eugene viollet le duc translated benjamin bucknall (8 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. dustwrapper. [i-xviii]. 390pp. 85 maps, plans and illustrations. a good copy.

Hard Cover. Etat : Near Fine. First Printing of this facsimile reissue of a work first issued in London in 1876, in silver-stamped full black cloth, no markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, small stain rfear endpapers, else Fine unread copy (no dj, as issued); 8vo;

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Reprint of 1889 original. Two chunky quarto vols., navy cloth in d/j's. Volume One pp.487 with 18 plates reproduced and a number of text figs. Volume Two, pp.468 with a further 18 plates and a good number of text figs. There are 20 lectures in total.

Tissue-guarded coloured frontis, xvi, 394pp incl 103 illustrations, plans etc, some hors-texte. 22x14, glt embossed patterned green cloth, bevelled edges. Cloth a little rubbed and marked, bookplate on fep, one signature slightly loose, plates nice and bright, fair to good copy thus. English translation of 'Histoire de l'Habitation Humaine'; one of a number of English translations done in a somewhat similar style to the French Hetzel editions.

Hardcover. Etat : Good+. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. First British Edition. This ex-library cpy has a special pedigree. It was withdrawn in 1923 from the Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny PA, which is now the North Side of Pittsburgh. This was one of the first two Carnegie Libraries in the United States (the first was in Scotland and the other original American one was in Braddock PA, followed later by many others). The library markings have a certain charm. The book is bound in plain brown library buckram, stained with age, but it has an elegant new gold-tooled label, and a sweet little paper call number on the base of the spine. The colorful front plate is present, and the book is replete with black and white illustrations. The pages are toned to a creamy beige, The bottom corner of the first three pages has been snipped, with no loss to the text. A nice copy for the historian of library science. Fast shipping, with tracking number provided. ; Ex-Library; 6"x9"x1"; 394 pages.

Hardcovers / Fine Slipcase. Etat : Fine. First Thus. CLEAN Fine 1959 First Grove Press hardcovers wth Fine slipcase. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 2 volume set. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Folded frontispieces, illustrations and plans, some folded. Contemporary cloth jacket. No date, . Translated from the French by Benjamin Bucknall. Also pub. under title: Lectures on architecture. "For us, today, Viollet-le-Duc is a figure of considerable importance because he is the last great theorist in the world of architecture, and the modern architect still leans heavily on verities which he expounded . his principal legacy to architectural thought is contained in the two dictionaries and the lectures - most clearly of all in the first volume of the latter." - Heavenly mansions, p. 135. "In these volume you will find all the architectural school you will ever need." - Frank Lloyd Wright. From the library of Thomas J. D. Fuller Jr. (1870-1940), a prominent Washington, DC architect, with his signature.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 37 steel engravings and 200 woodcuts, including many folding plates. A handsome set in crimson cloth with gilt lettering and ornamentation on the spine and covers. 10.5" x 7.5", 487 & 468pp. The spines are faded with a few tears at the top; there is some wear on the covers. The leaves and plates are clean and in good condition.