Category: Architecture and Interior Design

La Certosa Di Pavia

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Bergamo, Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche Editore : 1910

Seller ID: 000856

Condition: Fine

4to - over 9¾. N.d., circa 1910, with early color photos, 15 in all, of historic monastery in Padua. Vellum binding, with pretty floreate decoration under title, and stiff stock of paper used to mount photos. All photos with tissue guard. Trivial wear of binding. Fine condition overall.
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Image for Sherwin-Williams Paint and Color Style Guide Combination Edition. Color Suggestions for Your Home Prepared by Sherwin-Williams Decorative Studios

Sherwin-Williams Paint and Color Style Guide Combination Edition. Color Suggestions for Your Home Prepared by Sherwin-Williams Decorative Studios

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Sherwin-Williams Decorative Studios : 1941

Seller ID: 001865

Condition: Good

149 pp. Oversized and heavy style spiral book, measuring 19 by 16.5 inches, slightly oblong. (47 by 41 cm.) Great resource for pictorial overview of mainstream American decorative styles and taste around 1940, with big splashy pictures of both exteriors and interiors. One leaf appears missing (C123/4). Comparatively light wear to the black binder. Middling soiling of the title, and some finger smudging and other use evident in margins of other leaves. Many leaves not attached to very bottom loop of spiral, but all leaves are still firmly bound otherwise. Light ex-lib, with perforated lib...
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Image for Thomas Reynold & Son Limited Catalogue No. 132. Builders' and Plumbers' Merchants. Wholesale Ironmongers. Iron and Steel Merchants. We also Specialize in Engineers, Smiths, Motor Engineers and Body Builders' Requirements. Paints, Oils and Colours.

Thomas Reynold & Son Limited Catalogue No. 132. Builders' and Plumbers' Merchants. Wholesale Ironmongers. Iron and Steel Merchants. We also Specialize in Engineers, Smiths, Motor Engineers and Body Builders' Requirements. Paints, Oils and Colours.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Bristol, UK, St. Stephen's Bristol Press, Limited

Seller ID: 001161

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Undated, from the 1930s. 392 pp. Large trade catalogue for hardware, fireplaces, plumbing fixtures, tools, etc. Especially strong and useful to today's student of material culture in areas of fireplace and heater design and in bathroom fixtures. With some color of fireplace suites and tiles. Wear along rear gutter, and mild soilage to red cloth boards. Otherwise, tight and generally clean. A very good copy. With an order form loosely inserted contained handwritten order.
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Versailles: Palais, Musee, Jardins

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Paris, Imprimerie D'E. Duverger : 1850

Seller ID: 000344

Condition: Good

4to. 47 plates (steel engravings mostly), with text interspersed. Probably was published as souvenir of the Palace and Trianons, with attractive pictures and concise historical and architectural explanations. Leather spine scuffed a bit, gilding fairly bright. Rubbing to joints. Binding tight. Gilded foreedges. Ribbon placemark intact. Foxing mostly on blank back sides of plates, but gives the interior a certain quality of grubbiness. Overall, good.
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The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, Its Antquities and Monuments (2 Volumes)

By: Ackermann, R.

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: London, R. Ackermann : 1812

Seller ID: 000254

Binding: Full Contemporary Calf

Condition: Very Good

Folio. 83 plates, 81 of which are handcolored. Aymer de Valance plate, or half title plate of second volume, credited to Pugin. Bindings are both tight. Spines rebacked. Calf vibrant and healthy re boards, excepting some edgewear, with small spot of calf worn through on vol 1. Some bumping of corners w/ also calf worn through in some corners. Spines have suffered dryness and cracking, but original spines preserved and mounted in rebacking. Bright gilding on calf boards. Plates are by and large clean. Considerable offsetting of plates. Otherwise, text pages are generally clean, with a...
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The Golden Age of Shop Design: European Shop Interiors 1880 - 1939

By: Alexandra Artley, Editor

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Whitney Library of Design : 1976

Seller ID: 000649

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

128 pp., with most pages filled with photos of department and specialty stores of all kinds decorated in Beaux Arts, Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles. Other than small stamp, SS in small circle, which appears on lower foreedge, fine copy, with fine DJ protected by mylar.
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Dictionnaire Raisonne D'architecture et Des Sciences et Arts Qui S'y Rattachent (4 Volume set)

By: Bosc, Ernest

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Paris, Firmin-Dido et Cie. : 1883

Seller ID: 000357

Condition: Near Fine

4to. Second edition, which in this case is the preferable edition for completeness and uniformity as well as greater number of chromolithographic plates, which in this edition total 40! Many other text illustrations in black and white. Some rubbing by the joints and minor scuffing to spine. Boards clean. Bindings tight. Interiors clean and tight. Plates (chromo plates) clean and bright. Near fine.
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English Furniture and Furniture Makers of the 18th Century. Illustrated

By: Clouston, R. S.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Hurst and Blackett : 1906

Seller ID: 001259

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xii, 362, [2] pp. Useful source because chapters devoted not just to the likes of Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Sheraton and Robert Adam, but also to Robert Manwaring, Ince and Mayhew, Mattias Lock, Robert and Richard GIllow, and others, designers who also were influential with their pattern or design books as well as in the case most obviously of Gillows, actual manufacturing. Also written in an almost conversational style, notwithstanding what now might come across as a quaintness of phrasing, inviting to the non-specialist. Throughout photographic illustrations of furniture and patterns. Th...
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Victorian and Edwardian Decor: From the Gothic Revival to Art Nouveau

By: Cooper, Jeremy

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Abbeville Pr : 1987

Seller ID: 000382

ISBN-13: 9780896597686

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Folio.
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Historic Midwest Houses

By: Drury, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Bonanza Books : 1947

Seller ID: 000130

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

4to.
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Il Legno Nell'Arte Italiana, Reporduzioni in Parte Inedite Di Saggi Dal Periodo Romanico al Neo-Classico, 277 Plates, 451 Illustrations

By: Ferrari, Giulio

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Milano, Ulrico Hoepli : 1930

Seller ID: 000408

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

4to. Undated, circa 1930. 24 pp. of text. Cloth repair in upper front gutter and lower rear gutter. A little fraying in lower joints. Spine lettering rubbed. Interior clean. Good or better overall.
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Town and Country

By: Girouard, Mark

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Yale Univ Pr : 1992

Seller ID: 000138

ISBN-13: 9780300051858

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.
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American Home: Architecture and Society 1815-1915

By: Handlin, David

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown : 1979

Seller ID: 000099

ISBN-13: 9780316343008

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Book.
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Das Deutsche Zimmer Der Gothik Und Renaissance Des Barock-, Rococo- Und Zopfstils

By: Hirth, Georg

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Munchen & Leipzig, G. Hirth's Verlag : 1886

Seller ID: 000063

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Book. 4to - over 9¾. xii, 452 pp., 370 text illustrations, some full page. This is a classic work on interior design. It is especially strong in the coverage of Gothic and Renaissance styles as interpreted in the Teutonic world, but it carries on to what is known elsewhere as the Empire style and of course the Rococo. Much attention is given to the development of form, as with such things as a chair. Illustrations with Kronleuchte and other decorative elements that are intimately associated with German style abound. VG. Some sunning to spine. A little fraying to cloth around gutter. Sl...
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Greek Revival America

By: Kennedy, Roger G.;Kotz, Jack;Hall, John M.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Edison, New Jersey, U.S.A., Stewart Tabori & Chang : 1989

Seller ID: 000062

ISBN-13: 9781556700941

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Book. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 456 pp., beautifully illustrated with photographs of Greek Revival mansions, interiors, public buildings. Roger Kennedy was the head of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and author of several lavish books on architecture. This is perhaps his most magnificent production, and it has become one of the standard references on the style, which had not received a good treatment for several decades. Greek Revival is far more than just another architectural style; it expressed the hopes and pretensions of the early Republic, and it is that sentime...
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The Homes of America

By: Lamb, Martha J.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Appleton and Company : 1879

Seller ID: 000342

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

4to. 256pp. Contents include the Colonial Period, Later Period, and Modern Period. Many famous houses, such as that of Frederick Church, Washington Irving; many in Newport RI (not the Vanderbilt mansions yet to be built), the White House. Homes from Saratoga, Charleston, Cambridge, Tarrytown, Virginia, and on and on. Illustrated by 103 B&W illustrations. Slight shake to inner hinge. Pages clean, as in pictorial decoration on cover, spine. Minimal shelfwear. Gilded foreedges. Overall, VG.
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Architecture of the Old South

By: Lane, Mills;Martin, Van Jones

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Abbeville Pr : 1993

Seller ID: 000086

ISBN-13: 9781558590441

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Book.
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The Decoration and Furniture of English Mansions During the XVII & XVIII Centuries

By: Lenygon, Francis

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, London, Charles Scribner's Sons, T. Werner Laurie : 1909

Seller ID: 000083

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Book. Folio - over 12. xii + 215 pp. Fine condition. Only slightest of toning to pages and negligible soilage on spine. A beautiful copy. Many tipped in photo plates. Photo(s) available upon request.
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Homes and Gardens in Old Virginia

By: Massie, Susanne Williams and Christian, Frances Archer, Eds.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Richmond, VA, Garrett & Massie, Inc. : 1931

Seller ID: 000131

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Quarto. Book. xviii + 355 pp. Survey Virginia significant properties. Spine sunned somewhat, some minor rippling to prelim pages. Overall, VG.
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Victorian Designs for the Home

By: Newton, Charles

Price: $20.00

Publisher: United Kingdom, Victoria & Albert Pubns : 1999

Seller ID: 001020

ISBN-13: 9781851772841

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 144 pp. Chapters on early design reformers, reformed Gothic, mainstream Victorian, exoticism and eclecticism, William Morris and his circle, Aestheticism and Japonisme, Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau origins. As unavoidable, overlap among the topics, but touches on the salient points of the period's material culture very incisively. To a degree organized around fine specimens in museum collection.
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Category: Architecture and Interior Design