3. Benjamin, Asher.

The Builder's Guide, or Complete Builder's Guide, Illustrated by Sixty-Six Engravings, Which Exhibit The Orders of Architecture And Other Elements Of The Art. Designed For The Use Of Builders, Particularly Of Carpenters And Joiners.

Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1850. 83 pages. 27 x 22 1/2 cm. One of the early and important Pattern Books, and the author's first in that genre. This is the fifth: preceded by The American Builder; The Rudiments of Architecture; The Practical House Carpenter and The Practice of Architecture -- with this particular work being first published in 1839. A Dictionary of Technical Terms Used by Architects and Artificers. KARPEL B99. "....consists for the most part of the Greek orders and "Grecian" exterior and interior details." HITCHCOCK 108. "With the 1843 title. This is the first posthumous issue of the work, as the preceding probably came out before Benjamin's death in that year." Interior contents fresh, clean and bright. Contermporary full brown calf, black leather spine label printed in gilt. Near fine. $495.00

4. _____.

Practice of Architecture. Containing The Five Orders of Architecture, and an Additional Column and Entablature, With All Their Elements And Details Explained And Illustrated For The Use Of Carpenters And Pracitcal Men.

Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1836. Third edition. 116 pages. 28 x 22 cm, Sixty plates, plus and additional, Plate A (not noted in "Contents of Plates") following Plate no. 43, and giving four designs for base mouldings. HITCHCOCK 137. Greek orders and exterior and interior trim, plans, elevations, and details of a Doric church on plates 51-56. KARPEL B98. "Benjamin's fifth book. Pl.7 is a new order invented by the author for a specific American use." Benjamin in an explanation notes, "My reasons for so doing proceed from the fact, that more than one half of all columns and entablatures erected in country situations.... belong neither to the Grecian nor Roman system." Scattered foxing throughout, chip at backstrip head. Full contemporary calf with black leather spine label printed in gilt. Very good. $450.00

5. Bowler, George.

Chapel and Church Architecture with Designs for Parsonages.

Boston & Cleveland: John R. Jewett & Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1856. First edition. 15 pages in text. Folio, 45.5 x 30 cm. Forty seven lithographed plates, 32 of which are chromolithographs. The superb plates were printed by Bufford's of Boston presenting simple wooden designs of country churches in the Anglo-Italian, Gothic, Byzantine, Romanesque, Norman and Grecian styles, and several parsonages. Materials include wood, granite and brownstone with the basic arrangement of an early 19th century meeting house -- longitudinal nave, tall tower, spine centralized on the gable end. His conservative designs illustrate the inherent conservatism and traditional New England perspective. Plates printed recto only with all plates very fresh and bright. Laid-in the original publisher prospectus for this work. Slight rubbing to extremities. HITCHCOCK 206, first and only edition. Orig. three quarter black roan and brown cloth, front cover decorated and illustrated in gilt. Back cover with same design in blind. Near fine. $995.00

6. Briggs, R.A.

Bungalows And Country Residences A Series of Designs and Examples of Recently Executed Works.

London: B.T. Batsford, 1897. Fourth edition with six additional plates. (xii) text. 28 x 22 cm. Total of XLV plates printed recto only. Latter very clean and bright. Owner inscription on half title. Each plate with plan to scale. The first edition published in 1891 had 29 plates with this copy containing 45 plates. Bump to lower corner front cover. Orig. navy cloth with beveled edges, front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Very good. $125.00

6A. Chicago. Herbert S. Stone & Company.

The Book of a Hundred Houses A Collection Of Pictures, Plans And Suggestions For Householders.

Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1902. First edition. 403 pages. 22 x 18 cm. Hundreds of halftone illustrations. Presents fifty-four essays by various authors: Joy Wheeler, Claude Bragdon, Harriet Monroe, Edgar Metcalf, Ralph Adams Cram, et al. Printed by the Lakeside Press. Covers a host of American homes from Colonial styles onward. Clean, fresh copy. Orig. illustrated tan cloth. Near fine. $150.00

7. Coleman, Oliver.

Successful Houses.

Chicago: Herbert Stone, 1902. 165 pages. 22 x 17.5 cm . Profusely illustrated with photographs. Taste at the turn of the century for the upward bound -- decorous, decent but never declasse. Published by one ofthe more distinguished Chicago houses. Bumps to corners. Orig. illustrated tan cloth. Very good. $85.00

7A. Downing, A.J.

The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America; or The Culture, Propagation, and Management,in The Garden and Orchard, etc.

New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1846. 594 pages. 20 x 12.4 cm. More than 210 text illustrations. Extensive Index to the Different Fruits. General Index. Abbreviations and Books Quoted.Downing notes, "there are more peaches exposed in the markets of New York, annually, than are raised in all of France;" a profound American abundance even in the 19th century. The author also gives foreign names for fruits and the various synonyms. Written five years before his landmark work, "The Architecture of Country Houses." Generally clean, a few quires with slight toning, backstrip worn head and foot, nicks to spine. Adverts at rear dated January, 1846. Orig. publisher's, forest green cloth. Very good. $250.00

8. Embury II, Aymar.

The Dutch Colonial House Its Origin, Design, Modern Plan and Construction.

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1913. First edition. 108 pages. 26 x 18.5 cm. 114 photographs: examples and American adaptations of the Dutch Colonial style. Ideal designs for small buildings. Most of the houses illustrated are in Bergen, Passaic, Essex and Hudson Counties in NJ, and in Kings and Queens Counties, NY. ROOS 1627. Slight wear to backstrip extremities, rubing to lower back cover, interior clean and bright. Orig. gray pictorial front cover lettered in white and black. Very good. $125.00

9. Frederick, Frank Forrest.

Architectural Renderings In Sepia.

New York: William T. Comstock, 1892. First edition. 40 pages. 30 x 23.5 cm. Thirteen sepia tone plates. The author was professor of industrial art and design at the University of Illiinois, Champaign/Urbana. Introduction subject "Chiaroscuro." Bright, clean copy with wide text margins. Small spot back cover. HITCHCOCK 473. Orig. two-toned half brown and tan cloth lettered in brown. Very good. $295.00

10. Jacques, D.H.

The House: A Pocket Manual Of Rural Architecture: Or How To Build Country Houses and Out-Buildings; embracing the origin and meaning of the house; the art of house building, including planning, style and construction; designs and descriptions of cottages, etc.

New York: Fowler And Wells, Publishers, 1859. First edition. 176, (xii) pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. 123 wood engravings. With numerous original plans designed by F.E, Graff et al. Contains a pot-pourri of designs: a log cabin, a hexagonal house, southern, western Italian, English, suburban, gothic, symmetrical and semi-southern cottages; a circular planned house, a southern villa in the “Palladian” style, an octagonal gothic villa and numerous other unconventional types. Index. List of publisher adverts at rear. Text and engravings generally clean, slight rubbing to backstrip head and foot. Free front endpaper with scribbles. HITCHCOCK 628. Orig. navy cloth embossed in blind and gilt, front cover and spine gilt lettering bright and fresh. Very good. $325.00

11. Lafever, Minard.

The Beauties of Modern Architecture.

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1835. First edition. 139 pages in text. 27 x 18 cm. Forty-eight engraved plates. The rare first edition. This monograph consists of a section entitled "Architectural History" extracted from Elmes's DICTIONARY, a glossary of names and terms used in architecture from the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITTANICA, and a series of elegantly drawn and engraved designs for doors, windows, and partitions, the orders, etc. Also of interest is a new Greek order of Lafever's own invention [illustrated in HAMLIN, pl.XCI]. "It is in THE BEAUTIES that the true talent of Lafever reaches final maturity....here Lafever's genius appears at its fullest." -- HAMLIN, "Greek Revival Architecture in America," pp.351-352. HITCHCOCK 687. Scattered foxing throughout, wear to corners and two inch loss at head of front cover. Contemporary quarter black roan and midnight blue speckled boards Very good. $595.00

12. Lambert & Stahl [Llambert, Andre & Eduard Stahl].

Arbeiter-Wuhnungen: Einzelhauser fur eine Familie und Doppelhauser fur zwei und vier Familien in farbiger Darstellung Privat-und Gemeindebauten. [Private and Community Buildings]. Serie IV.

Berlin: Konrad Wittwer, 1891. No text. Folio, 41 x 31 cm. Sixty color lithograph plates printed recto only with black and white plans for each design -- one family, duplex and fourplex structures. -- luminous, quality lithographs in subtle tones. Kanter & Mohr, Buchhandling fur Architektur und Kunstgewerge label (Distributors) at title page and front cover, skillfully placed. OCLC notes two copies only. Plates clean and bright, slight front cover toning. Orig. three quarter brown morocco and board portfolio, spine stamped in gilt, three sets of cloth ties. Near fine. $1100.00

13. Lefuel, Hector.

Boutiques Parisiennes Du Premier Empire.

Paris: Albert Morance, 1926. First edition. 18 pages in text. 28 x 23 cm. Thirty-two plates, color lithographs, a stunning array of Empire storefront designs -- pharmacies, perfumeries, watches, cafes, restaurants, fashion salons -- all with street addresses in Paris. Plates and text clean and fresh, front cover spotted, portfolio backstrip lacks 1 1/2 centimeters at head. Orig. cloth backed tan board portfolio with cloth ties, back tie torn with plates and text laid-in loose as issued. Very good. $595.00

15. Lugar, Robert.

The Country Gentleman's Architect: Containing A Variety of Designs For Farm-Houses and Farm-Yards Of Different Magnitudes, Arranged On The Most Approved Principles For Arable, Grazing, Feeding, And Dairy Farms; etc....

London: M. Taylor, 1838. New Edition. 32 pages (text). 30.5 x 24.5 cm. Twenty two plates, many are large foldouts with detailed descriptions for each plate, latter to scale. Interior contents very fresh, bright and clean. COLVIN, pp, 526-528. "Lugar was a skillful practitioner of the picturesque, exploring the fashion of the 'cottages ornes' and castelatted mansions in the manner of John Nash." Some light rubbing to extremities in a very solid binding. Orig. quarter brown cloth and light salmon lettered boards. Very good. $450.00

17. Philadelphia. Edward Stern.

THE STORY OF THE HOUSE BEING SOME SUGGESTIONS IN BRICK-WORK FROM THE CATALOGUE OF O.W. KETCHAM.

Philadelphia: Edward Stern, 1899. First edition. 53 pages. 28 x 20.5 cm. Illustrated and Arranged by Henry Loomis Curtis With Quotations Culled From Various Sources. Title page printed in red and black. Presents the use of molded brick and terra-cotta with numerous illustrated examples of their forms and designs. Orig. half green cloth and light brown boards lettered in red. Fine. ($100.00

18. Plomer, Henry R.

English Printers' Ornaments.

London: Grafton, 1924. First edition. 292 pages. Limited edition, one of 500. 284 illustrations cover borders, head-pieces, tail-pieces, ornaments, initials and modern printer ornaments. Index. The author conjectures whether the early printers employed their own artists to design and engraved blocks, or whether they obtained them from the typefounders, but opting for the first suggestion. Corners and backstrip foot bumped. Orig. taupe cloth and boards. Very good. $150.00

19. Pocock, William Fuller.

Modern Finishings For Rooms: A Series Of Designs For Vestibules, Halls, Stair Cases, Dressing Rooms, Boudoirs, Libraries, And Drawing Rooms; With Their Doors, Windows, Chimney-Pieces, And Other Finishings, To A Large Scale; And the Several Mouldings and Cornices at full Size: Showing Their Construction And Relative Proportions. Etc.

London: J. Taylor, 1811. First edition. 23 pages in text. 26 x 21 cm. Eighty-six engraved plates. Pocock was an early member of the Institute of British Architects, and was Master of the Carpenters' Company. "As an architect he was competent but unremarkable, his best work being in the Greek Doric style" [see: COLVIN, p.649]. An important work being one of the first to survey interior decoration. ARCHER 63. BERLIN CATALOGUE 2319. From 1799 to 1827 he exhibited designs of minor works at the Royal Academy, the most ambitious of which was a Design for a Temple of Fame. Plates clean and bright, remarkably so with modest toning to the text, and stamp on title page of Mercantile Library Philadephia. Recased in modern three quarter black morocco and marbled boards. Fine. $1,275.00

20. Pugin, Augustus Charles & Charles Heath.

Paris And Its Environs, Displayed In A Series of Views, From Original Drawings.

London: Jennings & Chaplin, 1831. 202 pages. 36 x 28.4 cm. 202 steel engraved views on 101 mounted sheets (India Proofs, each plate with two images) as issued with tissue guards. Published 1829-1931. Topographical and historical descriptions by L.T. Ventouillac. An architectural draughtsman, he worked for Nash for several years before setting out on his own [see: BRYAN Vol.IV, p.166], and was instrumental in reestablishing the Gothic Revival movement in England. Text in English and French. Scattered plate offsetting, with all plates clean and bright. Two volumes in one. Contemporary gilt lettered gilt lined three quarter morocco and dark brown cloth. Teg. Very good/Near fine. $535.00

21. Radford, William A.

The Radford American Homes 100 House Plans.

Chicago: Radford Architectural Co., 1903. First edition. 255 pages. 20 x 16 cm. Perspective views and floor plans of 100 low and medium priced houses. Every plan illustrated presents complete working plans and specifications. Adverts at rear. A bright, fresh and very clean copy. Owner stamp front cover pastedown. Orig. illustrated light brown cloth, front cover lettered in white. Teg. Near fine. $135.00

22. _____.

The Radford Ideal Homes. 100 House Plans.

Chicago: Radford Architectural Co., 1904. 112 pages. 26.5 X19 cm. Homes are illustrated with floor plans to scale, elevations and Index. Rubbing to back strip, interior contents clean and bright. Publisher adverts at rear. Orig. taupe cloth decorated in red and black. Very good. $110.00

23. _____.

Radford's Artistic Bungalows Unique Collection of 208 Designs Best Modern Ideas in Bungalow Architecture.

Chicago: Radford Architectural Co., 1908. 221 pages. 27 1/2 x 20 cm. Drawings of each bungalow design with accompanying floor plans for modest and middle class budgets. Interior contents clean, and covers fresh and bright. Orig. decorated lime cloth, lettered and illustrated in red, black and light green. Near fine. $125.00

24. Ritch, John W.

The American Architect Comprising Original Designs of cheap Country and Village Residences, with Details, Specifications, Plans and Directions, and an Estimate of the Cost of such Design.

New York: C.M. Saxton, ca 1860. Unpaginated. 30 x 24 cm. Ninety-six plates -- elevations, plans to scale, carpenter and mason specifications for each design -- many of the plates are tinted lithographs, and originally published in parts. HITCHCOCK 1019. KARPEL B228. "The various eclectic styles (Italian villa, bracketed Tudor, Gothic cottage, Grecian, log cabin......are a telling forecast of architectural taste in the years to come." Interior clean, fresh and bright. Raised bands, front cover lettered in gilt. Contemporary quarter brown morocco spine and corners. Near fine. $650.00

25. Rutter, John .

Delineations Of Fonthill And Its Abbey.

London: Charles Knight et al, 1823. First edition. 127 pages. 34 x 28 cm. Thirteen plates, including three colored aquatints, and large folding map with outline color, plus engraved wood cut vignettes at chapter heads: with half title. William Beckford's creation was demolished a few short years after this publication; prompted by the initial collapse of the Abbey's tower. This account of the of Fonthill mansion built for William Beckford by James Wyatt presents a contemporary review of its splendor. Genealogical Table of the Beckford Family. List of Subscribers. ABBEY SCENERY 418. Aquatinted plates clean and bright. Text fresh, bright and sharp. Appendix. Contemporary three quarter calf and boards, latter rubbed and slightly faded. Very good. $1,200.00

26. 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, etc...

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1866. Second edition. 148 pages. 30 x 24 cm. Sixty-six plates, most of which are colored lithographs, and one, a large fold-out [uncolored]. Glossary. Geometrical Definitions. The second edition is identical to the first, published in 1859. 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. Wear to backstrip extremities with slight loss, lower corners rubbed. Interior contents, text and images sharp and bright. Orig. publisher's cloth with front cover gilt decoration bright and clean. Very good. $625.00

27. Smith, Oliver P.

The Domestic Architect: Comprising A Series Of Original Designs For Rural And Ornamental Cottages, With Full And Complete Explanations And Directions To The Builder, etc...

New York: Phinney & Co., Buffalo, 1854. Second edition. 123 pages. 27.5 x 22 cm. Forty two plates. Plates and text generally clean, wide text margins. Glossary of Technical Terms. The author attacks the conventional architecture of the day. Lacks free front endpaper, rubbing to backstrip head. HITCHCOCK 1221. Contemporary full red morocco front cover decorated and lettered in gilt. Very good. $650.00

28. Stevens, John Calvin & Albert Winslow Cobb.

Examples Of American Domestic Architecture.

New York: William T. Comstock, 1889. First edition. 40 text pages. Landscape, 25 x 35.5 cm. Frontispiece and 59 plates (line drawings), the entire production, text and plates exceptionally clean. Considered to be an important popularization of the Shingle Style, geographically of the Maine coast. Included are plans for a library, interiors of the Poland Spring Hotel, and several Colby College buildings, a gate lodge and four churches. Cobb previously worked at the Boston office of William Ralph Emerson, another major innovator of the Shingle Style. HITCHCOCK. 1240. SCULY. The Shingle Style, pp. 113-120. Title page clipped at head and carries the signature of Charles Augusts Davis. An almost as new copy. Raised bands, spine panels lettered in gilt. Modern quarter black morocco and marbled boards. Fine. $1,750.00

29. Warne, Frederick.

Printers Ornaments Applied To The Composition Of Decorative Borders, Panels And Patterns.

London: Lanston Monotype Corpn Ltd, 1928. First edition. 115 pages. 29 x 22.5 cm. 114 pages of which 65 are Decorative followed by "Monotype" Ornaments Applied As Decorative Patterns -- a series of full color plates in a variety of colors and patterns. Wear to spine at lower front cover. Orig. brown boards decorated in a variety of gilt designs. Very good. $395.00

30. Westcott, Thompson.

The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia With Some Notice Of Their Owners and Occupants.

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1877. First edition. 528 pages. 23 x 17 cm. Nearly eighty illustrations. Copious Index. An architectural and social history of many historic houses in and around Philadelphia. HITCHCOCK 1365. ROOS 2346. Calls this, "probably the first of a long list of town studies." [see: p.8]. Index. Internally very fresh, clean with images sharp and bright. Rubbing to backstrip foot. Orig. publisher's elaborately decorated brown cloth embossed with many gilt decorated images front cover and spine. Title printed in gilt and black, beveled edges. Aeg. Near fine. $200.00

31. Woodward, George E. & F.W. Woodward.

Woodward's Graperies And Horticultural Buildings.

New York: George E. & F.W. Woodward, 1865. First edition. 139, (iii) pages. 19 x 13 cm. 59 illustrated wood engravings. This work being an extension of his "domestic vernacular" applied to garden buildings. Considered to be one the scarcest of his pattern books. HITCHCOCK. 1433. Fresh, very clean copy, and remarkably so. Three pages of Woodward's adverts at rear. Orig. charcoal cloth decorated in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine. ($195.00

32. Woodward, George E.

Woodward's Cottages And Farm Houses.

New York: The American News Company, 1867. First edition. 144 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Presents designs for outbuildings and details with examples of ice houses, a rustic stand, sun dial, well house, drying house, ornamental roads, a stable, a bird house, chicken coop, porter’s lodge, canopied and rustic seats, tenant’s houses, fountains, piggery, etc. Bright, clean copy covers and interior. HITCHCOCK 1423. Orig. publisher green cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Near fine. $150.00