Milan/ Rome: Bestetti E. Tumminelli, (not dated). Hardcover. Oversized portfolio, blue cloth with silver lettering, two tan ribbon tie closures; title page followed by 30 bw plates. This is series 5 of a 6 series set featuring tombs in Italy. Text is in Italian. More
Milan/ Rome: Bestetti E. Tumminelli, (not dated). Hardcover. Oversized portfolio, blue cloth with silver lettering, two tan ribbon tie closures; title page followed by 30 bw plates. This is series 6 of a 6 series set featuring tombs in Italy. Text is in Italian. More
London: Sotheby's, 1980. Softcover. Green wraps; 74 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color and bw. Accompanied a sale held 11 December 1980; Includes designs for the refortification of Paris, Benjamin Dean Wyatt's drawings for Waterloo Palace, and much more; Estimate list and bidding slip laid in. More
Boston, MA: Bates & Guild Company, 1898. Hardbound. Green printed portfolio with ties. Index sheet listing all the illustrations, followed by 100 plates containing usually 2 photographs per sheet. There appears to be no accompanying text to these plates in any description I can find. Complete, and a nice copy..... More
Paris: Librairie Centrale D'Art et D'Architecture, 1905-1907. Hardcover. Two volumes bound in 3/4 brown leather and marble illustrated boards, marble illustrated end pages; Volume 1; 22 pp, 79 bw plates. Volume 2 has bw plates numbered LXXX-CLX. Text is in French. Architecture and Decoration at the Louvre & Tuileries Palaces..... More
Paris: Librairie Centrale D'Art et D'Architecture, (not dated). Deuxieme Serie. Hardcover. Oversized, illustrated tan paper boards with brown lettering ;red cloth spine; (2) pp, 80 leaves of plates. Text is in French. French architecture and decoration in the 18th and 19th centuries. Includes a table of the plates. More
Paris: Librairie Centrale D'Art et D'Architecture, 1908. Premiere Serie. Hardcover. Oversized, illustrated tan paper boards with black lettering ;red cloth spine; (3), 22, 80 leaves of plates. Text is in French. French architecture and decoration in the 18th and 19th centuries. Includes a table of the plates. More
Torino: Crudo, 1910. Boards. Italian language text. Tan portfolios with string ties Vol I contains platres 1-63. Vol II 63-132. More
Paris: Chez F. Contet, 1913. Troisieme Edition. Hardcover. Oversized, green marble paper over boards, green cloth spine with gilt lettering, bw illustrated title page, (4) pp text with bw illustrations; plates numbered 1-40. Text is in French. The Old Hotels of Paris; The Temple and the Marsh. Volume II, Patterns..... More
Paris: Chez F. Contet, 1913. Quatrieme Edition. Hardcover. Oversized, green marble paper over boards, green cloth spine with gilt lettering, bw illustrated title page, (4) pp text with bw illustrations; plates numbered 1-40. Text is in French. The Old Hotels of Paris; The Temple and the Marsh. Volume I, Patterns..... More
Pisa, Italy: Presso Niccolo Capurro, 1815. Hardbound. Green library cloth with gilt title on spine and white call letters. viii, 223 pp. Text is in Italian. Gives historical details and descriptions of the following palaces and collections: Palazzo di Pitti; R. Villa del Poggio Imperiale; R. Villa del Poggioa Cajano;..... More
Varallo, Italy: Riserva Naturale Speciale del Sacro Monte di Varallo, 2007. Softcover. Color illus. wraps; 470 pp.; Profusely illustrated with color and bw photos and reproductions. Text in Italian; Discusses in detail the Sacri Monti World Heritage Site, located in the Piedmont and Lombardy regions of northern Italy. They are..... More
Boston: Haskell & Post, 1886. Hardbound. Green library buckram. 2 Vols. Vol. 1: x, 152 pp. Vol. 2: vi, 153-308 pp. Profusely illustrated with tissue-guarded bw photographic plates. A nice set with thorough descriptions and beautiful photographs of both exterior and interior views of 28 of the world's best-known cathedrals..... More
Boston: Haskell & Post, 1886. Hardbound. Oversized, bound in 3/4 red leather and red cloth boards; top edge gilt, marble illustrated end papers, 152 pp; illustrated with 65 tissue-guarded bw photographic plates. Volume 1 only of a 2 volume set with thorough descriptions and beautiful photographs of both exterior and..... More
London and Paris: Fisher Sons & Cie, 1841 circa. Hardbound. Blue cloth with black title block on spine; 3 volumes combined into one, comprising over 200 pp. and 96 bw engravings. Text in English. Stunning engravings and historical information of numerous places throughout France, including churches, cathedrals, other architectural gems..... More
Mantova: Publi Paolini Editore, 1982. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gold embossing. With map front end papers. Black and color pictorial dust jacket. 208 pp. Text in Italian. The history of both the noble Gonzaga family, from the 1300s to more current times and, particularly, their homes, castles, estates, churches, etc...... More
Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1944. Hardcover. Quarter-bound cloth with brown spine and light brown covers with brown lettering and illustration; (xxix) 194 pp; 204 bw plates. Text in German; Concerns sculptures and decorative aspects of European Architecture. More
Milano: Bestetti e Tumminelli, 1925. Hardcover. Oversized tan cloth portfolio with brown lettering; title page has red lettering and bw illustration; XII; 32 pp, 120 bw and color plates. Text is in Italian. All plates are present. Arab-Norman architecture and the Renaissance in Sicily. Includes bibliographical references. Preface by Corrado..... More
Milano: Bestetti e Tumminelli, 1925. Hardcover. Oversized green cloth boards with gilt lettering; XIV, 32 pp, 120 bw and color plates. Text is in Italian. All plates are present. Arab-Norman architecture and the Renaissance in Sicily. Includes bibliographical references. Preface by Corrado Ricci. More
London: Phaidon, 1971. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with brown stamped lettering. BW illustrated dust jacket with white and yellow lettering. 409 pp. 228 BW plates, 54 line drawings. "This book portrays Venice, as nearly as is possible, as it wsa in the first perid of its splendour." -Jacket. More
Paris: A. Morance, 1929. Hardcover. Oversized tan paper boards with black lettering; brown cloth spine; 16 pp text followed by 59 plates. Text is in French. Volume 1: Ile-de France, Champagne, Alsace, Normandie, Vallee de la Loire. More
Paris: Albert Morance, 1930. Hardcover. Oversized tan paper boards with black lettering; brown cloth spine; 20 pp text followed by 60 full page bw plates. Text is in French. Volume 2: Poitou Saintonge, Angoumois Perigord Nivernais, Auvergne Velay. French Art in the Roman Period; Architecture and Sculpture: Volume II, Poitou..... More
Paris: Albert Morance, 1932. Hardcover. Oversized tan paper boards with black lettering; brown cloth spine; 19 pp text followed by 60 full page bw plates. Text is in French. Volume 3: Bourgogne. More
Eton College, Eton , England: Spottiswoode & Co., 1906 (1904). Re-issue. Hardcover. Green buckram boards, 4 pp., 47 BW tipped-in plates with tissue protectors. Verso of each plate contains description of plate opposite. "Originally published in five parts during 1904 and 1905, it is now re-issued in a single volume..... More
Amiens: Martelle, 2005. Softcover. Blue and color illustrated wraps with white and black lettering; 175 pp; profuse color illustrations. Text in French and English. Text by Xavier Bailly. Photographs by Didier Cry. Includes bibliographical references (page 173). More
