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ALDRICH, MEGAN: The Graces. Royal Decorators 1768-1896.

John Murray / The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, 1990. Softback. First edition. Well illustrated. 8vo (10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches), 202-pages. Original coloured pictorial glazed wrappers; fine.

Enquire - please quote Item No. 22957


ANDRE, GEORGE G: The Draughtsman's Handbook of Plan and Map Drawing, including instructions for the preparation of engineering, architectural, and mechanical drawings. With numerous illustrations and coloured examples.

E & F. N. Sponm London, 1874. 33 plates (15 coloured or partly coloured, 5 double-page). 4to (10 x 7 3/4 inches), 150-pages. 1 plate detached but undamaged. Original blue cloth. Backstrip chipped and rubbed; internally very good.

Enquire - please quote Item No. 21886


ANON: Cabinet Views of the Crystal Palace.

DH & Co. ca. 1875. 12 glazed sepia views folding concertina style into the original blue cloth gilt. Corners rubbed, some dustmarking, split on one fold. 1 with short tear, no loss.

£12.00

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ANON: Country House Lighting 1660-1890.

Temple Newsam Country House Studies Number 4. Illustrations in b&w. 4to (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches). Original coloured pictorial wrappers. Very good.

£30.00

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ANON: Thames Tunnel. A 12-page small pamphlet descriptive of the tunnel without title-page - not issued with one?

No publisher or place. ca. 1843. 12mo (5 x 4 inches) with advertisement leaf at end offering various prints of the tunnel. Contemporary marbled wrappers.

£40.00

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ANON: The Story of the Sunday Chronicle Concrete House.

Sunday Chronicle 1927. Illustration and illustrated advertisements. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 28-pages. Original pictotial wrappers; very good.

£12.00

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BATHURST, CORNELIA & TANG, WENJIE: The Tulou of China through a Traveller's Eye.

Copyright 2009 Cornelia Bathhurst "With thanks to Shaanxi Provincial Fine Art Gallery". 20 full-page coloured photographic plates. 4to (9 5/8 x 10 3/4 inches), 12-leaves. Original coloured pictorial wrappers. Text in English & Chinese. Fine. Rare.

£75.00

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BLUNT, REGINALD: The Carlyles' Chelsea Home, being some account of No. 5 Cheyne Row.

George Bell, London, 1895. First edition. Portrait, plates & plans. 8vo (8 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches), 98-pages. Original quarter parchment over brown boards pictorially blocked in gilt; a little marked, endpapers spotted, overall very good.

£20.00

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BRADLEY, SIMON & PEVSNER, NIKOLAUS: London 6 - Westminster

Penguin Books, London, 2003. 1st thus. Plates. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 inches), 804-pages. Original black grained cloth. Headband of jacket rubbed else fine in excellent jacket.

£30.00

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BRADLEY, SIMON & PEVSNER, NIKOLAUS: London 1 - The City of London.

Penguin Books, London, 2003. Reprint. Plates. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 inches), 704-pages. Original black grained cloth. Fine in excellent jacket.

£30.00

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BRIGGS, R.A: Bungalows and Country Residences. A Series of Designs and Examples of Recently Executed Works. Fourth Edition with Six Additional Plates.

B. T. Batsford,, London, 1897. 45 plates. 4to (11 1/4 X 8 3/4 inches), pages xii (text). Orignal cloth, binding badly affected by damp & cockled. Internally good although entirely loose due to the perishing, as usual, of the gutta percha binding medium.

£22.00

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CHERRY, BRIDGET & PEVSNER, NIKOLAUS: London 2 - South.

Penguin Books, London, 1994. Reprint. Plates. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 inches), 813-pages. Original black grained cloth. A little wear to headband of jacket else fine in excellent jacket.

£30.00

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CHERRY, BRIDGET & PEVSNER, NIKOLAUS: London 4 - North.

Penguin Books, London, 1998. 1st thus. Plates. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 inches), 807-pages. Original black grained cloth. Fine in excellent jacket.

£30.00

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CONDIT, CARL W: American Building Art. The Nineteenth Century, and The Twentieth Century. Two Volumes.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1960 and 1961. First editions. Two volumes. Black & white illustrations. 4to, pp.369 and pp.427, original blue cloth blocked in black and silver, no dustwrappers, contained in the original slip-case; both volumes very slightly rubbed along lower edge of binding, headbands bumped, else good; internally, very good. The slip-case unevenly faded, with one corner with a bumped dent, and slight edge-rubbing.

£28.00

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CRESPI, GABRIELE: L'Europe Musulmane.

Zodiaque, 1982. French text. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Large 4to, pp.331, original black cloth in dustwrapper contained within original black cloth-covered slipcase; binding excellent; two short chipped tears to upper spine of dustwrapper, very minor edge-rubbing and shelf-wear to dustwrapper; internally, excellent. A blank white sticker adhered to side of slip-case, some slight shelf-wear, else good.

£45.00

Item No. 5005

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DARBY, MICHAEL: John Pollard Seddon. Catalogue of the Architectural Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Victoria and Albert, London, 1983. First editiom. Well illustrated. Folio (12 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches), 120-pages. Original cloth; headband bruised else fine in fine dust jacket.

£10.00

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ENGLAND, RICHARD: Architecture in Malta, Sketches + Projects.

Richard England in the Studio of England + England in Malta, Printed by the M. U. P, 1970. Only edition. 70 lithographic plates. Oblong folio (13 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches), original cloth-backed green grained printed light card wrappers; very good. Uncommon - only 2 cited by Jisc.

£145.00

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GROTH, HAKAN: Neoclassicism in the North. Swedish Furniture and Interiors 1770-1850. With a Catalogue of Furniture Types and Styles and Notes on Architects, Artists and Crafsmen. 388 Illustrations, some in colour.

Thames & Hudson, 1990. First edition. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches), 224-pages. Original cloth. Fine in the slightly edge curled otherwise fine dust jacket.

Weight 1.638 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.

£22.00

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GUILD OF ARCHITECTURAL IRONMONGERS: Timber, Joinery and Applied Ironmongery.

Oxford University Press, 1969. First edition. Black & white illustrations and diagrams. Folio, pp.viii:106, original cloth in dustwrapper; generally, a very good copy

£14.00

Item No. 9997

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HARE, RICHARD - ARCHITECT: Bucklers Hard Conservation Study.

Salisbury: The Brandt Potter Hare Partnership, 1972. A comprehensive report the terms of reference for which were: "To prepare for Lord Montagu proposals for the conservation of Bucklers Hard in perpetuity ... and provide a basis for the formation of the Bucklers Hard Village Heritage Trust".

49 carbon copy leaves of text. Illustrated with numerous original photographs, architectural elevations of all the properties and ground plans, maps, etc. A most comprehensive and detailed survey. Oblong folio, spiral bound, original wrappers. The author's own copy. Very few copies would have been produced; perhaps less than 10.

£50.00

Item No. 7072

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JETSONEN, JARI & SIRKKALIISA: Alvar Aalto Houses.

Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2011. First edition. Profusely illustrated in colour. 4to (11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches), 224-pages. Original coloured pictorial laminated boards. Fine.

£70.00

Enquire - please quote Item No. 22439


LYTTELTON, MARGARET: Baroque Architecture in Classical Antiquity.

Thames & Hudson, London, 1974. First edition. Many plates and illustrations. Large 8vo (9 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches), 336-pages. Original cloth. Very good in slightly edge nicked dust jacket with fading at the backstrip.

£50.00

Enquire - please quote Item No. 21664


LOUKOMSKI, GEORGES: Charles Cameron (1740-1812). An illustrated monograph of his Life and Work in Russia. Translated bt Nichols de Gren.

Nicholson & Watson, London,1943. First edition. Plates. 4to (11 1/4 x 9 inches), 102-pages, original cloth in incomplete dust jaket, endpaper very foxed, binding faded where jacket incomplete, upper joint pulled and spotted.

£10.00

Enquire - please quote Item No. 20442


MACHIN, R: The Houses of Yetminster [Dorset].

University of Bristol, 1978. Only edition. Well illustrated with photographs and floor plans. Folio (11 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches), 172-pages (of text). Original light card printed wrappers, very good indeed. A remarkably comprehensive work.

£55.00

Enquire - please quote Item No. 21801


MAWSON, THOMAS H: Bolton as it is and as it might be. Six lectures delivered under the auspices of the Bolton Housing and Town Planning Society.

Bolton: Tillotson & Sone, London: B.T.Batsford, 1916. Coloured frontispiece (of the city of Calgary - obviously a binder's error), plates, illustrations & plans. 4to (12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches), pages: xx:101 including list of subscribers, original two-tone cloth, binding unevenly damp mottled else good.

£75.00

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MAWSON, THOMAS H. & SONS: Calgary. A Preliminary Scheme for Controlling the Economic Growth of the City.

Thomas Mawson & Sons and B. T. Batsford, London, 1914.. First edition. Coloured frontispiece, coloured folding plan, double-page coloured plate & other coloured plates, plans. etc. 4to (12 1/2 x 10 inches), 88-pages. Original cloth blocked in gilt. Binding damp mottled, internally very good.

£250.00

Enquire - please quote Item No. 23020


MAWSON, THOMAS & Sons.: Exeter of the Future. A Policy of of Improvement within a Period of 100 Years.

c. 1913. Plates. 4to 911 3/4 X 9 1/4 inches), 34-pages. Original wrappers. Some foxing, browning to uncut fore-edge of text. Stain to margin of frontispiece and title from insert no longer present. Signature on front free endpaper.

£22.00

Enquire - please quote Item No. 23003


NAIRN, IAN; PEVSNER, NIKOLAUS; Revised by Bridget Cherry: The Buildings of England: Surrey.

Yale, 2002. First thus. 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches), 600-ages. Original black faux leather..Fine in like dust jacket.

£20.00

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NAIRN, IAN; PEVSNER, NIKOLAUS: The Buildings of England: Sussex.

Yale, 2003. 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches), 704-pages. Original black faux leather. Fine in like dust jacket.

£25.00

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PERESSUT, LUCA BASSO; DORIGATI, REMO; and GINELLI, ELISABETTA: L'Architettura del Caffe. Tradizione e progetto in Europa. Abitare Segesta Cataloghi.

Italy: Lavazza, 1994. Italian text. Illustrated in colour and black & white. Folio, pp.287, original cloth in clipped dustwrapper; some slight shelf-wear to dustwrapper and short tear to bottom edge of front dustwrapper, else an excellent copy.

£20.00

Item No. 10142

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PERIODICAL: The Modern Building Record. Volumes 2-5 (of the 5 volumes published).

Wertheimer, Lea & Co, London, 1911. 4 volumes, published 1911-1914.Profusely illustrated from photographs, plans etc. Folio (12/14 x 9 3/4 inches), pages: 429; 479;365; & 381. Original gree cloth, very good.

Weight 9.542 thus overseas shipping not viable.

£180.00

Enquire - please quote Item No. 23019


PUGIN, AUGUSTUS: Examples of Gothic Architecture Selected from various Ancient Edifices in England, Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Points at Large.

John Grant, Edinburgh, 1895. Three volumes. Coloured frontispiece to each volume, numerous plates, 1 coloured. 4to (11 3/8 x 9 inches). original cloth. Boards damp marked; intenally very good.

Weight 4 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.

£120.00

Enquire - please quote Item No. 23014


PUGIN, AUGUSTUS: Examples of Gothic Architecture Selected from various Ancient Edifices in England, Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Points at Large.

John Grant, Edinburgh, 1895. Volumes 1 & 2 only (of 3). . Coloured frontispiece to each volume, numerous plates, 1 coloured. 4to (11 3/8 x 9 inches). original cloth. Boards damp marked; intenally very good.

Heavy thus extra overseas postage will be requested

£60.00

Enquire - please quote Item No. 23015


ROWAN, ALISTAIR: Robert Adam. Catalogue of the Architectural Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Victoria and Albert, London, 1988. First edition. Numerous illustrations. 4to (12 x 8 1/2 inches).122-pages. original cloth; fine in fine dust jacket.

£10.00

Enquire - please quote Item No. 22952


ROYAL COMMISSION ON HISTORICAL MONUMENTS ENGLAND: A Survey and Inventory by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England - Dorset. Complete in 8 volumes.

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1970. Published 1970-1975. 2nd impression (with amendments) of volume 1 (1974), first impressions of remaining volumes. Five volumes bound in eight as issued, i.e. Volume1 West Dorset; Volume 2 South-East Dorset in three parts; Volume 3 Central Dorset in two parts; Volume 4, North Dorset; and Volume 5 East Dorset. Eight volumes, 4to (11 x 8 1/2 inches). Profusely illustrated, maps and plans in endpockets. Original cloth in dust jackets, some wear to jacket of vol. 1. Overall a clean set in very good condition. Three of the volumes have gift inscriptions on their front free endpapers.

£180.00

Enquire - please quote Item No. 20522


SHERWOOD, JENNIFER; PEVSNER, NIKOLAUS: The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire.

Yale, 2002. First thus. 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches), 948-pages. Original black faux leather.. Fine in like dust jacket.

£22.00

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SUTCLIFFE, G. LISTER (Editor): The principles and practice of modern house-construction : including water-supply and fittings, sanitary fittings and plumbing, drainage and sewage-disposal, warming ventiliation, lighting, sanitary aspects of furniture and decoration, stables .......

Gresham Publishing Company, 1903. Over 700 figures in the text, coloured plates, some double-page. Two volumes 4to (11 1/2 x 9 inches), pages: 503 & 528, contemporary quarter red roan; rubbed, lacks lettering pieces, headbands worn, prelims. spotted. Internally good.

Weight 5.864 kg thus substantial extra overseas postage will be requested.

£125.00

Enquire - please quote Item No. 22612


TATTERSAL, GEORGE (Surveyor): Sporting Architecture.

London: Henry G. Bohn, [ 1841 ]. First edition. Engraved title, 18 engraved plates and vignettes in the text. 4to (11 x 9 inches), 97-pages. Poor. Damp-marking to inner margins of frontispiece and title, pages 43-48 & 1 plate detached and frayed on margin. Some other tanning. The binding broken. In need of restoration and re-binding.

£125.00

Item No. 17026
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£15.00

THORNTON, PETER: Authentic Decor. The Domestic Interior 1620-1920.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1985. First reprint. Profusely illustrated. 4to (10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches), 408-pages. Original brown cloth blocked in gilt. Fine in fine dust jacket and enclosed in the original marked card slipcase.

Weight 2.4 kg thus extra postage will be requested.

£15.00

Enquire - please quote Item No. 22968


TIMBS, JOHN: Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales, Their Legendary Lore and Popular History - MIDLAND.

Frederick Warne, London, n.d. ca. 1890 ? Photogravure plates. 8vo (8 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches), 576-pages. Contemporary full crimson prize calf, decorative gilt border to sides enclosing the gilt arms of St. Aubyn House School. Brighton. Spine gilt in compartments with black lettering piece, all edges marbled. Prize label dated 1896 on front pastedown. A little light fading to lower cover, overall well & strongly bound.

£40.00

Enquire - please quote Item No. 23037

TIMBS, JOHN: Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales, Their Legendarty Lore and Popular History - NORTH.

Frederick Warne, London, n.d. ca. 1890 ? Photogravure plates. 8vo (8 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches), 573-pages. Contemporary full crimson prize calf, decorative gilt border to sides enclosing the gilt arms of St. Aubyn House School. Brighton. Spine gilt in compartments with black lettering piece, all edges marbled. Prize label dated 1896 on front pastedown. A band of light fading to upper cover, overall well & strongly bound.

£40.00

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VEREY, DAVID; BROOKS, ALAN: The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds.

Yale, 2000. Plates. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 inches), 826-pages. Original black faux leather. Fine in like dust jacket.

£30.00

Enquire - please quote Item No. 21791


WEAVER, LAWRENCE: Small Country Houses of To-day (Second Series).

Country Life, London, 1919. First editiom. Profusely illustrated from photographs. 4to (11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches), 222-pages. Original green cloth; endpapers tanned else very good.

Weight 1.614 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.

£55.00

Enquire - please quote Item No. 22363


WEDGWOOD, ALEXANDRA: A. W. N. Pugin and the Pugin Family. Catalogue of Architectural Drawings in the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1985. First edition. Numerous illustrations. Folio (12 x 8 1/2 inches), 360-pages. Original cloth. Fine in the very good dust jacket.

Weight 2.5 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.

£50.00

Enquire - please quote Item No. 22970


WITTKOWER, RUDOLF: Studies in the Italian Baroque.

Thames & Hudson, London, 1975. First edition. Frontispiece and 357 illustrations. Large 8vo (10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches), 304-pages. Original cloth. Very good in dust jacket which has fading at the backstrip.

£40.00

Enquire - please quote Item No. 21665


WOOD, WILLIAM - & Son Ltd. Garden Contractors, Horticultural Builders.: Their trade catalogue "1937 Parade 1938".

Taplow, Bucks, 1937. 48 photographic plates. Oblong folio (9 x 11 1/2 Inches), origina coloured pictorial wrappers. With their brochure "Twenty Years On" loosely inserted. Generally good.

£30.00

Enquire - please quote Item No. 23001


WOODWARD, GEO. E: Woodward's Country Homes.

New York: Geo. E. Woodward, 1868. First edition. Illustrations, some full-page, plans. 8vo, pp. vi:188:(4, Woodward' s list), original green fine pebblegrain cloth, spine lettered and blocked in gilt; a very good copy indeed. American domestic architecture.

£45.00

Item No. 10433

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