(Millard)
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.
Washington, National Gallery of Art 1993, 1998, 2000.: 2000
- $360
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
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(Catalogues Jan 1970 – Sep 2001)
Paul Breman Ltd A virtually complete set of the printed catalogues issued over a thirty year period by the antiquarian bookseller Paul Breman (1931-2008). Breman, having previously worked as a cataloguer for E.P.Goldschmidt and for Ben Weinreb, had then gone into partnership with Weinreb for a brief period, but was able to launch his own firm in 1970 with his share of the proceeds of the sale of much of the Weinreb and Breman stock to the University of Texas. His principal speciality as a bookseller was in sixteenth-eighteenth century books on architecture, art, perspective and fortification published on the European continent, but he was also interested in avant garde books of the twentieth century and in black literature (of which he made a pioneer collection), and his catalogue notes on all these subjects were well-informed and incisively expressed.His published catalogues fell into three series, separately numbered and in distinct formats. The numbering of Catalogues 1-44, issued between January 1970 and February 1994, and of Catalogues 144- 172, issued between February 1989 and September 2001, is straightforward, but the numbering of a third series of his catalogues, issued between 1979 and 1988, is perplexing and was doubtless intended by Breman to tease his customers and fellow members of the book trade. The basic explanation for the numbering sequence of this series is that Catalogue 179 was the first (and last) catalogue in this format issued in the year 1979, just as the final catalogue in the series, Catalogue 188, was the first (and last) catalogue in this format issued in 1988, while Catalogue 381 was the third catalogue in this format issued in 1981, but for some unaccountable reason Catalogue 280, which ought on this basis to have been the second catalogue issued in 1980, was actually issued in November 1981 and should really have been numbered 281.The varying formats and complex numbering of Breman?s catalogues have militated against the survival of complete sets of them, and this is probably the completest set currently available outside institutional collections. 8vo. (90) (ex 92 ?) catalogues, comprising : (a) Catalogues 1-48, slim upright format, issued between Jan 1970 and Feb 1994 (complete for period); (b) Catalogues 179, 180, 181, 280, 381, 183, 283, 184, 186, 286, 187, 287, 188, upright format, issued in this sequence between 1979 and 1988 (complete for period); (c) Catalogues 144-172 (lacking 162 and 169), all in oblong format except for 161 and 172 which are in upright format, issued between Feb 1989 and Sep 2001. All the catalogues are in original wrappers and are contained in two drop-back cloth boxes. An accompanying leaflet advertises Catalogues 173-5, not issued in printed form but made available by Breman on the internet.- $1,093
- $1,093
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Grinke, Paul (bookseller) These catalogues, issued by Paul Grinke respectively in the 1970s and between 2006 and 2011, represent the entirety of his catalogue output as a London-based bookseller before and after his years as a bookseller in Suffolk and Norfolk and the subsequent period in which he headed the art and architecture department at the Quaritch firm. The catalogues issued by him in the 1970s - regrettably for posterity printed without dates of publication - offer an astonishingly impressive range of English eighteenth century literature and other eighteenth-century books on art, architecture and antiquarian topics generally. Also of particular note are Catalogues 7 and 10, respectively offering seventeenth century and eighteenth century books from the libraries of the antiquaries Philip Morant and Thomas Astle. Oblong 8vo and 8vo. Catalogues 1-16 (First Series, complete) and 1-4 (New Series, complete). Original printed wrappers, preserved in drop-back box. These are offered together with Paul Grinke, Supplementary List, London, Spring 1976, stapled as issued; Paul Grinke, A Catalogue of a Collection of Books and Manuscripts relating to the county of Suffolk, Eye, 1984, original printed wrappers ; Paul Grinke and Paul Breman, Russian Art and Architecture, London, nd, stapled as issued; Grinke & Rodgers, Catalogue 1, Books on Art and Architecture,1700-1850, 1969, original printed wrappers; and 5 lists of books issued by Paul Grinke 2006-2016, stapled at upper right-hand corner- $708
- $708
Nineteenth century art and architecture. The library of James O?Byrne.
(O?Byrne, James) The extensive library of books on architecture and related topics put together by James O?Byrne (1835-1897), a Liverpool-based architect who had come under the influence of John Ruskin (his very extensive collection of titles by Ruskin is lot 186 in the sale). 4to. 56 + (8)pp. Recent cloth. Priced and annotated in ink.- $58
- $58
The stock and reference library of E.P.Goldschmidt and Co.Ltd. To be sold at Christie?s . Thursday, 8 July 1993.
(E.P.Goldschmidt Ltd) The sale offered both the firm?s trading stock and its remarkable reference library, the latter originally assembled by the firm?s founder E.P.Goldschmidt (1887-1954) and kept up to date by his successor Jacques Vellekoop 4to. 383 + (13)pp. Quarter cloth. Priced in ink, with some annotations.- $96
- $96
The library of Henry Myron Blackmer II sold by order of the executor.
(Blackmer, Henry M.) Sale catalogue of the library of Henry Myron (Harry) Blackmer, an American who came to live in Europe, eventually settling in Athens where he built up his extensive library of antiquarian books. Blackmer?s special interests were travel, neo-classical art, archaeology, and the fascination of the Levant for Europeans during and after the Renaissance. Folio. (18)+636+17+(1)pp, inc. colour photo frontispiece & numerous text ills, some in colour. Publisher?s cloth, photo frontispiece. Priced in ink, with some annotations.- $62
- $62
English homes.
Tipping, H.Avray A selection, arranged by the date and architectural period of the buildings concerned, from the articles on English country houses written for Country Life by its architectural editor, H.Avray Tipping, between 1907 and his death in 1933, latterly with some assistance from the young Christopher Hussey. They are an unrivalled record of all the most celebrated English houses built before 1820 as they existed in the first thirty years of the twentieth century, and the quality of the photographic illustrations of exteriors and interiors makes them of continuing value even where Tipping's accompanying text has been superseded by modern scholarship. Sets are now difficult to assemble, for differing numbers of copies were printed of each volume and publication extended over a period of sixteen years. Folio. 4 vols (ex 9), comprising Period II, vol 1 ; Period III, vol 1 ; Period III, vol 2 ; Period IV, vol 1. Pub blue cloth, gilt.- $746
- $746
The Franklin H.Kissner collection of books on Rome.
(Kissner, Franklin H.) This sale offered the huge library of sixteenth - nineteenth century books on Rome formed by the American book collector Frank Kissner (1909-1988). 4to. 383 + (13) pp. Quarter cloth, original wrappers bound in. Priced in ink, with some annotations.- $109
- $109
Architecture. Books on engineering, industrial arts and sciences, garden design, theatres & festivals, travel, costumed, furniture, ornament & decoration, sculpture, etc. The property of Henry Sotheran Ltd.
(B.Weinreb Architectural Books Limited) Although sold as the property of Henry Sotheran Ltd, the books catalogued here derived from the stock of B.Weinreb Architectural Books Ltd (taken over by the Sotheran firm in the autumn of 1987). 4to. 147 + (7)pp. Recent cloth. Priced and annotated in ink.- $58
- $58
The Dublin Builder.
Dublin Builder A volume containing the issues for 1860 and 1861 of the periodical The Dublin Builder, founded in 1859 and more familiar under its later name The Irish Builder, adopted in 1867. The periodical, modelled on the English periodical The Builder but featuring news and comment about recently erected buildings in Ireland, was initially published monthly, but became a fortnightly with effect from 1 January 1861. Each issue carries an issue number in addition to a volume number, and as there had been 12 issues in the periodical?s first volume for 1859, the issue numbers for vol.II are 13-24 and those for vol.III, now fortnightly, are 25-48. All volumes of The Dublin Builder and The Irish Builder are extremely rare in the book trade today. 4to. Vols II and III, comprising the issues for 1 Jan 1860 - 15 Dec 1861, paginated 169-716, with 2 unnumbered pp after p.650, but lacking pp 475-6 and 489-90), with (12) additional litho plates (some double-page), and also text ills (some full-page). Contemporary cloth. The volume also includes the issues for 15 Jun 1862, 1 Aug 1862, 1 Sep - 15 Oct 1862, 1-15 Dec 1862, and 1 Jan 1863.- $309
- $309
The library of the late M. F.d.C. consisting of printed books and manuscripts on art & architecture including fortification ; sciences ; (and) a highly important, extensive collection of Savonaroliana. Auction sale . Monday, 19 June 1995.
(Favia del Core, Massimiliano) Catalogue of the significant library of books on art and architecture (and on Savonarola) put together by Massimiliano Favia del Core (1927-1994), and sold by auction at Lugano in 1995. Favia del Core had married an heiress of the Borromeo Arese family, and it transpired years later that some of the books offered in the sale derived from the ancestral Borromeo collection and should not have been in Favia del Core?s possession. Folio. (158)pp, (8) colour olates, text ills. Recent cloth. Priced and annotated in ink.- $109
- $109
Catalogue of printed books . the property of the Society of Writers to the Signet.
(Signet Library, Edinburgh) These two sales held in 1978-9, following a series of earlier sales held between 1959-64, offered the entirety of the Signet Library?s remaining books other than those relating to Scotland and the law. They offered between them an astonishing range of books on literature, history, travel, art and architecture, and so on, printed both in the British Isles and in all the major countries of Western Europe. A curiosity of the sale was that the books were lotted simply by shelf, making it necessary for booksellers interested in particular titles not merely to buy all the books on a particular shelf, regardless of their relevance or merit, but also to locate plate volumes which had been separately shelved because they were of different dimensions to their accompanying text volumes. Square 4to. The B.Weinreb Architectural Books Ltd and E.P.Goldschmidt Ltd copies of each sale catalogue bound together, partly priced and marked in the respective hands of Jacques Vellekoop, Ben Weinreb and Hugh Pagan. Cloth.- $84
- $84
Catalogue of valuable printed books formerly in the library of William Beckford of Fonthill. (The property of the Rt Hon the Earl of Rosebery(from the collection of the 5th Earl of Rosebery at Barnbougle Castle)).
(Beckford, William) A carefully chosen selection from the library put together by the celebrated collector and bibliophile William Beckford (1759-1844). The best books from Beckford?s library had remained together until their dispersal in the Hamilton Palace sales in 1882-3, and the books sold in 1975 had been purchased at that time by the 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929), who shared Beckford?s interests in travel books, illustrated books, and fine bindings. 4to. Colour frontispiece, 90pp. Recent cloth, original printed wrappers bound in. The E.P.Goldschmidt Ltd copy, priced and named in Jacques Vellekoop?s hand.- $64
- $64
Architekturtheorie im deutschsprachigen Kulturraum 1486-1648.
Oechslin, Werner, Büchi, Tobias, & Pozsgai, Martin 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.- $238
- $238
A short-title catalogue of French books in the library of the British Museum 1601-1700.
Goldsmith, V.F. 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.- $122
- $122
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.
E.P.Goldschmidt Ltd 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.- $2,380
- $2,380
Das Feuerwerk seine Geschichte und Bibliographie. Beitrage zur Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte der Feste und des Theaterwesens in sieben Jahrhunderten.
Lotz, Arthur 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.- $154
- $154
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.
(Millard) 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- $360
- $360
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.
(Gregor, Joseph) 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.- $4,116
- $4,116
Die Architekturzeichnung. Vom barocken Idealplan zur Axonometrie. Zeichnungen aus der Architektursammlung der Technischen Universitat München.
Nerdinger, Winfried, & Zimmermann, Florian (eds) 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.- $32
- $32
Biobliographia Serliana. Catalogue des éditions imprimées des livres du traité d?architecture de Sebastiano Serlio (1537-1681).
(Serlio) Vène, Magali 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.- $36
- $36
(Cathedrals in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland).
( Bell?s Cathedral Series ) 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).- $386
- $386
(English abbeys, priories and other major churches).
( Bell?s Cathedral Series ) 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.- $129
- $129
(Cathedrals in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland).
(Bell?s Cathedral Series) 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.- $257
- $257
(English abbeys, priories and other major churches).
(Bell?s Cathedral Series) 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.- $109
- $109
Nineteenth century art and architecture. The library of James O?Byrne.
(O?Byrne, James) The extensive library of books on architecture and related topics put together by James O?Byrne (1835-1897), a Liverpool-based architect who had come under the influence of John Ruskin (his very extensive collection of titles by Ruskin is lot 186 in the sale). 4to. 56 + (8)pp. Recent cloth. Priced and annotated in ink.- $58
- $58
The stock and reference library of E.P.Goldschmidt and Co.Ltd. To be sold at Christie?s . Thursday, 8 July 1993.
(E.P.Goldschmidt Ltd) The sale offered both the firm?s trading stock and its remarkable reference library, the latter originally assembled by the firm?s founder E.P.Goldschmidt (1887-1954) and kept up to date by his successor Jacques Vellekoop 4to. 383 + (13)pp. Quarter cloth. Priced in ink, with some annotations.- $96
- $96
The library of Henry Myron Blackmer II sold by order of the executor.
(Blackmer, Henry M.) Sale catalogue of the library of Henry Myron (Harry) Blackmer, an American who came to live in Europe, eventually settling in Athens where he built up his extensive library of antiquarian books. Blackmer?s special interests were travel, neo-classical art, archaeology, and the fascination of the Levant for Europeans during and after the Renaissance. Folio. (18)+636+17+(1)pp, inc. colour photo frontispiece & numerous text ills, some in colour. Publisher?s cloth, photo frontispiece. Priced in ink, with some annotations.- $62
- $62
English homes.
Tipping, H.Avray A selection, arranged by the date and architectural period of the buildings concerned, from the articles on English country houses written for Country Life by its architectural editor, H.Avray Tipping, between 1907 and his death in 1933, latterly with some assistance from the young Christopher Hussey. They are an unrivalled record of all the most celebrated English houses built before 1820 as they existed in the first thirty years of the twentieth century, and the quality of the photographic illustrations of exteriors and interiors makes them of continuing value even where Tipping's accompanying text has been superseded by modern scholarship. Sets are now difficult to assemble, for differing numbers of copies were printed of each volume and publication extended over a period of sixteen years. Folio. 4 vols (ex 9), comprising Period II, vol 1 ; Period III, vol 1 ; Period III, vol 2 ; Period IV, vol 1. Pub blue cloth, gilt.- $746
- $746
The Franklin H.Kissner collection of books on Rome.
(Kissner, Franklin H.) This sale offered the huge library of sixteenth - nineteenth century books on Rome formed by the American book collector Frank Kissner (1909-1988). 4to. 383 + (13) pp. Quarter cloth, original wrappers bound in. Priced in ink, with some annotations.- $109
- $109
Architecture. Books on engineering, industrial arts and sciences, garden design, theatres & festivals, travel, costumed, furniture, ornament & decoration, sculpture, etc. The property of Henry Sotheran Ltd.
(B.Weinreb Architectural Books Limited) Although sold as the property of Henry Sotheran Ltd, the books catalogued here derived from the stock of B.Weinreb Architectural Books Ltd (taken over by the Sotheran firm in the autumn of 1987). 4to. 147 + (7)pp. Recent cloth. Priced and annotated in ink.- $58
- $58
The Dublin Builder.
Dublin Builder A volume containing the issues for 1860 and 1861 of the periodical The Dublin Builder, founded in 1859 and more familiar under its later name The Irish Builder, adopted in 1867. The periodical, modelled on the English periodical The Builder but featuring news and comment about recently erected buildings in Ireland, was initially published monthly, but became a fortnightly with effect from 1 January 1861. Each issue carries an issue number in addition to a volume number, and as there had been 12 issues in the periodical?s first volume for 1859, the issue numbers for vol.II are 13-24 and those for vol.III, now fortnightly, are 25-48. All volumes of The Dublin Builder and The Irish Builder are extremely rare in the book trade today. 4to. Vols II and III, comprising the issues for 1 Jan 1860 - 15 Dec 1861, paginated 169-716, with 2 unnumbered pp after p.650, but lacking pp 475-6 and 489-90), with (12) additional litho plates (some double-page), and also text ills (some full-page). Contemporary cloth. The volume also includes the issues for 15 Jun 1862, 1 Aug 1862, 1 Sep - 15 Oct 1862, 1-15 Dec 1862, and 1 Jan 1863.- $309
- $309
The library of the late M. F.d.C. consisting of printed books and manuscripts on art & architecture including fortification ; sciences ; (and) a highly important, extensive collection of Savonaroliana. Auction sale . Monday, 19 June 1995.
(Favia del Core, Massimiliano) Catalogue of the significant library of books on art and architecture (and on Savonarola) put together by Massimiliano Favia del Core (1927-1994), and sold by auction at Lugano in 1995. Favia del Core had married an heiress of the Borromeo Arese family, and it transpired years later that some of the books offered in the sale derived from the ancestral Borromeo collection and should not have been in Favia del Core?s possession. Folio. (158)pp, (8) colour olates, text ills. Recent cloth. Priced and annotated in ink.- $109
- $109
Catalogue of printed books . the property of the Society of Writers to the Signet.
(Signet Library, Edinburgh) These two sales held in 1978-9, following a series of earlier sales held between 1959-64, offered the entirety of the Signet Library?s remaining books other than those relating to Scotland and the law. They offered between them an astonishing range of books on literature, history, travel, art and architecture, and so on, printed both in the British Isles and in all the major countries of Western Europe. A curiosity of the sale was that the books were lotted simply by shelf, making it necessary for booksellers interested in particular titles not merely to buy all the books on a particular shelf, regardless of their relevance or merit, but also to locate plate volumes which had been separately shelved because they were of different dimensions to their accompanying text volumes. Square 4to. The B.Weinreb Architectural Books Ltd and E.P.Goldschmidt Ltd copies of each sale catalogue bound together, partly priced and marked in the respective hands of Jacques Vellekoop, Ben Weinreb and Hugh Pagan. Cloth.- $84
- $84
Catalogue of valuable printed books formerly in the library of William Beckford of Fonthill. (The property of the Rt Hon the Earl of Rosebery(from the collection of the 5th Earl of Rosebery at Barnbougle Castle)).
(Beckford, William) A carefully chosen selection from the library put together by the celebrated collector and bibliophile William Beckford (1759-1844). The best books from Beckford?s library had remained together until their dispersal in the Hamilton Palace sales in 1882-3, and the books sold in 1975 had been purchased at that time by the 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929), who shared Beckford?s interests in travel books, illustrated books, and fine bindings. 4to. Colour frontispiece, 90pp. Recent cloth, original printed wrappers bound in. The E.P.Goldschmidt Ltd copy, priced and named in Jacques Vellekoop?s hand.- $64
- $64
Architekturtheorie im deutschsprachigen Kulturraum 1486-1648.
Oechslin, Werner, Büchi, Tobias, & Pozsgai, Martin 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.- $238
- $238
A short-title catalogue of French books in the library of the British Museum 1601-1700.
Goldsmith, V.F. 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.- $122
- $122
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.
E.P.Goldschmidt Ltd 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.- $2,380
- $2,380
Das Feuerwerk seine Geschichte und Bibliographie. Beitrage zur Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte der Feste und des Theaterwesens in sieben Jahrhunderten.
Lotz, Arthur 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.- $154
- $154
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.
(Gregor, Joseph) 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.- $4,116
- $4,116
Die Architekturzeichnung. Vom barocken Idealplan zur Axonometrie. Zeichnungen aus der Architektursammlung der Technischen Universitat München.
Nerdinger, Winfried, & Zimmermann, Florian (eds) 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.- $32
- $32
Biobliographia Serliana. Catalogue des éditions imprimées des livres du traité d?architecture de Sebastiano Serlio (1537-1681).
(Serlio) Vène, Magali 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.- $36
- $36
(Cathedrals in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland).
( Bell?s Cathedral Series ) 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).- $386
- $386
(English abbeys, priories and other major churches).
( Bell?s Cathedral Series ) 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.- $129
- $129
(French cathedrals and the abbey of Mont St Michel).
( Bell?s Cathedral Series ) 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.- $77
- $77
(Cathedrals in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland).
(Bell?s Cathedral Series) 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.- $257
- $257
(English abbeys, priories and other major churches).
(Bell?s Cathedral Series) 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.- $109
- $109
Architecture city sense.
Crosby, Theo 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.- $13
- $13
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.
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- 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.