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1. Alison, Archibald.
Essays On The Nature And Principles Of Taste.
Boston: Hilliard & Metcalf, 1812. First American edition. (xii) (18) 434 pages. 22 x 13 cm. The author's aesthetics played an important part in the development of romantic classicism in American architecture. His essays were popular and came to be considered a textbook for artists and the highly educated. SHAW 24584. Owner signature head of title page dated 1812. Generally clean with toning to first few and last leaves. Scratch with small loss back cover. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Very good. $240.00
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2. Bicknell, Amos Jackson.
Detail, Cottage And Constructive Architecture Containing 75 Large Lithographic Plates. Showing a Great Variety of Designs For Cornices, Brackets, Windows, Window Caps, Doors, Plazzas, Porches, Bay and Dormer Windows, Observatories, Towers, etc....
New York: A.J. Bicknell & Co, 1873. First edition. Unpaginated. Folio, 35 x 27 cm. Seventy five lithographs plates (most with multiple images) plus lithographic frontispiece -- many plates are tinted, Included are forty-five perspectives, elevations and plans of designs for cottages with details, eighteen elevations of Summer Houses, Villas, Sea-Side-Cottages and Country Houses; together with fourteen designs for Street and Store Fronts, with Inside Finish for Stores and Banks. Seven pages of adverts including color lithographic examples of encaustic tiles (Minton floor tiles), bronzed hinges and door belts. HITCHCOCK 164. Plates clean, interior contents bright, sharp and clean. Hint of rubbing to backstrip head and foot. Orig. pebble grained brown cloth, backstrip gilt designs bright and fresh. Front cover lettered in black. Near fine. $750.00
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3. Blondel, Jacques-Francois.
De La Distribution Des Maisons De Plaisance, Et De La Decoration Des Edifices En General.
Paris: Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1737-1738. First edition. 198 & 180 pages. 28.5 x 21.2 cm. 155 engraved plates, title page printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece and 44 engraved plates in Vol. 1 (42 folding) ; 111 engraved plates in Vol. 2 (12 folding), numerous engraved head and tail pieces and initials in the text. First edition, second issue lacking half titles, errata slips, and with Jombert's address as "Rue Dauphine" of Blondel's first published book. Vol. I includes many architectural designs for houses and Vol. II describes both interior and exterior ornaments, as well as garden plans. FOWLER 49. "Blondel was the most significant French architectural educator of the eighteenth century.....his objective was to establish design principles for domestic architecture that correspond to the classical principles already in practice for civil structures." [see: MILLARD p25]. FOWLER notes, "The fine plates were both drawn and engraved by the author, except for a few at the end of Volume II, on which he received help. The allegorical frontispiece and some of the head and tailpieces were engraved by Cochin. This work deals in great detail with the country house and its garden." BERLIN CATALOGUE 2400. BRUNET I, p.977. CICOGNARA 35. Raised bands, leather spine labels, spine panels richly decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, interior contents [plates and text] clean, moderate extremity wear. Contemporary French cat's paw calf, edges stained red. Very good. 2 vols. $4,200.00
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4. Boston. American Type Founders Co.
A Desk Book Of Printing Types To Which Is Appended A Condensed Catalogue Of Printing Machinery And Materials.
Boston: American Type Founders Co., 1898. First edition. 946 (2) pages. 20 x 12.5 cm. Laid-in the publisher's original four page "A Brief Synopsis of its Contents Arranged by folios, from page 1 to page 946, Inclusive." printed in red and black. Bookplate of J.D. Scott dated 1898 noting "This copy of the Desk Book is loaned to Scott, and remains the property of the publisher." A zany compendium. Interior contents clean and fresh. Orig. publisher's green cloth front cover decorated. All edges red. Near fine. $395.00
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5. Brown, William.
The Carpenter's Assistant: Containing A Succinct Account Of Egyptian, Grecian, And Roman Architecture Also, A Description Of The Tuscan, Doric, Corinthian And Composite Orders; Together With Specifications, Practical Rule And Tables For Carpenters, And A Glossary Of Architectural Terms..............Revised, Improved And Enlarged With Additions On Rural Architecture; Embracing Plan, Elevations, Ground, &c, &c, Of Cottages, Villas, And Farm Buildings; Including New And Valuable Designs For Church Edifices BY LEWIS. E. ROY, Architect.
Boston: Edward Livermore, 1854. Fourth Edition. 140 pages. 28 1/2 x 24 cm. First published, 1848. Fifty full-page engraved plates and sixty wood engravings. Uncommon publication, being both a builder's guide and house pattern book." HITCHCOCK. 219. KARPEL B268. "Contains a supplement on rural architecture by Louis E. Joy. This edition is of special interest for the manner in which it is illustrated; it contains `old fashioned' full page copper engravings of the orders interleaved with more up-to-date wood engravings on the text leaves. The additions on rural architecture include Gothic and Tudor cottages, and Elizabethan and Italian villas. When first published it was a late Greek revival pattern book. " Scattered intermittent foxing, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt. Handsomely recased in modern full brown leather. Near fine. $520.00
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6. Carter, John.
Ancient Architecture of England A New And Improved Edition, With Notes And Copious Indexes, By John Britton.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1837. 74 pages & Alphabetical Index & Chronological Index, Folio, 50 x 33 cm. Etched frontispiece by and after Carter, and 106 etched plates. Originally issued in 27 parts, 'this is Carter's most important book... It was probably the first [work] to analyze the morphological development of English Gothic (or, as Carter insisted, ''the Pointed Arch style'') on a systematic comparative basis - something acknowledged by Britton in a tribute to Carter as ''the first to point out to the public the right way of delineating the component and detached parts of the old buildings of England'' Two volumes in one. AVERY p.172. RIBA I 569.A. Three quarter dark green cloth and brown morocco rebacked. Near fine. $950.00
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7. Chalmers, Alex.
A History Of The College Halls, And Public Buildings, Attached To The University Of Oxford, Including The Lives Of The Founders.
Oxford: Collingwood And Co. et al, 1810. First edition. 486 pages & 7 leaves [Index, List of Plates & Errata]. Frontispiece, additional engraved title and 31 engraved plates. Generally clean with scattered toning throughout. Louis Richard Ashhurt bookplates. Toning to engravings at margins only. CLARY 112. Nicks to joints, spines decorated and lettered in gilt. Front cover border arabesques in blind. Contemporary gilt decorated calf. Very good. 2 Vols. $395.00
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8. Cowper, William.
The Task: A Poem In Six Books.
Philadelphia: Bennet And Walton, 1811. First American edition. 212 pages. 16.5 x 10.5 cm. Four pages of publisher adverts at rear. Scattered foxing, light dampstain one centimeter head of title not affecting text. Cowper was one of the most widely read English poets of his day, whose most characteristic work, as in `The Task' brought a new directness to 18th-century nature poetry. This long poem, written “to recommend rural ease and leisure,” was an immediate success on its publication in 1785. Contemporary full calf, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Near fine. $185.00
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9. Cummings, M.F. & C.C. Miller.
Modern American Architecture. Designs and Plans for Villas, Farm-Houses, Cottages, City Residences, Churches, School-Houses, &c. &c. Containing Fifty-Five Original Plates Giving in Detail Plans and Illustrations Suited to All Parts of the Country.
New York: Published By The Authors (A.J. Bicknell, General Agent), 1868. First edition. 19 text pages. Folio, 36 x 27.5 cm. Fifty-four lithograph plates. Presents a wide variety of dwellings as well as designs for row houses, tenements, fire and school houses and commercial buildings, churches et al. HITCHCOCK 306. Lithographed and printed by Julius Bien, New York. Interior plates and text fresh and clean. Slight rubbing to joints. Orig. black cloth decorated in blind, front cover gilt lettered. Very good. $595.00
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10. De Crauzat, Ernest.
L'Oeuvre Grave et Lithographie De Steinlen Catalogue descriptif et analytique suive d'un Essai de Bibliographie et d'Iconographie de son Oeuvre Illustre.
Paris: Societe de Propogation des Livres D'Art, 1913. First edition. [[XV] 228 pages. 33 x 25.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 255 of 500 on papier d'Alfa. Preface by Roger Marx. There are three original etchings, and seven original lithographs. Also presented are etchings, monotypes, original lithographs [prints, musical covers, posters and book cover designs]. FREITAG 9143. Text in French. Partly unopened, interior contents clean, printed on glossy stock, cloth backstrip, contents loosely inserted in stiff printed wrappers with pictorial medallion of Naoum Aronson. Orig. gray stiff wrappers, cloth spine. Very good. $725.00
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11. Dezailler D'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph.
La Theorie Et La Pratique Du Jardinage, Ou L'On Traite A Fond Des Beaux Jardins apelles communement Les Jardins De Plaisance Et De Proprete, etc.......
Paris: Jean Mariette, 1713. New Edition. 293 [1] [XII] pages. 25.5 x 19.5 cm. 38 engraved plates by Mariette and C. Lucas after Dezailler and Alexandre Le Blond, including 29 double-page and 9 folding, mostly mounted on guards. Enlarged second edition of the important French treatise on garden design, first published 1709. This edition contains a new preface and six new engravings. the book was originally published under the author's initials alone, and was later also published under the name of its illustrator, Le Blond. BERLIN KAT. 3463. FOWLER 170. "This book, in which the methods of the great Le Notre (1513-1700) were reduced to a system, remains to this day the standard authority on the formal garden. It was written by D'Argenville the elder, under the instructions and supervision of the architect, J.B. Alexandre Le Blond...." HUNT 421. Engraved bookplate, Safstaholm, Bibliothek, contents clean, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, nicks to joints and corners, binding tight. Contemporary full French calf. Very good. $2,300.00
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12. Dezallier D'argenville, Antoine-Joseph & Alexander Le Blond.
Consisting of Parterres, Groves, Bowling-Greens, & C. Containing Several Plans, and general Dispositions of Gardens, New Designs of Parterres, Groves, Grass-plots, Mazes, Banqueting Rooms, Galleries, Portico's, and Summer-houses of Arbour-work, Terrasses, Stairs, Fountains, Cascades, and other Ornaments of use in the Decoration and Embelishment of Garden, etc...
London: Bernard Lintot, 1728. Second edition. Augsburg: Johann Andreas Pfeffel, 1753. Second German edition. leather_bound. [xiii] 368 (2 errata) pages. 19.6 x 12.5 cm. Etched allegorical frontispiece, incorporating portrait of dedicatee, plus 36 engraved plates, 30 folding. First French edition, 1709 with this copy's text and plates based on the 1722 edition, which was incorrectly credited solely to the artist responsible for the illustrations, Alexandre Le Blond. First German edition, Augsburg, 1731. This work elaborates on the basics of horticulture, planting a garden, selecting, planting and caring for the various plants, as well as the use of water features and fountains. The copper engraved plates present numerous illustrations of these topics -- layouts of various gardens and parks with flower beds, trellises, pools. stairs and terraces. Part of plate prior to page 187 colored. MILLARD III, 27. Raised bands, black leather spine label printed in gilt. Interior contents generally clean. Contemporary full mottled calf. Very good. Contemporary full speckled calf Cambridge style binding, rectangular front and back cover panels decorated in blind and corners. Very good. $1,950.00
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13. Dodgson, Campbell.
A Complete Catalogue Of The Etchings And Dry-Points Of Edmund Blampied.
London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1926. First edition. 28 pages in text. 29 x 23.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 47 of 350 including an original signed etched frontispiece by Blampied entitled "The Cooling Stream." 99 plates with lettered tissue guards. An eminent artist born in the Parish of Saint Martin, Jersey in the Channel Islands whose first language was Jerrais, a French/Norman tongue. Elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1938, he produced some 200 etchings and drypoints, and more than 80 lithographs and lithographic prints, many of which depicted rural life in his beloved island of Jersey. He was also a prolific illustrator, appearing in around 50 books and over 600 issues of magazines and newspapers. Laid in is letter on Cleveland Museum of Art stationary noting the exhibition of Blampied sponsored by the Print Club of Cleveland, together with a Catalogue of the Exhibition. Clean, very bright copy, book plate. Orig. brown cloth lettered in gilt. Teg. Fine. $750.00
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14. Downing, A.J.
Cottage Residences; Or, A Series of Designs for Rural Cottages and Cottage Villas, and Their Gardens and Grounds Adapted To North America.
New York: John Wiley, 1887. 261 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Illustrated with numerous engravings, full page and smaller. HITCHCOCK 346. KARPEL B224. "According to Henry-Russell Hitchcock, `Only with the appearance in 1842 (of this title) were the various Cottage and Villa modes...enthusiastically propagated." Fresh, very bright copy. Nicks to backstrip head and foot. Orig. green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, front cover in black and red. Very good. $100.00
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15. _____.
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to America; Etc.
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1844. Second edition. 497 pages. 24 x 15.5 cm. Second edition, enlarged and newly illustrated, sixteen plates including frontispiece with copious illustrations in the text. Originally published 1841. HITCHCOCK 355. KARPEL B528. "This is the first book devoted entirely to landscape gardening and rural architecture in America, and one of the most influential books ever published in the history of American art and taste." Clean copy, text and plates uniformly free of foxing. Nicks to joints at backstrip head. Small stamp of Israel A. Bierce front cover pastedown. Orig. gray/green cloth decorated in blind, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt. Very good. $375.00
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16. Dryden, John.
Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, From Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: With Original Poems WITH Poems On Various Occasions; And Translations From Several Authors.
London: Jacob Tonson, 1700-1701. First Collected edition. 646, 232 pages. 33 x 20 cm. ESTC R31983 bound with T124515, the two works are generally found bound together. Of the second work, as ESTC notes, "Absalom and Achitopher,``The Medal,`Religio laici` and `The hind and the panther` each have separate title pages of the tenth, fourth, fourth and third editions respectively, but the register and pagination are continuous." Second title page printed in red and black. Generally a clean copy with minor toning, a few small tears, one or two cryptic, if not amusing margin notes in the second title. Raised bands, gilt leather spine label. Modern Cambridge style binding in full brown morocco. Very good. $1,050.00
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17. Duhamel du Monceau, Henri-Louis.
A Practical Treatise Of Husbandry: Wherein are contained, many Useful and Valuable Experiments and Observations In The New Husbandry, ...... Also, The most approved Practice of the best English Farmers in the Old Method of Husbandry.
London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes, et al, 1762. Second edition, corrected and improved. 489 pages [*4,B4-Rrr4], 25 1/2 x 21 cm.Six copperplate engravings (4 folding), and one folding table. A French botanist and engineer, Duhamel was probably the first to distinguish clearly between alkalis, potash and soda. His continuing energy in experiments in vegetable physiology gained him admission to the Academy in 1728. This work contains translations by John Mills of his "Traite de la Culture des Terres," as well as contributions by others. Index. KRESS 6014. Bright, clean copy, title page printed in red and black, light age-toning, raised bands, red leather spine label printed in gilt, ownership inscription in contemporary hand. Contemporary full brown calf rebacked in antique style. Near fine. $540.00
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18. Ellwood, Thomas.
Davideis: The Life Of David King Of Israel: A Sacred Poem.
Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1805. First American edition. 160 pages. 17 x 11 cm. Scattered foxing, ownership signature dated 1807 and pencil notations on back free endpaper and pastedown dated 1806. Nicks to corners and backstrip head and foot. Contemporary full calf. Very good. $95.00
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19. Edwards, Edward.
Anecdotes Of Painters Who Have Resided Or Been Born In England; With Critical Remarks On Their Productions.
London: Leigh And Sotheby, 1808. First edition. 327 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Two lithographs by Gainsborough, one in color, and a host of engravings. Index of the Names of the Painters. The author, an historical painter was employed by Boydell to make drawings from the old masters for his publications, and the Society of Antiquaries for the same purpose. "He published in 1808 (this title), intended as a supplement to Walpole; but in his facts he was too accurate to please his contemporaries, and consequently the work and its author were much decried." [see: BRYAN Vol.II, p.120]. Some age-toning, mostly in the margins, bookplate, boards slightly crinkled, modest rubbing to extremities. Contemporary three arter brown morocco and marbled boards. Very good. $350.00
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20. Gilpin, William .
Remarks On Forest Scenery, And Other Woodland Views, (Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty) Illustrated By The Scenes Of New-Forest In Hampshire.
London: R. Blamire, 1791. First edition. 22 x 14.5. [*4, A-Y8, **2] & [*1, B-U8, X4, b8, c2]. Double page map and 31 tinted aquatints or soft ground etchings. The plates for this work were divided between his brother, Sawrey Gilpin, an eminent painter of animals, and Samuel Alken for the landscape subjects. Gilpin considered trees first as "single objects" and then as elements of a clump or forest in a picturesque landscape. ABBEY SCENERY 149. (second edition only). HENREY Vol.II, p.531. "The work is divided into three `books', two composing the first volume and the third the second volume. RENWICK, pp.100-102, discusses in detail the importance of this book to Jane Austen. Contemporary brown tree calf, marbled endpapers, raised bands spines richly gilt in floral arabesques. Near fine. Three vols. in two. $850.00
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21. _____.
Observations, Relative Chiefly To Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 772, On several Parts of England; Particularly The Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland.
London: R. Blamire, 1792. Third edition. 238, 264 (xiv). 22.5 x 14 cm. Thirty aquatint plates. Errata. RUSSEL p.55. "Gilpin is more closely identified with the picturesque movement than some of the greater artists and deeper thinkers." Contents generally clean, owner signature free endpaper of Vol.I & II. Front cover border panels richly gilt and spines gilt decorated, chips to spine titles with some loss. UPCOTT p.302 Contemporary gilt decorated brown calf. Aeg. Very good. 2 Vols. ) $495.00
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22. Goodwin, Francis.
Rural Architecture: First Series Of Designs For Rustic, Peasants', And Ornamental Cottages, Lodges, And Villas, In Various Styles Of Architecture; Containing Fifty Plates, & Vol. II Containing Forty-Nine Plates.
London: John Weale, Architectural Library, 1835. Second edition, With Considerable Additions. Unpaginated. 32 x 25 cm. Plates and text in both volumes clean, bright and fresh. Wide text margins with each full page plate accompanied by an interior plan. COLVIN pp. 352-353. "...churches were designed in a spare neo-classical manner derived from Soane, others in the late Gothic style of which Goodwin was a skillful purveyor." Volume I in dark green cloth and Volume II in green cloth. Plates and plans printed recto or verso only with text accompanying each design. Volumes decorated in blind with spine and front cover lettering in gilt. 2 Vols. Very good. $595.00
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23. Hills, Chester.
The Builder's Guide; A Practical Treatise On Grecian And Roman Architecture, Together With Specimens Of the Gothic Style. Also, Practical Treatises On Geometry, Decimal Fractions, Menstruation, Trigonometry, And Carpentry And Joinery. Revised And Improved, With Additions of Villa and School House Architecture, By H. Austin, Architect, and H. Barnard Esq. Embracing All The Necessary Details, And Particularly Adapted To The Wants Of The Less Experienced.
Hartford: Case, Tiffany And Burnham, 1847. Second Revised Edition. Folio, 40.5 x 30 cm, 96 pages in text. Thirty-eight wood engravings and fifty lithographed plates, some are double-paged. This edition contains the only published architecture designs of Henry Austin [five plates]. The frontispiece shows a view of the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford designed by Austin; it has since been restored to this appearance. HITCHCOCK 593. KARPEL B104. "The most complete of any of the Greek Revival builder's guides, this work leaves no stone unturned......it was an important book and was favored by builders, probably because of its large scale, folio-sized plates of the orders. Practically all copies found have been given hard use, a sign of the book's popularity." Scattered, mostly marginal foxing, house plates clean, rubbing to extremities and covers, backstrip worn head and foot, lacks 4 cm. at spine foot. Contemporary calf over boards. Two Vols. in one. Good. $500.00
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24. Jekyll, Gertrude & George S. Elgood.
Some English Gardens.
London: Longman's Green, 1904. First edition. 131 pages. 34 x 24 cm, fifty full-page colored plates. Scarce and very collectable work by the doyen of English landscape architecture. Gertrude Jekyll concentrated her design work on applying plants in a variety of settings, woodland gardens, water gardens and herbaceous borders always striving to achieve the most natural effect. Slight rubbing to backstrip extremities. Orig. navy cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. $350.00
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25. Knight, Samuel.
The Life of Erasmus, More particularly that part of it, which He spent in England; Wherein An Account is given of his Learned Friends, And the State of Religion and Learning At that Time in both our Universities. With An Appendix Containing several Original Papers.
Cambridge: Corn. Crownfield, 1726. First edition. (*4),A-Z8,Aa-Bb2,A1-K4. 23 x 14 cm. 20 copper-engraved plates, some are fold-outs. Appendix. Index. DIBDIN LIBRARY COMPANION p. 517. "Of the same class is Dr. Knight; whose`Lives of Colet and Erasmus' are in every well appointed library, and bring considerable prices; merely because they contain some interesting plates executed by the respectable burin of Vertue." LOWNDES 1285. Extremities rubbed, corner wear, all edges red, armorial bookplate back cover paste-down, text and plates very clean. Contemporary calf professionally rebacked in antique calf with green morocco spine label printed in gilt. Very good. $795.00
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26. Lafever, Minard.
The Modern Builder's Guide.
New York: William D. Smith, 1841. 119 pages in text. 30 25.5 cm. Small folio, frontispiece, plates 1-53, 56-88. Glossary of Technical Terms. HITCHCOCK 693. KARPEL B107. "Asher Benjamin and Minard Lafever were the two architectural authors most influential in the development of the Greek Revival in America. Both had minds of compelling creative power; Lafever's was perhaps the most imaginative. The present book shows his mature style, with its characteristically delicate rosettes, anthemions, and favored Ionic order. This work contains the first appearance of the two house designs of the `temple-type with wings,' which exerted an enormous influence all over the United States." All editions are scarce. Owner inscription title page head and bookplate of E.K. Milliken. Some toning located mostly at fore-edge and at head and tail margins. Front cover repair. Orig. brown roan rebacked with original black spine gilt label. Very good. $650.00
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27. Laver, James.
A Complete Catalogue Of The Etchings And Dry-Points Of Arthur Briscoe.
London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1930. First edition. 30 page in text. 28.5 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 76 of 250 with an original signed etching by Arthur Briscoe. A marine painter and etcher who studied at the Slade Art School, he was elected an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1930. An avid sailor himself, Arthur Trevor Briscoe served as a Lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. during W.W.I, holding the command of a Motor Launch: one his duties being to patrol the Scapa Flow. Bright, clean copy, additional penciled bibliographical notes in the Catalogue, Bookplate, slight spine sunning. Orig. navy cloth, beveled edges. Teg. Very good. $590.00
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28. Morris, Francis Orpen (Edited By).
A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of The Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland With Descriptive And Historical Letterpress.
London: William Mackenzie, ca.1880. First edition. 27.5 x 22,5 cm. 240 color lithographed plates, and with the seventh volume:Fac-Simile of Autographs of Subscribers, published by A. Clarke: London, 1880. This elaborately decorated book depicts the country seats, homes and estates of various British nobles and gentlemen, as well as views of Irish country houses during the late Victorian era. The series was begun in the 1860’s and eventually completed. The descriptions were done by Francis Orpen Morris (1810 - 1893), a parson and naturalist, and the plates were illustrated by Alexander Francis Lydon and coloured by Benjamin Fawcett. Alexander D. Irwin armorial bookplate. Majestically bound in a series of gilt motifs, both covers and spines with dark brown cloth background. Back covers decorated in blind. Interior contents fresh and clean. Gilt decorated brown cloth. Aeg. Near fine. 7 Vols. $1,295.00
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29. Nugent, Thomas (translator).
The Life of Benvenuto Cellini; A Florentine Artist. Written by Himself in the Tuscan Language and Translated from the Original.
Philadelphia: R & T. Desilver, 1812. First American edition. 352, 256 pages. 18 x 11 cm. A variety of curious and interesting particulars, relative to painting, sculpture and architecture. The author Thomas Nugent was an erudite Irish historian and travel writer. The English edition was published in 1772. Elegant binding, raised bands spine labels printed in gilt. Bookplates front cover pastedown, inch loss head of title page toward margin not affecting title description. Contemporary full brown calf. Near fine. 2 vols. $175.00
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30. Palladio, Andrea.
L'Architettura Di Andrea Palladio Divisa in quattro libri.
Venetia: Appresso Marc Antonio Brogiollo, 1642. Folio, 33 x 22 cm. a2, B-G4, H-I4, AA-KK4, AAA6, BBB-EEE4, 4A-4R4, including title and final blank. Illustrated title page, some margin stains and browning. Initial decorated letters throughout. Not in FOWLER. Palladio's palaces and villas were imitated for 400 years all over the Western world; he was the first architect to systematize the plan of a house and consistently to use the ancient Greco-Roman temple front as a portico, or roofed porch supported by columns. Orig. limp vellum, spine lettered in brown. Very good in fine custom slipcase. quarter vellum spine and marbled boards. $2,500.00
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31. Plaw, John.
Ferme Ornee; Or Rural Improvements. A Series Of Domestic and Ornamental Designs, Suited To Parks, Plantations, Rides, Walks, Rivers, Farms, &c. Consisting Of Fences, Paddock Houses, A Bath, A Dog-Kennel, Pavilions, Farm-Yards, Fishing-Houses, Sporting-Boxes, Shooting-Lodges, Single And Double Cottages, &c. Calculated For Landscape And Picturesque Effects {BOUND WITH] Sketches For Country Houses, Villas, And Rural Dwellings; Calculated For Persons Of Moderate income, And For Comfortable Retirement. Also Some Designs For Cottages, Which May Be Constructed Of The Simplest Materials; With Plans and General Estimates [BOUND WITH] ATKINSON, WILLIAM, Views Of Picturesque Cottages With Plans Selected From A Collection Of Drawings Taken In Different Parts Of England, And Intended As Hints For The Improvement Of Village Scenery.
London: I and J. Taylor, J. Taylor, T. Gardiner, 1796, 1800 & 1805. Second edition, First edition, First edition. 13 pages in text. 31 x 26 cm. Thirty-eight engraved plates, sepia aquatints. First published 1795: "These designs were among the earliest of the cottage and villa books which became so popular during the first quarter of the nineteenth century." [see: COLVIN, p.642]. ABBEY LIFE 48. ARCHER 259.2. "The title of Plaw's book recalls the long-standing ideal of the English country estate as a place of rural retirement.......in addition to several designs for fences and ha-has, he illustrated a wide variety of rustic and picturesque structures.......Plaw was the first practicing British architect to publish a detailed design for an entire village (Plate 33).......Plaw's influence was more widespread than his practice. He was, for example, the first British architect to recommend the use of pise, or rammed earth, in building cottages.....Plaw helped establish several important Romantic alternatives to the prevailing Palladian canons of architectural design." Text provides detailed descriptions of each plate. One plate toned.
18 pages in text. 31 x 26 cm. First edition. Forty-one engraved plates, sepia aquatints. Some plates with plans to scale. COLVIN p.642. ..."these were among the earliest of the cottage and villa books which became so popular during the first quarter of the 19th century.” Plaw emigrated to Prince Edward island, Canada in 1810 where he designed some buildings. ABBEY LIFE 49.
29 pages in text. 31 x 28 cm. Engraved title, twenty plates, 12 sepia aquatints, 8 engraved, first plate is an etching. First and only edition. COLVIN p.75 notes he was not a sensitive architect as his designs illustrate; however; the concept that the picturesque is best found in vernacular architecture makes this an interesting book. ABBEY LIFE 4.
Contemporary brown calf-backed spine and marbled boards, armorial bookplate, spine lack 3 centimeters at head. Very good. 3 vols in one. $2,500.00
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32. Pozzo, Bartolome Fr. Dal. Conte.
Le Vite de' Pittori, De Gli Scultori, et Architetto Veronesi Raccolte de jarj Autori stampati, e manuscritti, e da altre particolari memorie. Con la marratiua delle pitture, e sculture, che s'attrouano nelle chiese, case, et ultri loughi publici, e priuati de Verona, e suo territorio.
Verona: Per Giovanni Berno, 1718. First edition. (8), 313, (3) pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. With woodcut title vignette of the Piazza dei Signori with the Basilica Palladiana. Early collector's small stamp on title page. Presents "The lives of artists from Verona, and descriptions of the art treasures of the city, including private collections and decorative paintings in buildings. Based on documents and earlier sources. Index of artists at the beginning of the volume." ARNTZEN-RAINWATER H116. "Libro accreditato, e scritto un coltissimo amatore cose patrie." CICOGNARA 2351. "Brief biographies of the important artists of Verona, many architects among them, from the fourteenth century to the beginning of the eighteenth." FOWLER 254 (with Aggiunta). UNIVERSAL CATALOGUE OF BOOKS ON ART. Vol.II, p.1646. One quire slightly toned, balance very fresh, clean and sharp. The short 44 page supplement (Aggiunta all Vita) was published the same year and is generally lacking in the copies listed in the OCLC (FOWLER being an exception). Contemporary half black calf and marbled boards. Near fine.r. $2,300.00
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33. Sloan, Samuel.
Sloan's Constructive Architecture; A Guide to the Practical Builder and Mechanic. In Which Is Contained A Series Of Designs For Domes, Roofs And Spires, With A Number Of Plates Showing The Interior Construction And Finish Of Bays, Window Shutters. Sliding Doors, Etc......
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1859. First edition. 148 pages. 30 x 24 xm.Sixty-six plates, 32 are colored or tinted lithographs. Glossary. Geometrical Definitions. KARPEL B295. "Before this work appeared in 1859, the standards for carpentry and building construction were largely set by foreign publications, most notably those of Peter Nicholson and Thomas Tredgold. Sloan filled a great need by documenting current American developments, many of which have made contemporary European practices obsolete. He covers domes, roofs, spheres, carpentry, joinery, and the five orders. HITCHCOCK 1198. A lovely copy, clean throughout, very bright and fresh. Discrete ex-library stamp at lower margin of the Preface page -- no other ex-library marking. Orig. publisher's cloth rebacked; decorated in blind with front cover gilt decoration bright and clean. Near fine. $795.00
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34. Stiles, Henry R.
A History Of The City Of Brooklyn Including The Old Town And Village Of Brooklyn, The Town Of Bushwick, And The Village And City Of Williamsburgh.
Brooklyn: Published by Subscription, 1867-1869. First edition. viii, 464, 500 pages. 24 x 17 cm. Two folding maps, and a host of full page illustrations with tissue guards of important personalities of the period. Topics include information on Brooklyn freemasons, Quakers in Long Island, stories of slaves being burned alive, abolishment of slavery in New York, and extensive coverage of Civil War regiments! Bright, fresh and clean set. Orig. green cloth, backstrip lettered and illustrated in gilt. Teg. Fine. Vols. 1-2. $400.00
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35. Tappen, George.
Professional Observations On The Architecture Of The Principal Ancient And Modern Buildings In France And Italy With The Remarks On The Painting And Sculpture, And A Concise Local Description Of Those Countries, Etc.
London: Printed For the Author by William Ballintine, 1806. (viii) 316 pages. 21 x 13 cm. Stamp on title and dedication. Architect and Surveyor to Dulwich College; took over supervision of the construction of Dulwich Picture Gallery from Sir John Soane in 1813. Interior generally clean, raised bands, spine panel lettered in gilt. Modern quarter dark green morocco and marbled boards. Fine. $250.00
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36. Trendall, E.W.
Original Designs For Cottages And Villas, In The Grecian, Gothic, And Italian Styles Of Architecture, Etc.
London: Published by the author, 1831. First edition. Unpaginated. 31 x 23 cm. With thirty plates drawn on stone and an Index for latter. Designs adapted to environs of the metropolis and large towns consistent with economy of constructioin. Interior contents very clean and fresh, plates and text. Slight smudge front cover. Modern quarter black cloth and beige boards, backstrip lettered in gilt. Near fine. $495.00
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37. Theuriet, Andre.
Nos Oiseaux Illustrated by Hector Giacomelli.
Paris: Librairie Artistique H. Launette & Cie, 1887. First edition. 206 page. 29 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 31 of 50 on Japan paper. 110 illustrations by Hector Giacomelli, 2 extra original watercolors signed by Giacomelli -- following the limitation page, and prior to the limitation page. Two title pages, the second also an original watercolor. The interior wood engravings by J. Huyot. Gicomelli a French watercolorist, engraver and illustrator, best known for his paintings of birds also worked with Gustave Doré, for which he composed ornaments like "The Holy Bible according to the Vulgate", published in 1866. Covers hand bound by Parisian designer/book binder, Charles Lanoe, full mustard calf with multi-color onlays of birds, flowers at front cover, and a nest with eggs on the back cover. Inner dentelles of mustard calf with decorative onlays in rose and green house silk moire endpapers with same elaborate onlay motif on spine. Full decorated mustard calf. Aeg. Fine in fine marbled cloth and brown morocco chemise, backstrip with color onlays and lettered in gilt in matching slipcase, corners rubbed. $4,000.00
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38. Wallace, Brenton G. & Frederick G, Warner.
The Work of Wallace & Warner Philadelphia.
Philadelphia: Franklin Printing Company, 1930. First edition. Unpaginated. Folio, 41 x 31 cm. Foreword by George Gibbs. Copy 542 presented to Mr. & Mrs. J. Howard Rew. 16 pages of adverts connected to the building trades follow the designs of Wallace & Warner. Their work for the gentry along the Philadelphia Main LIne and Wilmington DE. printed on high gloss paper. Quarter taupe cloth and beige boards. Very good. $395.00
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39. Warton, T, et al.
Essays on Gothic Architecture.
London: J. Taylor, 1800. First edition. 176 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Ten full-page engraved plates. Essays by T. Warton, J. Bentham, Captain Grosse, and J. Miller. Errata, 2 pp. adverts. Detailed explanatory text for each plate. Modest rubbing to extremities and surface of boards. FOWLER 438. Contemporary brown morocco, spine label lettered in gilt, marbled boards. Very good. $250.00
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40. Wheeler, Gervase.
Homes For The People, In Suburb and Country; The Villa, The Mansion, And The Cottage, Adapted To American Climate And Wants. Etc.
New York: Geo. E. Woodward, 1868. 441 pages. 18. 5 x 13 cm. Frontispiece and ten plates. With a series of One Hundred Original Designs. HITCHCOCK 1371. "With a new 1867 copyright." An almost as new copy in remarkable condition with backstrip gilt lettering bright and interior very clean and fresh. Owner inscription free front enpaper dated 1870. Orig. green cloth. Fine. $185.00
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41. White, Gilbert.
The Natural History And Antiquities of Selborne, In The County of Southampton & The Antiquities Of Selborne.
London: White, Cochrane, And Co., et al, 1816. New Edition. 586 pages. 30.5 x 25 cm. Mitford's large paper edition with wide text margins. Half title, engraved folding frontispiece, additional pictorial title, vignette to Vol. II, and nine plates, two hand colored [a hybrid bird, and the painting presented to the church]. White is regarded by many as England's first ecologist, and one of those who shaped the modern attitude of respect for nature.Interior contents clean and fresh, folding frontispiece and some additional engravings toned, mostly marginal, new endpapers. Modern half navy spines and marbled boards. Fine in custom, very good brownish/red felt lined solander case with leather spine label printed in gilt. 2 vols. $1,250.00
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42. Whittington, G.D.
An Historical Survey Of The Ecclesiastical Antiquities Of France With A View To Illustrate The Rise And Progress Of Gothic Architecture In Europe.
London: J.Taylor, 1811. Second edition. xxiv, (2) 238 pages. 24.5 x 15 cm. Appendix, two publisher adverts at rear. The first try in English to review the progress of French and European studies of Medieval Architecture. Contents include some of the notable structures -- Notre Dame and other cathedrals. Brilliant copy raised bands, floral arabesques in compartments, interior pages bright and clean. The author, faculty member of St. John's College, Cambridge. Modern half brown morocco, marbled boards. Fine. $350.00
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43. Woodward, George W.
Woodward's Architecture and Rural Art. No. 1-1867.
New York: Geo. E. Woodward, 1869. 144 pages. 16.5 x 12.5 cm. 144 wood-engravings, fifty-eight designs; cottages, farm houses, various farm out-buildings, a Doctor's residence, ornaments in landscape gardening, a country schoolhouse, grape arbor, etc. HITCHCOCK 1420. "A new issue of the 1867 item, with title: Woodward's Architecture and rural art. no. 1-1867. No mention of Francis W. Woodward." Slight nicks to backstrip extremities. Orig. brown cloth, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt. Near fine. $195.00
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