Architecture city sense.
A stimulating essay on the future of the city, much influenced by the ideas of Le Corbusier, although old-fashioned for 1965 in its author?s support for the ?communal ownership of land? Small 4to. 96pp, incl many photo ills. Publisher?s pictorial wrappers. James Stirling?s copy.
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Architekturtheorie im deutschsprachigen Kulturraum 1486-1648.
This wonderful volume offers a comprehensive discussion of all the published works on architecture published for use in the German-speaking parts of Western Europe up to 1648, some of them original treatises written in German, others editions of Vitruvius or of treatises and other writings by such authors as Alberti, Hondius, Serlio, Vignola and Vredeman de Vries. The authors include full bibliographical descriptions of all the editions of these of which they are aware, and offer in the process the best bibliographical treatment so far attempted of each of the notoriously rare editions of the architectural writings of the German-Swiss architectural theorist Hans Blum. The volume is also particularly well-illustrated with excellent images taken from all the books featured. Large folio. 741 + (1)pp, many photo ills. Publisher?s cloth. A short-title catalogue of French books in the library of the British Museum 1601-1700.
First collected edition (previously published in five parts beteen 1969 and 1973). Useful as a quick way of discovering whether a particular seventeenth-century French book is held in what is now the British Library. Large 4to. x+690pp. Publisher?s cloth. Catalogues 86-172 (lacking Cat 158 only); Supplements I-XVIII (of which no.XVII was issued as ?List XVII?); Stock Lists I-II; and four Book Fair Lists.
An excellent uniformly bound run of the catalogues and lists issued by the E.P.Goldschmidt firm between the late 1940s and 1993. Catalogues 86-105 were issued while the firm was still being run by its founder Ernest Philip Goldschmidt (1887-1954), operating from premises in Bond Street, London. The remaining catalogues and lists were issued while the firm was under the management of Jacques Vellekoop (1926-2007), who had begun to work for the Goldschmidt firm in 1948 and remained the firm?s active proprietor until its closure in 1993. The catalogues offered here lack just one catalogue, no.158, of the 67 issued during the Vellekoop era, and form a permanent record of the high points of the stock offered for sale by the firm over this forty-year period. The firm specialised in illustrated books printed on the European continent between the end of the fifteenth century and the end of the eighteenth century, and all were very well catalogued for Vellekoop by a succession of trusted employees who included Paul Breman (responsible for Catalogues 115-126), Lord John Kerr, Richard von Hünersdorff, Hardy Grieb, Robin Halwas and Michael Douglas-Scott. We also offer, bound up with the run of numbered catalogues, a complete set of Supplements I-XVIII, issued at sporadic intervals between the 1950s and 1984, two Stock Lists, numbered I and II, and four lists of books exhibited by the firm at book fairs.A characteristic of the catalogues issued by the firm between the 1960s and its closure was that Jacques Vellekoop and his cataloguers were continually experimenting with different sizes and formats, and the differences in dimensions that resulted have proved a disincentive to having sets of the catalogues bound up. The present run must be one of a very few to exist in this form other than the complete sets of E.P.Goldschmidt Ltd catalogues bound up for the firm itself. 119 catalogues and lists, various sizes and formats, bound in 14 volumes, uniform brown cloth. Das Feuerwerk seine Geschichte und Bibliographie. Beitrage zur Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte der Feste und des Theaterwesens in sieben Jahrhunderten.
A good scholarly study of official firework displays in Europe from the Renaissance onwards, with an accompanying bibliography. Scarce in this, its original printing (note the year of its publication). Folio. (8)+135+(1)pp, 36 plates. Publisher?s cloth. The Mark J. Millard architectural collection. Volume 1. French books sixteenth through nineteenth centuries ; Volume 2. British books seventeenth through nineteenth centuries ; Volume 3. Northern European books sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries ; Volume 4. Italian and Spanish books fifteenth through nineteenth centuries.
A set of the four volumes recording the fine collection of architectural books formed by the New York banker Mark Millard (1908-1985). Accompanying scholarly essays and full collations make this a very useful work of reference (even if the first volume, devoted to French books, is not quite of the same high standard as the later ones), and it is an added pleasure that the volumes are particularly well printed and with plenty of intelligently selected illustrations. Folio. 4 vols. xxv + (1) + 511 + (1)pp, 172 ills ; xv + (1) + 392pp, numerous photo text ills ; xii+ 415+(1)pp, numerous text ills ; xxiii+(1)+545+(1)pp, numerous text ills. Publisher?s cloth, in dustwrappers Denkmäler des Theaters. Inszenierung/Dekoration Kostüm des Theaters under der grossen Feste aller Zeiten. Nach originalen der Theatersammlung der NationalBibliothek, der Albertina und verwandter Sammlungen.
A complete set of this great publication, issued under the joint auspices of the Austrian National Library and of the Gesellschaft zur Herausgabe der Denkmäler des Theaters. The objective of its promoters was to provide high-class reproductions of some of the most iconic original drawings and engravings in the world-famous collections of theatre-related materials in the Austrian National Library and the Albertina, with accompanying descriptive text by the theatre historian Joseph Gregor. Two of the early volumes are devoted to handsome reproductions of design drawings for costumes, respectively by Lodovico Ottavio Burnacini (1636-1707) and by Antoine Daniel Bertoli (1678-1745), but the intended character of the publication as a whole is established by the second of the volumes, devoted to stage set architecture and providing illustrations of some of the most spectacular drawings and engravings of stage sets produced in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Each of the subsequent volumes provides a feast of visual splendours, and the best that one can do here is to note that Vols IV and VI reproduce two celebrated festival books from particularly handsome hand-coloured copies, that vol.VII is devoted to images of gardens by stage set designers, that vol.VIII provides a remarkable selection of images of Harlequin and Columbine, and that vol.X offers a marvellous range of representations of allegorical subjects. Five hundred and forty-four sets of these volumes were issued in all. Of these, five hundred were issued for general sale (300 in a German-language version, and 200 in an English-language version, this under the title Monumenta Scenica). The remaining forty-four sets, of the German-language version, were issued to members of the governing body of the Gesellschaft zur Herausgabe der Denkmäler des Theaters, and the present set is one of these, issued to the celebrated Austrian musicologist Otto Deutsch (and with Otto Deutsch?s printed name as the recipient on the last page of eleven of the twelve text parts).The substantial size and varying dimensions of the portfolios have told against their survival in complete sets as issued, and this is only the third set known to us that has appeared on the market within the last fifteen years (of the two other sets, one was affected by damp, and the other was purchased at auction by our firm on commission for a client). Large folio and atlas folio. 12 vols, each comprising large mounted plates in publisher?s quarter vellum portfolios of varying sizes, marbled paper boards (some of the portfolios neatly rebacked or repaired), and each with a 16-page octavo text in publisher?s printed wrappers loosely inserted. Vol.I (L.O.Burnacini Maschere) : 20 plates. Vol.II (Szenische Architektur und Architektur-Phantasien) : 22 plates. Vol.III (A.D.Bertoli Desseins) : 32 plates. Vol.IV (Pompe funèbre de S.A.R.Charles III Duc de Lorraine) : 13 plates. Vol.V (Altvlaemisches und altniederlaendisches Theater) : 22 plates. Vol.VI (Cours de Testes et de Bague faites par le Roy en l?année 1662) : 21 plates. Vol.VII (Theater und Garten) : 29 plates (on 23 mounts). Vol.VIII (Groteskkomödie und Stegreifstuck) : 39 plates (on 25 mounts). Vol.IX (Theater des Mittelaltes) : 27 plates (on 20 mounts). Vol.X (Magna Allegoria Mortis Imagines) : 35 plates (on 22 mounts). Vol.XI (Feste des Sonnenkoenigs) : 51 plates (on 23 mounts). Vol.XII (Wiens letzte grosse Theaterzeit) : 44 plates (on 29 mounts). Some minor spotting on mounts of Vol.I, and some of the wrappers of the text parts slightly creased, but the plates are in very good condition throughout. Die Architekturzeichnung. Vom barocken Idealplan zur Axonometrie. Zeichnungen aus der Architektursammlung der Technischen Universitat München.
The catalogue of an exhibition of a fine selection of architectural drawings from the collection of the Technical University in Munich, including drawings by all the great Bavarian architects of the 19th century. Folio. 212pp, 165 ills. Publisher?s cloth. Biobliographia Serliana. Catalogue des éditions imprimées des livres du traité d?architecture de Sebastiano Serlio (1537-1681).
Good bibliographical descriptions, with signature collations, of all the sixteenth and secenteenth century editions of Serlio?s treatises on architecture. Large 4to. 191 + (1)pp, text ills. Publisher?s pictorial wrappers. (Cathedrals in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland).
A complete set of the volumes in Bell?s Cathedral Series dealing with individual cathedrals in Britain and Ireland, including the rare introductory volume on ?English Cathedrals?, and the uncommon volumes on the four Welsh cathedrals, Glasgow Cathedral, and St.Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin (we have added for convenience the volume published by another publisher in the same format on Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin). The volumes, written by various experts on English church architecture, were independently published over a substantial period of time, some appearing in more than one edition, and it is remarkably difficult to assemble a set such as catalogued here. The volumes are uniformly bound in the publishers? decorative green cloth, to distinguish them from the parallel volumes on major English churches, bound in blue cloth, and on French cathedrals, bound in red cloth. 8vo. 34 vols, each with photo ills and plan. Publisher?s decorative green cloth. Also one further volume in the same format on Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin (London, Elliot Stock, 1901). (English abbeys, priories and other major churches).
A complete set of the twelve volumes on major English churches that were issued in parallel with the same publisher?s volumes on British cathedrals, and marketed at the time as part of Bell?s Cathedral Series. Individual volumes are devoted to Westminster Abbey, Beverley Minster, Romsey Abbey and to other architecturally significant churches. It should be noted that the set also includes a volume devoted to the various medieval churches in Coventry (now of unforeseen utility in that most of them were destroyed or severely damaged during the 1939-1945 war), and that the Stratford on Avon volume features not just the parish church but the other older buildings in the town with Shakespearean associations. 8vo. 12 vols, each with photo ills and plans. Publisher?s decorative blue cloth. (French cathedrals and the abbey of Mont St Michel).
A complete set of the volumes on French cathedrals (Amiens, Bayeux, Chartres, Notre Dame de Paris, and Rouen) and the associated volume on Mont St.Michel, issued in parallel with the same publisher?s series of volumes on British cathedrals. The volume on Amiens records the cathedral before it sustained serious damage during the 1914-1918 war. 8vo. 6 vols, each with photo ills and plans. Publisher?s decorative red cloth. (Cathedrals in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland).
A set of the volumes in Bell?s Cathedral Series dealing with individual cathedrals in Britain and Ireland, but lacking the rare introductory volume and also lacking the volumes devoted to Bangor Cathedral and Glasgow Cathedral (the latter the final volume to be published in the Cathedral Series proper). 8vo. 31 (ex 34) vols, each with photo ills and plan. Publisher?s decorative green cloth. (English abbeys, priories and other major churches).
A set of eleven (of twelve) volumes on major English churches that were issued in parallel with the same publisher?s volumes on British cathedrals, and marketed at the time as part of Bell?s Cathedral Series. The present set lacks the volume on Westminster Abbey, but is otherwise complete. It should be noted that the volume on Great Malvern Priory, published in 1914, ranks alongside the volume on Glasgow Cathedral as one of the final volumes published in the Bell?s Cathedral Series as a whole. 8vo. 11 (ex 12) vols, each with photo ills and plans. Publisher?s decorative blue cloth. Les marques de collections de dessins et d?estampes? avec des notices historiques sur les collectionneurs, les ventes, les marchands et éditeurs, etc. (and) Supplement.
Although primarily a tool for collectors of drawings and engravings, this is of much incidental value for the study of the history of book collecting. 4to. 2 vols. xi+(1)+596pp ; xi+(1)+463+(1)pp. Publisher?s cloth. The London encyclopædia.
Signed presentation copy of the first edition of the Weinreb and Hibbert London Encyclopaedia. Ben Weinreb, antiquarian bookseller specialising in books on architecture, realised that there was no comprehensive one-volume published guide to London?s streets and buildings more recent than Wheatley and Cunningham?s London Past and Present, published in 1891, and this resulting volume, most recently issued in a third edition in 2008, has proved to be Weinreb?s most lasting memorial. Much of the credit belongs to Christopher Hibbert, who transformed the information assembled by Weinreb and his earlier collaborators into readable text. 8vo. ix+(1)+1029+(1)pp, many text ills. Publisher?s cloth, in dustwrapper. Signed on title leaf by Ben Weinreb. Theaterszene Theaterbau 1971-1975. Eine Dokumentation des Theaters in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
A showcase of the work of contemporary set designers and theatre architects in Germany, with excellent photo illustrations and plans throughout. The featured projects include such buildings as Pfau?s Schauspielhaus in Düsseldorf of 1965-1969 and Bätzner?s Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsrühe of 1970-1975. Folio. (152)pp, photo text ills throughout. Publisher?s printed wrappers. The principles of gothic ecclesiastical architecture elucidated by question and answer. Fourth edition.
This enlarged fourth edition was the first to be printed by Thomas Combe at the Oxford University Press. It has more text and more woodcut illustrations than earlier editions, and is an attractive example of contemporary book production. The present copy is one of the few that this cataloguer has seen that are bound in publisher?s printed boards, although the condition of the binding is disappointing (see below). 8vo. (8)+254pp, inc. woodcut title and numerous woodcut text ills. Publisher?s printed boards, with decorative front cover (but front cover is badly stained and worn, and spine has lost paper surface). A clean copy internally. Ink ownership inscription of J.S.Townsend, 1841. Crosscurrents. French and Italian neoclassical drawings and prints from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution?s National Museum of Design.
Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of some of the best late eighteenth and early nineteenth century drawings and prints from the Cooper Hewitt Museum?s collections, many of them architectural. Small 4to. 144pp, photo ills throughout. Publisher?s pictorial wrappers. M. Vitruvii Pollionis de architectura libri decem. Cum notis, castigationibus & observationibus Guilelmi Philandri . Danielis Barbari . Claudii Salmasii (etc) . Omnia in unum collecta, digesta & illustrata a Iohanne de Laet Antwerpiano.
The poet Edmund Waller?s copy of this well-known Elzevir edition of Vitruvius by Jan de Laet, which had the merit for educated readers that it provided not just a text of Vitruvius but also De Laet?s own translation into Latin of Sir Henry Wotton?s Elements of Architecture and substantial texts on related subjects by other authors. It also includes the very first printing of Nicolaus Goldmann?s illustrated discussion of the Ionic volute. As it happens, the present copy only contains the text of the book as far as its two indexes, respectively devoted to the Greek words and the Latin words found in the text of the ten books of Vitruvius (and occupying 28 unnumbered pages after p.272). What are customarily found in copies of the book, and which are absent from this copy, are separately paginated texts of Alberti?s writings on painting and sculpture, and of three shorter essays, called for on the volume?s printed title leaf, and habitually found bound after the Vitruvian indexes. Whatever the reason why these pages are absent, it is nonetheless interesting that a copy of this edition of Vitruvius should have been acquired by Edmund Waller (1606-1687), who built up a substantial private library at his Buckinghamshire country house. It must be one of the few seventeenth century architectural books to have been owned by a significant English literary figure of the period, and its value rests on the presence of Edmund Waller?s autograph signature at the head of its title leaf . BAL Cat 3500. Folio. Engraved frontispiece, (6) + 31 + (1) + 272 + (28)pp, with (2) additional pages between p. 252 and p.253, many woodcut text ills (a further 169 + 69 + (3)pp are absent). Mid twentieth century quarter calf, marbled boards. Frontispiece stained at foot and slightly abraded at head and foot, and an old stain affecting pages of Book X of Vitruvius and all subsequent leaves. Ownership inscription of Edmund Waller (?Edm Waller?) at head of title leaf, with his note of the cost of the book (?00:16s -00d?), and the date 1673. A blank preliminary leaf carries the following note in ink : ?This copy of Vitruvius which belonged to Waller the poet, and is inscribed with his autograph, was bought by me at Oxford May 1841 - John Hamilton Gray Magdalen College Oxford 1841?. Henry Holland, his life and architecture.
A very good monograph on Holland (1745-1806), best known for his work for the Prince Regent at Carlton House and the Brighton Pavilion, but also employed at Woburn and Althorp, and the architect of Samuel Whitbread?s house at Southill in Bedfordshire. 4to. 160pp, 133 photo ills on plates. Publisher?s cloth, in dustwrapper (the wrapper a little abraded at upper margin). With an enclosed two-page autograph letter, signed, dated 18 May, year not specified, written by Dorothy Stroud to Mr McBean, the owner of Moccas Court, Herefordshire, a house designed by Robert Adam, also a postcard with a message from Dorothy Stroud to Mrs McBean. 