Girouard, Mark
THE VICTORIAN COUNTRY HOUSE
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979

Revised and enlarged edition. Quarto. 467 pp, including 33 color and 427 b/w illustrations. Cloth with dj. VG/VG-. 3 inch long strip of de-lamination on top edge of jacket.
Inventory number #008603

Stillman, Damie
THE DECORATIVE WORK OF ROBERT ADAM
London / NY: Academy Editions / St. Martin's Press, 1973

Octavo. viii, 119 pp; color frontispiece plus 173 b/w plates; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG- jacket spine and top edge sunned.
Inventory number #008589

Robinson, Annie
PEABODY & STEARNS: Country Houses and Seaside Cottages
NY: W.W. Norton, 2010

Quarto. 247 pp; 8 pp of color photographs, over 200 illustrations, archival photographs, plans, and drawings; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a new, unused copy. Robert Swain Peabody and John Goddard Stearns Jr. led one of the most prolific architectural design firms in the Northeast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This book focuses on the firm’s country house commissions, as well as other leisure-time buildings such as casinos, boathouses, stables, gentlemen’s farms, and cottages. It showcases more than 80 of the firm’s designs, from The Breakers in Newport, RI to Charles William Eliot’s house in Northeast Harbor, ME.
Inventory number #008353

Watkin, David
RADICAL CLASSICISM: The Architecture of Quinlan Terry
NY: Rizzoli, 2006

First edition. Quarto. 240 pp, full of color photographs. Hardcover with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a new copy. This book contains hundreds of lavish color illustrations and thirty of Quinlan Terry's designs, including state rooms at #10 Downing Street, a library and residential building at Cambridge University, a cathedral in Essex, a church in Bishopsgate, four buildings in Williamsburg, VA, townhouses in London, and ten large country houses in England, Germany, and the U.S. Buildings include Juniper Hill in Buckinghamshire; Ionic Villa, Corinthian Villa, and Regency Villa in Regents Park, London; Abercrombie House in KY; Latourette Farm, NJ; and Highland Park House, Dallas
Inventory number #008162

Christie's
The T. Crowther & Son Collection of Architectural Furnishings
London: Christie's, 1992

Quarto. 221 pp; illustrated throughout in color and b/w. Paperback. Very good. Huge sale of 18th to early 20th century architectural elements, garden ornament, interior furnishings, statues, doors & doorways, mantels, columns, fenders, carvings, moldings, and panelled rooms from the British firm of T. Crowther & Son.
Inventory number #008121

Andree, Herb, Noel Young & Wayne McCall
SANTA BARBARA ARCHITECTURE: From Spanish Colonial to Modern
Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1980

Second edition. Oblong quarto. 297 pp; b/w photographs throughout; architects' biographies; index of architects/designers. Black pebbled cloth with gilt lettering and inlaid photograph on cover in original plastic jacket. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. Originally published in 1975, this edition is completely redesigned and includes nearly 150 new photos and many new buildings created since 1975. Architects featured include William Albert Edwards, Reginald Johnson, Harriet Moody, Wallace Neff, Lutah Maria Riggs, Winsor Soule, George Washington Smith, Francis Townsend Underhill, and others.
Inventory number #008116

Artaria, Paul
VOM BAUEN UND WOHNEN: ein Bilderbuch fur Laien und Fachleute
Basel: B. Wepf & Co., 1944

Second edition. Octavo. 165 pp; 299 b/w photographs, drawings, floor plans & elevations. Text in German. Brown cloth with white-stamped lettering on spine & cover. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, page edges lightly toned. Top & bottom of spine lightly frayed, bottom corners rubbed, front endpaper has 2" split.
Inventory number #008084

Downes, Kerry
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH: A Biography
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1987

First American edition. Octavo. 560 pp; 40 b/w photographs, 22 elevations, floor plans & drawings; chronology; genealogical tables; bibliography & references; glossary; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG+, unclipped jacket spine lightly sunned. The biography of a remarkably multitalented man whose life spanned the Restoration and the Early Georgian period. As an architect, he designed Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace; as a playwright, he wrote two of the Restoration's best comedies.
Inventory number #007958

Musgrave, Clifford
ROYAL PAVILION: An Episode in the Romantic
London: Leonard Hill Books, 1959

Revised, enlarged edition. Octavo. 172 pp; 8 color plates & 50 b/w illustrations, plus illustrations in text; appendices; bibliography; index. Cloth. Lacks dustjacket. VG.
Inventory number #007812

Asensio Cerver, Francisco
THE NEW INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
NY: Whitney Library of Design, 1997

First edition. Large quarto. 207 pp; color photographs, elevations, floor plans throughout. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket has light edgewear.
Inventory number #007782

Branzi, Andrea
ANDREA BRANZI: Open Enclosures
Paris: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 2008

Oblong quarto. (112) pp; 65 color & b/w illustrations. Text in English & French. Paperback. Fine, unused copy. Andrea Branzi (b. 1938) is an architect, graphic designer, and theorist. Founding father of the Domus Academy in Milan and a former member of the legendary radical architecture group Archizoom, he has influenced a whole generation from Gehry to Libeskind, from Koolhaas to Tschumi. For his March-June 2008 exhibition in Paris, he wove together materials such as hemp and bamboo with glass and metal, creating fragile, poetic architectural structures that reconciled the natural with the man-made.
Inventory number #007762

Gregory, Rob
KEY CONTEMPORARY BUILDINGS Plans, Sections and Elevations
NY: W.W. Norton, 2008

Quarto. 240 pp; 650 illustrations, 150 in color. Paperback with CD-ROM. New, still in publishers shrinkwrap. Ninety-five of the most important buildings of the early 21st century. including works by architects such as Renzo Piano, Norman Foster, OMA and Frank Gehry, Jamie Fobert and Sou Fujimoto.
Inventory number #007720

Middleton, Robin, Gerald Beasley & Nicholas Savage, et al
THE MARK J. MILLARD ARCHITECTURAL COLLECTION. Volume II, British Books, Seventeenth Through Nineteenth Centuries
NY: George Braziller, 1998

Large quarto. xv, 392 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine. The nearly 100 titles catalogued here trace the origins and development of architectural illustration in Britain. The Millard collection is particularly rich in the 18th century, and includes almost all of the great folio albums recording the archaeological investigations of antiquity.
Inventory number #007620

Shvidkovsky, Dimitri
THE EMPRESS AND THE ARCHITECT: British Architecture and Gardens at the Court of Catherine the Great
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996

First edition. Quarto. 282 pp; 100 color plates & 190 b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Inventory number #007595

Downes, Kerry
HAWKSMOOR
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1980

First American edition, taken from the second English edition. Large octavo. xvi, 298 pp plus 96 pages of b/w plates, 46 plans, elevations & drawings; list of buildings & drawings; index. Red cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, light chipping at top & bottom of jacket spine & one chip at top edge of back panel. Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661-1736), a student and collaborator of Christopher Wren and John Vanbrugh, was of Britain's outstanding baroque architects. First published in 1959, this was the first major study of Nicholas Hawksmoor. In this new edition, many details have been revised in light of recent research
Inventory number #007571

Richardson, A.E. & Hector O. Corfiato
DESIGN IN CIVIL ARCHITECTURE. Vol. 1 Elevational Treatments
NY: Philosophical Library, 1956

Large quarto. 216 pp; hundreds of elevations; index. Original publisher's purple cloth with gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket. VG/VG,
Inventory number #007147

Baltanas, Jose
WALKING THROUGH LE CORBUSIER: A Tour of His Masterworks
NY: Thames & Hudson, 2005

First edition. Oblong quarto. 191 pp; 247 color & 130 b/w illustrations. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. This book features some of Le Corbusier's most important European buildings, complemented by others that are less well known. The photographs, taken sequentially by the author, provide a narrative description of each building.
Inventory number #007141

Gaxotte, Pierre
MERVEILLES DES CHATEAUX ROYAUX
Paris: Realites/Hachette, 1976

Quarto. 255 pp; fully illustrated in color & b/w. Text in French. Cloth in dustjacket. Near Fine (top corners gently bumped) in Near Fine jacket.
Inventory number #007057

Jackson-Stops, Gervase
VIEWS OF THE ROYAL PAVILION
London: Pavilion, 1991

Oblong quarto. 128 pp; profusely illustrated in color. Laminated boards with cloth spine in dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, narrow lightly sunned strip along spine edge of jacket, extending half way across the top. This book reproduces the picture-book of Brighton Pavilion that George IV commissioned in 1820 from the architect John Nash. It contains aquatints of many exterior views as well as aquatints of the rooms.
Inventory number #007030

John, Richard & David Watkin
JOHN SIMPSON: The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, and other Works
London: Andreas Papadakis, 2002

Quarto. 136 pp; including 150 color illustrations. Paperback. VG+ minor soiling to back cover. John Simpson is one of the leading architects in Europe who have returned in recent years to classical architecture. His public and private works show how this language lends itself with particular ease to the incorporation of technology's latest developments. Describing a range of work from furniture design to town-planning, this book features his principal commission so far, the new Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace, a major new center for the visual arts in London, opened in May 2002.
Inventory number #007006