ART & ARCHITECTURE

Audsley, W & Audsley, G: Cottage, Lodge and Villa Architecture.

London: Wm Mackenzie, n.d. (circa 1890’s) Large Folio ( 45cms x 32 cms), 85 full-page engraved plates. Ornate dec title page. Navy cloth, leather spine, gilt lettering on leather label, polished marbled edges. Slight marginal foxing; small stain affecting lower margin of plates 31-33, o/w in very good condition. Price: £225.00

Abercrombie, Patrick & Plumstead, Derek: Civic Survey & Plan of Edinburgh

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1949. Large Folio (36cms x 28cms). Cloth, gt dec, in mended d/w. Folding maps, photographs. VG. Price: £48.00

[Baskin, Leonard], illustrator: Dante Allighieri, The Divine Comedy. Translated by Thomas G Bergin.

New York: Grossman, 1969. 3 vols, half linen on board, flat spines gilt lettered, in slip-case. Fully illustrated with drawings by Baskin. Stunning - a fine set in immaculate condition. Price: £225.00

Buck, George W: A Practical & Theoretical Essay on Oblique Bridges.

London: John Weale, 1857. 2nd edn, 28cms x 19cms, pp v, 56, followed by 12 folding plates; embossed cloth with paper label on front cover, uncut. Front cover stained; eps bubbled, title foxed, but contents & plates clean. Price: £95.00

Curtis, William R: Modern Architecture Since 1900.

London: Phaidon Press, 2002. 3rd edn, 24cms x 21 cms, pp 736; paper covers. Illustrated with photographs. A new, expanded edition of this standard work on 20th century architecture, placing contemporary wok in a historic and cultural perspective. Fine copy. Price: £22.00

Enge, Torsten O. & Schröer, Carl F.: Garden Architecture in Europe 1450-1800.

Taschen, Cologne. 1990. 30cmsx26cms, pp 236; pict paper covers. Fully illus with beautiful coloured photos of 30 gardens from the Italian Renaissance to the English landscape garden by Clasen & Wiesenhofer. Map. VG. Price: £16.00

Giedion, Sigfried: Space, Time And Architecture: The growth of a new tradition.

Harvard Univ Press, Cambridge, Mass. / OUP, London. 25cms x 19cms. 3rd, enlarged, edn, 1954 [1959]. Illustrated. Cloth, gt lettering, in sl chipped d/w. Eps dust-stained, o/w Very Good. An enlarged edition of a standard work – ‘a milestone in modern thought…’ which includes chapters on Mies van der Rohe and Gropius. Price: £36.00