Blue cloth lettered in silver; 148 items with color reproductions; index; estimates on seperate printed sheet of card stock laid in. Text in French. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 267 pages View More...
Unpaged(approx. 75 pages); 4to; photo illustrated black paper over boards; full page half-tone photographs throughout of buildings, grounds, interiors. Rubbing to corners & edges. View More...
EX-LIBRARY; 18" x 12"; sturdy green library cloth, spine lettered in silver including call no. foot of spine; bookplate of the Mechanics Institute Library front pastedown; rubber stamp and perforation on title page. Illustrated with 50 sharp, clean, full page photogravures. Text in German. View More...
Oblong 4to. (10 x 14 inches). 152pp.; original printed wrappers, stabbed & tied at inner margin. Profusely illustrated with photographic plates, drawings and plans including a portrait of Mrs. Hearst, portraits of the six members of the jury, 3 shots of the jury deliberating on the site. Laid in is a folded 23" x 10", 1933 map of the campus and a 19" x 13.5" folded section from California Architect and Building News, illustrating the General Elevation and Plan, 4th Prize Design - Howard and Cauldwell, Architects. Covers soiled. A record of the Hearst competition for the Berkeley campus reprodu... View More...
Oblong 4to. (10 x 14 inches). 152pp.; original printed wrappers, stabbed & tied at inner margin. Profusely illustrated with photographic plates, drawings and plans including a portrait of Mrs. Hearst, portraits of the six members of the jury, 3 shots of the jury deliberating on the site. Covers soiled; corners chipped with closed tear to cover foot of spine and a triangular 1" piece out bottom edge. A record of the Hearst competition for the Berkeley campus reproducing 110 drawings and giving an historical account of the competition, the final programme, the report of the jury, the secretarys ... View More...
Pictorial gray wrappers; copiously illustrated with photographs, plans, drawings and other reproductions; includes index, notes and bibliography ; The A. W. Mellon Lectures In The Fine Arts, 25; 10.5 X 7.8 X 1.1 inches; 304 pages View More...
431pp., tissue frontis; includes index; 4to; blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt; top edge gilt. Moderate taning to endpapers, half-tilte; light foxing to recto of frontis with just a few faint spots of foxing to frontis; leading corners a bit bumped. View More...
130 pp.; 8.5" x 13"; printed glassine over pictorial gray wrappers; spiral bound; black & whtie photographs, drawings throughout. In slipcase. A detailed study of a four block sample on San Francisco's Russian Hill, in answer to the question, "what are the elements of an urban aesthetic?" View More...
Light rubbing to parts of spine. ; Quarter brown leather, and brown fabrikoid over boards, spine lettered in gilt; illustrated with gravure photographs throughout. Text in French. ; 12mo 7" - 7" tall; 238 pages View More...
Black & white photographs, plans throughout; index, selected bibliography. Upper white portion of spine tanned; rear cover tanned along leading edge about 2" in. Else a clean crisp copy.; 4to - over 9 - 12" tall View More...
[214] pp.; 4to; original gilt stamped burgundy cloth; title page printed in red & black; black & white photographs throughout including many full page. Ownership signature on front pastedown; light wear at extremites. A bright copy. View More...
145pp.; 4to; beige cloth lettered & decorated in gilt, in pictorial jacket with chips and tears at edges, loss around top of spine. 110 black & white photographic illustrations of the monasteries and their details including many full page gravure plates. Ownership name and note in ink top leading corner of front endpaper. View More...
Ex-Mechanics Institute Library with their bookplate & the usual treatments, but no stamps on plates. 2 Vols.; folio; half brown leather and cloth over boards; 192 half-tone plates from this periodical in each volume one including three folding, containing illustrations and plans. Both volumes rubbed at edges,otherwise solid. From the Alfred Henry Jacobs Collection. View More...
248 pp.; folio; black cloth in pictorial jacket; copiously illustrated with black & white photographs; plans, and other reproductions. Fine , with protective mylar wrap View More...
105 pp.; 8vo; illustrated cream self-wraps; 148 plates containing black and white photographs; plus illustrations; floor plans. Ownership signature front endpaper, light soil. Diego Siloe was a Spanish Renaissance architect and sculptor, founder of the Granadan school of sculpture. He developed the majority of his work in Andalusia. View More...
Ex-Mechanics Inst. Library, with usual treatments but no stamps on plates, except for a small number stamps on first plate below image and title. Elephant folio; original half-leather and marbled paper over boards; title page & 28 plates of gravure photographs and ground plans. Binding well rubbed at edges; spine rubbed with a scuff; chewed at top; clear tape over library marks bottom of spine; occasional thumbing to plates at margins. Binding is overall solid. View More...
Cloth-backed green paper over boards in plain glassine jacket with a nick at edge. Black & white photographs. A reprint of the original 1904 edition. Dedicated to Charles Maybeck, this book is a polemic against the shams and gingerbread of the Victorian age, celebrating a truer, more simple vision. View More...
4tos, in dust jackets. Deco: 214 pages. black & white photos and other reproductions, some color. NY: 296 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, still in original shrinkwrap. View More...