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The book of the Beresford Hopes. With a preface by Viscountess Ullswater.
Law, Henry William and Irene The main focus of this book is on Alexander Beresford Hope, the principal lay patron of the Gothic Revival in mid nineteenth century England and the last non-architect to serve as President of RIBA, but it also provides two interesting chapters on Beresford Hope?s father, Thomas Hope, the collector and patron of the Greek Revival style in architecture and decoration. Co-authored by a Hope grand-daughter and her husband, and notably difficult to find in the book trade today. 8vo. 281 + (1)pp, 8 photo plates. Publisher?s cloth, covers unevenly faded.-
- $187
The book of the Beresford Hopes. With a preface by Viscountess Ullswater.
Law, Henry William and Irene The main focus of this book is on Alexander Beresford Hope, the principal lay patron of the Gothic Revival in mid nineteenth century England and the last non-architect to serve as President of RIBA, but it also provides two interesting chapters on Beresford Hope?s father, Thomas Hope, the collector and patron of the Greek Revival style in architecture and decoration. Co-authored by a Hope grand-daughter and her husband, and notably difficult to find in the book trade today. 8vo. 281 + (1)pp, 8 photo plates. Publisher?s cloth, covers unevenly faded.-
- $187
City planning housing. Volume III . A graphic review of civic art 1922-1937. Edited by William W,Forster and Robert C.Weinberg. Foreword by Sir Raymond Unwin.
Hegemann, Werner Splendid visual presentation of city planning schemes of the inter-war period both in the United States and in Western Europe. Although it was the third in a series of three intended volumes under this title by Werner Hegemann (1881-1936), all published after he had left Germany in 1933 to live in the United States (his political views had become unacceptable to the National Socialist regime), it has a self-contained content and is the only one of the three volumes to have been issued in this very impressive large folio format. It was edited by two American colleagues from material collected by Hegemann before his death. Large folio. vi + 162pp, 1137 photo ills and plans. Publisher?s cloth, in dustwrapper (the wrapper a bit torn and abraded at corners and outer margins). Contemporary ink ownership inscription on half title leaf. Subsequently Gavin Stamp?s copy, with his booklabel.-
- $249
La nouvelle architecture. (The new architecture. Presented in 20 examples). Cinquième édition.
Roth, Alfred Roth?s La Nouvelle Architecture, first published in 1940, provided its readers with twenty representative examples of the work of architects of the international modern movement, including buildings by Le Corbusier, Neutra, Aalto and architects in Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy and Japan. The selection was deliberately made to stress the suitability of modern movement architecture for the new social order and was left unaltered in each subsequent edition, giving the buildings originally chosen a quite unanticipated prestige among admirers of the style. There is a trilingual text in French, German and English, and the typographic design is by Max Bill. Oblong small folio. (8) + 228pp, many photo ills and plans. Publisher?s cloth, in dustwrapper (the wrapper with numerous marginal tears).-
- $104
La nouvelle architecture. Die neue Architektur. The new architecture. Troisième édition.
Roth, Alfred (ed) Roth?s La Nouvelle Architecture, first published in 1940, provided its readers with twenty representative examples of the work of architects of the international modern movement, including buildings by Le Corbusier, Neutra, Aalto and architects in Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy and Japan. The selection was deliberately made to stress the suitability of modern movement architecture for the new social order and was left unaltered in each subsequent edition, giving the buildings originally chosen a quite unanticipated prestige among admirers of the style. There is a trilingual text in French, German and English, and the typographic design of the book was by Max Bill. Oblong small folio. (8) + 228pp, many photo ills and plans. Publisher?s cloth, worn at head of spine and at outer corners. Last two leaves with central crease. Bookplate of Sylvia S.Cole, 1948.-
- $62
City planning housing. Volume III . A graphic review of civic art 1922-1937. Edited by William W,Forster and Robert C.Weinberg. Foreword by Sir Raymond Unwin.
Hegemann, Werner Splendid visual presentation of city planning schemes of the inter-war period both in the United States and in Western Europe. Although it was the third in a series of three intended volumes under this title by Werner Hegemann (1881-1936), all published after he had left Germany in 1933 to live in the United States (his political views had become unacceptable to the National Socialist regime), it has a self-contained content and is the only one of the three volumes to have been issued in this very impressive large folio format. It was edited by two American colleagues from material collected by Hegemann before his death. Large folio. vi + 162pp, 1137 photo ills and plans. Publisher?s cloth, in dustwrapper (the wrapper a bit torn and abraded at corners and outer margins). Contemporary ink ownership inscription on half title leaf. Subsequently Gavin Stamp?s copy, with his booklabel.-
- $251
La nouvelle architecture. (The new architecture. Presented in 20 examples). Cinquième édition.
Roth, Alfred Roth?s La Nouvelle Architecture, first published in 1940, provided its readers with twenty representative examples of the work of architects of the international modern movement, including buildings by Le Corbusier, Neutra, Aalto and architects in Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy and Japan. The selection was deliberately made to stress the suitability of modern movement architecture for the new social order and was left unaltered in each subsequent edition, giving the buildings originally chosen a quite unanticipated prestige among admirers of the style. There is a trilingual text in French, German and English, and the typographic design is by Max Bill. Oblong small folio. (8) + 228pp, many photo ills and plans. Publisher?s cloth, in dustwrapper (the wrapper with numerous marginal tears).-
- $104
La nouvelle architecture. Die neue Architektur. The new architecture. Troisième édition.
Roth, Alfred (ed) Roth?s La Nouvelle Architecture, first published in 1940, provided its readers with twenty representative examples of the work of architects of the international modern movement, including buildings by Le Corbusier, Neutra, Aalto and architects in Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy and Japan. The selection was deliberately made to stress the suitability of modern movement architecture for the new social order and was left unaltered in each subsequent edition, giving the buildings originally chosen a quite unanticipated prestige among admirers of the style. There is a trilingual text in French, German and English, and the typographic design of the book was by Max Bill. Oblong small folio. (8) + 228pp, many photo ills and plans. Publisher?s cloth, worn at head of spine and at outer corners. Last two leaves with central crease. Bookplate of Sylvia S.Cole, 1948.-
- $63
Spanish baroque art with buildings in Portugal, Mexico and other colonies.
Sitwell, Sacheverell First edition. We list this copy here in preference to John Bury?s copy of this same title, which we also possess (and is available from us at a lesser price, on application), since Bury?s copy lacks the free front endpaper, but the fact that Bury possessed a copy reflects the fact that Sitwell?s book covers baroque architecture in Portugal and Latin America as well as in Spain. One of 1500 copies. 8vo. 112pp, 24 photo plates. Publisher?s cloth, with gilt-stamped image of Portuguese coin of Joao V on upper cover. Bookplate of Pamela and Raymond Lister.-
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Retrato de corte em Portugal. O legado de Antonio Moro (1552-1572).
Jordan, Annemarie A well-illustrated study of the career of the Netherlands-born artist Anthonis Mor (c.1517-1577) as a court painter in Portugal, England, the Spanish Netherlands and Spain over a twenty-year period. Folio. 197 + (3)pp, 116 colour photo ills. Publisher?s cloth, in dustwrapper. John Bury?s copy, with presentation inscription from the author.-
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Delle ville di Plinio il Giovane . con un’appendice su gli atri della S. Scrittura, e gli scamilli impares di Vitruvio.
Marquez, Pietro Only edition of this first serious attempt at a reconstruction of the architecture and ground plans of Pliny's Laurentine and Tuscan villas since that by the English writer Robert Castell in the 1720s (of which, not surprisingly, Marquez was unaware). Marquez prints all the relevant passages from Pliny's correspondence, subjects them to careful analysis, and offers an architectural reconstruction as compatible as possible both with Pliny's text and with Vitruvian theory (see the vignette ill. on p.114 for the result). His close study of Vitruvius is also evident in a concluding essay on Vitruvius? celebrated scamilli impares and on the evidence for ancient architecture provided by Holy Writ. Marquez dedicates the book to Count D'Azara, the Spanish minister to the Holy See and the patron and biographer of the painter Mengs, and he mentions a joint visit to a potential site of the Laurentine villa by himself, by the young Spanish architect Silvestro Perez and by Louis Petit Radel, a French cleric from Gascony. Unexpectedly, Marquez (1741-1820) was himself a Mexican, although doubtless of Spanish ancestry and by this time an established writer and historian in Rome, and he may well have been the first Latin American to write in a scholarly way about an architectural subject. Cicognara 559 (=3268). Two copies only reported to NUC (Harvard and University of Illinois, Urbana). 8vo. (8) + 232pp, 2 folding engraved plans, 1 engraved map, 2 engraved vignettes. Contemporary marbled wrappers. The Donaueschingen copy, with faint circular ownership stamp on recto of title, and stamped ownership inscription on its blank verso. Old dampstain affecting lower blank margin of title leaf, and a smaller one slightly affecting last two leaves of volume, but essentially a good, fresh copy, untrimmed as issued.-
- $807
Studi sui monumenti della Italia meridionale dal IVo. al XIIIo. secolo. Parte prima; parte seconda (with) L?arte Romana al medio evo, Appendice agli Studi sui monumenti della Italia meridionale.
Salazaro, Demetrio These mighty volumes represent the magnum opus of Demetrio Salazaro (1822-1882), a senior employee of the Museo Nazionale in Naples, who was the first scholar in modern times to investigate the early medieval art and architecture of Southern Italy and Sicily. The volumes use chromolitho plates to illustrate surviving mosaics and mural paintings in the principal medieval church buildings in the region, and, unusually for a book of which publication had commenced by 1871, actual mounted photographs to illustrate sculptures, carved ornament, and, in some cases, the interiors and exteriors of the church buildings featured. All the parts come with quite extensive accompanying text, the first part being devoted to cathedrals, monasteries and churches in Naples, Amalfi, Salerno, Capua and other places in Campania, the second part to similar buildings in Apulia, Calabria and Sicily (these including the cathedrals at Palermo and Monreale), and the final part, the ?Appendice?, to selected buildings of similar date in Rome and Orvieto. Although this final part carries the date 1881 on its title leaf, it contains a tribute to Salazaro by his friend Giulio Minervini, dated 10 October 1886, by which time Salazaro was long dead, and it seems likely that this part and its predecessors were issued in instalments over significant periods of time.Prospective purchasers should be aware that the volumes are large and heavy, weighing together about 16 kilos. Elephant folio. 3 parts in 2 vols (first volume contains Studi, parts I & II, second volume the L?Arte Romana appendix). (4) + 69 + (3)pp, 24 plates (of which 14 are chromolitho, rest actual mounted photographs); (2) + 69 + (1)pp, 24 plates (of which 12 are chromolitho, rest actual mounted photo plates); (6) + 43 + (3)pp, 16 plates (of which 8 are chromolitho, the rest actual mounted photo plates). Publisher?s full vellum, the covers decorated with coloured red lettering surrounded by red borders (bindings a little soiled, with some of the original colouring displaced). Late nineteenth century bookplates of Frederick A(ugustus) Wood, Chew Magna, Somerset (c.1822-1904, a local Somerset antiquary).-
- $1,169
Mexico barroco. Vida y arte.
Vargaslugo, Elisa Well-illustrated study of Mexican art and architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with unfamiliar images of paintings, church exteriors and extraordinarily elaborate church interiors and furnishings. Folio.`168pp, many colour photo ills. Publisher?s cloth, in dustwrapper. Ink presentation inscription on title leaf from the author to ?Don Bernardo Bevan, historiador del arte novohispano? (the British architectural historian Bernard Bevan, author of what was long the only general study in English devoted to Spanish architecture).-
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Intorno il restauramento del Palazzo Pontifico Lateranense orazione alla Santita di N.Signore Papa Gregorio XVI presentata dal March.Luigi Biondi nel giorno dell?Ascensione del Redentore.
Biondi, Luigi The text of a lengthy speech delivered in 1835 by Marchese Luigi Biondi (1776-1835), President of the Pontifica Accademia Romana di Archeologia, describing the principal state rooms of the Lateran Palace in Rome, rebuilt for Pope Sixtus V by the architect Domenico Fontana in 1586-9, and the rolling programme of restoration for the palace put in hand in the early 1830s during the pontificate of Pope Gregory XVI. The speech was printed at the printing press of the Ospizio Apostolico di S.Michele, where orphan boys were instructed in trades including printing and typefounding. 4to. 31 + (1)pp. Contemporary wrappers.-
- $202
L?architecture en Portugal. Melanges historiques et archéologiques.
Lucas, Charles A scarce little book which provides a summary account of architecture in Portugal from prehistoric times onwards, concentrating for the most part on such well-known buildings as Batalha, Belem and the royal palace at Mafra, but including four useful pages devoted to the architectural work of the author?s friend and contemporary, the architect Juan Possidonio Narciso da Silva, responsible for additions and embellishments to several of the palaces belonging to the Portuguese royal family. The book?s author, Charles Lucas (1838-1905), was himself a practising architect in Paris. It is not very often that we have had through our hands a copy of a book which is, as here, no.1 of a limited edition. 8vo. 58 + (2)pp. Contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards (binding by Stroobants), original printed wrappers bound in. No.1 of 25 numbered copies on ?papier de fil.? (there were also 200 unnumbered copies on ordinary paper, and 5 numbered copies on ?vélin?).-
- $271
Le opere di Francisco de Hollanda II) (title taken from front wrapper).
Hollanda) Pellizzari, Achille (ed) All that was issued of an ambitious but unfinished project by the Italian scholar Prof.Achille Pellizzari (1882-1948) to publish the complete works of Francisco de Hollanda. The first volume contains the text of Hollanda?s four Dialogues on Painting, together with that of the first book of his Da Pintura Antiqua, while the second volume provides large facsimile reproductions of a set of drawings of Italian antiquities done by Hollanda for King Joao III of Portugal in the 1540s. Both volumes are rare and handsomely produced, and the text volume is neatly printed on handmade paper. Large folio. 2 vols. 160pp ; 119 + (1)pp of ills, all facsimile reproductions of drawings by Hollanda of Italian antiquities. Original wrappers, preserved inside recent decorative paper wrappers. A good set.-
- $390
Quatre dialogues sur la peinture . mis en Français par Léo Rouanet.
Hollanda, Francisco de Translation into French of Hollanda?s Dialogues on Painting, with a useful introduction by the volume?s translator, the French scholar Léo Rouanet (1863-1911). 8vo. viii + 237 + (3)pp, portrait frontispiece and photo reproduction of the title leaf of the manuscript of Hollanda?s text. Mid twentieth-century quarter morocco, cloth sides, original front printed wrapper bound in. One of 500 copies in this form (there were also six copies printed on papier Hollande).-
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Vida de Francisco de Ollanda, illuminador, e architecto Portuguez, que floresceo no decimo sexto seculo, extrahida de seus escriptos.
Hollanda) De Castro e Souza, A.D. A rare pamphlet by the Portuguese scholar and art historian Antonio Damaso de Castro e Souza (1804-1876), offering a brief but properly documented account of the life of Francisco de Hollanda, based on his surviving writings. The author dedicated it to Count Raczynski, at that time Prussian Ambassador to Portugal. 8vo. 18pp. Sewn as issued, in decorative paper folder. Old ownership stamp on title leaf. No ownership inscription but John Bury?s copy.-
- $153
Del Foro Romano della Via Sacra dell?Anfitreato Flavio.
Nibby, Antonio Only edition of this good scholarly account of the surviving temples, triumphal arches, the columns of Trajan and Phocas, the Colosseum and other structures in the Forum area of central Rome, incorporating information from recent archaeological excavations. Olschki, Choix, 17656. 8vo. 259 + (3)pp, 5 engraved plates (4 folding). Contemporary wrappers, with the printed label of ?Bouchard, Libraire? on the upper cover (this was the bookselling business founded in Rome by Jean Bouchard in the middle of the eighteenth century, still operating in the first half of the nineteenth century from premises in the Piazza di Spagna: the label advertises their stock of books in French, Italian and English, and their stock of prints from books by Canova, Morghen and Volpato). Part of front free endpaper torn away, and the outer corners of the pages rather curled, but an untrimmed copy as issued.-
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Bom Jesus do Monte (esboco historico e descriptivo). Com prefacio do . Dr.Pereira Caldas.
Azevedo Coutinho, (Joao de) A descriptive historical guide to the pilgrimage church of Bom Jesus do Monte, on a hill outside the Portuguese city of Braga. The present church was designed by the architect Carlos Amarante towards the end of the eighteenth century. Issued in an edition of 1500 copies, but the poor quality of the paper on which the book is printed makes it likely that a rather lower number of them survive today. 8vo. xvi + 182 + (2)pp, 4 photolitho plates. Loosely inserted in recent brown paper wrappers (original front printed wrapper missing, back printed wrapper survives).-
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A genealogia iluminada do Infante Dom Fernando por Antonio de Holanda e Simao Bening. Estudo historico e critico.
De Aguiar, Antonio Scholarly monograph devoted to a lavishly illuminated manuscript in the British Library, offering an illustrated genealogy of the royal houses of Portugal and Spain. The miniatures illustrating the manuscript, prepared for the Infante Fernando of Portugal (1507-1534), were partly supplied by the Portugal-based artist Antonio de Hollanda, father of Francisco de Hollanda, and partly by the famous illuminator Simon Bening of Bruges. Folio. 218 + (4)pp, incl full page photo ills, also text ills. Publisher?s printed wrappers. One of 450 numbered copies (there were also 50 copies not for sale). John Bury?s copy, with his booklabel.-
- $118
Da pintura antigua . commentada por Joaquim des Vasconcellos.
Hollanda, Francisco da An unchanged reissue, printed on cheaper paper, of the 1918 version of Vasconcellos?s edition of Hollanda?s Dialogues. 8vo. 352 + (2)pp, 16 ills on plates. Mid twentieth-century quarter morocco, cloth sides. John Bury?s copy, with his booklabel.-
- $25
Da pintura antigua . commentada por Joaquim des Vasconcellos.
Hollanda, Francisco da This 1918 version of Vasconcellos?s edition of Hollanda?s Dialogues omits the extensive scholarly commentary that accompanied the Vienna edition of 1899, but has the merit that it includes additional notes and an additional bibliography at the end which take account of writings about Hollanda since 1899. 8vo. 352 + (2)pp, 16 ills on plates. Early twentieth-century cloth, original printed wrappers bound in. Ink presentation inscription, dated 3 November 1918, from Vasconcellos to his friend José Queiroz (presumably the historian of Portuguese ceramics), on preliminary leaf. A few pencil notes by Queiroz in margins. Subsequently King Manoel II of Portugal?s copy, with his bookplate, and more recently John Bury?s copy.-
- $67
Portuguese architecture.
Watson, Walter Crum A substantial general account of Portuguese architecture up to the beginning of the seventeenth century, with a few pages only on later buildings. It was the only early twentieth-century English-language book on the subject published anywhere, and reflects credit on its author, the Edinburgh-based architect Walter Crum Watson LRIBA (1870-1934). Watson had been a pupil in the architectural offices of Alfred Waterhouse and Aston Webb, before setting up his own architectural practice. Large 8vo. xvii + (1) + 280pp, 101 photo ills on plates, also ground plans in text. Publisher?s cloth, a little rubbed at spine. John Bury?s copy, with his booklabel.-
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Congonhas do Campo. Texto de Robert C.Smith. Fotos de Marcel Gautherot e Robert C.Smith.
Smith, Robert C. Well-illustrated monograph on the remarkable devotional statues executed in wood and stone at the end of the eighteenth century by the famous Mulatto architect and sculptor Aleijadinho (1730s-1814) for the church of Congonhas do Campo, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Folio. 124 + (4)pp, many photo ills. Publisher?s pictorial boards. No ownership inscription but John Bury?s copy.-
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The church of Sancta Sophia Constantinople. A study of Byzantine building.
Lethaby, W.R., & Swainson, Harold First edition of Lethaby and Swainson?s excellent book on the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, based on the authors? personal investigation of the building and their familiarity with all the older literature on it. The present copy, appropriately, was a gift from John Bagnell Bury (1861-1927), the eminent historian of Greece, Rome and the Byzantine empire, to his wife, in the year of the book?s publication. It also contains, loosely inserted at the end, a gilt-decorated Christmas card, dated December 1910, with a printed inscription in Greek from Johannes Gennadius, at that time Greek Ambassador in London, but better known as a scholar and book collector. 8vo. viii + 307 + (1)pp, 75 text ills. Publisher?s cloth,with printed paper label on spine. Ink presentation inscription from J(ohn) B(agnell) B(ury) to his wife Jane Bury, December 1894. No subsequent ownership inscription, but subsequently in the possession of John Bernard Bury (1917-2017), J.B.Bury?s grandson.-
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Delle memorie storiche di Sabbioneta libri IV.
Racheli, Antonio A very substantial history of Sabbioneta, the town in Lombardy laid out on a new site beside the river Po from the 1550s onwards on the instructions of its ruler, Vespasiano Gonzaga (1531-1591), which is one of the most perfect examples of sixteenth century urban planning. The author of the present book, Antonio Racheli, was an assiduous researcher, keen to record every detail of the area?s history from Roman times onwards, and it is not until Book IV, Chapter II, that he gets round to the building of the town in its present form (which he discusses further in Book IV, Chapters IV and V). As there are no illustrations, this is not really a book for architectural historians, but it is helpful for understanding the background to Vespasiano Gonzaga?s career and cultural ambitions. 8vo. 713 + (3)pp. Original printed wrappers. No ownership inscription, but John Bury?s copy.-
- $334
Das Andere. Ein Blatt zur Einfuehrung abenlaendischer Kultur in Oesterreich.
Loos, Adolf The two issues, all published, of this very short-lived periodical, issued and wholly written by the Austrian modernist architect Adolf Loos (1870-1933). Loos had spent three years in the USA in the mid 1890s, and the periodical reflects his view that Austria and Austrians would benefit from a wider adoption of British and North American cultural attitudes. It offers Loos?s opinions on a wide range of social, literary and artistic topics, ranging from fashion and wallpaper to masturbation. 4to. Issues 1 and 2 (all published), each comprising (2) + 11 + (3)pp, with litho text ills. Each issue is stapled at spine as issued, and the pages of each issue are unopened.-
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Dum a zahrada. Prelozili V.A.Jung a M. a J.Klimovi.
Baillie Scott, M.H. Scarce translation into Czech, in a reduced format, of the British architect M.H.Baillie Scott?s Houses and Gardens, published in London in 1908. Baillie Scott?s designs for the interior of the Grand Ducal palace at Darmstadt in the 1890s had won him an Europe-wide reputation, and it is no real surprise that a translation of his book into Czech was published at Prague as early as 1910.What is very much more of a surprise is that the Czech version of the book, unlike the subsequent German translation published in Berlin in 1912, for which the Wasmuth firm provided close copies of the original illustrations, has an entirely new set of photo plates, of which only four are of designs by Baillie Scott, and most of the remainder illustrate buildings by contemporary German, Austrian and Czech architects, including Josef Maria Olbrich, Peter Behrens, Josef Hoffmann, Bruno Paul, Hermann Muthesius, Jan Kotera, Otakar Novotny and Josef Gocar. This has the effect of placing Baillie Scott?s architectural work securely in its contemporary European context, and although the fact that the text of the present volume is in Czech makes it unapproachable by readers who do not understand the language, the plates carry their own significant message. 8vo. xi + (1) + 251 + (1)pp, 42 photo plates (of which 1 colour and folding), also text ills. Publisher?s printed wrappers, a little worn and abraded at outer margins.-
- $195
Spanish baroque art with buildings in Portugal, Mexico and other colonies.
Sitwell, Sacheverell First edition. We list this copy here in preference to John Bury?s copy of this same title, which we also possess (and is available from us at a lesser price, on application), since Bury?s copy lacks the free front endpaper, but the fact that Bury possessed a copy reflects the fact that Sitwell?s book covers baroque architecture in Portugal and Latin America as well as in Spain. One of 1500 copies. 8vo. 112pp, 24 photo plates. Publisher?s cloth, with gilt-stamped image of Portuguese coin of Joao V on upper cover. Bookplate of Pamela and Raymond Lister.-
- $62