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[ARCHITECTURE -- GLASS]. BENDA, A[rthur] & [Felix].Biblio.com

Glaces & miroiterie miroirs venise glaces riches de tous styles. . . Looking glasses & mirrors Venetian mirrors ornate looking glasses of all styles catalogue.

1880Best.-Nr. 56726Paris: A. Benda 10 Rue des Archives Imprimerie Lithographie Albums Industriels J. Justin Storck 24 Rue de l’Abbe Gregoire ca. 1880. Oblong 4to. 10.25 x 8 in. 1 34 leaves lithograph title illustrated & decorated w/ medals from 1878 & 1880 Expositions including 34 lithograph plates 30 hand-coloured. Printed green-tinted lithographed limp softcovers green cloth spine dampstaining & soiling to covers scuffing to covers minor loss to image lettering very faint tidemark to fore-edges of textblock still G- copy w/nice interior. First edition thus of this unusually scarce catalogue for mirrors reflective of the Style Moderne with heavy emphasis on incorporating elaborate botanical Gothic and Renaissance revival elements featuring laurel garlands and gilt elements for the framing of the Venetian Glass mirrors. In addition there are many different styles of marble-topped hall tables and end tables advertised. Shells and other ornaments decorate the gilded frames offered and many of the mirrors depicted feature beveled or elaborate Venetian glass mirror frames further gilded. The Benda firm operated in Paris from the reign of Napoleon II through the 1890s exhibiting at the 1878 Paris Exhibition the 1880 Melbourne Exhibition as well as an especially ornate exhibit at the Exposition Universelle in 1889 when Arthur Benda was the honorary president of the Mirror Manufacturers Syndicate. No copies located in Worldcat; See; The Official Catalogue of the Exhibits Melbourne International Exhibition 1880 p. 78; Journal Officiel de la Republique Francaise No. 258 Exposition Unverselle de 1889 p. 4400. A. Benda, 10, Rue des Archives, Imprimerie Lithographie Albums Industriels, J. Justin Storck, 24 Rue de l’Abbe Gregoire, paperback

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[ARCHITECTURE -- IDAHO]. [UNDERWOOD, Gilbert Stanley (Architect) & UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD -- HARRIMAN, Averell; SCHICK (Artist)Biblio.com

An intriguing small collection documenting the architectural plans and artistic elevation of the historic Sun Valley Lodge designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood and commissioned in 1936 by Union Pacific Chairman Averell Harriman. Consisting of a panoramic pencil view of the Lodge five large reproduced blueprints and 65 blueprint negatives of the original plans for both the Sun Valley Lodge and the nearby Challenger Inn they offer essential technical detail to this historic ski resort.

1965Best.-Nr. 56840Los Angeles CA; Ketchum ID & Omaha NE: Schick; Gilbert Stanley Underwood & Micro-Tronics The Wurgler Co. 1965-1983. Collection including One original pencil drawing sized 6.5 x 23.5 in. framed & matted in black & glass frame sized 11 x 37.5 in. artist’s signature dated 12/83; Five blueprints reproduced on thick mylar stock sized 30 x 47.25 in.; 65 105 mm. blueprint negatives all carefully labeled in pencil on archival manila envelopes preserved in lidded black vinyl box gilt Sun Valley logo & lettering stamped on lid. This unusual collection containing a large panoramic elevation drawing of the historic Sun Valley Lodge five large blueprints reproduced from the originals as well as an invaluable grouping of 105 mm. blueprint negatives for all of the original drawings of the Sun Valley Lodge and sister lodge the Challenger Inn later Sun Valley Inn. Also present is a September 1932 blueprint negative for a proposed Union Pacific Cafeteria building in Ketchum ID. Harriman foresaw the tremendous potential in developing a skiing destination industry for the Union Pacific during the Great Depression and after hiring Count Felix Schaffgosch to scout locations determined in January 1936 that Ketchum ID would be the ideal spot. The Union Pacific contracted the famed Los Angeles CA architect Gilbert Underwood 1890-1960 who at the time was a key member in the Federal Architecture Project established by Roosevelt during the New Deal. Underwood was well known for designing Union Pacific lodges for the National Park Service including complexes at Cedar Breaks Zion Bryce Canyon North Rim of the Grand Canyon and the famed Ahwahnee Hotel at Yosemite. He would later produce the preliminary designs for the Timberline Lodge WPA project on Mount Hood OR. The large panoramic drawing depicts the historic South elevation of the Lodge as constructed in 1936 scale of 1 in. to 20 feet. The large reproduced plans include those for The First Floor Basement and Foundation Second Floor Third Floor and Fourth Floor and Roof Plan. The blueprint negatives include floor plans framing plans kitchen ceiling designs piping kitchen pantry details the range hoods bar plans dining table details & plans and even the bakers dough table. Bill Wurgler 1912-1996 founded the Wurgler Co. in downtown Omaha following World War II and maintained the largest and finest photographic and blueprint reproduction plant in the Midwest later selling to Standard Blue in 1969. We could find no similar collections in Worldcat; See: History of Sun Valley Visit Sun Valley Ketchum Idaho 2020; Laura Soulliere Harrison Architecture in the Parks: National Historic Landmark Theme Study 1986 pp. 245-249. Schick; Gilbert Stanley Underwood & Micro-Tronics, The Wurgler Co., unknown

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[ARCHITECTURE -- NEW YORK]. [BOWMAN, John McEntee (Owner); WARREN, Whitney & WETMORE, Charles Evan (Architects); BARBER (SuperinBiblio.com

Album of twenty-nine linen-backed photographs detailing the construction from 1920-1922 of the Biltmore Country Club “Westchester Country Club” which upon completion was considered one of the premier hotels and golf courses in the world. These exceptional images submitted to the superintendent for the George A. Fuller Construction Co. open with the laying of foundation and piers in Dec. 1920 and finish with the completed club and grounds in July 1922.

1920Best.-Nr. 56974New York: George A. Fuller Construction Co. Westchester-Biltmore Country Club 1920-1922. Oblong 4to. 29 linen-backed silver gelatin photos sized 7.75 x 9.75 in. w/ negative numbers & dates at lower fore-edge of image w/in the negative a few stamped for the George A. Fuller Co. Surveying Dept. for Supt. Barber in pencil on verso. Recent black cloth post-binder brass screw posts stamping on front cover NF collection of photos. This revealing set of original photographs provide essential details of the stages of construction for the extraordinary Westchester-Biltmore Country Club. Bowman sought to create the quintessential 1920’s sportsman’s oasis easily reached by automobile or train from Manhattan which along with mechanics maids servers and gardeners eventually featured 45 holes of golf three polo fields bridle path horse racing track tennis courts and a casino. The images open with finishing the footings and foundation in Dec. 1920 with structural steel quickly arising by Dec. 30 1920. The photos show the massive winged structure taking shape steel i-beams set in place and stone and masonry facade installed in stages through August 1921. As shown in many of these photos the project moved quickly enough that the roof had been mostly completed and the facade finished by Jan. 1922 with a series showing snow-covered parking lot and scaffolds still carrying material up the side as the wings were finished staircases enclosed so that by April 1922 the main construction has been completed except for some work in the portico front entrance and finishing touches of masonry and architectural details. Fitzgerald’s Gatsby would have felt more than at home with the finished Club amidst the saltwater pool man-made lagoon 800 bathhouses and dance floor with the total build cost for the project exceedingly $ 6 million in 1922 or $ 100 million currently. Designed by both the Biltmore Co. and George A. Fuller Co’s favorite architects Warren 1864-1943 & Wetmore 1866-1941 who were also known for the Ritz-Carlton Biltmore Commodore & Ambadssador Hotels they were also the preferred architect’s for Vanderbilt’s New York Central RR. No copies of these photos either in the Warren & Webmore Architectural Photographs & Records 1889-1938 Columbia University Avery Library or listed in Warren & Wetmore Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Athaenaeum Uof Penn Philadelphia Hist. Comm. or PA Historical & Museum Comm. See: Westchester Country Club History John McEntee Bowman Founder 2018. George A. Fuller Construction Co., Westchester-Biltmore Country Club, hardcover

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[ARCHITECTURE -- WINDOWS]. [MEYER, Charles Louis; REED, Ira L]Biblio.com

Salesman sample case containing window casement & weatherstrip architectural samples. . . Together With; Agent’s selling manual. Ceco metal weatherstrips; Instructions for installing. . . Price list of Ceco Metal Weatherstrips subject to change without notice October 1st 1926. . . ; Price list effective March 1st 1929; What Ceco metal weatherstrips are and why you should use them. . . ; Ceco Metal Weatherstrips “Keep the weather out” 1926 Catalog. . . ; There is a hole in each of your windows this size!. . . ; Estimate and agreement for Ceco Metal Weatherstrips. Form 32 20M Pad of blanks; Announcement to our friends. . . Pyramid Weatherstrips; A two-sided story with snow rain cold on the outside and. . . ; There’s a hole in your window -- four inches square!; Price list Pyramid Metal Weather Strips. . . . February 1st 1928. . . .

1926Best.-Nr. 56164Chicago IL: Ceco Weatherstrip Co.; Pyramid Metals Co. 1926-1929. One sample case & 11 catalogues & manuals; 1st -- Sample Case. 9.75 x 16 x 4.75 in. fitted with 7 canvas-lined compartments 6 lower compartments hold 7 different wood steel brass & zinc metal window door & casement models over 50 individual small pieces of zinc brass steel & wooden fittings shims and weather stripping for assorted applications lid compartment holds sales literature order books & duplicate brochures for clients. Black cloth over wood metal bosses at corners leather handle rubbing edgewear some lifting to cloth minor soiling to interior still VG exemplar; 8vo. 27 1; 19 1; 12 pp unpaginated.; 20 4; 6 pp unpaginated. triptych 2 copies; 4to. 16 pp.; 12mo. 6 pp unpaginated. triptych 14 copies; 8vo. Approx. 30 order blank leaves; 1 broadside leaf folding printed on both sides; 10 pp unpaginated. leporello accordion style; 6 pp unpaginated. triptych 4 copies; 12 pp unpaginated. blueprint cyanotype leporello accordion style. All illustrated many w/ diagrams some w/ colour printing either softcovers or self-printed wrappers and except for occasional minor soiling shelfwear NF copies originally owned by salesman Ward G. Keegan 1887-1972 227 Grafton St. Shrewsbury MA carpenter and building contractor who by World War II had become a poultry farmer together with TLS invoices and order forms from both Ceco and Pyramid regarding orders for window weatherstrip contracts by Keegan in 1928 and 1929. An extraordinarily complete salesman sample case for metal weatherstrip windows and doors during the 1920s including all of the original working models and sales literature. At the end of the 19th Century there was a growing awareness and need for better heating and ventilation as well as retaining heat within homes office buildings and public buildings. Metal weatherstripping was developed for wooden double-hung windows and doors in order to better retain heat within these interior spaces. Following World War I the Chicago & Omaha based company Concrete Engineering Co. “Ceco” began marketing and producing an entire line-up of carefully milled and engineered zinc brass & bronze weatherstripping products targeted not only towards new construction but also towards homeowners retrofitting and upgrading their existing windows. These products were a patented interlocking “Slide-Lock” metal system consisting of grooved bead strips for double hung windows as well as fluted strips plain strips with zinc liners and even a corrugated rib on both sides of the rib which made sashes slide easier and not bind. The sales manual included with this kit and the models show all the different varieties and assorted metal hardware fittings and how these weatherstrip products would actually pay for themselves in fuel savings a concept expanded and pioneered by the U.S. Fuel Administration during World War I. The Ceco Weatherstrip Co. stood out in the field during the 1920s as they had also developed products for French doors and window casements as well as solid core interior and exterior doors and even window transoms. C. Louis Meyer 1886-1953 an entrepreneurial mechanical engineer founded the Concrete Engineering Co. originally in Omaha NE pioneering and manufacturing reusable steel forms and reinforcement bar used for commercial construction in concrete buildings. The company later attracted attention by manufacturing and fabricating steel doors windows joists and was a key subcontractor during the 1930s on the projects to build The Golden Gate Bridge Lincoln Tunnel and the Cleveland Union Terminal. The Pyramid Metals Company emerged from the partnership of three former Ceco managers including former subsidiary founder & organizer for Ceco Ira L. Reed 1896-1972 but the company would not survive past 1932 during the Great Depression. Pyramid manufactured and sold nearly identical products to the Ceco Weatherstrip Co. products but were not nearly as well funded. No copies of any of the catalogues or trade literature in Worldcat; See: Ceco Concrete Construction History Ceco Concrete Construction 2019; Mark Wilson Stephen Porter & Janice Reiff Ceco Corp. Encyclopedia of Chicago Newberry Library 2005; C. Louis Meyer Family Foundation Ceco Door Products Company Lake in the Hills IL 2009. Ceco Weatherstrip Co.; Pyramid Metals Co., paperback

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[YACHTING -- MARINE ARCHITECTURE ARCHIVE]. MABRY, Curtis Darling; LAMBIE, William; GARDNER, William; ALDEN, John G (Naval ArchitBiblio.com

An exceptional archive of sail plans blueprints hull body plans specifications manuscript documents clippings autographed letters and other documents tracing the Mabry’s career as a draftsman and naval architect with some of the greatest yacht racing designers and shipbuilders on the East and West Coasts through the first four decades of the 20th century including William Gardner John G. Alden and partnering with William Lambie of Los Angeles.

1907Best.-Nr. 56101New York & Brooklyn NY; Boston MA Wilmington CA San Pedro CA Los Angeles CA: Curtis D. Mabry Lambie & Mabry William Gardner John G. Alden et al 1907-1940. 24 cyanotype blueprints diazo blueprints manuscript blueprints on linen oilskin paper some on glassine sized from 11.5 x 12.5 in. up to 27 x 94 in. w/ several sized primarily between 16 x 27.75 in. to 22 x 48 in. nearly all w/ draftsman specifications w/in the image many w/ pencil or grease pencil annotations and/or markings at margins of blueprints or on versos several signed w/in image and separately by Mabry chipping & edgewear to most the largest piece on glassine diazo paper is quite fragile and chipped w/ minor losses many w/ minor closed tears a couple w/ slight fading still VG- grouping. Eighteen “Specifications & Block Lists” most folio. 11 x 13 in. some typescript others mimeographed and several blueprint w/ nearly all clasped at upper margin: C 14 leaves; 42 leaves; E 38 leaves; 14 1 leaves; 2 8 leaves; 15 leaves unnumbered. - 2 copies; 5 leaves unnumbered.; 5 leaves unnumbered.; 7 2 leaves; 6 leaves unnumbered.; 5 1 leaves; 2 25 4 leaves -- 2 copies; 2 8 leaves; 8 leaves; 10 leaves; 5 leaves nearly all stapled to backing paper as issued. File folder containing over 50 offprint clippings for sail plans newspaper clippings 4 TLS & ALS 2 on letterhead 1 5 x 7 in. photo of Mabry and more. These extraordinary sail plans designs specifications and clippings trace the career arc of a marine architect career with some of the most significant yacht and ship designers in New York and Boston and Southern California. Mabry 1882-1949 launched his career with the storied Gardner & Cox Naval Architects of New York later William Gardner as chief draftsman and later inspector for the firm. He was responsible for designing the earliest version of the Star Class keelboat which produced a large chunk of the top U.S. sailors for years and served as pipeline for training America’s Cup Racers as one of the older one-design classes. His initial design made its regatta debut on Long Island in the Spring of 1907 which was then adapted by storied designer Francis Sweisguth who adapted the size of the hull and sail plan. This archive includes the blueprint Hull Body Plan Lines and Sail Plan for the Cyric a Class “S” 32 foot sloop built for Eldon H. Trimingham which raced for the LIpton Cup on Gravesend Bay and later carried the Trimingham colours until the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club brought in a fleet of seven one-design sloops in 1925. It later raced in the 1930 International Yacht Races. Also included are the Block List Body Plan and Lines for Hull No. 254 by Gardner which was a 46 foot Class “S” finished in 1912 originally for Seward Prosser who also owned the yacht Constance. Of additional significance are the Hull Plans and Specifications for the Larchmont “O” Class sloops built in 1917 with six sister ships -- Georgia Varuna Nimbus Grey Dawn Maisie and Betty with all except for the Varuna fitted with Gaff rigs. The Varuna fitted with a groundbreaking Marconi Rig proved to be the fastest design at the close of World War I. The tragic Sea Call one of yachting’s greatest schooners as well as one of its greatest lost opportunities is well represented here including the Main Mast Head Mizzen Mast Head Sail Plan designs together with the typescript Block List. In the design Gardner specified a combination of vanadium steel and monel metal which resulted in violent electrolysis and within three weeks of her first sea trial the decision was made to scrap her. She was designed to hold 10-12 guests with a private owner’s deckhouse. During World War I subsequent to working on the Larchmont “O” Class for Gardner Mabry contracted with J.F. Duthne & Co. in Seattle as chief draftsman and after the War set up in Los Angeles as a Naval Architect. While working for the Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. he drafted the designs and plans for the Steamers “Yale” & “Harvard” which had originally served as coastal steamers for the Admiral Line with the Pacific Steamship Co. and taken into Government Service during World War I and then purchased and rebuilt by Harry & Ralph Chandler forming the LS Steamship Co. and operating subsequently as popular steamships on the Pacific Coast. SS Yale was later scrapped in 1949. Included with this archive is a manuscript Hull Design signed by Mabry. In 1925 he also designs the plan for a Los Angeles Fireboat with manuscript plan and Mabry’s signature included here dated June 13 1925. He then contracts with the famed yacht designer John G. Alden in Boston. Specifications for No. 274 the Waterline Auxiliary Ketch “Danai” which was designed and built in 1926 built by Kenneth McAlpine of Shelbourne N.S. Canada and was later renamed Wawa Valdora Nira and Polaris. Of significance is the specifications for Hull No. 435 “Puritan” designed by Mabry and commissioned by Edward Brown and built as a 126 foot gaff-rigged schooner. The Yacht still serves as a charter vessel with the Classic Yacht Experience after extended refit in 2015. Sometime between 1929 and 1930 Mabry partners with noted Southern California Naval Architect William Lambie and their partnership would last about two years. The pair would design many power yacht designs including a fast 88 foot cruiser a 55 foot schooner a cruiser for N. Paul Whittier of Hollywood CA and 110 foot steel auxiliary schooner for H. Wilhelm Rohl who also owned at the time the famed Te Vega yacht. They may be best remembered for designing the glass bottomed “Phoenix” the popular sightseeing side-wheeler paddle boat for tourists sightseeing over the undersea gardens of Santa Catalina Island. Lambie 1886-1963 was a Scottish-American Southern California naval architect who had worked with Southwestern Shipbuilding then with the Seacraft Corporation and well known as the designer of the popular Lambie propellers whose efficiency was first recognized when installed on the SS Catalina. The letters included in this archive reflect the impact of the Great Depression and the Stock Market Crash on shipbuilding with the owner of the Philadelphia based Tunnel & Mine Machinery Co. lamenting that “It has been pretty stringent this year but some of my things are showing signs of coming back . . . which may enable me to complete Sapphire Seas.” While the letter sent by Lambie to W.F. McMahon in Riverside California explaining how he unwittingly may have offended Mabry his former partner as well as Mr. McMahon over the proposed design and build of a yacht in 1932. Mabry would remain in Los Angeles until the mid-1930s before moving again to the East Coast to work for the Cramp Shipbuilding Co. in Philadelphia and then later the EB Company in New London CT. Worldcat lists no copies or examples of designs by Curtis Darling Mabry or for the firm Lambie & Mabrie; See: The Big White Steamer The Branding Iron Los Angeles Westerners Corral No. 101 1971 pp. 5-7; Martin Cox Los Angeles Steamship Company 2010; Francis Sweisguth William Gardner Yacht Designer; John Valois The Centennial History of the Woods Hole Yacht Club 1996. Curtis D. Mabry, Lambie & Mabry, William Gardner, John G. Alden, et al, unknown

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