Architectural books: Collections, exhibitions, studiesThere are 22 items
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Catalogue de livres rares et précieux provenant de la bibliothèque de feu M. Hippolyte Destailleur, Architecte du Gouvernement (catalogue of a portion of the library of Hippolyte Destailleur, sold in Hôtel Drouot, Paris, by commissaire-priseur Maurice Delestre, 13-25 April 1891) § Catalogue de livres et estampes relatifs aux Beaux-arts (Architecture, Peinture, Gravure, Ornementation, etc.) provenant de la bibliothèque de feu M. Hippolyte Destailleur, Architecte du Gouvernement (catalogue of a portion of the library of Hippolyte Destailleur, sold in Hôtel Drouot, Paris, by commissaire-priseur Maurice Delestre, 20-31 May 1895) § Catalogue de dessins et tableaux provenant de la bibliothèque de feu M. Hippolyte Destailleur, Architecte du Gouvernement. Dessins d'architecture et de décoration. Vues de Paris et des environs. Dessins de différents genres (catalogue for an auction conducted by Maurice Delestre and Librairie Damascène Morgand, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19-23 May 1896)
Paris, Librairie Damascène Morgand, 1891-1896Three volumes (29 cm), I (13-25 April 1891): (4) xv (1), 448 pp. 2004 lots. II (20-31 May 1895): xxviii, 420 pp., [1] plate (portrait), text illustrations. 1753 lots. II (19-23 May 1896): viii, 150 pp., illustrations. Includes a Supplément (one leaf, describing lot 805 bis). Two volumes uniformly bound in contemporary red cloth, black skiver lettering-pieces; one volume bound in contemporary half-morocco (original wrappers retained in each volume). - Three (of eight?) auction sale catalogues dispersing the “second” library assembled by the architect Hippolyte-Alexandre-Gabriel-Walter Destailleur (1822-1893); his first library had been sold in 1879, becoming the foundation for the Kunstbibliothek in Berlin (Cédric Destailleur, “Hippolyte Destailleur: architecte-collectionneur” in L’artiste collectionneur de dessin: De Giorgio Vasari à aujourd’hui, edited by Catherine Monbeig-Goguel, Paris 2006, pp.147-162). Offered here are the catalogues of Destailleur’s most valuable books (sold 13-25 April 1891, realising 467,327 Fr.), his collection of ornament books and prints (sold 20-31 May 1895, realising 333,270 Fr.), and some of his drawings (sold 19-23 May 1896, realising 267,266 Fr.). Blogie II, 199 (April 1891); Blogie II, 217 (May 1895). ¶ Bindings fatigued. Two entries clipped from one leaf (1891 sale, pp.141-142), neatly replaced with typescript facsimiles. -
The Fowler architectural collection of The Johns Hopkins University : Catalogue (Evergreen House Foundation Publication, 1)
Baltimore, Evergreen House Foundation, 1961(29 cm), xvi, 383 (1) pp., 30 plates, 1 folding chart. Publisher’s cloth binding. - 448 items, 210 of them by just ten favoured authors. The collection was given to Johns Hopkins University in 1945 by the architect Laurence Hall Fowler (1876-1971), and is now housed in the John Work Garrett Library, a building Fowler himself designed. According to a prospectus, “The edition is limited to 500 copies”, although no limitation statement appears in the book. Donald C. Dickinson, Dictionary of American Book Collectors (New York 1986), pp.124-125. ¶ Slight shelf wear; otherwise a very fine copy. -
Theorie der Architektur (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Graphisches Kabinet, Stift Göttweig, Steinaweg, Austria, 19 April-26 October 1975; Ausstellung des Graphischen Kabinetts, der Kunstsammlungen und der Stiftsbibliothek, 23)
Furth (Niederösterreich), Das Kabinett, 1975(24 cm), 96 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - 74 catalogue entries (books, nos. 1-34, 75; prints, nos. 35-58; drawings, nos. 59-64; medals, nos. 65-73). ¶ Light shelf wear; otherwise a very good copy. -
Katalog der Architektur- und Ornamentstichsammlung : Teil I: Baukunst England [no more pubished] (75. Veröffentlichung der Kunstbibliothek Berlin)
Berlin, Verlag Bruno Hessling, 1977(30.5 cm), 183 (1) pp., with 43 text illustrations. Publisher’s cloth (no dust jacket issued). - The first instalment of a new catalogue of books and prints in the Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, intended to (eventually) replace the old “Berlin Katalog” (1936-1936, reprinted 1958, 1986). The section “Architecture England” was totally lost in 1939-1945 and was the first to be actively collected thereafter. “[Dr Fischer] has produced an exemplary curatorial catalogue of the 119 copies of English architectural and topographical books (including three single prints) in the Berlin Kunstbibliothek, ranging in date from Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicum of 1661-82 to P.F. Robinson’s Designs for Gate Cottages of 1837… All the information provided by Dr Fischer is comprehensible, accurate and absolutely trustworthy, which are the prime requirements of any bibliography” (from a review by Eileen Harris, in The Book Collector, Winter 1984, pp.529-531). ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
The Avery Library : selected acquisitions, 1960-1980 : an exhibition in honor of Adolf K. Placzek (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, New York, 19 June-14 July 1980)
New York, Trustees of Columbia University, 1980(28 cm), 42 (2) pp., [19] p. of plates. 77 catalogue entries. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Catalogue for exhibition honouring Adolf Placzek (1913-2000), on the occasion of his retirement as Director of the Avery Architectural Library, recording a selection of the books and drawings acquired during his tenure. Catalogue illustrations by the Meriden Gravure Company. ¶ Good, unmarked copy. -
Architectural theory and practice from Alberti to Ledoux : Second edition revised (catalogue accompanying an exhibition, Sterling Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1 March-31 May 1982; also shown Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, 4 November-2 December, 1982; Alderman Library, University of Virginia, 12 February-27 April 1982)
[Chicago], Architectural Publications, Inc. / University of Chicago Press, 1983(21.5 × 25.5 cm), [128] pp., profusely illustrated in black & white. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - A concise guide to architectural books from the 15th through the 18th century. The 211 entries (by 49 contributors) are organised in three main parts: the Renaissance discovery of Vitruvius; architects and amateurs of the 17th and 18th centuries; and the elements of architecture (this last part further divided into four sections: the Orders, geometry and perspective, technology, and public and private architecture). Each entry provides a brief biography of the author and a summary of the book’s contents and importance; about half the entries are accompanied by illustrations. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Valuable printed books and manuscripts including an important library of early architectural works, the property of a nobleman [Thomas Stonor, 7th Baron Camoys]; an illuminated portrait miniature of Edward VI, the property of the Lady Kinloss; a collection of German literature (catalogue for an auction conducted by Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd, London, 9 December 1983)
London, Christie, Manson & Woods, 1983(25.5 cm), 85 (7) pp., illustrations. 332 lots (lots 1-174 are Stonor property). List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - An exceptional collection of architectural and topographical books, mainly supplied by H.D. Lyon. ¶ Copiously annotated copy, priced. Laminate on wrappers yellowing. -
Architecture, cent cinquante livres rares des XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles § Architecture et beaux livres anciens (catalogues of portions of the collection of Fernand Pouillon, sold in Hôtel Drouot, Paris, and in Hôtel Hermitage, Monte Carlo, with the expertise of Claude Guérin and Dominique Courvoisier, by Ader, Picard, Tajan, 3 May 1985 and 1 July 1986)
Paris / Monte Carlo, Ader, Picard, Tajan, 1985-1986Two volumes (22 × 27 cm), I (Paris, 3 May 1985): [88] pp., text illustrations (2 in colour). 150 lots. II (Monte Carlo, 1 July 1986): [160] pp., text illustrations (some in colour). 232 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - A selection from the library of the architect Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986), including books which had been utilised for facsimile reproductions issued by Jardin de Flore, a publishing house established by the collector in 1974 in association with the bookseller Fernand de Nobele. A sale in Paris on 2-3 February 1961 had disposed of a previous collection (267 lots). ¶ Annotated copies. -
Les Traités d'architecture de la Renaissance : actes du colloque tenu à Tours du 1er au 11 juillet 1981 (Université de Tours, Centres d’études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Collection ‘De Architectura’)
Paris, Picard, 1988(27 cm), 507 (1) pp., illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Forty essays (in French, Italian, English, and German), including John Bury’s “Renaissance architectural treatises and architectural books: a bibliography” (pp.485-504). Other contributors writing in English are Joseph Rykwert, Dora Wiebenson, Gustina Scaglia, Maria A. Phillips, John Onians, Howard Burns, Nigel Llewellyn, Maurice Howard, John Newman, Catherine Wilkinson. ¶ Light shelf wear; otherwise a very good copy. -
Architecture : books on engineering, industrial arts and science, garden design, theatres & festivals, travel, costume, furniture, ornament & decoration, industrial, etc. The property of Henry Sotheran Ltd (catalogue for an auction conducted by Christie's, London, 28-28 September 1988)
London, Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd, 1988(25.5 cm), 147 (7) pp., illustrations. 447 lots. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. ¶ Unmarked copy, as new. -
Architecture : books on engineering, industrial arts and science, garden design, theatres & festivals, travel, costume, furniture, ornament & decoration, industrial, etc. The property of Henry Sotheran Ltd (catalogue for an auction conducted by Christie's, London, 28-28 September 1988)
London, Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd, 1988(25.5 cm), 147 (7) pp., illustrations. 447 lots. Price list inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced. -
The Mark J. Millard Collection. Volume 1: French books sixteenth through nineteenth centuries § Volume 2: British books seventeenth through nineteenth centuries § Volume 3: Northern European books sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries § Volume 4: Italian and Spanish books fifteenth through nineteenth centuries
Washington, DC & New York, National Gallery of Art / George Braziller, 1993-2000Four volumes (31 cm), I (1993): xxv, 512 pp., profusely illustrated. II (1998): xv (1), 392 pp., profusely illustrated. III (1998): xii, 415 pp., profusely illustrated. IV (2000): xxiii (1), 545 pp., profusely illustrated. Publisher’s cloth bindings, pictorial dust jackets. - Four-volume catalogue of the library of European architectural and topographical books (approximately 560 titles, in 760 volumes), assembled Mark J. Millard (1908-1985), passing by donation and purchase in the 1980s to the National Gallery of Art. Cf. Andrew Robison, in Grolier 2000: a further Grolier Club biographical retrospective (New York 2000), pp.242-245. ¶ Excellent, unmarked set. -
Early printed books 1478-1840. Catalogue of the British Architectural Library Early Imprints Collection, Volume I: A-D § Volume II: E-L § Volume III: M-R § Volume IV: S-Z § Volume V: Indices, supplement, appendices, addenda and corrigenda
London & Munich, Bowker / K.G. Saur, 1994-2003Five volumes (30.5 cm), I (1994): xlviii, 538 pp., including frontispiece and 16 p. of plates. II (1995): xxii, pp.539-1039 (1), plus frontispiece and 16 p. of plates. III (1999): xxvi, pp.1041-1715 (1), plus frontispiece and 16 p. of plates. IV (2001): xxviii, pp.1717-2479 (1), plus frontispiece and 16 p. of plates. V (2003): xxxv (1), pp.2481-3267 (1), plus frontispiece and 16 p. of plates. 4202 catalogue entries. Uniform publisher’s green cloth (no dust jackets issued). - Analytical catalogue of the Royal Institute of British Architects’ rare book holdings. ¶ Fine set with minimal traces of use and no marks of ownership. -
The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo : the representation of architecture (catalogue of an exhibition held at Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 1994; also shown elsewhere)
London, Thames & Hudson, 1994(30.5 cm), 731 (5) pp., 700 colour plates and numerous black & white illustrations. 421 catalogue entries. Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - Encyclopaedic exhibition on the representation of architecture in art, and architecture’s relationship with other arts, featuring a spectacular group of 30 period wooden scale models for architectural projects, also paintings, drawings, manuscripts, books, prints, sculptures, foundation medals, and other objects. The catalogue contains over four hundred pages of introductory essays - by Henry A. Millon, Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, Christoph Luitpold Frommel, Arnaldo Bruschi, Nicholas Adams and Laurie Nussdorfer, Richard Krautheimer, Hubertus Günther, Oswald Mathias Ungers, James Ackerman, Cesare de Seta, and Carlo Bertelli - and another 300 pages containing 421 individual entries written by some fifty-six authors. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
The library of the late M. F.d.C. (catalogue of an auction conducted by Guido Craveri / Harmers Auctions SA, with the expertise of Francesco Radaeli and Paul Breman, Hôtel de la Paix, Lugano, 19 June 1995)
Lugano, Guido Craveri / Harmers Auctions SA, 1995(29.5 cm), [152] pp., [4] pp. colour plates, text illustrations. 413 lots. (Estimates printed in catalogue.) Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Library of books on the sciences, art and architecture (including fortification), and Savonaroliana, assembled by Max Favia del Core (1927-1994), or from the ancestral library of his wife, Maria Ludovica Borromeo Arese. “In the science section, the most remarkable group was that of six Galileo first editions, including his privately printed pamphlet on the ‘operazione del compasso geometrico’ 1606 (sixty copies only) which fetched Sw.fr 130,000. Il Saggiatore and Dialogo also made twice their estimate… The afternoon ‘art and architecture’ session was particularly lively… Some albums of original drawings did well, with institutions like the Getty showing discreet interest… The remarkable Savonarola section opened with a manuscript of Pico della Mirandola’s Life of Savonarola [lot 338] and included an amazing number of Florentine incunables… The ‘Predica dell’ arte del ben morire’ of 1496 fetched Sw.fr 23,000, the 1500 version by another printer made 16,000, and its complement, the ‘Regole del ben vivere’ [1498] went for Sw.fr 11,000, all well above estimate” (from a saleroom report in The Book Collector, Autumn 1995, pp.386-388). ¶ Annotated copy. No Price list. -
The library of the late M. F.d.C. (catalogue of the library of Max Favia del Core, incorporating books collected by his wife, Maria Ludovica Borromeo Arese, sold by Guido Craveri / Harmers Auctions SA with the expertise of Francesco Radaeli and Paul Breman, Hôtel de la Paix, Lugano, 19 June 1995)
Lugano, Guido Craveri / Harmers Auctions SA, 1995(29.5 cm), [152] pp., [4] pp. colour plates, text illustrations. 413 lots. (Estimates printed in catalogue.) List of prices realised loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Library of books on the sciences, art and architecture (including fortification), and Savonaroliana, assembled by Max Favia del Core (1927-1994), or from the ancestral library of his wife, Maria Ludovica Borromeo Arese. “In the science section, the most remarkable group was that of six Galileo first editions, including his privately printed pamphlet on the ‘operazione del compasso geometrico’ 1606 (sixty copies only) which fetched Sw.fr 130,000. Il Saggiatore and Dialogo also made twice their estimate… The afternoon ‘art and architecture’ session was particularly lively… Some albums of original drawings did well, with institutions like the Getty showing discreet interest… The remarkable Savonarola section opened with a manuscript of Pico della Mirandola’s Life of Savonarola [lot 338] and included an amazing number of Florentine incunables… The ‘Predica dell’ arte del ben morire’ of 1496 fetched Sw.fr 23,000, the 1500 version by another printer made 16,000, and its complement, the ‘Regole del ben vivere’ [1498] went for Sw.fr 11,000, all well above estimate” (from a saleroom report in The Book Collector, Autumn 1995, pp.386-388). ¶ Annotated copy. One corner of wrapper bent; otherwise a very good, unmarked copy. -
Architectural theory from the Renaissance to the present : 89 essays on 117 treatises
Cologne, Taschen, 2003(25.5 cm), 845 (3) pp., over 850 illustrations (publisher’s count). Publisher’s laminated pictorial wrappers. - The 89 essays discuss “the most important treatises on architecture from the Renaissance to today” grouped by origin and date: Italy (entries by Veronica Biermann et al.), France (by Christian Freigang and Jarl Kremeier), Spain (by Barbara Borngässer Klein), England (by Carsten Ruhl), Germany (by Bernd Evers and Jürgen Zimmer), 20th century (by Gilbert Lupfer, Jürgen Paul, and Paul Sigel). Translated from the German by Gregory Fauria, Jeremy Gaines, and Michael Shuttleworth. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Librairie Léonce Laget : vente du fonds, première partie: architecture, varia (catalogue of the residual stock of Librairie Léonce Laget, sold by Picard Audap Solanet & Associés with the expertise of Dominique Courvoisier, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 28-29 November 2005)
Paris, Picard Audap Velliet Teissèdre, 2005(27 cm), [136] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 573 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Léonce Laget served his apprenticeship with Gaston Colas and commenced bookselling on his own account in 1952, specialising in old books on architecture, the fine and decorative arts, of which he published more than 150 catalogues. Laget guided important private collectors, notably Arnaud de Vitry and Serge Letellier, and participated energetically in the development of the Avery Library, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Getty Center, and other institutional collections; he is perhaps better-known for introducing onto the market the collections of architectural books formed by Charles Charles-Frédéric Mewès (1860-1914). Laget’s first shop was situated at 54 rue Bonaparte; he later traded from 75 rue de Rennes (1972-1990), 76 rue de Seine (1991-1997), and 88 de la rue Bonaparte (1997-2005). After 1986, the firm was managed by his long-time collaborator, Véronique Delvaux. ¶ Occasional pencil annotation. Laser print of prices realised loosely inserted. -
Livres d’architecture et d’ornementation (catalogue for an auction conducted by Pierre Bergé & associés with the expertise of Jean Baptiste de Proyart, Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, 23 November 2010)
Paris, Pierre Bergé & associés, 2010(30 cm), 103 (1) pp., illustrations (most in colour). Lots numbered 1-53. Laser print of prices realised loosely inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. ¶ Good, unmarked copy. -
Livres d’architecture et d’ornementation (catalogue for an auction conducted by Pierre Bergé & associés with the expertise of Jean Baptiste de Proyart, Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, 23 November 2010)
Paris, Pierre Bergé & associés, 2010(30 cm), 103 (1) pp., illustrations (most in colour). Lots numbered 1-53. Laser print of prices realised loosely inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. ¶ Good, unmarked copy.
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