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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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Two volumes. Folio. 703; 713,(1);(8),713-1312pp. Spines titled in gilt; boards blocked with a design in blind and the volume numbers in gilt. Illustrated in color with 700 plates as well as black and white decorations and text figures. Bibliography. A fine set in original pictorial slipcase depicting a detail from Fra Angelico's Last Judgment. A sumptuous production featuring sculpture and paintings from 59 BC to 1600 AD as well as the native architecture. A heavy set, but no additional charge for domestic media mail.
The Art of Florence
Andres, Glenn, John M. Hunsiak and A. Richard Turner
New York: Abbevile Press, 1988.
Price: $250.00
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Folio. xv, 106pp. No. 15 of 360 copies. Quarter vellum, stamped in gilt; green cloth stamped in gilt. 75 full page plates after photographs. Historical text by Henry John Feasey; An Account of the Abbey Buildings by J. T. Micklethwaite, Architect to the Dean and Chapter; and an Appendix on Mediaeval Monuments by Edward Bell. Head and tail of spine lightly worn, as are corners; cloth slightly soiled; inner hinges neatly repaired; else a very good copy with fine plates.
Westminster Abbey Historically Described
Feasey, Henry John
London: George Bell & Sons, 1899.
Price: $300.00
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A History of Cast Iron in Architecture
Gloag, John, & Derek Bridgwater
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1948.
Price: $150.00
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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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Geschichte der Baukunst mit Aestehetischer Vorschule
Kuhn, P. Albet, O.S.B.
New York: Benziger Brotrhers, 1909.
Price: $125.00
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Second edition. 4to. Illustrated with 356 text drawings. Contemporary diced calf. Spine in 6 compartments, gilt; gilt lettering label. Light rubbing else a very good copy. The title indicates that this work comprises 'an Essay on the Origin and Uses of the Round Tower of Ireland, Which Obtained the Gold Medal and Prize of the Royal Irish Academy.' With the engraved bookplate of Henry Cunliffe on the front pastedown.
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: $1,000.00
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A Book of Towers and Other Buildings of Southern Europe
Sitwell, Sacheverell
London: Frederick Etchells et al, 1928.
Price: $375.00
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Early Christian Architecture in Ireland
Stokes, Margaret
London: George Bell and Sons, 1878.
Price: $450.00
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First edition of Wilkins' translation. Large 4to. (8),lxxvi, 282,(2)pp. plus 41 engraved plates (dated 1812, 1814 and 1817). Introduction by George, Earl of Aberdeen, on the esthetics of Greek architecture. Recently bound to style in quarter calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, black lettering label, gilt; marbled paper boards in a Stormont design. Old water damage, mainly marginal, affecting the plates; occasional foxing; page edges dusty; else a very good copy in a fine binding.
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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