Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, First Thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 312 pages. Hardcover. Blue boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with moderate wear, chipping & tears to corners, now protected with a plastic cover. Light pencil marks from previous owner. Tight binding, sharp corners.
New York, Scribners, 2nd, 1926, 533 pages. B&W illust. Vol 1 with covers badly worn/spine tear, but internally VG. Vol 2 is VERY GOOD. No dust jackets.
Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st. edition, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 185 pages plus plates and fold-out floor plan. B/w illustrations. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on black, on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, wrapped in protective clear, plastic brodart. In beautiful condition. Using previously unavailable archival collections, Professor Kubler enables us to "relive" the Escorial's "entire gestation and construction" as he connects building history with architectural criticism.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st US, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A great visual reference. Many b&w, Color Photographs by Wim Swaan. Covers worn, ink scribbles on title page otherwise clean. 304 pages.
Softcover. New York, Dover Publications, Inc. , 1st Thus, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 110 plus numerous diagrams and illustrations. B/w intricately detailed illustrations throughout. Wrapper still glossy, very good, has a touch of agewear around the corners. Binding tight. pages clean and bright. Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) was one of the most celebrated architects of the Renaissance. This edition with a new introduction by Adolf K. Placzek, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published in 1738.
Hardcover. London, Hugh Evelyn, 1st, 1973, 143 pages. Hardcover. Color frontispiece, b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket price clipped with a touch of age yellow, no rips or tears. Covers bound in grey, gilt title on spine. Edges and pages have a light age yellow, but otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding still quite tight, in very good condition for its age.
Hardcover. Monteal, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 345 pages plus 8 pages in rear. Large, hardcover exhibition catalog profusely illustrated with DaVinci's drawings. Some color fade to the dust jacket spine otherwise very good.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Henry Holt & Co., First Edition, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 365 pages. Gilt top edge. Bright gilt decoration to front cover board. Faded gilt titles to spine. Crack to front half title page but the binding is very tight throughout. Wonderful illustrations in black & white with no markings. Faint toning to pages throughout. Maroon coloured boards with light wear to edges, light wear to crown & heel of spine. Clean pages, some uncut.
Fayetteville, AR, Univ. of Arkansas Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 74 pages. Black & white pencil drawings, maps by Sutherland.
Softcover. US, Electa / Rizzoli, rep, 1990-03-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Yellow highlighting in text. Light shelf-wear to wrappers with slight crease to spine, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Providence RI, Rhode Island School of Design, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, textured white cloth covers, 197 pages. Illustrated with many b&w photographs featuring 63 exhibition examples of sculpture, reliefs and architecture details from the period. Clean.
Hardcover. SCOTLAND, Harmony, REPRINT, 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate and signature on end paper. Color pictures. Cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine and front. one inch long abrasion on rear cover, top with tape repair to dust jacket on that spot. Otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with minor wear and light tanning to dust jacket.
San Francisco, Chronicle, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 15 pages with colorful pop-ups illustrated by Bender. As new in original shrinkwrap.
Softcover. NY, Shelter Harbor Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains full-color photography and illustrations throughout. This book is a definitive look at how geometry changed the world of art forever. It follows the artists of the renaissance, whose search for perspective and visual depth led them to the study of geometry. This compelling volume uses engaging text, compelling historical accounts and beautiful illustrations to immerse readers in the fundamental renaissance forms which, although conceived over five-hundred years ago, still have the capacity to awe and inspire us with their beauty. Clean copy. Record # 34337
Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 17 pages of text, followed by an unpaginated section with over 150 illustrations, hardcover. Dust jacket, orange cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W and some full-color photography throughout. This book focuses on the Gates of Paradise in Florence, detailing how Ghiberti revolutionized Renaissance art through deep perspective, 10-panel Old Testament narratives, gilded bronze casting, and workshop collaboration. Clean copy. Record # 34405