296 pp. volume on the architecture of Central Europe as adapted by German immigrants in the area of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, illustrated profusely throughout with photographs, floor plans, elevations, and sketches. Square 8vo. Orig. printed wrpps. Porto Alegre (Editora da Universidade/Nobel) 1983. More
Wernli. Unpag. (1) pp. introd. by the architect, 34 fine plates showing photographs, plans, and elevations of early 20th-century domestic architecture and some institutional buildings in and around Zurich by the architect based in Wadenswil, a suburb of Zurich. Sq. 4to. Printed cloth. Munich/Vienna (Industrie- und Gewerbe-Verlag Widmann & Janker)..... More
Vogl. 28 pp. monograph on the Munich-based architect born in 1885 and active in the first third of the 20th century whose style straddled tradition and modernism, brief introductory text, list of companies and individuals involved in projects designed by Vogl, profusely illustrated throughout after photographs and ground plans documenting..... More
Photograph album containing a list of plates followed by 20 mounted photographic prints of buildings or locations which were presumably damaged during the defeat of the Commune, including the Tuileries, the Hôtel de Ville, Rue de Rivoli, and the Palais Royal. Oblong folio, images approx. 14.5 x 21.5 cm. Original..... More
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Olomouc: Index, 1936. Octavo (18.5 × 13.3 cm). Original printed wrappers; 34, [2] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to the Czech poet Jiří Taufer. Very good. Scarce work by this Silesian poet, who became famous for defending the rights of speakers of the so-called Lach dialects, a group..... More
Budapest: Magyar Müvészeti Tanács, 1947–1948. Quartos (30 × 24 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 41 to 68 pp. per issue. Numerous full-page illustrations, including some in color. About very good; light wear to edges of wrappers. Complete run of this significant Hungarian post-war journal of modern and avant-garde art and culture..... More
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo izobrazitel'nogo iskusstva, 1954. Quarto (29 × 22 cm). Original cloth over boards; 152 pp. A photo-album of the “definitive” 1954 version of The All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (today known as VDNKh; Vystavka Dostizhenii Narodnogo Khoziaistva), which re-opened in grand Stalinist style shortly after the leader’s death. The album..... More
Kiev: Izdatel’stvo Akademii Arkhitektury Ukrains’koi SSR, 1952. Oblong quarto (23 × 30 cm). Original green card boards, embossed title to front board; 108 pp. and [10] leaves of plates, as well as numerous illustrations from photographs and drawings in the text, some in color. Boards lightly discolored and scuffed to..... More
![Architektur von Olbrich [Architecture by Olbrich]. Complete set of six portfolios of plates....](/pictures/thumb/50939_004.jpg?v=1622818909)
Berlin: Verlegt bei Ernst Wasmuth, [1901-1914]. Imperial folios (50 × 33 cm). Original gilt embossed quarter cloth portfolios with one introductory leaf, 6 title leaves, and 445 (of 450) leaves of plates. The present set is nearly complete, lacking only 5 leaves: series II, nos. 17-18 and series III, nos..... More
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Vsesoiuznoi Akademii arkhitektury, 1937. Quarto (35 × 26.5 cm). Maroon cloth boards; gilt title to front board; 159 pp. Five leaves of plates, including four in color and one folding leaf. Illustrated with over 200 additional drawings in the text. Boards discolored and lightly worn; else about very..... More
![Proekty rabochikh zhilishch [Projects of workers' housing]. Projekte der Arbeiterwohnungen....](/pictures/thumb/50121_001.jpg?v=1615996563)
Moscow: Tsentral'nyi bank kommunal'nogo khoziaistva i zhilishchnogo stroitel'stva, 1929. Quarto (32.5 × 26 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 264 pp. 82 leaves of plates and numerous additional drawings in the text. Wrappers professionally reattached; owner inscription to ffep; else very good. Rare monumental work on large-scale workers' housing projects in the..... More
Moscow-Leningrad; Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. Oblong octavo (16.5 × 23 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 36 pp. of text followed by 37 pp. of illustrations. Very good. First and only edition. Combining traditional embroidery methods with contemporary designs of bridges and airplanes, this guide to decorative embroidery is intended for Soviet “home..... More