. Full leather; boards are dark green; gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Gilt-stamped decoration on spine and illustration on front board; blind-stamped decoration on front board. Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Title page printed in red and black. This is no. 357 of a limited edition of 1500 copies.Entirely in French. This volume contains material from the 16th century. Includes an index of artists. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Doris Ryer Nixon 1893-1948. A heavy book; for international shipping the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority/expedited shipping. In Very Good Condition: joints spine ends and corners are rubbed; front joint is starting to separate; loss at tail of spine; circular discoloration on front board; pages and plates are clean and tight. Librairie de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 010250

‎Grand Carteret John‎

‎L'Histoire La Vie Les Moeurs et la Curiosité par l'Image le Pamphlet et le Document 1450-1900 -- vol. 1‎

‎Paris: Librairie de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts 1927. Hardcover. Very Good . Vol. 1 only: viii 470 2 p. color frontispiece 28 leaves of plates some in color some folded: 405 in-text and full-page illustrations; 32 cm. Full leather; boards are dark green; gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Gilt-stamped decoration on spine and illustration on front board; blind-stamped decoration on front board. Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Tri-color ribbon bookmark. Title page printed in red and black. This is no. 357 of a limited edition of 1500 copies. Entirely in French. This volume contains material from the 15th and 16th centuries. Includes an index of artists. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Doris Ryer Nixon 1893-1948. A heavy book; for international shipping the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority/expedited shipping. In Very Good Condition: joints spine ends and corners are rubbed; pages and plates are clean and tight. Librairie de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 010249

‎Salerno, Luigi; Spezzaferro, Luigi; Tafuri, Manfredo‎

‎Via Giulia: Una Utopia Urbanistica del 500‎

‎Rome: Casa Editrice Stabilimento Aristide Staderini 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 541 3 pages 23 leaves with tipped-on color plates: many in-text black-and-white illustrations; 29 cm. Red-brown cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Includes indices. Text is in Italian. A very heavy book; for international shipping the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority/expedited shipping. Book is in Very Good Condition: joints are weak; otherwise clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: rubbed sunned and lightly soiled; separated for 1 cm. at tail of spine; otherwise solid and bright. Casa Editrice Stabilimento Aristide Staderini hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 010273

‎de Seta Cesare‎

‎Roma: Cinque Secoli di Vedute‎

‎Naples: Electa Napoli 2006. Hardcover. Fine. 158 2 pages: illustrations; 29 cm. Hardback with illustrated cover. Rome as presented in art from five centuries. Text is in Italian. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. Electa Napoli hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 010279 ISBN : 8851003599 9788851003593

‎Petreschi Marco‎

‎Tracce Espressione e Segni Attorno all'Opera die Fatebenefratelli in Sicilia 1586-1866 a cura di Marco Petreschi inscribed by the author to architects Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi‎

‎Rome: Edizioni Libreria Dedalo 1995. Paperback. Very Good. 119 1 p.: illustrations maps plans; 24 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Gift inscription from the author dated 1995 to architects Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi on the half title page. Published to accompany a exhibition at Sala Convegni San Riccardo Pampuri Ospedale Buccheri La Ferla. Text is in Italian. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: spine is sunned; cover is lightly soiled; pages are clean and tight. Edizioni Libreria Dedalo paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 010040 ISBN : 8886599005 9788886599009

‎The Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls‎

‎Vatican City: Pontifical Administration of the Patriarchal Basilica of Saint Paul 2003. Paperback. Near Fine. 79 1 p.: color illustrations; 24 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. In Near Fine Condition: slightly rubbed; clean and tight. Pontifical Administration of the Patriarchal Basilica of Saint Paul paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 010049 ISBN : 882094619X 9788820946197

‎Mandler, Peter‎

‎The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home‎

‎New Haven: Yale University Press 1997. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. viii 523 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Blue cover with gilt spine title. Blue endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. A "path-breaking and wide-ranging account of the changing fortunes and status of the stately homes of England over the past two centuries." -- dust jacket. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: edges slightly rubbed; clean and bright. Yale University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 010081 ISBN : 0300067038 9780300067033

‎The Edge of the Arsenal = L'Intorno dell' Arsenale‎

‎Venice Italy: International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design ILAUD 1999. Paperback. Fine. 211 p.: illustrations; 30 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Text is in Italian and English. Preliminary proposals for the 21st century use of the Venetian Arsenal a complex of former shipyards and armories in Venice. Since this parts of the complex have been modernized and used as the operations center for the MOSE Project the flood defense system erected to protect Venice and the Venetian Lagoon from flooding. Scarce. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design (ILAUD) paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 010131 ISBN : 8838716536 9788838716539

‎Falda, Giovanbattista; Venturini, Giovanni Francesco‎

‎Le Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e nei Giardini; Giovanbattista Falde Giovanni Francesco Venturini; A cura de Giulio Fefe; Introduzione de Livio Jannattoni provenance: Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown‎

‎Rome: Edizioni dell' Obelisco 1978. Hardcover. Good . 18 p. 1 33 28 1 leaves: illustrations; 28 x 40cm. Orange cloth with gilt spine title and cover illustration. Orange cloth over slipcase with paper labels on front and back printed in black. Stated First Edition. A facsimile reproduction of the work on the fountains of Rome first published in the late 17th century. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper to Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: "For Bob and Denise. Merry Christmas 1984 Thanks for getting me here. I miss you. Love" illegible. Scarce. A heavy book; for international shipping the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority international. In Good Condition: both hinges are very weak; otherwise clean and bright. Slipcase is in Very Good Condition: labels are faded along edges; lightly soiled; solid. Edizioni dell' Obelisco hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 009951

‎Bluhm, Andreas; Lippincott, Louise‎

‎Light! The Industrial Age 1750-1900: Art & Science Technology & Society‎

‎Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum 2000. Paperback. Near Fine -. Published to accompany the exhibition by the same name at the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam and the Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh. A fascinating examination of the ways in which the developing technologies of light production were used and depiscted by artists from 1750 to 1900. Includes a chronology catalog and index. A heavy book; for international shipping the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority/expedited shipping. In Near Fine- Condition: edges slightly rubbed; small crease near lower corner of front cover; clean and tight. Van Gogh Museum paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 010007 ISBN : 0880390409 9780880390408

‎Sinclair, Fiona‎

‎Scotstyle: 150 Years of Scottish Architecture by Fiona Sinclair; with an Introduction by Colin McWilliam‎

‎Edinburgh: Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland 1984. Paperback. Near Fine. 128 p.: illustrations; 27 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Plans and black-and-white illustrations with one example for every year from 1834 through 1983. Includes index of architects and index of buildings. In Near Fine Condition: cover is lightly rubbed; clean and tight. Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 009828 ISBN : 0707304229 9780707304229

‎Cliffe J. T.‎

‎The World of the Country House in Seventeenth-Century England‎

‎New Haven: Yale University Press 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/near fine. viii 232 p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Brown cloth with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Book is in Very Good Condition: slight wavyness to the page dues to improper storage; clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: slightly rubbed at head of spine and corners; clean and bright. Yale University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 009838 ISBN : 0300076436 9780300076431

‎Caldenby, Claes; Nygaard, Erik, editors‎

‎Arkitekturteoriernas Historia‎

‎Stockholm: Forskningsradet Formas 2011. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 499 p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Red cover with blue spine title and blind-stamped cover title. Black endpapers. White dust jacket printed in dark blue. Text is in Swedish. Book and dust jacket are in Fine Condition: clean and solid. Forskningsradet Formas hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 009900 ISBN : 9154060419 9789154060412

‎Sedlmayr Hans‎

‎Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach‎

‎Vienna: Verlag Herold 1956. Hardcover. Very Good . 347 1 p. frontispiece and 224 p. of illustrations and plans; 30 cm. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Bookseller's label on back fixed endpaper for Wittenborn Art Books New York. Entirely in German. Austrian architect sculptor and architectural historian Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach 1656-1723 wrote one of the first comparative studies of world architecture A Plan of Civil and Historical Architecture published in 1721. He designed Schönbrunn Palace and Österreichische Nationalbibliothek the Austrian National Library in Vienna among many other works. A heavy book; for international shipping the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority international. In Very Good Condition: cover is lightly soiled and rubbed; ends of spine starting to fray; pages and illustrations are clean and tight. Verlag Herold hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 009918

‎Morrison, N. Brysson‎

‎Mary Queen of Scots‎

‎New York: Vanguard Press 1960. Hardcover. Fine/very good . 254 p. frontispiece portrait and 14 pages of illustrations; 22 cm. Light blue and grey cover with red spine title. Genealogical table on endpapers. Top page edges red. Illustrated dust jacket. "Book Club Editon" -- on dust jacket. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: spine and edges are sunned; ends of spine rubbed; small chip at upper edge at fold; solid. Vanguard Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 009765

‎Tames, Richard‎

‎Southwark Past‎

‎London: Historical Publications 2001. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 144 p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Dark blue cover with silver spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. A well-illustrated history of the London district of Southwark located on the south bank of the River Thames. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Fine Condition: clean and bright. Historical Publications hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 009792 ISBN : 0948667729 9780948667725

‎Wittkower Rudolf‎

‎Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism provenance: Venturi Scott Brown and Associates‎

‎London: Academy Editions John Wiley & Sons 1998. Paperback. Very Good. 160 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Paperback with French flaps. First published in 1949. This fifth edition "intended to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the book integrates the illustrations with the text and includes an edited selection of lectures on Proportion by Professor Wittkower." -- cover. Several red lines in magins of section on Palladio. From the offices of Venturi Scott Brown and Associates. In Very Good Condition: cover is slightly rubbed; creasing to 3 page corners; a few marginal notations by former owner; otherwise clean and bright. Academy Editions, John Wiley & Sons paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 009804 ISBN : 0471977632 9780471977636

‎Hutchinson, Lucy‎

‎Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson written by his Widow Lucy‎

‎London / New York: J. M. Dent & Sons; E. P. Dutton & Co 1927. Hardcover. Very Good -. xl 393 p.; 18 cm. Maroon leatherette with gilt spine title and gilt spine and front cover decoration style 1. Top page edges gilt. Everyman's Library illustrated endpapers. No date of publication; former owner's name on third blank page dated 1927. First published in 1806 this record of Colonel John Hutchinson 1615-1664 by his widow Lucy Hutchinson 1620-1681 was intended to justify his action in 1649 as one of 59 commissioners on the high court in signing the death warrant of Charles I. John Hutchinson went on to serve on the Council of State before becoming disillusioned with Cromwell; he was later arrested and died in prison. Lucy Hutchinson turned her journal of that period into a memoir that presented her husband as a gentleman who strongly supported the Puritan cause. An important work that shows the author as a highly educated woman who wrote and translated Latin at a time when most women were illiterate. In Very Good- Condition: edges are rubbed; loss at ends of spine; solid. J. M. Dent & Sons; E. P. Dutton & Co hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 009716

‎Hobhouse, Charles‎

‎Inside Asquith's Cabinet: From the Diaries of Charles Hobhouse; Edited by Edward David‎

‎New York: St. Martin's Press 1978. Hardcover. Fine/very good. x 295 p. 12 p. of illustrations; 22 cm. Red cover with gilt spine title. Top page edges red. Dust jacket. Charles Hobhouse 1862-1941 was a British Liberal politician and was a member of the Cabinet under Prime Minister H. H. Asquith from 1911 to 1915. This is an edited version of his diaries covering the years 1893 to 1898 and 1904 to 1915. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; closed 1-cm. tear at lower edge of back flap; soiling along edges of back flap; otherwise clean and bright. St. Martin's Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 009741 ISBN : 031241868X 9780312418687

‎Gillis, John R.‎

‎The Development of European Society 1770-1870‎

‎Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co 1877. Hardcover. Near Fine. xvi 300 p.: maps charts; 22 cm. Light blue cloth with black spine and cover titles and front cover illustration. No dust jacket as issued. In Near Fine Condition: front cover scratched; otherwise clean and tight. Houghton Mifflin Co hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 009681 ISBN : 039524482X 9780395244821

‎Volkov, Shulamit‎

‎The Rise of Popular Antimodernism in Germany: The Urban Master Artisans 1873-1896‎

‎Princeton NJ: Priceton University Press 1978. Hardcover. Very Good /very good -. ix 1 399 3 p.: tables; 22 cm. Brown cloth with gilt spine title. Dust jacket. "Antimodernism a popular movement growing out of fear and hostility toward an emerging new world became a central ideological trend in late nineteenth-century Europe." The author focuses on one group the urban master artisans examining their changing economic and social position to uncover "the forces that led to the emergence of popular antimodernism and helped attract part of the German populace to prefascist ideas." -- dust jacket. Book is in Very Good Condition: page edges lightly soiled; otherwise clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: rubbed; chipping at head of spine; otherwise solid. Priceton University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 009542 ISBN : 0691052646 9780691052649

‎Searight Sarah‎

‎The British in the Middle East‎

‎New York: Atheneum 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine. xvi 215 p. 96 unpaginated page of illustrations: maps; 25 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine title. Illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket. Part of the series A Social History of the British Overseas. In Near Fine Condition: gift inscription on series title page; otherwise clean and tight. Atheneum hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 009437