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Two folio binders, slipcased. Grey paper boards printed in black and with the logo of the architects in blind on each binder and on the slipcase. The first binder contains a presentation in comb binding bound in, setting forth the proposal for the planning and design of the administrative headquarters of Security Pacific Bank in Los Angeles, It sets forth the architects' credentials and contains a number of original photographs of past projects, including Occidental Center, Crocker Citizens Headquarters and Mutual Benefit Life Plaza. The second volume, similarly bound, focuses on design concepts, space planning, landscaping, parking and related matters. Spines sunned else a fine set. Security Pacific did build its headquarters, but used Albert C. Martin and Associates. The resulting structure is now known as the Bank of America Plaza, at 333 So, Hope Street, the 5th tallest building in Los Angeles at 55 floors.
Security Pacific National Bank Administrative Headquarters Building
(Bank of America Plaza)
Los Angeles: William L. Pereira Assoc., 1970.
Price: $500.00
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Large square 4to. Original black cloth blocked in silver on the spine and upper board, and with a paste-on of a photograph from the exhibition on the upper board. Text in Russian and English. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Schusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow on September 2-November 12, 2004. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not clipped and is fine as well. Signed by Dashevsky on the half-title and dated August 29, 2005.
The Sunken Time: Russia, 1962-1992 (Zatonuvshee Vremya: Rossia, 1962-1992) (Signed)
Dashevsky, Michael (Mikhail Dashevskii)
Moscow: Century, 2004.
Price: $250.00
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Small 4to. (xx), 289pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and maps. Original beige cloth, gilt titles. Index. Bibliography, A fine, bright copy. Dustwrapper is not price-clipped; it is fine as well. Possibly the most complete study to date of the folk architecture of a tribal society.
Navajo Architecture: Forms, History, Distributions
Jett, Stephen C., and Virginia E. Spencer
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1981).
Price: $150.00
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The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, Anterior to the Anglo-Norman Invasion....
Petrie, George
Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1845.
Price: $500.00
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2 volumes. Extraordinarily large paper copy, uncut in original merbelled paper boards, leather spine and corners. 94 engravings on India paper, plus engraved title pages. Leather spines restored with original backstrips laid-on. Paper labels slightly rubbed. Plates offset to facing text pages, but plates are fine and fresh. A beautiful set and scarce in this fine condition. Illustrations of remarkable incidents in border history and tradition, and original poetry by Scott.
The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland; Comprising Specimens of Architecture and Sculpture....
Scott, Sir Walter
London: Longman, Hurst, 1814.
Price: $1,500.00
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Early Christian Architecture in Ireland
Stokes, Margaret
London: George Bell and Sons, 1878.
Price: $450.00
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The Civil Architecture of Vitruvius Comprising Those Books of the Author Which Relate to the Public & Private Edifices....: Translated by William Wilkins.
Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus
London: Longman, Hurst, 1812 [-17].
Price: $750.00
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