New York: The Viking Press, 1971 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. Square 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 187 pp, INTRODUCTION: Materials and Tools; Style Without Plan; Circle and Square; Arch and Cupola. EARLY ANTIQUITY: Egypt; The Aegean. CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY: Greece; Rome. DIFFUSION AND TRANSITION. Romanesque; The Islamic Style in Spain; Gothic; Renaissance; Baroque and Rococo; Neo-Classicism; Art Nouveau; The New Realism; The Present; Comparative Styles; glossary, chronological chars with illustrations, drawings and plans throughout. First American Edition, 1971: English translation from the German by B. T. Batsford. Price clipped. Lightly faded spine dj with small rubbed spot on rear panel of same, else, Pristine, no wrear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Light-orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine..

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Bookseller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 001554
Title: Architectural Styles
Author: Pothorn, Herbert
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First American Edition
ISBN 10: 0670131008
ISBN 13: 9780670131006
Publisher: The Viking Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1971
Keywords: ARCHITECTURE HISTORY STYLES FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERN
Bookseller catalogs: ARCHITECTURE;
Size: Square 8vo

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Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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