Classical Architecture (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Used Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket is wrapped in mylar Brodart covering, which is removable. Light wear to cover, slightly bumped corners, pages clean and unmarked. Firefly sells new and used books through our store front. We try to add a detailed description to as many titles as possible. If you have questions regarding this title, please contact us. Photos available on request.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No marks in text. No inscriptions etc. Not a library book. Ships today in a cardboard enclosure. Tim's Used Books, open shop in Provincetown, Massachusetts, providing good books at reasonable prices on the same spot since 1991. shelf CL/white.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Good. 4to. 183 pp. Soft Covers. Very Good. Mostly Color Plates. Results slip loosely inside. Dedication included. Prices written in margins.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 6 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 23 x 30 cms. Category: Architectural Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Unframed Print. Condition: Very Good. A single sheet print, image area approx. 18 x 28 cms. The illustrations found in leading architectural journals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as The Builder, Building News, and The Architect are masterpieces of visual craftsmanship. These illustrations capture the elegance, intricacy, and stylistic flair of the period's architecture. Rich in ornamental detail and atmospheric depth, they reflect not only the buildings themselves but the artistic sensibilities and design discourse of their age. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL PAGE FROM THE JOURNAL, PRINTED AT THE DATE SHOWN IN THE TITLE, NOT A REPRINT OR COPY. Category: Builder & Building News; Unframed Prints : Old; Vintage Prints. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hb. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition. Clean grey cloth on boards with dark grey titles. Paperthin bumping to head & foot of spine. Nice clean contents. Colour & b/w illustrations. Binding s As New. 272p Dj: clean jacket. Soft touch of a little rubbing.

circa 47 x 31,8 cm. with the text and 67 (!) + 101 plates, often folding Original red cloth "Large facsimile with many folding plates, the second part has 101 plates as called for, the first ends with plate 67 although the title and list of plates announce 74 but the book is as published, nothing has been removed. It is unclear why the facsimile edition does not give the entirety of the plates. There are also some changes to the sequence due to "technical considerations" as a printed note to the rear of the modern title says, but we cannot find plates 68-74 in part one. - James Paine (1717-1789) was a neo-classicist, his designes include Chatsworth, Sandbeck, and Axwell Park among many others. The seond part gives also some furniture and interior decoration. " - Fine, clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. ALBERTI, Leone Battista. L'Architettura . tradotta in lingua Fiorentina da Cosimo Bartoli, gentilhuomo, & Academico Fiorentino. Con la aggiunta di Disegni. Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1565. 4to. 218 ff including double-page folding plan and 14 ff of index. A - Z8 (sign. 5 with 2 additional leaves), AA - CC8, D6. Paginated: [1] 183 + [284] + [4] + [285] 404 [405 - 432 including last blank]. Roman & italic type. This copy contains 4 additional leaves bound between A6 and A7 comprising an issue of the preface printed in Italic (on 2 leaves) and the first 4 text pages.(pp9-12) in duplicate. Architectural wood-engraved title with arms and devices of Cosimo de Medici (dedicatee), oval woodcut portrait of author on verso, 82 woodcuts in the text (1 double-page, 1 folding), historiated woodcut initials. Contemporary panelled calf with owner's initials "A" "M" divided by a large fleuron giltstamped in centre of covers; abbreviated title and author's name 'LARCH.LEONBATISTA' giltstamped on front cover; panels with gilt line border with small fleurons in corners; 5 compartments of spine decorated in blind with criss-cross pattern centred with gilt fleurons; neatly restored; some rubbing to sides. First quarto edition of Bartoli's Italian translation. The woodcuts are reversed copies of the folio editions of 1550 and 1565. Alberti's celebrated ten books on the theory of classical architecture (first published in Latin in 1485) became famous through the vernacular translations of the 16th century. The present edition of Bartoli's illustrated Italian version contains a new dedication to Cosimo de Medici commenting on the great demand for copies of the Florence 1550 folio imprint. Book 6 contains 3 full-page woodcuts showing different ways of lifting sculpture with ropes. The folding plate illustrates the baths of Diocletian. Military subjects are discussed in several chapters. An interesting copy bibliographically for containing additionally another issue of the preface, printed in Italic type on four pages decorated with a modified woodcut initial. Attractively preserved in a contemporary binding with the first owner's initials on sides; signature of a 17th century owner "Co.Ottav.Arch" penned in blank tailend of title margin and top margin of dedication. Top blank margins of 4 leaves neatly restored, minor isolated worming in first and last leaves; occasional very light traces of waterstaining. Adams 489; Fowler 9; Index Aureliensis 102.394.

Folio, circa 42 x 27 cm. 2 engraved titles and 72+72=144 engraved plates Newer half calf The last two self-contained sets out of six, the complete series would have 432 plates, each section contains 12 x 6 = 72 plates, here series 49-60 and 61-72 with classical designs for fire-places, facades, furniture, ornaments, candle sticks, vases, bases for statues, fountains, gardens, floor plans and entire buildings etc. - First title and last plate with small older stamp, few plates with pale waterstaining, but mostly clean.

German edition of the "Cours d'architecture", with additional copperplate engravings not included in the edition of 1699 printed in Amsterdam. Engraved frontispiece, 84 full-page, 37 double-page plates,19 folded multipage copperplate engravings and 12 (including 2 double-page) copperplate engravings in the appendix. Collated complete. Quarto, 22.5 x 17 cm., bound in full contemporary mottled calf, the back sometime renewed to style with raised bands gilt ruled, central ornamental pieces gilt, red morocco lettering label gilt, retaining original free-flies, new endleaves added. [30], 402, 25, [1] pp. A pleasing copy, well preserved, the text and copperplate engravings all in crisp and clean condition, the binding strong, very little evidence of overuse, some expected rubbing to the binding's extremities as to be expected. RARE, AND "THE BEST WORK OF ITS KIND YET OFFERED" Fowler. First published in French in 1691, the work was long considered the basis for the architectural history of France. The decorative plates depict buildings by Michelangelo and Vignola. As D'Aviler's book went through the printers it grew wings more large folding plates which he inserted at the last minute, including plans of gardens, palaces and details of ironwork. What had started as an attractive and accessible guide to the Orders, intended to inform clients, artisans and fellow architects, now became a platform for D'Aviler's own architectural ambitions. Further plates were engraved but there was no room in the first edition or a second in 1694 and so, alongside them, D'Aviler prepared drawings for an enlarged edition. Work on the new edition was continued by his son Nicholas Langlois II, who had 'acquired a very large quantity of new Drawings, & Explanations, both from the Author and from several other excellent Architects, Painters & Draftsmen with which to increase & embellish this Work.' The death of the younger Langlois and the sale of the business to a cousin, Jean Mariette, delayed the larger edition of the Cours until 1710. Mariette admired D'Aviler and compiled his biography. He mounted D'Aviler's designs, Boulogne's frontispiece and other architects' drawings for the Cours on sheets in a portfolio, which joined more than 100 others, to make up one of history's greatest collections of drawings. The frontispiece by Louis de Boulogne's shows Architecture appearing as a young woman. She sits leaning on an altar with a Corinthian capital at her feet, compasses in one hand and a portrait of Vignola in the other. Behind her are the ruins of Rome. Louis de Boulogne was the King's Premier peintre, but he was also D'Aviler's close friend and the architect has corrected the painter's perspective at the foot of the altar. Drawing Matter, Richard Emerson Vignola, one of the great Italian architects of 16th century Mannerism, was one of three architects along with Serlio and Palladio who spread the Italian Renaissance style throughout Western Europe. He is often considered the most important architect in Rome in the Mannerist era. His two great masterpieces are the Villa Farnese at Caprarola and the Jesuits' Church of the Gesù in Rome. Tutto Rinascimento, De Agostini. 2011 His two published books helped formulate the canon of classical architectural style. The earliest, Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura ["Canon of the five orders of architecture"] (first published in 1562, probably in Rome), presented Vignola's practical system for constructing columns in the five classical orders (Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite) utilising proportions which Vignola derived from his own measurements of classical Roman monuments. The clarity and ease of use of Vignola's treatise caused it to become in succeeding centuries the most published book in architectural history. See Palladio's Literary Predecessors, 2018.

Pas de couverture. Condition: Bon. Rare - Sheet of four stamps signed by the artist : Solidarité 1970 Solidariteit - Paul Delvaux & René Magritte. Brussels, December 12, 1970. The stamps are slipped into a plastic pocket stuck on a large sheet. Four Magritte stamps are also attached. Size : 28x21 cm (large sheet). Condition : please see scans. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.