Roussel, J.
MONOGRAPHIE DES PALAIS & PARCS DE VERSAILLES ET DES TRIANONS
Paris: Armand Guerinet, n.d.

Folio. viii pp text; 181 photographic plates of interiors, exteriors, sculpture, outbuildings, and ironwork. Text in French. Half dark blue morocco with marbled boards. Rebound in half leather with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration on the spine and marbled endpapers. VG. light rubs to leather. A couple small stains to title page, plates clean and bright. An unusual leather-bound version of this classic French portfolio.
Inventory number #011719

Cuvillies, Francois
MORCEAUX DE CAPRICES A DIVERS USAGES = Entwurfe und Skizzen zu verschiedenem Gebrauch
Munich: Battenberg, 1981

Folio. unpaged; 48 black & white plates. Text in German. Vellum-backed decorated boards in cardboard slipcase. As new. Fine plates of designs by Bavarian rococo architect and designer Francois Cuvillies (1695-1768).
Inventory number #011718

Lowe, David Garrard
BEAUX ARTS NEW YORK
NY: Whitney Library of Design, 1998

First edition. Square octavo. 128 pp; profusely illustrated in b/w; bibliography. Paperback. VG+, bottom corner of front cover creased, else a clean, unmarked copy. Historian David Garrard Lowe takes the reader on an architectural and cultural tour of Beaux Arts New York. The author's lively text and detailed captions accompanying over 145 photographs and drawings illuminate the period between 1880 and the First World War, when New York was the de facto capital of the U.S. and the spirit of the famous Parisian Beaux-Arts ateliers was recreated in some of the city's greatest architectural firms, including Richard Morris Hunt; McKim, Mead & White; and Carrere & Hastings. This book is based on a 1997 exhibition held at the PaineWebber Art Gallery, New York.
Inventory number #011717

Curran, C.P.
DUBLIN DECORATIVE PLASTERWORK of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
London: Alec Tiranti, 1967

Quarto. 124 pp of text plus 4 tipped-in color & 173 b/w plates; bibliography; index of Dublin plasterers; map of Dublin on endpapers. Blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; The first authoritative and richly illustrated book covering the elegance of Rococo plasterwork in Dublin, it shows the existence of several generations of skilled men who had practiced their craft from an early date.
Inventory number #011715

Ackerman, James S.
THE VILLA: Form and Ideology of Country Houses
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990

First edition. Quarto. 304 pp; 213 illustrations, including 71 drawings. Grey cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy. The author discusses villa building in Western countries, including ancient Roman villas, the early villas of the Medici, the Palladian villa in England, and the modern villas of Wright and Le Corbusier. He examines not only the relationship between urban and rural life but also that between building and natural environment and between social, cultural, economic, and political forces and architectural design.
Inventory number #011709

Rogers & Manson
THE BRICKBUILDER. Vol. 20, Nos. 11 & 12, Vol. 21, Nos. 1-9
Boston: Rogers and Mason, 1911

Eleven issues from November 1911 through September 1912. Folio. Approximately 28 pp per issue, consecutively numbered; illustrated with b/w photos, plans and elevations and details; advertising sections. Stapled wraps. VG mostly, 3 of the issues have covers detached but present, the rest are VG with minor flaws. Group contains: Volume 20, Nos. 11-12; Volume 21, Nos. 1-9. Some of the architects represented: Howard Sill; Mathew Sullivan; Charles R. Greco; Delano & Aldrich; Aymar Embury II; Frank B. Meade; Charles A. Platt; McKim Mead & White; Cope & Stewardson; Warren Wetmore; Grosvenor Atterbury; Guy Lowell; Albert Pretzinger and many more. Wonderful examples of residential architecture, churches, hospitals and other works of civic and commercial architecture with a focus on works executed in brick and terra cotta.
Inventory number #011660

Jourdain, M.
ENGLISH DECORATIVE PLASTERWORK of the Renaissance
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926

Quarto. xiii, 258 pp; 200 b/w plates; index of plasterers; measured drawings of comparative moldings; index. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth with dustjacket. VG in VG dustjacket with moderate edgewear.
Inventory number #011652

Albrecht, Donald
AUTOPLASTIC: Wendell Castle 1968-1973
NY: R 20th Century, 2004

Octavo. 24 pp; color photos. Stapled covers. a fine copy. 'AutoPlastic: Wendell Castle, 1968-1973' presents approximately 35 examples of the brightly colored, boldly sculptural furniture, lighting, and objects that resulted from Castle's extraordinary moment of inspired departure from woodworking. The exhibition was organized by Donald Albrecht, independent curator and Adjunct Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of the City of New York.
Inventory number #011634

Smith, Henry Atterbury
THE BOOKS OF A THOUSAND HOMES. Vol. I: 500 Small House Plans
NY: Home Owners Service Institute, 1925

Second edition. Quarto. 316 pp; full of b/w sketches, photos and floor plans. Cloth-backed boards. VG+, a clean, unmarked copy. This book features 500 plans of 'moderate cost' 3 to 8 room houses in a variety of styles -- Colonial, Dutch colonial, English cottage, Spanish Mission style bungalow, brick bungalow. This is the only volume ever published.
Inventory number #011614

Wright, Richardson & Margaret McElroy
HOUSE & GARDEN'S SECOND BOOK OF INTERIORS
NY: Conde Nast, 1926

First edition. Quarto. 223 pp; b/w photographs & drawings. Blue cloth. VG. light scuffing to gilt on cover. Contains seven hundred illustrations of halls, living rooms, libraries, dining rooms, bed chambers, and other rooms of the house, together with their color schemes; an outline of period furniture; practical suggestions for the making and use of accessories; and a portfolio of many beautiful interiors.
Inventory number #011613

Koch, Alexander
Innen-Dekoration. Die gesamte Wohnungskunst in Bild und Wort. Juli 1922, XXXIII. Jahrgang
Darmstadt: Verlagsanstalt Alexander Koch, 1922

Quarto. unpaginated; b/w illustrations and ads. Text in German. Paperback. VG cover edges are worn, complete.
Inventory number #011612

Koch, Alexander
Innen-Dekoration. Die gesamte Wohnungskunst in Bild und Wort. Mai 1922, XXXIII. Jahrgang
Darmstadt: Verlagsanstalt Alexander Koch, 1922

Quarto. unpaginated; b/w illustrations and ads. Text in German. Paperback. VG cover edges are worn, complete.
Inventory number #011611

Koch, Alexander
Innen-Dekoration. Die gesamte Wohnungskunst in Bild und Wort. April 1922, XXXIII. Jahrgang
Darmstadt: Verlagsanstalt Alexander Koch, 1922

Quarto. 163 pp; b/w illustrations and ads. Text in German. Paperback. G+ cover edges are worn, text block splitting, complete.
Inventory number #011610

Harris, Leslie
ROBERT ADAM AND KEDLESTON: The Making of a Neo-Classical Masterpiece
London: National Trust, 1987

Oblong quarto. 96 pp; 82 color & b/w plates and several b/w illustrations; bibliography. Edited & with a foreword by Gervase Jackson-Stops. Paperback. A near fine copy. Catalogue to accompany the Treasure Houses of Britain exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington, in which Kedleston was well represented.
Inventory number #011603

Collinson, Howard Creel
VERSAILLES: French Court Style and Its Influence
Toronto: University of Toronto, 1992

Includes Supplement. Quarto. 213, 33 pp; 51 figures on plates. Cloth bound with gilt title block on face and spine. Supplement is flexi covers matching the color of the main volume. Includes 4 pieces of Univ of Toronto bookstore ephemera. No jacket as issued. Near fine, gilt title block slightly rubbed. An edited series of lectures given at the University of Toronto, two of which appear in French, the supplement provides the English translations to these two lectures.
Inventory number #011598

Lowe, David
CHICAGO INTERIORS: Views of a Splendid World
Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1979

Quarto. 150 pp; b/w illustrations throughout; sources and notes for illustrations. index. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. Near fine in VG jacket. A couple of small edge tears to jacket. 250 illustrations, many of vanished places, gathered from Chicago's archives.
Inventory number #011596

Nervi, Pier Luigi
THE WORKS OF PIER LUIGI NERVI
NY: Frederick A. Praeger, 1957

Oblong quarto. 141 pp; fully illustrated with b/w photographs & drawings. Off-white cloth with red spine lettering & red drawing of structure on cover, no jacket. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; some tanning to covers, discoloration at the edges of pages, a little surface damage at the top edge of pages toward the end of the book.
Inventory number #011536

Moss, James E., editor
THE JOURNAL OF SAN DIEGO HISTORY. Fall 1971, Volume XVII, Number 4
San Diego: San Diego Historical Society, 1971

Octavo. 52 pp; b/w photographs, drawings & plans. Stapled wraps. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, light cover wear, bottom corner gently bent. This issue features articles on San Diego architects Irving John Gill and William Templeton Johnson.
Inventory number #011515

Harris, John & Robert Hradsky
A PASSION FOR BUILDING: The Amateur Architect in England, 1650-1850 an Exhibition
London: Sir John Soane's Museum, 2007

Quarto. 48 pp; color & b/w illustrations. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, minor cover wear. Catalogue for an exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 18 May to 1 September 2007.
Inventory number #011482

Reid, Kenneth, ed.
PENCIL POINTS. November 1937, Volume XVIII, Number 11. Design
Stamford, CT: Reinhold Publishing Corp., 1937

Quarto. p 682-745 + 60 pp of advertisements; full of b/w illustrations & a few color plates. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, spine ends lightly chipped, light rubbing to extremities. This issue includes 'Otto R. Eggers as a Designer' by T.J. Young (34 b/w illus & 1 color fold-out plate), 'Contrasts' by Ralph Walker, 'Scandinavian Doors (2 pp measured drawings)' by Dorothy B. Ingemann, 'Some Observations on Building' by Maurice Feather, 'A World in Transition' by Robert L. Anderson, and 'The Smaller Airport' by Elisabeth Coit.
Inventory number #011470