Friedrich Weinbrenner Architect of Kurlsruhe A Catalogue of the Drawings in the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania
by Brownlee, David B (Ed)
Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 163 pages. 246 illustrations some in color. Catalogue of Selected Drawings. Checklist of the Weinbrenner Collection at the Univ. of Pennsylvania.Bibliography. Concordance of Inventory Numbers. Weinbrenner was the first internationally important German architect of the 19th Century.
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Sonnets From The Portuguese
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
London: Riccardi Press, 1914. Hardcover. Quarter crimson morocco lettered in gilt and marbled covers. Near fine. 27 pages. 20 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition copy 206 of 1000 on handmade Riccardi Paper. "Three Hundred and Fifty of these copies have been specially bound in leather by Sangorski & Sutcliffe of which this is Number 206." Fresh, bright copy... Read More
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Paved With Gold Or The Romance & Reality of The London Streets
by Mayhew. The Brothers Augustus and Henry (Illustrated by H.K. Browne)
London: Chapman & Hall, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Printed tan paper wrappers. Very good in very good in clam shell box. H.K. Browne. 22 x 14 cm. Each part of 32 pages and two engraved plates by H.K. Brown. The publisher's 32 page "Catalogue Of Books" bound in Vol. I. And with numerous other ads and slips inserted throughout.... Read More
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English Art Series. London Buildings. London Paintings. London Sculpture
by Brown, Frank P.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1933. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Very good. Three volumes in one, each with itsown Index and a list of illustrations in black and white. Approximately 300 pages in text total. Backstrip worn at joints and extremities with small tear at head.
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Murillo & His Drawings
by Brown, Jonathan
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1976. First edition. Orig. cloth and boards. Fine in very good dust wrapper. Murillo, Bartolome Estaban. 200 pages. 22 x 26.5 cm. Voluminously illustrated with nearly 100 black and white reproductions, over one-third of which have not previously been studied or published, as well as seventy-one comparative illustrations. Catalogue Raisonne of Drawings by Murillo.... Read More
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The Builders Of Florence; With Seventy-Four Illustrations By Herbert Railton
by Brown, J. Wood
New York: E.P. Dutton And Company, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. heavily gilt decorated front cover and spine. Teg. Very good. 431 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Index. Clean very fresh copy with wide text margins. Images are full page printed recto only on glossy stock. Railton trained as an architect and was one of the leading black... Read More
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Block Printing & Book Illustration In Japan; With Forty-Three Plates (Eighteen In Colours), And Copious Indexes Of Titles And Artists
by Brown, Louise Norton
London & New York: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd / E.P. Dutton & Co, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter beige spine and green boards with leather backstrip label printed in gilt. Fine in worn dust wrapper. 261 pages. Folio, 39 x 26 cm. Title page in red and black. Contents include Old-Book Shops In Japan, Glossary, Bibliography... Read More
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Piper's Pony; The Story of Patchwork
by Brown, Paul
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green illustrated boards spine lettered in white. Very good. Unpaginated. 22 x 28 cm. Signed presentation copy signed in pencil to John Lowry, Jr "with lots of luck Paul Brown 37." American illustrator of equestrian subjects although he was never formally trained as an artist. Profusely illustrated in... Read More
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Domestic Architecture: Containing A History Of The Science, And The Principles Of Designing Public Edifices, Private Dwelling-Houses, Country Mansions, and Suburban Villas, With Practical Dissertations On Every Branch Of Building, etc..
by Brown, Richard
London: George Virtue, 1842. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's brown cloth with front cover illustration in gilt, recased with a portion of original spine laid-down. Very good.. 342 pages. 29 x 24 cm. Engraved frontispiece of the author, and sixty-three plates containing perspective views and ground plans, and elevations drawn to scale. Also includes garden and landscape designs,... Read More
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Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies
by Brown, Robert
Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1971. Third edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Near fine. 401 pages. Copiously illustrated with photographs. Index.
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The Ring And The Book
by Browning, Robert
London: Smith, Elder And Co, 1869. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth backstrips lettered in gilt, beveled edges, borders decorated in blind. Very good housed in near fine full red morocco drop box. 4 Vols. 245, 251, 249, 235 pages. 17.5 x 11 cm. Browning's long epic blank verse poem which is composed of 12 books cemented his... Read More
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Men from Under the Sky The Arrival of Westerners In Fiji
by Brown, Stanley
Rutland: Charles E.Tuttle, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Index. Bibliography. Orig. sandlewood cloth. Near fine in near fine dust wrapper.. 327 pages.
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The Carpenter's Assistant: Containing A Succinct Account Of Egyptian, Grecian, And Roman Architecture; Also, A Description Of The Tuscan, Doric, Corinthian And Composite Orders; Together With Specifications, Practical Rule And Tables For Carpenters, And A Glossary Of Architectural Terms..............Revised, Improved And Enlarged With Additions On Rural Architecture; Embracing Plan, Elevations, Ground, &c, &c, Of Cottages, Villas, And Farm Buildings; Including New And Valuable Designs For Church Edifices BY LEWIS. E. ROY, Architect
by Brown, William
Boston: Edward Livermore, 1854. Fourth Edition. leather_bound. Handsomely recased in modern full brown leather. Near fine. 140 pages. 28 1/2 x 24 cm. First published, 1848. Fifty full-page engraved plates and sixty wood engravings. Uncommon publication, being both a builder's guide and house pattern book." HITCHCOCK. 219. KARPEL B268. "Contains a supplement on rural architecture by Louis E.... Read More
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The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870 The Papers of William Charvat
by Bruccoli, Matthew J (Editor)
Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned cloth. Near fine in near fine dust wrapper. 327 pages. Foreword by Howard Munson Jones. Checklist of the Publications of William Charvat. Index. This work was planned as a systematic and comprehensive investigation of the triadic relationship of author-publisher-reader.Although the work was not complete at the time... Read More
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Memoires De Jacques Casanova De Seingalt 1734- Extraits - 1772; Colliges Par Rene Groos
by Brunelleschi, Filippo (Illustrator)
Paris: Gibert Jeune, 1955. Later printing. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated tan wrappers. Very good in very good slipcase. 2 vols.. 346, 338 pages. 26.5 x 20 cm. Thirty-two full-page pochoir plates and seventy-nine black and white designs by Brunelleschi. Limited edition, copy 1192 of 3000 copies. Casanova illustrated with Brunelleschi panache: high socks, hi-jinks and high-camp. Bright, fresh... Read More
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Le Malheureux Petit Voyage by Gabriel Soulages
by Brunelleschi, Umberto (Illustrator)
Paris: L'Estampe Moderne, 1926. Original Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine in patterned chemise portfolio, spine worn and evenly faded to brown. In matching, edgeworn slipcase. Brunelleschi, Umberto. 208 pages. 22 x 17 Twenty-six pochoir plates, including fifteen color engravings. Limited edition, copy 135 of 435 copies on Velin Arches. Brunelleschi's polite, décolleté nudity, romantic rather than hard core,... Read More
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Historian's Holiday
by Bryant, Arthur
London: Dropmore Press, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter vellum and dark salmon boards, front cover decorated in gilt. Near fine. 84 pages. 26.5 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 1 of 25 signed by Bryant, printed on a hand press on paper hand made by Portals of Whitechurch. The author, an English historian and one time columnist... Read More
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The Growth Of Canadian Painting
by Buchanan, Donald W.
London: Collins, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Very good. 112 pages. Sixteen color plates and 64 black and white illustrations. With a Foreword by Eric Newton. Index. CHAMBERLAIN 1248. "Tries to give a chart of 20th century painting in Canada. Not an orthodox history of Canadian Art. Covers the work of 27 artists who are discussed... Read More
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The Book Illustrations of George Cruikshank
by Buchanan-Brown, John
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper. Cruikshank, George. 256 pages. 249 black and white illustrations. Index. Cruikshank turned to book illustration at the age of thirty-one and dominated the field in England for the next twenty-five years. FREITAG 1968.
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The Story of David Gray
by Buchanan, Robert
Portland: Thomas Mosher, 1900. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff printed wrappers. Fine in rubbed very good dust wrapper. [viii] 85 pages. 20 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 37 of 50 on Japanese vellum. Frontispiece is an engraved portrait of David Gray, title page printed in red and black. Clean, fresh copy,
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Six Months in the Gold Mines From a Journal of Three Years' Residence in Upper andLower California 1847-8-9
by Buffum, E. Gould
Np: Ward Ritchie Press, 1959. Hardcover. Orig. decorated boards and cloth. Fine in clear plastic dust wrapper. 145 pages. Edited and With an Introduction by John W. Caughey. Originally published in 1850, Wheat [Books of The Gold Rush], regards it as "one of the earliest authentic personal accounts of the California diggings." BARRETT 389.BLUMANN & THOMAS 4876. COWAN... Read More
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The Captain Is Out To Lunch The Sailors Have Taken Over The Ship; Illustrated By Robert Crumb
by Bukowski, Charles
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1998. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth spine and illustrated boards. Fine. Crumb, Robert. 144 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 183 of 326 signed by Crumb in pencil and handbound by Earle Gray each containing an original color serigraph portrait of Charles Bukowski by Robert Crumb. Plus, there are additional black and... Read More
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There's No Business; Illustrations By R. Crumb
by Bukowski, Charles
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pale pink illustrated boards and yellow cloth spine in original clear acetate dust wrapper. Fine. Crumb, Robert. 17 pages. 27.5 x 19.5 cm. One of 400 copies signed by Bukowski and Crumb and laid-in the mauve colored Broadside/ Flyer No.12 announcing the publication of the short story. ... Read More
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The Life And Letters Of Charles Bulfinch Architect With Other Family Papers
by Bulfinch, Ellen Susan (Editor)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1896. First edition. Orig. brown cloth with bevelled edges. Teg. Near fine. Bulfinch, Charles. 323 pages. 24 x 17.5 cm. Thirty-one photogravure illustrations with lettered tissue guards. Introduction by Charles A. Cummings. List of Public Buildings Designed by Charles Bulfinch. FREITAG 1163. KARPEL B1081. "...This is the major primary source, although as Garrett points out,... Read More
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The Judgement of Paris
by Bunbury, Henry William
London: Np, 1766. Wraps. Near fine. 22 x 19.5 cm. Engraving. The judgment of Paris y, fecit et a cere incidit 1766. "Outside a thatched cottage, partly visible on the left, Paris, a loutish peasant, hands the apple to an old harridan holding a fan and wearing a very wide hoop.
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