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1950156 pages plus 61 detailed plates. Index. The six parts include: General Principles governing provision of accommodation in a base and L of C; Hutted Accommodation; Camps; Installations; Work for the RAF; Maintenance of Permanent Buildings. Contains a broad range of detailed and practical instructions to provide infrastructure for a camp of up to 500 men, including various hut designs, storage buildings, military prisons, latrines, incinerators, disinfestor, disinfector, Grease trap and soak pit, ammunition depot, veterinary hospital, stables, and much more. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average external wear. Bit of faint writing atop front cover. Ink stamp of Chief Engineer's Branch, Singapore, atop first leaf. No other markings noticed. A sound copy of this fascinating and very practical work. Book
2001Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 235 pages, color photos throughout, plans, elevations, many projects featured. 8"w x 9"h.
1987No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny scratch to fore-edge of front cover and no bumping to corners. 360pp. A useful and wide-ranging work of superior architectural scholarship with very high quality research and analysis.
1988A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Wear to cover. 48 pages. 9 3/8"w x 8 5/8"h. Illustrations reproduced from the Rome Aeterna (set of 100 engravings of views of Rome) by Peter Schenck, the eighteenth century German printseller and publisher who lived in Amsterdam.
2006215 pages with 396 colour and 187 black and white illustrations. "Discusses the most important trends in modern architecture and, at the same time, documents increasingly intensive exchanges on an international level, portraying outstanding, future-oriented museum buildings and projects from 2000 to 2010 on four continents... A closer look at twenty-six projects, either completed, planned or still under construction provides a broadly based overview of current museum architecture." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
1999A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 190 pages. Brand new, still in shrinkwrap. This is a book with large format photos of "resident's cum creators" who have devoted all their ingenuity, energy and determination to constructing what they percieve to be the ideal domestic universe, many with fantastic eccentric flair. These include Ludwig II of Bavaria's Linderhof, the Facteur Cheval's Palais Ideal, Hearst Castle, Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village, Salvador Dali's villa in Port Lligat, the Watts Towers, Edward Jame's villa in Mexico, Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta, etc....
198368 pages. A collection of uncommon historical pictures and their descriptions. Chapters include: First Peoples; Mining; Other Industries; Transportation; People; Buildings and Services; Recreation; Local Government; Military; Development. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Illustrated brown card covers. An excellent overview of the history of this dynamic city. Book
1969No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 128pp. A study of significant approaches to architecture taken by contemporary architects in Africa including innovations which link the present with the immediate past. Very well illustrated. Scarce in the UK.
1988xiv, 366 pages. Subject index. Title index. "Will be of interest and use not only to architectural and urban historians and to historic preservationsists, as well as those concerned with various aspects of the local history of New York City." - from page xiv. Usual library markings. Moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound copy. Book
1998A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Tall format: 6 1/8"w x 13"h. 166 pages. Black and white photos - one to a page, faced with a quotation about New York on the opposite page. Small indentation to about six pages.
1972Book shows very light scuffing only. Gilt lettering on spine. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. First English Edition. Translated from the Russian by Kathleen Cook. Fascinating account of buildings, secular and sacred, in Northern Russia. Chapters include Transonega, the White Sea Coast, Rivers Svid and Onega, Vologda and Lower Vychegda, the Northern Dvina and Pinega and along the River Mezen. The ubiquitous use of timber is especially interesting. Profusely and beautifully illustrated with full page photographs in colour and b/w. Gold endpapers printed with mediaeval images of builders. Very clean book. 322 pages with table of contents at back. Previous owner's inscription on title page.
197791 pages. Glossary. Printed upon glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and diagrams. Explains wood structure, notching tools, notches for wall logs, log end treatment, tenons, rafters, special notches, and more. Gift greetings upon backside of front free endpaper, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this exceptionally informative and practical work. Book
1992Features: Tin Town - West Bros.' (Brothers) Lithographed Buildings; Ingeborg Riesser; Karl Blindheim; Lauran Stevens; Jim Fainges; Jo Moore Stewart; An 1880 London Townhouse; The grand tour on a small scale; Lagniappe's 1/4" scale little sister ended with 19 fabulous rooms; Making Wheels; Along the Mall XV - an around the world import shop; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
2002459 pages. Text primarily in Portuguese. Some English transation at back. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A beautiful copy of this large and gorgeous work. Book
1961A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full gray cloth boards. 8 3/4"w x 11 3/4"h. 248 pages. Previous owner' stamp inside. Many b&w photos and floor plans with descriptions of specific buildings.
1969359 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white photographic plates. First published in Danish in 1956. Originally intended as a course in tonal and technical design of the organ and organ history, but was supplemented with content on organ architecture and the location of the organ. - from Foreword. Chapters include: The Proportions of Sound; The Acoustics of Buildings, The Organ Pipes, The Stops of the Organ; The Technical and Tonal Design of an Organ Werk; The Organ in the Middle Ages; The West European Organ Types; The Organ Facade; The Location of the Organ; The Organ Reform Movement; Maintenance - Rebuilding - New Instruments. Rebound in sturdy yellow library buckram. Usual library markings. A sound working copy of this esteemed reference. Book
1977No marks or inscriptions to contents. Very faint creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with very lightly marked boards, minor rubbing to edges and no bumping to corners. 192pp.
1995A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Full page black and white photos.
1951No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 64pp. Introduction in English and French. Colour photograhs with dual language captions of Paris around 1951.
1996A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full brown cloth boards. 8"w x 10 3/4"h. 162 pages. Black and white photos and illustrations. "Drawing upon a lifetime's knowledge, Patterns of Stylistic Change in Islamic Architecture presents Michael Meinecke's unique view of the evolution and development of Islamic architecture. Departing from conventional method which groups buildings and monuments according to dynasties and defines national characteristics based on the ethnic origins of Arabic, Persian, or Turkish patrons, Meinecke emphasizes the similarities which resulted from interrelations among neighboring or far-away areas. He argues that transformations in the development of Islamic architecture can be explained by the movements of skilled craftsmen who traveled extensively in their search for challenging work, allowing for their influence to be felt across a broad region. Meinecke's unique approach to Islamic architecture will no doubt inspire others to emulate his approach in studying other regions or areas. Few, however, will be able to attain the consummate mastery of the subject which enlivens these essays." [publisher]
1960Attractive 39.25" x 29" panoramic color map of Rome. Back side includes street map and list of principal buildings. Text in Italian. Undated, circa 1960? Stored in 8" x 5.5" yellow and red illustrated card cover. Moderate wear. A lovely memento of Rome. Map
1998Pictorial boards, 128 pages, b&w pictures and captions, advertisements. Oblong format: 10 1/8"w x 7 3/4"h.
1977188 pages. Index. "... Step-by-step it details office landscaping methods and techniques, and describes the differences between planning for small, medium, and large organizations." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's details atop front free endpaper and initials atop subsequent two pages else book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is pric-clipped. Quality copy. Book
1985No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked white cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 192pp. Architectural and cultural pictorial guide to Prague. Interestingly the Mayor states (in 1985) that the city was saved in 1945 by the illustrious (!) Soviet Army from destruction.. A number of poems in Czech throughout the book. The page-referenced index at the end names each illustration in five languages including English.
1983No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with faint crease to upper rear edge and very minor traces of storage. 224pp. Detailed study of architecture and architects and the crafts, techniques and forms associated with their art. Very well illustrated.
