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104286
AKURGAL, Ekrem: THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF TURKEY:
New York, Rizzoli, 1980. 268pp. Quarto. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A good copy. Numerous illustrations.Click here to order

$100

104293
BABELON , Jean-Pierre: CLASSIC GARDENERS: The French Style.
London, Thames & Hudson, 2000. 298pp. Quarto. Original cloth in dustwrapper. An excellent copy. Profusely illustrated in colour.Click here to order

$50

101560: CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF OIL PAINTINGS AND WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS BY EMINENT ENGLISH ARTISTS. ETCHINGS, COLOUR PRINTS AND DRAWINGS:
Sydney, James R Lawson, No Date . 16pp. 8vo . Original wrappers . Excellent copy . Illustrated . Includes Phil May and Leslie Ward's workClick here to order

$40

104289
FRAMPTON , Kenneth: AMERICAN MASTERWORKS: The Twentieth-Century House.
London, Thames & Hudson, 2002. 234pp. Octavo. Paperback. An excellent copy. Profusely illustrated in colour.Click here to order

$50

104292
KLUCKERT, Ehrenfried: EUROPEAN GARDEN DESIGN: From Classical Antiquity to the Present Day.
London, Konemann, 2005. 496pp. Quarto. Original cloth in dustwrapper. An excellent copy. Profusely illustrated in colour.Click here to order

$75

104301
LAUBER, Wolfgang: TROPICAL ARCHITECTURE: Sustainable and Humane Building in Africa, Latin America and South-East Asia.
Munich, Prestel, 2005. 203pp. Quarto . Hardcover in dustwrapper. An excellent copy. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white photographs. A very different look at architecture, looking not only at the highrises, but the little huts, with contributions by Peter Cheret, Klaus Ferstl and Eckhart RibbeckClick here to order

$50

104536
LE CORBUSIER: PRECISIONS: On the Present Sate of Architecture and City Planning.
London, MIT Press, 1991. 266pp. Octavo. Original light blue cloth in dustwrapper. A very good copy. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. World reknown International Style architect and designer Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris) and his controversial theories behind architecture and city planning. Also includes writing on An America Pologue A Brazilian Corollary (the city that never worked) followed by The Temperature of Paris and the Atmosphere of Moscow. Translated by Edith Schreiber Aujame. A must have for any architect!Click here to order

$150

104033
LOUDON, J.C.: AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE AND FURNITURE: Containing Numerous Designs for Dwellings, from the Cottage to the Villa, Including Farm Houses, Farmeries, and Other Agricultural Buildings; Several Designs for Country Inns, Public Houses, and Parochial Schools, with the requisite fittings-up, fixtures, and furniture; and appropriate offices, gardens, and garden scenery; each design accompanied by analytical and critical remarks, illustrative of the principles of architectural science and taste on which it is composed.
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1833. adverts 16pp. 1138 pp. 15 x 24 cm. Rebound in marbled boards with a leather spine. Facsimile label laid down in the spine. New endpapers; the first page of adds has been repaired with rice papers. The first six and the last two pages are affected by foxing. A very good copy. Complete with nearly 100 lithographs and approxiamately 2000 engravings on wood. A rare first editionClick here to order

$2000

104691
LOUDON, Mrs (Editor): LOUDON'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PLANTS: Comprising Specific Character, Description, Culture History, Application in the Arts, and Every Other Desirable Particular Respecting All the Plants Indigeneous To, Cultivated In, Or Introduced.
London, Longmans, Green, And Co, 1866 New Impression. 1574pp. 15 x 24 cm. Rebound in marbled boards and a cloth spine. Facsimile label laid down in the spine. A very good copy. Complete with nearly 100 lithographs and approxiamately 2000 engravings on wood.Click here to order

$250

99555
SHEPHERD, Thos H: METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS; OR LONDON IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: DISPLAYED IN A SERIES OF ENGRAVINGS OF THE NEW BUILDINGS, IMPROVEMENTS, &C. BY THE MOST EMINENT ARTISTS. FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, TAKEN FROM THE OBJECTS THEMSELVES EXPRESSELY FOR THIS WORK: Comprising the Palaces, Parks, New Churches, Bridges, Steets, River Scenery, Public Offices and Institutions, Gentlemen's Seats and Mansions, and Every Other Object Worthy of Notice Throughout the Metropolilis and Its Environs With Historical, Typographical, and Critical Illustrations By James ELMES. M.R.I.A. Architect.
London, Jones & Co, 1828. 172pp. 21 x 28 cms. Contemporary half leather and marbled boards and marbled endpapers. Some foxing. The hinges have plenty of life yet but are starting to split. 80 pages of plates as per the British Library copy. British Library Catalogue states " With an additional titlepage, engraved. A partial reissue of the 1827 edition in that the titlepage, preliminary leaves and the main text up to p. 20 are reprinted with minor changes, including the resetting of the titlepage imprint and date."Click here to order

$750

102980
SULLIVAN, Michael: THE CAVE TEMPLES OF MAICHISHAN: With an account of the 1958 expedition to Maichishan by Anil de Silva.
Berkeley, Univeristy of California Press, 1969. text pages 77pp. Quarto28x23cm. Original cloth bound hardcover with dustwrapper. A very good copy; dustwrapper proce-clipped. Profusely illustarted with black and white photographs by Dominique Darbois. 104 plates at rear. . Buddhist temples of Maichishan in a remote part of China which were only discovered in the 1950sClick here to order

$100

103073
WILTON-ELY, John: THE MIND AND ART OF GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI : With 391 Illustrations, including the complete Vedute di Roma and Carceri d'Invenzione in full-page reproductions.
London , Thames and Hudson , 1978. 304pp. 4to . Original cloth with dustwrapper . A very good copy .Click here to order

$100