Translated Benjamin Bucknall (13 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Printing of this facsimile reissue of a work first issued in London in 1876, in silver-stamped full black cloth, no markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, small stain rfear endpapers, else Fine unread copy (no dj, as issued); 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hardback; foxing to edge of pages, otherwise good in torn and part-missing dustjacket.; Description of an imaginary place, tracing the fortifications and developments in siege warfare through the ages. The author was an architect and military engineer, active in the defence of Paris against the Prussians in 1870. Reprint of the 1874 edition, with new Introduction. Illustrated.; 390 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Binding has been professionally repaired and the spine re-backed with some staining. Rubbing to corner tips, water stain on frontispiece and small stain on plate opposite page 99 on the corner tips. Solid tight binding.

hardcover. Condition: Very good. Octavo, green cloth cover with gilt image of a fortress on top cover, and gilt towers on spine. xv [1] 390 pages. All edges dyed red. Illustrated, with many plans, some in black and red. No dust jacket. Wear at head and foot of spine; some cracking at front hinge. Bookseller label on front paste-down endpaper. Siege Warfare, Military, Castles, Architecture, Defense. 091625B. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint of 1889 original. Two chunky quarto vols., navy cloth in d/j's. Volume One pp.487 with 18 plates reproduced and a number of text figs. Volume Two, pp.468 with a further 18 plates and a good number of text figs. There are 20 lectures in total.…

Condition: Very Good. Vol. I has 487 p. and Vol. I has 468 p., plus catalog, all pages clean and unmarked on strong paper only faintly age-toned; ill.; bindings tight; glossy pictorial wrappers have light edge wear, and upper edge blocks have light dust speckling.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A Rare title in Contemporary red cloth boards with gilt pictorial inlay of a fort to the front cover contained within border.The book has bevelled edges,gilt title to spin and lettered in black to the upper cover.Slight scuff and rubbing to head of spine and to a couple of corners of the book.There is one former owner's bookplate to the front pastedown and one small previous bookseller's catalogue entry tipped onto the front endpaper (easily removed) The binding remains firm with NO hinge weakness.There is a coloured map of Ohet as frontispiece and there are a further 84 drawings and sketches.The wonderfully atmospheric life story of a fortress charts brilliantly the development of fortification and the art of the siege This evocative work is one of the greatest and most unusual books ever written on siege warfare and fortifications.The author recreates the life of a French castle from its obscure origins to its fate in the Franco-Prussian War.As an architect and experienced military engineer Viollet-le-Duc was uniquely placed to write on the history of fortifications. In Annals of a Fortress he examines the life of the imaginery Castle of La Roche-Pont as it endures numerous protracted and bitter sieges. Viollet-le-Duc was a noted military engineer serving admirably in the Franco-Prussian War, and also an architectural historian.Great copy for the collector,if not in the original binding then certainly contemporary to the time,8vo (xv) 390pp Plus 40pp of Publisher's list at rear of the book.First Edition 1875.…

Tissue-guarded coloured frontis, xvi, 394pp incl 103 illustrations, plans etc, some hors-texte. 22x14, glt embossed patterned green cloth, bevelled edges. Cloth a little rubbed and marked, bookplate on fep, one signature slightly loose, plates nice and bright, fair to good copy thus. English translation of 'Histoire de l'Habitation Humaine'; one of a number of English translations done in a somewhat similar style to the French Hetzel editions.…

Half Green Leather/Marbled. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket as Published. xvi, 390pp, colour frontispiece, other illustrations in black & white, spotting to edges, endpapers and prelims, marbled endpapers with armorial bookplate to front fixed endpaper, half green leather, matching marbled boards, edges and corners rubbed, small tear to corner leather on rear board, spine has raised bands and gilt decoration and lettering, bands rubbed and worn, small tears to the leather. Size: 8vo. Military Architecture.…

Hardcovers / Fine Slipcase. Condition: Fine. First Thus. CLEAN Fine 1959 First Grove Press hardcovers wth Fine slipcase. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. First British Edition. This ex-library cpy has a special pedigree. It was withdrawn in 1923 from the Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny PA, which is now the North Side of Pittsburgh. This was one of the first two Carnegie Libraries in the United States (the first was in Scotland and the other original American one was in Braddock PA, followed later by many others). The library markings have a certain charm. The book is bound in plain brown library buckram, stained with age, but it has an elegant new gold-tooled label, and a sweet little paper call number on the base of the spine. The colorful front plate is present, and the book is replete with black and white illustrations. The pages are toned to a creamy beige, The bottom corner of the first three pages has been snipped, with no loss to the text. A nice copy for the historian of library science. Fast shipping, with tracking number provided. ; Ex-Library; 6"x9"x1"; 394 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2 volume set. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Folded frontispieces, illustrations and plans, some folded. Contemporary cloth jacket. No date, . Translated from the French by Benjamin Bucknall. Also pub. under title: Lectures on architecture. "For us, today, Viollet-le-Duc is a figure of considerable importance because he is the last great theorist in the world of architecture, and the modern architect still leans heavily on verities which he expounded . his principal legacy to architectural thought is contained in the two dictionaries and the lectures - most clearly of all in the first volume of the latter." - Heavenly mansions, p. 135. "In these volume you will find all the architectural school you will ever need." - Frank Lloyd Wright. From the library of Thomas J. D. Fuller Jr. (1870-1940), a prominent Washington, DC architect, with his signature. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 37 steel engravings and 200 woodcuts, including many folding plates. A handsome set in crimson cloth with gilt lettering and ornamentation on the spine and covers. 10.5" x 7.5", 487 & 468pp. The spines are faded with a few tears at the top; there is some wear on the covers. The leaves and plates are clean and in good condition.…