DESCRIZIIOINE DELLE PITTURE, SCULTURE, ARCHITETTURE ED ALTRE COSE RARE DELLA INSIGNE CITTA DI ASCOLI
Bologna: Arnoldo Forni, 1977. Hard Cover. Ocatvo. 264 pp. 44 illus. Reprint of original 1790 edition. More
Bologna: Arnoldo Forni, 1977. Hard Cover. Ocatvo. 264 pp. 44 illus. Reprint of original 1790 edition. More
Columbia; (1999): University of Missouri. First Edition. Quarto. xiii, 312 pages. Illustrated with more than 280 photographs and 29 floor plans. William Adair Bernoudy, Architect is an exploration of the work of William Adair Bernoudy. A leading advocate of Frank Lloyd Wright's modern organic architecture, Bernoudy (1910-1988) was a widely..... More
London, (1993): Academy Editions, Theory and Experimentation, an Intellectual Extravaganza. Thick Folio. 420pp. Critical assessment of modern architecture. Over 800 illustrations, mostly color. Bound in black cloth, spine lettering gilt, rear hinge splitting through last page, A good copy in good pictorial dust jacket. More
New York; (1990): Harry N. Abrams. First Edition. Square Quarto. Signed by the author after his preface. 303pp. bound in dark green cloth lettered in a light blue, spine lettering light blue. A lovely copy, fine in fine pictorial dust jacket. This is an authorative study of Frank Lloyd Wright's..... More
Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1987. First Edition. Quarto. ., 312pp. Sub-divided bibliography (e.g., Towns and Cities, Playgrounds, Natural areas). Indexes by Title, and Author's name. Bound in grey cloth boards, with green title on spine and front cover. More
(New York; 1986): Balsam Press. First Edition. Quarto. 223 pages, index. The incredible building boom that followed World War I saw Roth designing buildings that grew to dominate much of New York's skyline. His 1926 design for the Ritz Towers at 57th Street and Park Avenue, a 540-foot skyscraper of..... More
Olten: Summa-Verlag, 1950. Thick Quarto. 820 pp. 312 illus., 140 prints, 79 maps & sketches. St. Peter's from the original basilica through 1950, art and artists who built and decorated it. Chronology, bibliography of sources and critical literature. Bound in beige cloth letter and decorated in gilt, covers are soiled..... More
Robdorf, Germany: Odenwalder Hartstein-Industrie, 1994. Soft Cover. Oblong Quarto. 174pp. Architecture plans for a modern public theater complex as planned in individual portfolios by 12 students. Bound in white paper wraps, with black title and aerial image on front cover. More
Chicago; (2003): University of Chicago Press. First Edition. Quarto. xxxi, 443 pages, profusely illustrated (many in color). The famed linen cloth preserved in Turin Cathedral has provoked pious devotion, scientific scrutiny, and morbid curiosity. Imprinted with an image many faithful have traditionally believed to be that of the crucified Christ..... More
(Scottsdale, Arizona; 2014): Two Worlds Community. First Edition. Octavo. 179 pages, index. Inscribed by the author to his friend, Herman Chenin, "my longtime friend and advisor", also laid in is a letter: "Dear Herman, I was most excited to see that both you and Ed Robson were on the list..... More
Sofiia, Bulgaria: Bulsatska Akademiia Na Naukite, 1965. First Edition. Cloth. Tall Quarto. Tall quarto, 627pp. Illustrated with photographs, maps, and building plans. Color plates. Bound in orange cloth boards, with illustrated dust jacket (bright jacket has 1" chipping at spine and rear panel). More
Florentiae: Per Haeredes Philippi Iuntae, 1522. Small Octavo. 2nd illustrated edition. This title lacks two leaves of the preliminaries, and the title page (here, the half-title and title page had been nicely restored in manuscript). It also lacks the frontispiece and Frontius' treatise, De Aquaeductibus [24 leaves]. The present copy..... More
Rutland, VT: The Tuttle Co., 1931. Limited Edition. Small Quarto. Limited to 500 copies. The present copy is numbered 289 and signed by the author. While there are other books about covered bridges, this book is about the Covered bridges of New England only. Many of these bridges, since this..... More
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1931. First Edition. Small Quarto. 135pp. with a foreword by Charles S. Whitney, illustrated with photographic images throughout. Timber bridges were built on a scale never attempted in any other country, some of them over a mile in length. The earlier bridges in America were..... More
New York, New York: Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1986. First Edition - British. 8vo. Preface xiii. Acknowledgments xv. Appendices I-IX. List of figures (189), bibliography and index. Front. 256 p. More
New York: Horizon, 1959. First Edition. Octavo. 308 pages. inscribed by Olgivanna in 1969 to "Doafer and Mrs. Micuda", the title of this illuminating book, "Our House" refers to both Taliesin and Taliesin West, the homes of Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife Olgivanna. This includes the delightful story of..... More
Milan: Et/As Kompass, 1962. First Edition. Folio. 2nd issue. 80 pp. Text in French, German, Italian, English. Extensively photographed, many in color. More