Roma: Tipi dello stesso Canina (Published by the author), 1845. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio. 48pp (text), XIV leaves (plates). Original full cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Luigi Canina (1795-1856) was pre-eminently and exclusively a classic archaeologist devoted to the architecture and arts of antiquity and the Renaissance. His..... More
Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux - Arts, [1907-1909]. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio (21 3/8 x 14 3/4"). XXVIII, 46, [2]pp (Text). C (100) loose leaves (Plates), as issued (Vol. 1); [4]pp, CI-CC (101-200) loose leaves (Plates), as issued (Vol. 2). Original half olive cloth over decorative paper covered boards..... More
(東京/京城)Tokyo/Seoul: (朝鮮總督府) Chosen Sotokufu (Office of the Governor of Korea), 1932. Ex-library, first edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio. 16x12". (8) + 135 plates. (1). Modern tan buckram clamshell box, with black lettering on the spine. Decorative tan cloth boards with black Japanese lettering over a white label on the front cover..... More
Paris: A. Morel, 1869-1872. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (17 3/4 x 13 1/2"). Vol. 1: [4], 56pp (Text), lxxxi (81) leaves (Plates); Vol. 2: [4], 120pp (Text), cxvii (117) leaves (Plates); Vol. 3: [4], 74pp (Text), xcviii (98) leaves (Plates); Vol. 4: [4], 166 (i.e. 168)pp (Text), cv (105) leaves..... More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1979. First edition. Folio (14" x 11-1/2"). 3 volumes. Raw linen with red calf spine labels. Profusely illustrated with photos ground plans and drawings. In fine, as new condition. Still in the original publisher's cardboard shipping container. Few early medieval documents have been studied..... More
Salzburg: Anton Pustet, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 464pp. Original pictorial dust-jacket over burgundy cloth. Frontispiece. Remarkable catalogue of the world's largest collection of Gothic architectural drawings in the Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts. Art historian Johann Josef Böker has taken this collection of 428 drawings, dating back more than..... More
Leiden-Köln: E. J. Brill, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxiii, 539pp, xv, 367 illustrations. Original light green cloth with gilt lettering and publisher's device on covers, gilt lettering and ruling on spines. Publisher's device on title page. Printed errata leaf laid into both volumes. "... this book aims to provide..... More
New Haven; London; Oxford: Yale University Press, 1915. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/750. Folio. 20 loose pages (text), 244 loose leaves (plates), as issued. Original red cloth portfolio with gold lettering on spine. Portfolio containing a tan paper covered chemise. Publisher's logo on title page. Remarkable work in which are..... More
Changsha: Yuelu Publishing House, 2006. First edition. Quarto. [4], 38, 758pp. Several thousand text illustrations and diagrams; double suite folding color panomora (recto and verso), 63 color photo plates, 131 monochrome photo plates. Publisher’s medium brown faux leather, with darker brown stamped lettering; map vignette at rear cover. Light scuffing..... More
London: M. A. Nattali, 1833. Later edition. Hardcover. Folio (13 x 10 1/2"). VIII, 64pp (Engraved title & text), 4pp (List of Plates); [79] leaves (Plates). Contemporary gilt-stamped morocco, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Binding signed by T. Aitken. Tipped..... More
Miyashiro: Nippon Institute of Technology, Research Mission, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (6)pp., 44 plates, (8) 154 (4)pp., 19 architectural plans and drawings, 2 of them folding. Original orange cloth with black lettering on cover and spine in original glassine dustjacket, housed in publisher's card box with green printed labels..... More
Miyashiro: Nippon Institute of Technology, Research Mission, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (6)pp., 44 plates, (4) 120 (4)pp., 24 architectural plans and drawings, 6 of them folding. Original orange cloth with black lettering on cover and spine in original glassine dustjacket, housed in publisher's card box with printed orange labels. "situated..... More
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Stuttgart: Wilhelm Meyer-Ilschen, 1913. First edition. Softcover. Folio (12 1/4 x 9 1/4"). XIVpp (Text), 32 leaves (Plates). Original decorative yellow wrappers. An exhaustive architectural survey of 18th and 19th century Wurtemberg castles in Rococo and Classicism style. This work is lavishly illustrated with 37 photogravures (including 27 full-page) documenting the..... More
Mexico: Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas; Imprenta Universitaria, 1955; 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 29, [1]pp + 159, [3]pp. Full spotted calf with gold lettering and borders on spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Original wrappers bound in for the two volumes. First page of "La decoracion simbolica de..... More
Cambridge: Published by the Museum, 1913. Softcover. Folio. xxii,[1],285,[28]pp. Original printed wraps. Illustrated with 280 in-text b/w reproductions of drawings of Maya art as well as b/w reproductions of photographs on 29 plates showing various Maya architecture. Includes b/w fold-out map in rear, as issued. Staining, age wear, scuffing, tears..... More
Lancaster, California: Labyrinthos, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Vol. 1: Architecture of the Puuc Region and the Northern Plains Areas. xviii,350pp. Vol. 2: Architecture of the Chenes Region. xii,320pp. Vol. 3: Architecture of the Rio Bec Region and Miscellaneous Subjects. xi,382pp. Laid-in fold-out with reproductions two of color photographs and b/w..... More
Washington, D.C. Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1946. Leaves (15 3/4" x 13") only, no binding. Cut-out title-page (14" x 8 1/2"). Authoritative work on Mayan architecture by Tatiana Proskouriakoff drawn during her trip in 1939-40 to Copan, Chichen Itza and the the cities of the Puuc. The plates by Proskouriakoff..... More
Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, 1994. Softcover. Sm. 4to. 456pp. Original printed blue wrappers. General architectural history of Jerusalem from the Chalcolithic period (Copper Age) to the early stages of the Ottoman Empire. Front cover slightly creased and stained. Minor rubbing on head and tail of spine, otherwise very good condition..... More
Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, 1994. Softcover. Sm. 4to. 554,[2]pp. Original printed blue wrappers. General architectural history of Jerusalem from the Chalcolithic period (Copper Age) to the early stages of the Ottoman Empire. One b/w fold-out map resting inside pocket in rear of book. Very good to near fine condition. Text..... More
México: Imprenta Universitaria, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 115, [5]pp (text), 90pp (plates). Full red morocco with gold-stamped decorative borders on covers and gilt lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. Half-title page inscribed and signed by Francisco de la Maza. This fascinating study of the interior of convents..... More
Dijon, Bostan: Venot, Marshall Jones, 1928. Softcover. 4to. 219pp. Followed by 36 numbered plates. Illustrated wrappers in glassine jacket. Archeological and historical work on Roman art in the Bourgogne region. Written by Charles Oursel (1876-1967), conservator of the Bibliotheque de Dijon. With a preface by renowned Harvard medievalist architectural historian..... More
New York: D. Appleton- Century Company, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 264 pp. Green cloth binding with title and author's name stamped in gilt. Eighty-two plates in b&w. Very good with slight wear to lettering on the front board and some water staining. A study of Egyptian architecture including religious..... More
Zürich: Orell Fussli, 1931. Hardcover. 8vo. 16pp. of text followed by 56, [8],pp. of photographs. Cloth spine over illustrated paper-covered boards. Some scuffing and staining to boards. Volume 20 of the series "Schaubucher". Illustrated with reproductions of b/w photographs by Walter Hege. Eingeleitet von Emil Waldmann. Text in German. Very..... More
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, (1960). Hardcover. 4to. [12],195pp. Dark gray cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dust jacket. "The Golden House of Nero tells the story of town-planning and architecture in Rome from the primitive huts of the 8th century B.C. to the brick-faced tenements..... More