736 - 1327 FINE and APPLIED ARTS, ART REFERENCE
- A few lvs. w. closed tears in outer blank margins; occas. trifle foxed. Some vague soiling on frontcover.
= Rare consecutive run of this iconic periodical documenting the broad variety of residential architecture from all over the world. With contributions by/ on Tadao Ando, Andrew Batey & Mark Mack, Le Corbusier, Frank Gehry, Green & Green, Walter Gropius, Charles Gwathmey, Franklin D. Israel, Michel de Klerk, Charles Moore & Co., William Morris & Philip Webb, David Niland, Edward R. Niles, Bart Prince, Jean Prouvé, Alice Wingwall and Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Dustwr. sl. dam. at spine-ends.
De elite. Deel 1. Een analiese van de afdeling bouwkunde van de techniese hogeschool te delft. Delft, Stielos, 1970, 147,(1)p., ills., orig. wr., obl. 8vo, w. loosely inserted "manifest opgesteld door het kollektief als slotverklaring voor: de elite. een analiese van de afdeling bouwkunde te delft" (1 fold. leaf, recto only). - AND 20 other miscell. works on architects, architecture, town planning etc.
- First free endpaper lacks tiny portion; htitle sl. foxed.
Le Corbusier. Exposition. Lyon, Musée de Lyon, 1956, no pagination, 16 plates, orig. pict. wr., 4to. - AND 6 others on architecture (partly on LE CORBUSIER), i.a. LE CORBUSIER ET PESSAC (Paris, 1972, ills., orig. wr., obl. 8vo) and LE CORBUSIER. BOUWERKEN, SCHILDERIJEN, BEELDHOUWWERKEN, WANDTAPIJTEN. Introd. L.J.F. Wijsenbeek (The Hague, 1958, num. ills., orig. wr.).
- Lacks 2 plates (no.11, Villa op de duinen bij Scheveningen and 16, Muziektent in een volkstuin te Amsterdam); title, textlvs. and a few plates (sl.) foxed/ frayed; 14 plates (sl.) waterstained in right margin (partly affecting image).
= Architectural designs by i.a. H.J. van den Brink, P.J.H. Cuijpers, L.H. Eberson, A.N. Godefroy, J.H. Leliman, J.F. Metzelaar, N. Redeker, J.W. Schaap and W. Springer. The work was originally published in instalments.
- Corners and boardedges worn.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; owner's entry on first free endpaper. A few dents in outer edge of frontcover; backcover sl. rubbed.
- Endpapers sl. browned. Spine dam; covers foxed. = Rare.
Johannes, H. Neues Bauen in Berlin. Berlin, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1931, 96,(12 advert.)p., num. ills., fold. plan, orig. clothbacked limp pict. silver boards, slender 8vo.
- Frontcover sl. rubbed and loosening; spine dam.
= First edition of this attractive contemp. publication on modern architecture in Berlin after 1919 by the major architects.
AND a facs. edition of: O. SCHLEMMER, Die Bühne im Bauhaus (Mainz, 1965, ills., orig. cl., 4to).
- Each booklet w. 2 stamps on frontwr.; plates occas. trifle frayed. Portfolios occas. sl. dam along extremities/ restored.
= Comprises a broad variety of decorative objects used for castles, incl. technical description and cost calculation. Contains vols. on i.a. railing grids, entrance gates, parapets for balconies, stair railings and wire mesh.
- Lacks dustwr. w. photomontage and typogr. by El Lissitzky; cl. w. some minor imperfections.
= No. 2 in the series Neues Bauen in der Welt.
- Occas. trifle foxed/ yellowed. Portfolio waterst./ sl. rubbed along extremities.
= Fine detailed plates of woodwork in art nouveau style, for villas and shops (both interior as well as exterior decoration). Noorlander worked mainly in Amsterdam in the style of the Amsterdamse School and was i.a. famous for his design of the Ceintuurtheater (Fanelli, p.109/ 182/ 345).
- Bookplate (of Benno Premsela, by HAJO ROSE) on upper pastedown. Board edges sl. worn.
- Trifle yellowed. = Stedelijk Museum cat. 205.
De 8 en Opbouw. 14-daagsch tijdschrift van de architectengroep "De 8" Amsterdam en "Opbouw" Rotterdam. Set of 9 issues, Amst., Van Holkema en Warendorf, 1935-1938, ills., orig. wr., 4to.
- Almost each issue incomplete (lacking leaf or part of leaf cut out).
= Year 6, no. 3; year 7, no. 13/14 and 24/25; year 8, no. 5, 6 and 13; year 9, no. 11 and 2 issues unidentified.
AND an issue of Bouwkundig weekblad Architectura (1932, no.49).
- The bindings and contents are fine; all dustwrs and portfolios are worn/ (sl.) dam.
= Rare complete set of this publication which was considered to be the "bible" for Japanese architects in its time. It introduced many upcoming Japanese architects and presented the latest Japanese taste in architectural design. Among these architects are Kikuji Ishimoto, Yoshiro Taniguchi, Chikatadu Kurata, Sutemi Horiguchi and Masanori Sugiyama. Apart from the Japanese architectural development, each volume also deals with the latest accomplishments by renowned international architects, such as Walter Gropius, Maxwell Fry, Marcel Breuer, Frank Lloyd Wright, Serge Chermayeff, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Well Coates, Gio Ponti, Erich Mendelsohn and Berthold Lubetkin. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXIV.
- Extremities of bindings sl. rubbed/ worn. Fine, attractively bound set.
= Perhaps the most influential architectural dictionary of the 19th century.
- Lacks 8 (double) plates; a few plates w. wormholes.
- Title leaf and first text leaf (sl.) browned. A few scratches on frontcover.
= Ex p.110f and ill. no.166.
- Portfolio worn along extremities; otherwise fine. = Very rare.