Item 4225Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
New York: Heritage Press, 1957. Samuel Chamberlain. hardcover. 8vo. 348pp. introduction by Francis Taylor. #04306.
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Item 1441How to Build Garden Structures
New York: Sheridan House, 1950. Book Club Edition. hardcover. 8vo 384pp. BCE from front flap: "Out of his prolific imagination and know-how, Henry Aul has produced the 80 chapters of this comprehensive book on home garden construction, It is a gold mine of ideas for every home owner and gardener.....
Item 4352Carthusian Monastery of Pavia
Istituto Geografico de Agostini, 1986. hardcover. 8vo. 75pp. Special Edition for the Cistercian Monks of the 'Certosa di Pavia'. #04434.
Item 4573Easy Steps to Successful Decorating
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. first edition. hardcover. 8vo. 286pp. see pictures for synopsis. #04655.
Item 3321Chartres Cathedral
New York: WW Norton & Company, 1969. softcover. 8vo 278pp. Norton Critical Studies in Art History. see pictures for synopsis. #03386.
Item 3833The Boyds of Weymouth
Southern Pines, NC: Jellison Press Printers, 2003. softcover. 12mo. 72pp. see pictures for synopsis. #03899.
Item 4000The English Cathedral
London: Webb and Bower, 1987. Simon McBride (photography). first edition. hardcover. 8vo. 208pp. from front flap: "A lively and stimulating look at 'the history of England written in stone'. The approach is biographical, tracing teh antecedents and development of English cathedrals, their quirks and characteristics, and above all, their place.....
Item 4840Romance of the Feudal Chateaux
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1906. hardcover. 8vo. 436pp. from rear endpaper advertisement: "The author has retold the legends and traditions which cluster about the chateaux and castles, which have come down from the Middle Ages, with the skillful touch of the artist and the grace of the practiced writer.....
Item 3414The City is the People
New York: WW Norton & Company, 1962. softcover. 12mo 204pp. see pictures for synopsis. #03480.
Item 2955The Cathedral Church of Lichfield
London: George Bell and Sons, 1898. hardcover. 12mo 135pp. from General Preface: "This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitors to the great English Cathedrals with accurate and well illustrated guide books at a popular price. The aim of each writer has been to produce a work compiled.....
Item 4133Splendors of Versailles
Jackson, MS: Mississippi Commission for International Cultural Exchange, 1998. softcover. 4to. 223pp. from rear flap: "Viewers to the exhibition will find in this catalogue not only vital information on these masterworks, but also essays that transmit the very essence of the Chateau de Versailles across three centuries, offering a fascinating.....
Item 4132English Abbeys and Priories
London: Thames and Hudson, 1962. Edwin Smith. Readers Union. hardcover. 4to. 62pp + 136 B/W photos/illustrations. #04213 OVERSIZE/HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA S/H.
Item 4131Art Treasuries of The Vatican
New York: Park Lane, 1974. first edition. hardcover. 4to. 398pp. 410 Color Illustrations. from front flap: "Art Treasures of the Vatican is a work of art in itself, illustrated with more than four hundred pictures in color and amplified by an informative, descriptive text compiled by a team of international.....
Item 260Touraine and Its Chateaux
Medici Society Limited, 1931. first thus. papercover in wraps. Octavo 203pp. #00285.
Item 5066The Heritage of Giotto's Geometry
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993. first thus. softcover. 4to. 329pp. see pictures for synopsis. #05149 HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA S/H.
Item 2039Style in Ornament
London: Oxford University Press, 1950. first edition. hardcover. 12mo 63pp. from Preface: "We take patterns too much for granted. We should learn to plunge our minds into them, as we do into the sea of poetry, and to receive as sharp an impression of an age from its ornament as.....
Item 4076Santa Croce
Becocci. softcover. 12mo. 119pp. guide to the history, architecture, and art of the basilica of Santa Croce, in Florence. Includes color photographs. #04156.
Item 5078Space
New York: Universe Publishing, 2004. first edition. hardcover. 12mo. 224pp. see pictures for synopsis. #05161.
Item 5258The Ancient World
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. hardcover. 4to. 176pp. see pictures for synopsis. Landmarks of the World's Art. #05341.
Item 3584The Art of Buda and Pest in the Middle Ages
Budapest: Akedemiai Kiado, 1971. first edition. hardcover. 4to. 146pp. + 140 B/W photographic plates. from front flap: "Reent large-scale reconstructions in the town of Budapest made extensive excavations possible, from which the exploration of the one-time Royal Palace stood out in significance. The latter was conducted by the author who.....
Item 5245The Formation of Islamic Art
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. Revised and Enlarged. softcover. 8vo. 232pp. + 131 b/w illustrations. see pictures for synopsis. #05329.
Item 1018History of Architecture
London: Longmans Green and Company, 1904. fifth edition. hardcover. 8vo 453pp. from endpapers: "History of Architecture by Alfred D.F. Hamlin, A.M., Adjunct Professor of Architecture, Columbia College, New York. With Frontispiece and 229 Illustrations and Diagrams, Bibliographies, Glossary, Index of Architects, and a General Index." part of the College Histories.....
Item 2953The Cathedral Church of Chester
London: George Bell and Sons, 1897. hardcover. 12mo 96pp. from General Preface: "This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitors to the great English Cathedrals with accurate and well illustrated guide books at a popular price. The aim of each writer has been to produce a work compiled.....
Item 4142Canterbury Cathedral and Its Romanesque Sculpture
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1991. first edition. hardcover. 4to. 230pp. from front flap: "This book covers in detail, both textually and visually, the sculptural decoration of Canterbury Cathedral from the Norman Conquest to Becket. At no other site in England can the full sequence of 11th- and 12th-.....
Item 2433Modern and Modernism
New York: Atheneum, 1985. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 456pp. from front flap: "In wide-ranging discussions of art, literature, music, science, dance, architecture, psychoanalysis and much else, Frederick R. Karl traces the provenance and myriad paths of Modernism, throwing light on what has often seemed a murky and confusing subject and.....