Category: Architecture

Famous Old Inns of London

Price: £9.50

Publisher: Torquay, Hamilton-Fisher & Co

Seller ID: 012077

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small horizontal 12mo (measures 150mm x 116mm], pp (48), paperback, very slightly worn. SCARCE. [" 45 photographs of inns with history, general information and map".) Postage will be much reduced.
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Historic Houses - Australian Council of National Trusts - Heritage Reprints

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Canberra, Australian Council of National Trusts : 1982

Seller ID: 001996

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated throughout with colour and black-and-white photos, large 4to, pp (vii), 604, in dustwrapper with very slight shelf wear, otherwise a very good copy. [This in the first combined edition of "Historic Public Buildings of Australia" (1971) and "Historic Houses of Australia" (1974) ].
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La Voute de la Chapelle Sixtine

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Vatican City, L'Illustrazione Vaticana : 1935

Seller ID: 009877

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Illustrated, including a folding plate of the whole ceiling, large slim quarto, pp 42, a little worn and aged internally, lower corners of two pages with loss due to insect damage, paperback, covers rather worn, a bit stained (with slight staining internally also. [The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope, in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna, the chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who restored it between 1477 and 1480. Since that time, the chapel has served as a place of both religious and functionary papal activity....
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The British Pavilion from Brussels, exhibited at The Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, Olympia, London, 1959

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Associated Newspapers Limited : 1959

Seller ID: 014636

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, slim octavo, pp 56, slight age-toning, paperback, covers showing very slight signs of wear, but really a very good copy. Six of the pages are illustrated by Barbara Jones. [The main features of the Pavilion were transferred to the 1959 Ideal Home Exhibition. Expo 58, also known as the Brussels World?s Fair (Dutch: Brusselse Wereldtentoonstelling, French: Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles), was held from 17 April to 19 October 1958. It was the first major World Expo registered under the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) after World War II. The Brit...
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Outline of Town and City Planning - a review of past efforts and modern aims

By: Adams, Thomas

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, J. & A. Churchill : 1936

Seller ID: 007371

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Illustrated, pp 368, lacks front endpaper, hinge at title page a little weak, signature on half-title, title page very slightly marked, otherwise clean internally, cloth very slightly worn. [A good working copy]
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Regions of Tomorrow - towards the open city

By: Ash, Maurice

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Evelyn, Adams & Mackay : 1967

Seller ID: 018037

ISBN-13: 9780238789359

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with a few maps, small octavo, pp viii, 99, very clean internally, cream cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is slightly worn and frayed.
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel An Architecture for Prussia

By: Bergdoll, Barry

Price: £35.00

Publisher: New York, Rizzoli : 1994

Seller ID: 019706

ISBN-13: 9780847815272

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, quarto, pp 240, a very slight mark on the fore-edge otherwise very clean internally, grey clot in very good condition, the dustwrapper is just very slightly worn.
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Image for Cornwall Illustrated in a series of Views of Castles, Seats of Nobility, Mines, Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Public Buildings, Churches, Antiquities etc

Cornwall Illustrated in a series of Views of Castles, Seats of Nobility, Mines, Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Public Buildings, Churches, Antiquities etc

By: Betjeman, John

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber Limited

Seller ID: 018224

Binding: Ringbound cloth

Condition: Fair

Second edition revised [not dated - 1939 ?]. Well illustrated, large octavo, pp 63, ringbound, a light stain to the bottom inner gutter corner margins of the pages, becoming slightly detached at the top of the ring binding (see illustration) but still sound, the metal ring rusty, slightly used internally, cloth a bit worn, stained along the lower edge, rather warped, the dustwrapper not price-clipped but very worn frayed and stretched. Signature of M.C. Gillett on the first blank. [ The second edition of the first ever Shell Guide.]
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Die Garten Chinas

By: Beuchert, Marianne

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Cologne, Eugen Diederichs : 1983

Seller ID: 015790

ISBN-13: 9783424007671

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small quarto, pp 256, very clean internally, green cloth in excellent condition, the dustwrapper is a little torn and creased. [A presentation copy to Leo Pemberton of RBG Kew, signed by the author.]
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The Chinese Pavilion, Boughton House, Northamptonshire

By: Bowden-Smith, Rosemary

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Christie's : 1988

Seller ID: 017414

ISBN-13: 9780951239810

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp 68, paperback, a very good copy with only slight signs of use.
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The Water House, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

By: Bowden-Smith, Rosemary

Price: £6.75

Publisher: Christie's : 1987

Seller ID: 017415

ISBN-13: 9780951239803

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Illustrated, large slim octavo, pp 36, paperback, slightly bruised along the lower edges otherwise a very good copy.
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The History and Antiquities of the See and Cathedral Church of Lichfield; illustrated by a series of engravings. The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Oxford. The History and Antiquities of the See and Cathedral Church of Winchester

By: Britton, John

Price: £175.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme & Brown

Seller ID: 005469

Binding: Boards

Condition: Good

Three works in one volume - FIRST EDITIONS - 1820. 1821. 1817. Quarto, pp 74 + 16 pls; pp 50 + 11 pls; pp 138, (4) + 30 pls; foxing of plates throughout, some offsetting, text very clean and wide-margined, (large paper copies ??), contemporary boards, recently re-backed with new cloth spine and paper labels.
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A Descriptive Handbook of Architecture

By: Buckmaster, Martin A.

Price: £4.50

Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons Ltd

Seller ID: 016955

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Second impression, not dated - c.1905 ?. Well illustrated with line drawings and black and white photographs throughout, small octavo, pp xvi, 188, extremely clean internally, blue cloth just very slightly worn, the spine slightly faded.
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Scottish Garden Building - from food to folly

By: Buxbaum, Tim

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Mainstream Publishing : 1989

Seller ID: 019764

ISBN-13: 9781851581139

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 191, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [Scottish Garden Buildings explores the neglected and unknown structures of historic cots, gardens and estates. With the encouragement of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland the author investigated examples of the estate buildings which were once associated with Country Houses and their gardens all over Scotland. Revealed were a wealth of decorative and useful buildings which, at their best, exhibit an alluring combination of charm, dexterity and attent...
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Puglia, (Attraverso l'Italia Nuova Serie)

By: Cassieri, Giuseppe (introduction)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Milan, Touring Club Italiano : 1967

Seller ID: 009956

Binding: Boards

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, large 8vo, pp 256, a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper.[Italian text, but a fine photographic record of this region.]
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The Garden Art of China

By: Chen Lifang & Yu Sianglin

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Portland, Timber Press : 1986

Seller ID: 016425

ISBN-13: 9780881920024

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Well illustrated, quarto, pp 211, a large corner snipped from the front endpaper, the front and rear hinges cracked, lacking the title page, otherwise a good sound copy in a protected dustwrapper.
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Mezzogiorno

By: Chevallier, Elisabeth & Raymond

Price: £7.00

Publisher: London & Switzerland, Oldbourne Press & Ide et Calendes

Seller ID: 006667

Not dated (late 1960's ?). Well illustrated, small quarto, very slightly worn in a slightly worn dustwrapper. [English text] [A scarce account of the southern half of Italy - its people and architecture]
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Chimney design and Theory - a book for engineers and architects

By: Christie, William Wallace

Price: £40.00

Publisher: New York, D. van Nostrand Company : 1902

Seller ID: 019405

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Second edition, revised and enlarged. Illustrated with photographs and many measured drawings, octavo, pp viii, 192 + 65 page publisher's catalogue, a small neat signature and date on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, the front hinge cracking but not weak, green cloth a bit rubbed and marked but sound and firm. [Deals with American industrial chimneys.]
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The Gothic Revival - an essay in the history of taste

By: Clark, Kenneth

Price: £18.50

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1970

Seller ID: 018761

ISBN-13: 9780719502330

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Third edition, reprinted. A few illustrations, octavo, pp xii, 236, extremely clean internally, red cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, it is slightly worn and marked overall, with creases at the top of the upper cover, but now nicely protected in a removable clear cover.
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Living Sculpture

By: Cooper, Paul

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Mitchell Beazley : 2001

Seller ID: 012388

ISBN-13: 9781840003703

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, small quarto, pp 176, a very good copy indeed, in dustwrapper. [In recent years a dynamic new generation of artists and gardeners have completely redefined garden sculpture, making plants the focus rather than the backdrop of astonishingly diverse living sculptures. This book draws together some of the best examples from around the world, arranging these eclectic works according to how they were made. With superb colour photography of the sculptures in their natural settings, Living Sculpture overturns preconceptions about what is possible in the context of both gardenin...
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