THE HABITATIONS OF MAN IN ALL AGES...TRANSLATED BY BENJAMIN BUCKNALL, ARCHITEC
by Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene
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About This Item
Boston: James R. Osgood and Compan, 1876. xvi,394pp. including numerous text illustrations, plus nine plates (including frontispiece) and one-page advertisement. Original decorative green cloth, stamped in black and gilt, neatly recased. Corners bumped, cloth worn. Early ink signature on fly leaf. Overall very good. Second American edition. Originally published in Paris; the first American edition appeared in Boston in 1872. In his own rather romanticized way, Viollet-le-Duc describes the origin and development of domestic architecture among the various "races" of mankind. The work has little value today as a meaningful history of domestic architecture, but it, and the author's other writings, are of immense historical importance for the influence they exerted on the thinking of the architectural profession in the late 19th century. HITCHCOCK 1314.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- THE HABITATIONS OF MAN IN ALL AGES...TRANSLATED BY BENJAMIN BUCKNALL, ARCHITEC
- Author
- Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood and Compan
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1876
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William Reese Company
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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