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2012ref. 23880New York NY: Jonathan Foster Studio 2012. 42 pages; a monograph via photography of the Noyac House designed by Jonathan S. Foster; with a short introductory text regarding its development design purpose and progress; approx. 6 3/4" square size; glossy photo-illustrated softcover paper wrap covers; light wear; in very good condition. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Jonathan Foster Studio Paperback books
1951ref. 50813Vienne: Syndicat D'Initiative 1951. First Edition. Octavo 25.5 cm. Printed thick paper wrappers; 87pp 6 leaves of plates. Tight clean and unmarked - Near Fine. Text in French. Guidebook to the cathedral & cloisters. Syndicat D'Initiative unknown books
1916ref. List1025Siberia Petrograd et al. 1916. First Edition. Various documents and letters most legal format roughly 200 pages in total with three publications and several newspapers on the subject and thirteen hand drawn architectural plans for a new camp at Omsk measuring between 25 x 17 and 13 x 8 inches. During World War One a staggering number of prisoners - roughly 2.4 of the five million in total who were sent to the Eastern Front - ended up as prisoners of war in Russia. Of that number roughly two million were from Austria-Hungary. Though often neglected by historians due to the attention given to the Russian Civil War and the atrocities of World War Two the subject has drawn increased historical interest with the historian Gerald H. Davis and others calling attention to its importance in the 1980s. Davis and others have written on the relationship between the large prisoner population and the dissolution of their nations as well as the abhorrent conditions many were forced to endure partially due to hierarchical structure of treatment due to differing attitudes by their Russian hosts toward different nations and ethnicities and partially due to the lack of appropriate infrastructure and resources to support such a large prisoner population. Offered here are the papers of Herbert H.D. Pierce the Special Aide to Embassador George T. Marye in Petrograd containing a substantial amount of firsthand accounts of prison conditions from the early years of the war as well as a striking series of manuscript architectural plans for a new prison camp that was built in Omsk. Pierce a diplomat who was most famously involved with a case involving seal fishing in the Berings Strait was appointed as a Special Aide out of his retirement and served until his death in 1916. It is possible that he was assigned the task of dealing with the prisoner of war situation as nearly all of his papers that we recovered from his estate from this period deal with the subject. Pierce was involved specifically with the disbursal of relief funds received from the German and Austro-Hungarian governments that were to be disbursed to their citizens. The highlight of the collection is a series of hand drawn architectural plans for a series of POW camp structures in Omsk bearing the signature of a N. Alexandrow architect. It is unclear what Pierce's exact relationship was to this project. The plans are translated into English in ink. Of particular interest are the separate officers' barracks plans as one of the violations of POW laws in Russia was the varying levels of treatment given to different prisoners in particular in their recognition of German and Austro-Hungarian ranking officers. There were twenty-eight prison camps in Omsk this one is not identified specifically. The Siberian camps often held up to 35000 prisoners this one shows plans for 10000. There were 128 camps in the Moscow region where camps typically housed 2000-5000 prisoners. The conditions of the camps were generally abysmal with camp capacities routinely exceeded by roughly 50-100%. Frequent disease outbreaks killed thousands of prisoners during the conflict in Omsk Novo-Nikolaevsk Sretensk and Totskoe specifically. The group includes letters written to Marye describing conditions in the camps as well as reports of the Americans' own observations in Siberia Moscow and elsewhere. Most are in English though several original documents in German are included. Also included are Pierce's working copies of the Second Hague Convention guidelines of 1907 Order 697 of the War Department that established the regulations regarding prisoners of war in 1914 and a copy of the agreement made between Germany and Russia in August of 1914 which allowed for all women and all men over 45 years and younger than 17 to leave the country unheeded. Some of the letters document violations of this agreement for example a fifty-five year old Austrian man writing to the embassy stating that he had been detained. The authorship of some of the reports is often unclear - one report is credited to "A Russian Lady" another from Krasnaya-Ratchka near Khabaraovsk is an uncredited 18 page description of prisoner conditions. One uncredited report nineteen pages long on the conditions of prisoners in the Moscow Circuit may have been written by Pierce himself and is addressed to Marye. Another 44 page report on Siberian prison conditions is uncredited and likely produced by the embassy itself. A portion - perhaps 25% or so - of the reports are incomplete or unclear in origin though there is much to glean from them regardless. Also included are three printed publications. The first is entitled Rapport du Conseiller Prive E.G. Chinkevitch Membre du Comte special de secours aux prisonniers de guerre sur la visite des camps des prissoniers Austro-Hongrois dans l'arrondissement militair d'Omsk printed in 1915. OCLC locates a single copy in France. The report outlines the observed conditions and includes twenty-six photographs of prisoners. The second is a forty-three page report addressed to James Gerard the American ambassador in Berlin by an unidentified author which outlines the prisoner of war conditions in England written in February of 1915. The third is a scarce map of Russian prisoner of war camps printed by L. Friederichsen in Hamburg in 1915 entitled Karte vom Europäischen und Asiatischen Russland mit Angabe der hauptsächlichsten Orte in denen sich Kriegsgefangene und zurückgehaltene Zivilpersonen befinden sowie mit Bestimmungen über den Postverkehr nach diesen Orten. The map shows locations of prison camps throughout the Russian Empire and also shows the mail routes. It is in fine condition overall and we locate six copies in OCLC. Overall a scarce survival of primary source material on a somewhat overlooked but important period in Russian history with relevance to diplomatic historians as well worthy of further study. Works cited: Grekov N. V.: Germanskie i avstriiskie plennye v Sibiri 1914-1917 German and Austrian prisoners in Siberia 1914-1917 in: Vibe P. P. ed.: Nemtsy. Rossiia. Sibir' Germans. Russia. Siberia Omsk 1997 p. 159. Nachtigal Reinhard: Seuchen unter militärischer Aufsicht in Rußland. Das Lager Tockoe als Beispiel für die Behandlung der Kriegsgefangenen 1915/16 in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 48/3 2000 pp. 367-368; Brändström Kriegsgefangenen 1922 pp. 41-48. Nachtigal Reinhard; Radauer Lena: Prisoners of War Russian Empire. In: 1914-1918 Online. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/prisoners_of_war_russian_empire Accessed 5/21. unknown books
1926ref. 2453Irish & Scottish Linen Damask Guild Inc. 1926. Hardcover. Blue boards white paper title. Very good. 30 pages. 23 x 15 cm. According to the introduction this illustrated etiquette guide deals comprehensively with the etiquette and smart decoration of the table with illustrations to help you arrange your table with charm distinction and correctness. Includes a forward by renowned etiquette writer Emily Post and features black and white photographs/illustrations of the various settings suggested. Corners rubbed interior crisp and clean. Irish & Scottish Linen Damask Guild Inc. hardcover books
1967ref. 27827Amsterdam: een Herdruk In Beperkte Oplage Verschenen 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. Handsome reprint edition of this collection of house drawings originally printed back in 1768. 247 pp. Text in Dutch. Light spotting to page edges else a sound very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper. een Herdruk In Beperkte Oplage, Verschenen hardcover books
1984ref. 8030Asheville NC: Friends of Anthony Lord / The Asheville Art Museum 1984. First Edition First Printing. Paperback. Near fine in pictorial staple-bound wrappers. Some light spotting to covers. Thin oblong quarto. 19 3 pp. Photograph of of Anthony Lord by Doris Ulmann reproduced on title page; illustrated throughout with black & white reproductions. (Friends of Anthony Lord / The Asheville Art Museum) paperback books
1803ref. 1652361803. ARCHITECTURE - FRENCH GRAND PRIX. Recueil des grands prix d'architecture et autres productions de cet art couronnées en France reduites gravées et lavées par une Societé d'Architectes. Contents includes: manuscript half-title title and table 13 livraison each made up of 6 hand-coloured aquatint engravings printed on thick Holland paper for a total of 78 engravings. Tall folio 530 x 365 mm bound in contemporary green marbled paper covered boards original front wrapper bound in. Preserved in a modern blue half morocco folding box. Paris: Detournelle 1803. First Edition Deluxe issue from the second series of the French Grand Prix d'Architecture. A fine series of architectural aquatints tastefully hand coloured with china ink wash light pink blue yellow and green watercolour. Subjects include: 1 Normand "Colonne rostrale" 1791; 2 Dubut "Grenier publique" 1797; 3 Moitte "Arc de Triomphe" 1795; Famih "Arc de Triomphe" 1801; 5 Moreau "Colonne nationale' 1800; 6 Vignon "Tribute du paix" 1795; and others. The French Grand Prix was first approved for publication by l'Academie d'architecture in 1787 and exhibited a profound influence on contemporary European architects of the time most notably Gilly and Schinkel. The work "may also suggest ideas to the contemporary architect. Indeed it may not be gross an oversimplification to suggest that the work of Le Corbusier is still unconsciously based on some of these traditions which are kept alive in France in spite of the changes in architectural idiom" Roseneau p. 21 Spine professionally restored some marginal staining overall a fine fresh copy of a luxurious publication. PROVENANCE: Engineer Artium Geno followed by Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow with their bookplates on the front past-down. Roseneau Architectural History Vol. 3 pp. 15. hardcover books
1996ref. 19512Milano: Skira 1996. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Paperbound quarto. Text in Italian by Giovanni Pozzi Emilio Pizzi Virginia Baradel and others. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Monograph on Botta. A very good copy in stiff illustrated wrappers with wide French flaps. This copy has been INSCRIBED by Botta to Terence Riley and dated in 1996. Riley is a noted writer and author of numerous monographs of famous architects including Mies Van DDer Rohe among many others. Skira paperback books
1934ref. 26644New York: G. W. Bromley & Company 1934. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. Oblong clothbound elephant folio size volume. With 188 detailed block - by -block building maps of the City of Manhattan. Includes Block and Street Indexes. Enormously detailed and informative with minute building chnages made by hand from previous editions of this volume. Some handling soiling to cloth covers. Internally clean and unmarked. It is unclear just how often the publisher updated these records but we have seen references to books going back to the late 1800's with this 1934 edition being the most recent. Scarce and important city document. G. W. Bromley & Company unknown books
1999ref. 19486New York: Rizzoli 1999. First edition. Paperback. Very Good/very good. Thick paperbound quarto in printed glassine wrapper. Unpaginated. With profuse illustrations in color. A large and heavy volume. Lightly worn. A very good copy overall with a couple of small tears to glassine. Rizzoli paperback books
1930ref. 10389New York: Architectural Catalog Company 1930. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. First edition. Small folio. Selections from the work of the New York architectural firm of Barnet Phillips Company. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Typical wear to yapped edges of covers else a tight clean copy. Architectural Catalog Company paperback books
1928ref. 29376Welland Canada: The Baskerville Press 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarter cloth over boards. Hardbound quarto. 60 pp. With illustrations. Published as A Baskerville Press Quarto No. V. A clean very good copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. This copy has been INSCRIBED by the author and dated in 1931. The Baskerville Press hardcover books
1904ref. 039830Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates 1904. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. January-December 1904 bound up in two volumes in half red leather over red cloth. Modest wear at the edges and rubbing to the hinges and spine darkened but still an attractively bound pair. A few minor marks and smudges to pages but generally bright and unmarked. Lovely photos throughout many on tipped in plates. Size: Quarto 4to. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Architecture; Gardening. Inventory No: 039830. Henry T. Coates hardcover books
1995ref. 9337New York: The Monacelli Press 1995. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine. SIGNED BY BOTH REM KOOLHAAS AND BRUCE MAU on the half-title. A very solid clean copy to boot of the 1995 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in its silver boards with very light creasing along the spine crown. Very thick octavo 1344 pgs. Signed by Authors. The Monacelli Press hardcover books
1939ref. 10510Berkeley: University of California Press 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First edition. 185 pp plus ground plan of the exposition. Mild spotting to covers else a clean and tightly bound copy in very good dustwrapper with a closed tear and some creases near base of front panel. Illustrated with photographs. University of California Press hardcover books
1997ref. 31505Houston: Anchorage Press 1997. First edition. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 176 pp. Stated first edition. With text and illustrations by Kim Williams. An elaborate and handsome study of Italian pavement design. A fine copy in near fine dustwrapper. INSCRIBED by the author/illustrator on the title page. A large and somewhat heavy volume. Anchorage Press unknown books
1881ref. WRCAM35753New York: D. Appleton and Company 1881. 296pp. plus 5pp. of advertisements. 12mo. Original green cloth stamped in red. Cloth bubbling. Light stains in printed endpapers. Overall very good. Number 3 in the Appleton HEALTH PRIMERS series. Detailed recommendations for house building and maintenance with regard to health covering "Soil Situation and Construction" drainage lighting plumbing ventilation etc. HITCHCOCK 611. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1998ref. 28949Madrid: El Croquis Books 1998. Revised. Cloth. Very Good /very good. Folio size hardbound volume in dustwrapper over 13" tall. 431 pp. Massive retrospective put on in Madrid circa 1998. Text in Spanish and English by Alejandro Zaera and others. This is the revised omnibus edition. Profusely illustrated. Very small indentation to cover at spine else a sound very good to near fine clothbound book in dustwrapper. Wrapper has some creasing at top of front panel area and a small gouge in same place at spine previously mentioned. A very large and heavy book. Additional shipping charges may apply. El Croquis Books unknown books
1930ref. 26475New York City N.Y.: Hi-Heat Gas Co. Inc. 1930. 20 pages; illustrated in 2 colors and photographic half-tones. Showing equipment and the plant of the company and with exterior views of Gurney's Inn Montauk Long Island; the home of Peconic Duck Farm owner Alexander B. Soyars at Riverhead; home of florist Peter J. Buse at Hicksville; NYC tailor C.F. Wetzel home at Remsenburg; Rev. John G. Hehr's home at Southold; the old Taylor Home at Heckscher State Park E. Islip and a few smaller images of the Syosset residence Thomas Whittaker proprietor of Green Acre Farm Langon's Restaurant in the same town and the home of builder Fred Hallock of Jamesport L.I. all of which are quoted with testimonials as to the efficacy of Hi-Heat's gas service. Approx. 6" x 9" size; illustrated stapled green paper covers; light wear; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Hi-Heat Gas Co., Inc. paperback books
2000ref. 30922Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinous University Press 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/fine. 4to. 113 pp. Illustrated with many b/w photographs. Stain to lower page edges else a near fine tight copy in fine unclipped and unfaded dustwrapper. Southern Illinous University Press hardcover books
1991ref. 234730Raleigh NC: North Carolina Arts Council 1991. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. No pencil or ink markings in text. Yellow paper covers with black spiral binding; Black Spiral Binding. Very Good binding. North Carolina Arts Council unknown books
1950ref. 24562Newark New Jersey: Behee & Krahmer Architects 1950. Three black and white photographs 8" x 10" approx. size. Two of the images are of courtroom interiors with the stamp on the reverse of the firm Behee & Krahmer Architects 17 Washington St. Newark N.J. with a photograph of an architectural rendering identfied on the reverse in pencil as "Short Hills School"School signed Behee & Krahmer Architects within the image. No date or photographer noted circa 1950 as according to our research the firm had wound up its business as a partnership by 1954. Light wear in very good condition. See Sandra L. Tatman biographical details about Krahmer in the Atheneum of Philadelphia "Philadelphia Architects and Buildings" site 2017. Photography. Soft Cover. Very Good. Behee & Krahmer, Architects Paperback books
1967ref. 11077New York: Viking Press 1967. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. First edition. Quarto. 216 pp. Includes detailed photographs are architectural drawings. A clean very good clothbound copy in very goodunclipped dustwrapper. Uncommon title in this series. Viking Press hardcover books
1996ref. 34293New York: McGraw-Hill 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. New York: McGraw-Hill 1996. First edition. Copious full color illustrations plans drawings and elevations. 432 pp. Hardcover. 4to. Dark blue paper covered boards. A nice copy. Very good/Very good. Oversized - extra shipping charges apply McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1963ref. 32437New York: Doubleday 1963. First Edition. Near fine in original pictorial boards and very good pictorial dust jacket with some of Jonathan Williams' ubiquitous senseless internal mends. Narrow quarto. 7.25 x 10.5 in. 236 pp. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of black & white drawings. Serge Chermayeff and Christopher Alexander's first book inscribed by Chermayeff to Jonathan Williams in year of publication. Doubleday hardcover books
