Search Results: Italian from Carnegie Hill Books

Paris: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 2008. Oblong quarto. (112) pp; 65 color & b/w illustrations. Text in English & French. Paperback. Fine, unused copy. Andrea Branzi (b. 1938) is an architect, graphic designer, and theorist. Founding father of the Domus Academy in Milan and a former member of the legendary radical architecture group Archizoom, he has influenced a whole generation from Gehry to Libeskind, from Koolhaas to Tschumi. For his March-June 2008 exhibition in Paris, he wove together materials such as hemp and bamboo with glass and metal, creating fragile, poetic architectural structures that reconciled the natural with the man-made.. Soft Cover. New. Illus. by Patrick Gries.

Cologne: Evergreen, 1994. Large quarto. 322 pp; over 500 b/w & color illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket bright, with no chips or tears. With examples of Neo-Gothic, Neo-Classic, Romantic and eclectic styles, this book features the types, problems and history of over 500 European buildings.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Milan: Casa Editrice Ceschina, 1964. Quarto. 169 pp; 8 color & 78 b/w plates. Text in Italian. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket has a few shallow edge tears with old tape residue on reverse, spine & small area of front panel toned.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1920. Quarto. xxxi, 302 pp; fully illustrated with b/w photographs (467). Text in German. New cloth spine with paper-covered boards. VG. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Sevres: Societe des Amis du Musee Natl de Ceramique, 1962. No. 25. Small folio. 62 pp; numerous b/w & 7 tipped-in color plates. Text in French, with English summaries. Card covers. Light soiling & wear to off-white covers. Contents include: "En avant-propos sur la majolique italienne" by Fourest; "Les majoliques de la collection Paul Gillet au musee lyonnais des Arts Decoratifs" by J. Giacomotti, and "Les Arts du Feu dans la decoration du paquebot 'France'" by M. Gaume.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Medici Society, 1923. Small quarto. 46 pp; 12 tipped-in color plates. Cloth-backed paper boards with color illustration inset on cover with dustjacket. VG/G, random light foxing to preliminary pp, no writing in the book; cutout jacket lacks 4.5-in. x 2-in. piece of frame at bottom of jacket front cover, and smaller loss on the fore edge.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Milan: Mondadori, 1988. First edition. Quarto. 167 pp; color and b/w photographs, illustrations, drawings and plans throughout. Text in Italian. Cloth in dustjacket in slipcase. As new in original shrinkwrap. Many nice examples of modernist residential, commercial, civic and industrial architecture.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY / London: G.P. Putnam's Sons / J.M. Dent & Co., 1900. Second edition. Octavo. xix, 234 pp; 9 photogravure plates & 17 b/w drawings by James Kerr Lawson. Gilt-lettered vellum spine with brown paper-covered boards, top edge gilt. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; rear hinge cracked, spine evenly soiled.. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by James Kerr Lawson.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1970. First American edition. Octavo. 77 pp plus 4 color & 171 b/w photographs. Cream cloth with red lettering in dustjacket. VG/VG, jacket price clipped, minor wear at top of jacket spine; date written in ink at top of title page has been "whited out.". The author, an art historian, has written a guide to the hills and streets of Rome, the piazzas and people; the churches and the ruins; the sculptures and the paintings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Frederick A. Stokes Octavo. 80 pp; 8 color illustrations. Paper covered boards. VG minor rubbing to spine, endpapers toned, former owner bookplate on front pastedown.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: National Trust, 1995. Octavo. 80 pp; color & b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Paperback. Near Fine, an unmarked copy; tiny nick at base of spine, else no wear. One of the great Stuart country houses stands only ten miles from the center of London. Ham House still contains much of the lavish decoration, furniture and pictures commissioned by Elizabeth Dysart.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Rome: BNL Edizioni, 1996. First edition. Quarto. 381 pp; more than 200 color & b/w illustrations; bibliography. Text in Italian. White cloth with dustjacket in matching slipcase. Fine/Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, pristine in pristine jacket; slipcase has small crack at top of spine, else unworn. A fully illustrated catalogue of the Italian furniture in the Presidential Palace, Rome, with detailed descriptions of the 147 pieces.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: Burns & Oates, 1913. Fourth edition. Octavo. xix, 353 pp; b/w illustrations; 2 maps. Blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine and gilt decoration on cover. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, endpapers toned; spine gilt dull, minor wear to extremities. A personal account of life in Tuscany by an Englishman. He focuses on the little known towns of Leghorn, Volterra, Lucca, Pisa, and Portoferraio. First published in 1901.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1950. Later printing. Octavo. 136 pp; frointispiece & 16 b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket; map on endpapers. VG/VG. Part of the "Windows on the World" series.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Geneva: Christie's, 1993. Quarto. 177 pp; profuse color photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, minor wear to jacket. This auction featured 16 lots of silver by Bulgari, and 211 lots of jewelry. Introductory essay by Diana Scarisbrick. The auction was held at St. Moritz, Geneva, on February 17 &18, 1993.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Rome: Editalia, 1986. Large quarto. 303 pp; 32 color plates; b/w photographs & illustrations in the text; index of text illustrations; index of plates. Text in Italian. Paper-covered boards in unclipped dustjacket, publisher slipcase. Near Fine in VG jacket, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket has small closed tear at base of spine. The entire text of Trattato dell seta was re edited as an appendix. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

NY: Modern Library Modern Library #49. Octavo. 544 pp. Original green cloth with dustjacket illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. VG+/VG, former owner stamp on half title page, else an unmarked copy, binding bright & solid; price-clipped jacket has small tear at bottom of front panel, spine slightly faded.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. Illus. by E. McKnight Kauffer.

Kyoto: Kyoto Costume Institute, 1985. Square octavo. 48 pp; 21 full-page color photographs & a number of b/w illustrations. Text in Japanese. Paperback. Top corner gently creased, else in very good condition. Catalogue of an exhibition held November 9 - Dec 1, 1985.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1987. Small quarto. 79 pp; profuse color & b/w illustrations; exhibition checklist. Paperback. Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy, minor crease to bottom corner of front cover.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Milan: Skira, 1999. First edition. Quarto. 208 pp; profuse color & b/w illustrations; biographies of designers; bibliography; index. TEXT IN ITALIAN. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.