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2015Best.-Nr. 27402New York: Princeton Architectural Press 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good . Large thick hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 299 pp. Introduction by design journalist Pilar Viladas. Terrific monograph on this Seattle-based architect. A fine copy in dustwrapper which has a small closed tear at the top of the rear panel. Nice copy overall. INSCRIBED by Kundig and dated in 2018. Books signed or inscribed by Kundig are uncommon to be sure. A very large and heavy volume. Princeton Architectural Press hardcover books
1990Best.-Nr. 26990Cambridge: MIT Press 1990. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. Oblong clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 436 pp. Illustrated in black and white. A sholarly biography of the great architect with focus on his work and contributions during the 1930's. A near fine copy in dustwrapper. MIT Press unknown books
1962Best.-Nr. 27078Massachusetts: Heritage Foundation 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Royal octavo. Quarter green cloth over patterned boards. 153 pp. Includes black and white photographs of this historic Massachusetts structure. A fine copy. Heritage Foundation hardcover books
1931Best.-Nr. 27077Northford CT: Sol's Path 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Cloth spine over boards. 52 pp. With numerous black and white photographs of the interior and exterior of a New England house that has sheltered eight generations. Faint sunning to board edges. A handsome very good copy. Minor corner wear. Sol's Path hardcover books
1987Best.-Nr. 26846Japan: Studio Kenzo Kange 1987. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Three paperbound quartos housed in a hard printed slipcase. Published by the distinguished Japanese architectural firm. With text in Japanese and English. 190 202 and 208 pp respectively. Very handsome near fine copy in slipcase which has some tears at edges. Tiny nick to spine of Volume 1. Profusely illustrated with photos and architectural diagrams of dozens of major building projects handled by this firm. A large and heavy item. Additoonal shipping charges may apply. Studio Kenzo Kange paperback books
1947Best.-Nr. 25908New York: Museum of Modern Art 1947. First edition. Paperback. Good . Paperbound quarto. 207 pp. Illustrated in black and white. Superb monograph on Van Der Rohe by none other than Philip C. Johnson. Covers lightly age spotted. A well-thumbed but still handsome copy of this important work. Good to very good condition overall. Museum of Modern Art paperback books
1985Best.-Nr. 25899Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Small hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 193 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs plus some diagrams. The book studies the European roots of American log architecture. A lovely fine copy in dustwrapper. University of North Carolina Press hardcover books
1995Best.-Nr. 25926New York: Rizzoli 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine hardbound quarto in fine unclipped dustwrapper. 303 pp. A handsome monograph on this architect. Illustrated mostly in color. A large and heavy book. Rizzoli hardcover books
1985Best.-Nr. 26080Cambridge and London: The MIT Press 1985. Second printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Large hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. Stated second printing with revisions. 457 pp. With numerous black and white photographs and illustrations. A fine copy in dustwrapper. Please note that this is a large and heavy volume - additional shipping charges may apply. The MIT Press hardcover books
1948Best.-Nr. 25638London: Architectural Press 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good /good . Wide hardbound volume in dustwrapper. 224 pp plus folding maps. A volume on town planning of the famous British university town that miraculously escaped the bombing in World War II. A very good copy in dustwrapper. Wrapper has a large chip missing at top of spine area spilling onto the front panel. Architectural Press hardcover books
2007Best.-Nr. 25325Middletown: Cedar Hill Cemetary Foundation 2007. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. Clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. A marvelous monograph on Weidenmann with text by Rudy J. Favretti. 191 pp. Illustrated in both color and black and white. A lovely near fine copy. Cedar Hill Cemetary Foundation unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 24999No Place: Droste 1969. First German Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/none. 8vo. Unpaginated. Introductions by Higgins and Vostell plus contributions by Joseph Beuys Claes Oldenburg Lawrence Weiner Hans Hollein and numerous other fluxus and conceptual artists. Profusely illustrated in black and white. A near fine copy in bound collage decorated wrappers. First German edition. Published in the US by Something Else Press. Text in German. A fascinating book. Droste paperback books
1995Best.-Nr. 24775Oslo: Aventura Forlag 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Small hardbound quarto. Issued without dustwrapper. An extraordinary volume that seamlessly combines architecture poetry and photography. 91 pp. Text in English with translation into Norwegian by Astri Than. Gorgeous black and white photographs provided by Helene Binet and with text and a poem by Hujdek plus a poem by David Shapiro. Shapiro has INSCRIBED this copy on the title page and dated it in 1997. Boards splayed open slightly. Some scuffing to covers. Very good condition of this scarce title with no copies currently offered for sale in traditional commerce and with only six copies shown in WorldCat. Aventura Forlag hardcover books
1995Best.-Nr. 23999New York: Peter Blum Edition 1995. Second edition. Cloth. Near Fine/very good. Stated second edition of this oversized volume of photographs by Ruff with texts by Steven Holl Hans Kollhoff Rem Koolhaas Eduardo Souto de Moura and Theodora Vischer. Introduction by Terence Riley. Mostly black and white photos with a few tipped on color plates. Bookplate to inside front pastedown else a near fine clothbound copy in very good dustwrapper. A large and heavy volume. Additional shipping charges may apply. Peter Blum Edition unknown books
1978Best.-Nr. 104202MIT Press 1978. Softbound. VG. Color illustrated wraps. 580 pp. over 900 illustrations. "If we are what we build then this book with its nine hundred photographs and drawings is not only a major pictorial resource for the architectural historian but a sort of American album a scrapbook of a special aspect of our cultural history. MIT Press unknown books
Best.-Nr. 1392Lincoln Nebraska: 1927. Oblong folio 14.5" by 10.5" 221 pages bound in a scrap-book style similar to large fabric and wallpaper sample books. Maroon cloth over boards held together with brass screws. Trade catalogs of American furniture are far more difficult to find than house plans. It is most unusual to find one of this size with this range of items. Obviously intended to be used as a sample book by a retail establishment rather than as a promotional mailer to individuals. The book is organized in seven sections each with a heavy card cover sheet listing the category and page numbers of the section with printed tabs for easy reference. One of the tabs lists "Congoleum" but there is no material about the floor covering included and the page number has been left blank indicating that part of the catalog had yet to be printed rather than removed. There are the expected oversuffed chairs and turned spindle table legs.but a substantial portion of the sample book is dedicated to Arts and Crafts and Mission style. Of particular interest relating to bungalow decor are twenty-seven pages of "Fiber Reed Goods" featuring outstanding wickerwork furnishings and lamps for sunporches. The finishes available for these settles chairs swings lamp bases and shades et al are delectable. "Satin Finishes: Natural Fumed Nut Brown and Green" and "Enamel Finishes: Old Ivory Frosted Brown Frosted Mahogany Cafe au Lait Royal Blue Chinese Blue Bronze and Blue Bronze and Green Black and Gold and Verdi Copper." The last section of the book is dedicated primarily to "Baby Cabs" and Toys including wicker carriages and strollers. Fine illustrations of cycles metal cars wagons and scooters. The binding has quite a bit of staining and wear including some fraying of the cloth but both covers are complete and totally sound. The name of the firm is bright and clear against a background of metallic silver. The last reference tab is chipped and the others browned else the contents are fine. The M. H. Tilton Company founded in 1886 sold furniture and floor coverings to the trade from their location at 6th and L Streets Lincoln Nebraska. A rare and fascinating trade catalog with a wide range of appeal! Extra Postage Required hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 2255Chicago and New York: The Radford Architectural Company 1908. First edition quarto 219 pages index and ads. A collection of 208 designs for smaller homes. Includes perspective views and floor plans with plan costs and estimated building costs. The cover has some light soiling but is nearly unworn and the colors bright. One of the classic Radford titles in the original binding. These books are excellent examples of the Arts and Crafts period. . . a handsome aesthetic asset to homes exhibiting the architectural elements of cottages bungalows and prairie style details and a useful reference for design professionals. A near fine copy bound in original pictorial cloth. hardcover books
1906Best.-Nr. 2672London: George Newnes 1906. First printing. Large quarto of 247 pages plus color frontispiece. Sixteen color plates with tissue guards and scores of black and white line drawings of floor plans and elevations and ornamental headpieces. Bound in the original olive green cloth top edge gilt with endleaves of a charming stylized floral pattern printed in purple and olive green two favorite color choices of Scott. Gift inscription on the verso of the title page from prominent colonial revival architect Frank A. Bourne dated 1910. Bourne was the author of the book "Architectural Drawing and Lettering". The gilt on the cover is a bit rubbed but still bright. Light edgewear else both binding and text in exceptional condition. A near fine copy. Very Heavy Book. Extra Postage Required George Newnes hardcover books
1737Best.-Nr. 4025Turin:: Gio. Battista Chais 1737. FIRST EDITION. Folio: . 35.8 x 24 cm. Engraved frontis. XXXVII p. XVII p. 14 plates. A-G2 A-D2 E1 Bound in contemporary marbled boards worn and soiled rebacked in later sheep. An unusually nice copy internally with just the slightest toning to some plates a few spots clean tear to center of one plate at fold no loss and light finger-soiling in the margins. Magnificent engraved ornamental frontispiece by Prenner with the arms of the house of Savoy. Fourteen etched and engraved plates including the folding fireworks plate. Title page in red and black. Text in Italian and French. One of the most beautiful 18th c. Italian festival books and of the Piemontese Baroque. Both the festival and the book commemorating it occupied the combined efforts of some of the most important artists and architects of the period. The decorations of the buildings the apparatus the fireworks and the machines were invented by the architects Borra Massone Piovani Bernardi Agliaudi and Bernardo Vittone. The plates were etched and engraved by Daudet Belmondo Bianchi Maltese Prenner and Hérisset. The ten double-page and four full page plates depict scenes of the festivities held on the occasion of the wedding of Carlo Emanuele III Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia 1701-1773 and Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine 1711-1741 on April 21st 1737. The images include numerous illuminations as well as a large fireworks display over an allegorical grotto richly decorated with statuary the arms of the bride and groom and an elaborate central fountain. A brief account of the display of the Turin's famous shroud for the King and his subjects on 4 May is also included as is a plate illustrating the crowd gathered at the Royal Pavilion to view the relic. The plates: 1. View of the Porta del Po designed by Guarino Guarini. 2. View of the Contrada del Po with illuminations. 3. View of the Castello Reale 4. The enormous fireworks "macchina" with scenes representing the marriage of the personified river Po and Hymenaeus the God of marriage. The fireworks show was held upon the arrival of the royal couple. 5. View of the Castello illuminated. 6. View of the royal pavilion with illumination. 7. View of the courtyard of the Palazzo Reale. 8. View of the Piazza San Carlo and the Porta Nuova. 9. Façade of the Palazzo Reale decorated and illuminated. 10. Façade of the Basilica of Corpus Domini. 11. View of the ghetto. 12. Displaying of the Shroud of Turin to the assembled crowd in the royal pavilion. 13. The vineyard and villa of Santa Maria la Regina Villa della Regina. 14. Garden of the Veneria Reale. Cicognara 1504. Vinet 600. Lipperheide 2761. Peyrot I 151. Berlin 3072. Ruggieri 848. Watanabe 1545 Gio. Battista Chais, unknown books
1740Best.-Nr. 4004Augsburg:: Andreas Pfeffel 1740. FIRST EDITION. Folio:. 39.5 x 30 cm. 5 folding lvs. 1 letterpress leaf 4 engraved lvs. title dedication frontis. and portrait 50 engraved plates divided into 5 series of 10 plates each. Bound in contemporary German quarter vellum with label “Kupferbuch”. The binding has minor wear and there is evidence that these 5 suites of plates were once bound with another work. This is a fine complete copy with only very minor cosmetic blemishes: some light dust soiling to the folds of a few plates scattered finger-soiling to some plate margins blank versos of some plates dusty a few minor marginal tears or marginal creases not affecting the images. Very nice. Bibiena. First edition of this richly illustrated work on architecture and perspective. The finely engraved plates show brilliant baroque compositions for catafalques theatrical scenes a series for the Passion of Christ in elaborate architectural settings and the decoration of the Riding School at Vienna for the marriage of the Archduchess Mariana with Prince Charles of Lorraine. The publication of “Architetture e prospettive” made a major contribution to the modernization of the theater establishing the so-called ‘scena ad angolo’ curved backdrops on Europe’s stages. The second son of the Italian architect Ferdinando Galli Bibiena Giuseppe Galli da Bibiena was to become a distinguished artist and designer of elaborate festivals parties funerals open-air theatrical performances and all manner of ceremony for the Habsburg rulers. He proved himself an excellent illusionistic painter with a deep theoretical understanding of perspective. These attributes coupled with an extraordinary imagination allowed Giuseppe to produce innovative often fantastic imagery. Among his early independent works were decorations for the festivities celebrating the birth of Archduke Leopold of Austria 1716 and an imperial wedding in Munich 1722. In 1727 Emperor Charles V appointed Giuseppe to be “His Majesty's First Theatrical Engineer”. Galli Bibiena also designed altars and pulpits for churches constructed a decorative arch in Prague and with his younger brother Antonio designed decorations for theaters. After Charles V’s death Giuseppe served the late monarch’s daughter Maria Theresia. Among his notable achievements in this period Giuseppe transformed the stables at the Hofburg in Vienna into a ballroom for the wedding of Charles Alexander of Lorraine to Marianna of Austria. In 1747 he was commissioned to design Margrave Frederick of Bayreuth’s opera house considered his magnum opus. At the time of his death at Berlin in 1757 Galli Bibiena was in the employ of Peter the Great. “Architetture e prospettive” dedicated to and with a portrait of Charles V was printed in the year of Emperor’s death and at the height of Galli Bibiena’s career. The work is comprised of five series of plates with ten plates each depicting funerary apparatus religious scenery “teatri sacri” and fantastic architectural views. “The range of motifs and views embraces topics that were of great interest at the end of the baroque era such as fantasy-laden reconstructions of classical ruins. In his designs the artist made use of various methods to make the architecture monumental working above all with views from below and cropped sections. In many designs he used the ‘scena ad angolo’ technique and in others in particular for the depiction of festive decorations for imperial ceremonies he used a central perspective as a dignified form… “One of the sets of engravings shows the decoration of the Cavallerizia the riding arena which was transformed in 1744 into a ballroom. The plates were made by Lorenzo Zucchi the engraver at the court of the Elector of Saxony in Dresden. The ‘theatro sacro’ and the stage decorations for the theater festival to mark the marriage of the future Elector of Saxon Frederick Augustus II are also his work. However most of the copperplates are by the imperial printer Andreas Pfeffel d. 1748… “The fusion of architecture and decoration in the two-dimensional medium of drawing is characteristic of Giuseppe Galli Bibiena’s designs… Giuseppe’s father Ferdinando in his book on architecture had also made an attempt to unite painting and architecture from the point of view of perspective using the special art form of scenography. In ‘Architettura e Prospettive’ Galli Bibiena elevated this synthesis of painting architecture and scenography to a form of art in its own right which had its greatest effect in the ‘staging’ of architecture in the service of absolutist power.” Biermann Grönert Jobst and Stewering “Giuseppe Galli Bibiena” in “Architectural Theory from the Renaissance to the Present” p. 156 ff. Fowler 136; Kat. Berlin 4152; not in Millard; not in Vagnetti Andreas Pfeffel, unknown books
1999Best.-Nr. 181018New Brunswick N.J.: Transaction 1999. Paperback. VG/VG Cover has minor wear around edges. Color illustrated paper wraps. 158 pages : illustrations. edited by the Fellows of the Institute for the Study of Classical Architecture. Transaction paperback books
1958Best.-Nr. 39265Venice: Neri Pozza Editore 1958. Hardcover. Preface by Giuseppe Fiocco. Folio. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration buff cloth and pictorial paper over boards slipcase. xii 202pp ca. 200pp. Tipped-in frontispiece numerous illustrations. Near fine/very good. Minor slipcase wear. A sharp and tight first edition of this gigantic study entirely in Italian of the Italian architect's work. Uncommon. Neri Pozza Editore hardcover books
1937Best.-Nr. WRCLIT83088New York etc: George A. Fuller Company 1937. 322pp. Small quarto. Cloth and boards t.e.g. others rough-trimmed. Heavily illustrated with gravure photographs. Some darkening to the backstrip otherwise very good without slipcase. First edition of this testament to the firm's decades of involvement in the construction of some of the best-known buildings and monuments of their generation. One of 1000 numbered copies printed for "gratuitous" distribution signed by the President Lou R. Crandall with the recipient's name inserted in this case Boston architect G. Henri Desmond. Laid in is a copy of William S. Beinecke's eulogy for Crandall 1978 printed in pamphlet format. George A. Fuller Company hardcover books
1920Best.-Nr. 26044New York New York: Not Published 1920. Group of three early 20th century watercolors the largest signed in ink by Harry D. Pelcher; all three were acquired at the same time from the same estate. The largest approx. 15" x 12" size the other two approx. 2" shorter in length. Larger piece with old glue residue from being matted at some point in the past approx. 1 1/2" on three edges; a little darkening to paper; colors still bright with naive artistic appeal. Art. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
2003Best.-Nr. 17552Oslo: Museet For Samtidskunst 2003. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Tall trade paperbound book. 176 pp. Text in Norwegian with some English translations. Catalog of a 2003 exhibition curated by Siri meyer. Illustrated with mostly color photographs. Essays by Anne Karin Jortveit Leonidas Donskis and others. A fine copy in thick bound wrappers. Uncommon. Museet For Samtidskunst paperback books
