Zhilischche (Dwelling) de Ginzburg, Moisei Yakovlevich - 1934

BAIRD, Henry Carey. CABINET MAKER'S ALBUM OF FURNITURE. Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1868. Small oblong folio (7 x 10 3/4 inches Publisher's cloth. Printed title leaf, leaf listing plates, 48 lithograph plates. First edition. Baird's pattern book was the third such work published in America and one of most pivotal books in shaping American taste. It included a comprehensive ra of items from bureaus, desks, wardrobes, chairs, bookcases, tables, and beds. The style incorporated American colonial design with French and European tast and was heavily influenced by Desire Gulimard's French pattern books. The amalgam of tastes was largely created by Joseph Bonaparte (the elder brother Napoleon) constructing a magnificent house, Point Breeze, twenty-five miles north of Philadelphia. He greatly influenced the monied society that hovered around him, bringing with him sophisticated tastes in furniture not commonly seen before on this side of the Atlantic. A very nice copy with sporadic foxing--some light,… Leer más

William Stout Publishers, San Francisco, 2003; First Edition; Quarto, 283 pages; green cloth, silver titles. An in depth analysis of the work of landscape architect Thomas Church, drawn from his designs as well as his numerous writings. Profusely and beautifully illustrated in both color and b&w. Edited and with an essay by Marc Treib, Professor of Architecture at U. C. Berkley, plus additional essays by Daniel Gregory, Dianne Harris, and Dorothée Imbert. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Boldly Signed by Rem Koolhaas on a large sheet (6" x 8") of archival Arches paper, laid into the book First edition / First printing. Pink paper-covered boards. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light wear to the edges, an outstanding copy of a scarce title. Rem Koolhaas is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 2000.

New York, Tokyo: Horizon Press and A.D.A. Edita, 1982. Limited Edition. Loose Leaf in Solander Boxes. Very Good/3 Solander cases. Very Good. A Complete Set of the Magnificent Selected Drawings Portfolio by Frank Lloyd Wright. New York and Tokyo: Horizon Press and A.D.A. Edita, 1977, 1980, 1982. Highest quality color reproductions of 50 Wright drawings in each portfolio. Introduction by Mrs. Wright. 50 plates (525mm X 384mm) in box. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. outstanding full and complete set of 3 huge limited edition elephant folios each portfolio is boxed. Portfolio's w/shipping boxes and in . clam-shell cases. --- Shipping weight of all 3 volumes over 120 lbs. Ships from Hawaii and you still pay only $3.99. The real freight cost is part of the purchase price for shipping within the US, a $400-$800 value!. ---. First editions of all three volumes of this enormous work. Volume I is the Tokyo issue, one of 220 copies (numbered C. 065), volume II is the New York issue, one of 700 copies… Leer más

Calligraphed title, verso with manuscript inked faked printer's sign "the Shingle-syde Press" within double rules, 16 architectural plates (15 on thick drawing paper, one on tracing paper) with pencil and watercolour drawings of elevations, plans and sections of his house. Loosely contained in later cloth portfolio, with gilt morocco label to front cover. Folio (700 x 470 mm). A charming set of large hand-drawn and delicately coloured architectural delineations for the home and studio of Connecticut illustrator, poet, and architect, William Walworth Stilson, (1874-1962), a Connecticut artist born in New Milford and a resident of Bridgeport and Shelton. He illustrated several books, including Willard Nelson Clute, Our Ferns in Their Haunts (1901); William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis (1909); and Hamilton Wright Mabie, The Writers of Knickerbocker New York (1912). The house was completed in 1902. His papers are housed at the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript… Leer más

BAIRD, Henry Carey. CABINET MAKER'S ALBUM OF FURNITURE. Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1868. Small oblong folio (7 x 10 3/4 inches Publisher's cloth. Printed title leaf, leaf listing plates, 48 lithograph plates. First edition. Baird's pattern book was the third such work published in America and one of most pivotal books in shaping American taste. It included a comprehensive ra of items from bureaus, desks, wardrobes, chairs, bookcases, tables, and beds. The style incorporated American colonial design with French and European tast and was heavily influenced by Desire Gulimard's French pattern books. The amalgam of tastes was largely created by Joseph Bonaparte (the elder brother Napoleon) constructing a magnificent house, Point Breeze, twenty-five miles north of Philadelphia. He greatly influenced the monied society that hovered around him, bringing with him sophisticated tastes in furniture not commonly seen before on this side of the Atlantic. A very nice copy with sporadic foxing--some light,… Leer más

Roma: Dai torchj di Carlo Mordacchini, 1821. Second Edition. Hardcover. Second enlarged edition. xxiv, ciii, [4], 107pp + 54 plates. Contemporary quarter vellum over marbled boards, red label lettered in gold affixed to the spine. All edges uncut. Engraved title, thirteen large engraved vignettes, fifty-four plates (three of which are large foldouts) with a total of eighty copper engravings of various archeological works. Eight tiny worm holes to the spine panel, old inscription on the front pastedown endpaper.Internally extremely clean with some sporadic foxing. An appealing copy with large margins. In the Italian language. Brunet V.463. Graesse VII.461. ; Folio.

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. Publication history, first editionsThe Stones of Venice. Volume the First. The Foundations, 1851, Smith, Elder & Co., LondonThe Stones of Venice. Volume the Second. The Sea-stories, 1853, Smith, Elder & Co., London, The Stones of Venice....
Georgr Allen Sunnyside , Orpington, Kent, 1881. Books in Good Condition, condition, tight,spine intact, no pulling. Boards and text clean and bright. THE STONES OF VENICE WAS REVISED , EDITED AND ISSUED IN A NEW "TRAVELLERS" EDITION"

New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Boldly Signed by Rem Koolhaas on a large sheet (6" x 8") of archival Arches paper, laid into the book First edition / First printing. Pink paper-covered boards. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light wear to the edges, an outstanding copy of a scarce title. Rem Koolhaas is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 2000.

New York, Tokyo: Horizon Press and A.D.A. Edita, 1982. Limited Edition. Loose Leaf in Solander Boxes. Very Good/3 Solander cases. Very Good. A Complete Set of the Magnificent Selected Drawings Portfolio by Frank Lloyd Wright. New York and Tokyo: Horizon Press and A.D.A. Edita, 1977, 1980, 1982. Highest quality color reproductions of 50 Wright drawings in each portfolio. Introduction by Mrs. Wright. 50 plates (525mm X 384mm) in box. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. outstanding full and complete set of 3 huge limited edition elephant folios each portfolio is boxed. Portfolio's w/shipping boxes and in . clam-shell cases. --- Shipping weight of all 3 volumes over 120 lbs. Ships from Hawaii and you still pay only $3.99. The real freight cost is part of the purchase price for shipping within the US, a $400-$800 value!. ---. First editions of all three volumes of this enormous work. Volume I is the Tokyo issue, one of 220 copies (numbered C. 065), volume II is the New York issue, one of 700 copies… Leer más