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CONSERVATION OF BUILDINGS.

By: Harvey, John.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press,: 1972

Seller ID: 25951

ISBN: 0802019374

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

240 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H). B&w photographs. "Mr. Harvey (a professional architect who has been trained and has specialized in conservation) is no theorist and takes the view that contemporary human needs are important and that buildings or groups of buildings must be conserved to accommodate some part of their original function, and must also be regarded in the context of their surroundings. He divides his book into three sections: What to Save and How to Save It (The Town, The Village, The Church and Churchyard), Craftsmanship and Materials, and Continuing Conservation (The Past...
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GOTHIC ENGLAND: A SURVEY OF NATIONAL CULTURE, 1300-1550.

By: Harvey, John.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford: 1948

Seller ID: 30324

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

242 pp, 9" H. Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour with photographs, reproductions, maps. "Here is an author ready to summarise the development of English architecture in its peculiar atmosphere of court life, court painting and sculpture, and court music, an author moreover enthusiastic on his subject, and one who has patiently accumulated a vast store of biographical material concerning all major and minor architects of about 1350-1550." Contents: Introduction; The National Style of England; The Golden Age of Gothic Genius; The Great Slump; Indian Summer; Pregnant Winter; F...
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THE GRAND OLD BUILDINGS OF HAMILTON.

By: Henley, Brian.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Hamilton, Ontario, The Spectator: 1994

Seller ID: 28058

ISBN: 0969846002

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

115 pp, oblong 8vo (8 1/2" H x 11" D). B&w photographs. Collected from articles published in The Spectator, this book highlights some of the architectural treasures of Hamilton, Ontario, including: Dundurn Castle, Blink Bonnie, Lakeside Yacht Club, the CN station, Royal Hotel, Ocean House on the Beach Strip, the Post Office, the SavoyTheatre, the Carnegie Library, etc., etc. Interior - 1" soft crease at top edge of pages - mainly second half of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - 1" crease at top edge of rear cover, small corner crease...
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Image for A CHRIST CHURCH MISCELLANY: NEW CHAPTERS ON THE ARCHITECTS, CRAFTSMEN, STATUARY, PLATE, BELLS, FURNITURE, CLOCKS, PLAYS, THE LIBRARY AND OTHER BUILDINGS. (CHRISTCHURCH).

A CHRIST CHURCH MISCELLANY: NEW CHAPTERS ON THE ARCHITECTS, CRAFTSMEN, STATUARY, PLATE, BELLS, FURNITURE, CLOCKS, PLAYS, THE LIBRARY AND OTHER BUILDINGS. (CHRISTCHURCH).

By: Hiscock, W.G.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford, Self-published / Oxford University Press: 1946

Seller ID: 19792

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

260 pp, 8vo (8 7/8" H). B&w plates. Contents: Preface; The Deans; The Old Library; Henry Aldrich, Book-collector, Musician, Architect; The Aldrich Engravings; William Townesend, and His Building of the Library; The Atterbury, Stratford, Orrery, and Wake Collections; The Decoration of the Library, 1752-72; General John Guise; The Library Statues; The Dark Age; Some Later Gifts; The Undergraduates' Reading Room; Reorganization, Lost Books; Lost Music; The Plate and Some Oxford Goldsmiths; Great Tom and the Ring; Furniture; Clocks; Plays, 1548-1945; Buildings; Appendixes: William Townesend's...
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OSGOODE HALL: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY.

By: Honsberger, John.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn: 2004

Seller ID: 27421

ISBN: 1550025139

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

331 pp, square large 8vo (9 1/4" H x 9 1/4" D). B&w and colour illustrations. "Osgoode Hall is a national monument and one of Canada's architectural treasures. Of the many public buildings erected in pre-Confederation Canada, it best encapsulates the diverse stylistic forces that shaped public buildings of its era. The gated lawns, the grandly Venetian rotunda, the ornate courtroom, the portrait-lined walls, and the stained-glass windows evoke a venerable dignity to which few Canadian institutions can aspire. It has been the seat of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 1832 a...
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AMPLE MANSIONS: THE VICEREGAL RESIDENCES OF THE CANADIAN PROVINCES.

By: Hubbard, R.H. Foreword by Her Excellency, Jeanne Sauve.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, University of Ottawa Pres: 1989

Seller ID: 28685

ISBN: 0776602772

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

237 pp, oblong (9 1/4" H x 12 1/4" D). Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour photographs, repro-ductions. "The viceregal residences of the Canadian provinces mirror the idiosyncrasies of their inhabitants, and the tastes and talents of the architects, builders, gardeners, furniture makers and decorators who created them. In 'Ample Mansions' you will see the finest - and sometimes the worst - of Canadian style. There's no shortage of pomp in our viceregal history, but Dr. Hubbard's scholarly and sprightly text goes behind the scenes too, where there's plenty of room for rot ...
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STRENGTH OF MATERIALS. PARTS 1-2-3.

By: I.C.S. Staff.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Scranton, PA, International Textbook Company: 1944

Seller ID: 28904

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

69 pp + 74 pp + 79 pp (three sections, individually paged), 7 5/8" H. Black simulated leather boards with gold lettering on spine, blindstamped lettering, borders on front board. Marbled endpapers, b&w drawings/diagrams, formulae, tables. Chapter headings - Part 1: Effect of Forces on Materials; Stress; Deformation; Elasticity; Simple Stresses; Beams; Reactions for Cantilever, Simple, and Overhanging Beams; Shear in Beams; Maximum Shear; Bending Moment; Maximum Bending Moment. Part 2: Stresses in Beams; Bending Stresses; Neutral Axis; Properties of Sections; Shearing Stresses in Beams;...
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THE GUIDE TO TEXTILES FOR INTERIOR DESIGNERS. SECOND EDITION.

By: Jackman, Dianne R. and Dixon, Mary K.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Peguis, Winnipeg, MB, 1990, 2nd edition.:

Seller ID: 18067

195 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H), hard cover (pictorial boards) - no dust jacket. B&w drawings, diagrams. ISBN 092054925 "This book focuses on the environmental textiles, those essential fabrics and coverings which provide not only visual color and textur e to an interior, but also meet the human needs for warmth, privacy, comfort and quiet. Basically, it will take the reader from fiber to finished goods and through the process of intelligent selection of particular textiles for specific applicat i o n s." Previous owner's name/date on free front endpaper, light edge wear, light rubbin...
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THE NATIONAL TRUST 1895-1995 100 GREAT TREASURES: 100 CELEBRITIES SELECT THEIR PERSONAL FAVOURITES FROM THE TRUST'S COLLECTION

By: Jackson-Stops, Gervase and Simon, Robin, Editors

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, National Trust / Apollo Magazine: 1995

Seller ID: 25929

ISBN: 0952208156

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

80 pp, 12" H. Profusely illustrated in colour. J. Carter Brown, Nicholas Baring, Mark Girouard, Simon Jervis, Lucinda Lambton, James Lees-Milne, Jonathan Miller, Richard Baker, Lord Menuhin, Christopher Hogwood, Sir Hugh Casson, Lord Rothschild, Lady Emma Tennant, John Julius Norwich, David Gentleman, Bamber Gascoigne, Lady Mary Keen, Auberon Waugh, Sir Roy Strong, et al. describe their favourite furniture, rooms, portraits, landscapes, sculpture, follies, etc. from the National Trust's collection. Interior - several very small printing ink smudges on page 44, otherwise clean and tight ...
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AROUND THE HISTORIC CITY OF LONDON.

By: Jarvis, Stan.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Bell & Hyman: 1981

Seller ID: 23757

ISBN: 0713512490

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

127 pp, oblong (7 3/16" H x 8 3/8" D) - pictorial boards. B&w drawings, map. "No square mile in England is so packed with drama and history as the City of London. Here are the landmarks of the Roman occupation, the Great Fire, the Plague and the devastation of the Second World War. Here the visitor will find the centuries-old traditions of the livery halls and the bustling markets; the commercial heart of London in the great banks and finance houses; the simple dignity of Sir Christopher Wren's city churches; and the world-famous sights such as the Tower of London. Stan Jarvis's s...
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ROBERT AM STERN: SELECTED WORKS. ARCHITECTURAL MONOGRAPHS NO 17.

By: Jencks, Charles, essays by. (Robert Stern.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Academy Editions, (London, 1991).:

Seller ID: 12715

144 pp, 4to (12" H), soft cover with self-flaps. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with photos, drawings, plans, elevations. "Robert Stern's work as an architect is indivisible from his abiding concern with history and historical style. He regards Post-Modernism not as a random recycling of past styles, but as a necessary liberation from what he calls the 'perennial present' of the Modern Movement. In the four essays reproduced in this Monograph he urges contemporary architects to widen their vocabulary, to learn from the past in order to 'reunite current production with the t...
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VERSAILLES AND THE TRIANONS.

By: Kemp, G. van der and Levron, J. Translated by Ethel Whitehorn.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Nicholas Kaye: 1958

Seller ID: 24213

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

238 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions - fold-out map at rear. Contents: Versailles in Literature; The Park; From the Village of Versailles to the Chateau of Louis XIV; Stages in Construction and Planning; The Splendour of the Reign in the Early Days of the Chateau; Decline and Misfortune; The Time of Louis the Well-Beloved; The Last Queen of Versailles; Neglected Glory; The Great and Small Apartments; The Museum of French History; The Trianons; Index. Book slightly bowed, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, three very small corner bumps, light sh...
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CREATING WOODEN VILLAGES. DESIGNS FOR 18 MINIATURE BUILDINGS.

By: Kern, Evan J.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole: 1997

Seller ID: 22735

ISBN: 0811727823

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

113 pp, 11" H. B&w photographs, plans, drawings, color drawings, photographs. "In small towns all across America, there are houses and buildings that have been standing for more than a century - some for as long as 300 years. Now you can replicate these architectural treasures in miniature and create your own historic village. With the patterns and easy-to-follow instructions provided in this enchanting book, you can make these buildings and more: A Victorian railroad station; A Mansard house; A Tudor manor house; A one-room schoolhouse; A general store; A log tavern; An Italianate ma...
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Image for PETERBOROUGH'S ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE: A LISTING OF EXISTING STRUCTURES ERECTED PRIOR TO 1890 IN THE AREA BOUNDED BY THE OTONABEE RIVER, PARKHILL ROAD, PARK STREET AND TOWNSEND STREET.

PETERBOROUGH'S ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE: A LISTING OF EXISTING STRUCTURES ERECTED PRIOR TO 1890 IN THE AREA BOUNDED BY THE OTONABEE RIVER, PARKHILL ROAD, PARK STREET AND TOWNSEND STREET.

By: Kidd, Martha Ann.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: (Peterborough, Ontario), Peterborough Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee: 1979

Seller ID: 28028

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

176 pp, 11" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. Contents: Foreword; Preface; Antrim Street; Aylmer Street; Bethune Street; Brock Street; Charlotte Street; College Street; Dalhouse Street; Dickson Street; Division Street; Donegal Street; Downie Street; Dublin Street; Edinburgh Street; Elcombe Crescent; George Street; Gilchrist Street; Harvey Street; Hunter Street; King Street; London Street; McDonnel Street; Murray Street; Park Street; Parkhill Road; Queen Street; Reid Street; Rubidge Street; Sherbrooke Street; Sheridan Street; Simcoe Street; Stewart Street; Union Street; Wate...
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PHILIP JOHNSON RECENT WORK. ARCHITECTURAL MONOGRAPHS NO 44. (PHILIP JOHNSON, RITCHIE & FIORE ARCHITECTS.)

By: Kipnis, Jeffrey. (Philip Johnson.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: (Academy Editions, London, 1996).:

Seller ID: 12713

127 pp, 4to (12" H), soft cover with self-flaps. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with photographs, drawings, plans. "The recent projects featured in this monograph chart another stage in the career of this architectural chameleon, now in his ninetieth year, and only serve to demonstrate his enthusiasm and propensity for new ideas and forms. In an informal interview with Frank Gehry and Jeffrey Kipnis, he discusses the accumulation and generation of these ideas through interaction with his contemporaries, including Frank Gehry himself and Peter Eisenman. The volume also revea...
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MOSHE SAFDIE.

By: Kohn, Wendy, editor. (Moshe Safdie, Michael Sorkin, Paul Goldberger, Peter G. Rowe, Witold Rybczynski.)

Price: $225.00 USD

Publisher: London, Academy Editions: 1996

Seller ID: 27912

ISBN: 1854904531

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

344 pp, folio (13 1/4" H). Signed on half title page: "Moshe Safdie / March 1997". "Influenced by the diverse cultures of Canada, Israel and the USA, Moshe Safdie's architecture displays a richly evolving tectonic and spatial sensibility. During 30 years of practice, he has designed public institutions, housing and mixed-use complexes, and developed designs for both existing urban districts and entirely new citities. In this monograph more than 40 of his projects are illustrated with spectacular photography, original design sketches and text. These works include his semina...
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BAROQUE IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL AND ITS ANTECEDENTS.

By: Lees-Milne, James.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford: 1960

Seller ID: 24781

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

224 pp, large 8vo (9" H). B&w photographs, reproductions, floor plans/elevations. "(S)tarting in the sixteenth century, author and reader begin their survey of Iberian Baroque with the Plateresque in Spain and the Manoeline in Portugal, and continue it until, two hundred or so years later, they reach the High Baroque conclusion of Castile, Seville and Granada, and the Rococo decadence of eighteenth-century Portugal. On the way they will have examined some architectural and sculptural masterpieces of astonishing quality and individuality: the palaces or houses of Mafra, Queluz and La G...
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BAROQUE IN ITALY.

By: Lees-Milne, James.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford: 1959

Seller ID: 24780

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

216 pp, large 8vo (9" H). B&w photographs, reproductions, floor plans. "(Lees-Milne writes about) the development of building in Italy from the Mannerist period, that is, the later sixteenth century, to the emergence of Rococo in the early eighteenth century. (He) believes that Baroque in Italy was a religious manifestation, Latin, Catholic and primarily Roman and his book deals largely with ecclesiastical architecture in Rome itself. Piedmont was the next most important influence in the style, and so, after introducting the colossal personalities of Bernini, Borromini and their disci...
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THE LEGISLATIVE BUILDING OF MANITOBA, THE KEYSTONE PROVINCE OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA, SITUATED IN THE CAPITAL CITY, WINNIPEG.

By: Leslie, Thomas W., with B.M. Lyndon.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Winnipeg, Provincial Government of Manitoba: 1926

Seller ID: 28543

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

71 pp, 9" H. Dark green paper-covered boards with titling, decoration and Manitoba crest on front board. B&w photographs, maps, plan. The Manitoba Legislative Building was designed by Frank Worthington Simon, F.R.I.B.A. and was formally opened in 1920. "This book is designed with two objects in view; first to call to your attention the many notable features in architecture, sculpture, paintings (including Brangwyn & Tack murals), furniture and furnishings in the (building). But the real objective hoped for in issuing the book, is that through the medium of this building you will b...
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EDWARD JAMES LENNOX: "BUILDER OF TORONTO".

By: Litvak, Marilyn M.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn Press: 1995

Seller ID: 20057

ISBN: 1550022040

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

118 pp, large 8vo (9 7/18" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, plans, elevations. "From 1876 to 1915, Edward James Lennox was a formidable force in Toronto's architectural community. Many of his buildings are still landmarks in a city that continues to evolve. Born and educated in Toronto, Lennox looked to the past for inspiration but was never captured by it. His prototypical Annex house on Madison Avenue, Old City Hall, and Casa Loma bear witness to his technical expertise and aesthetic sensibilities. Through text and illustrations, this volume tells the story of a resol...
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