Essays in the History of Architecture Presented to Rudolf Wittkower
Douglas Fraser, Howard Hibbard, Milton J. Lewine (Editors)
Published by Phaidon Press (London), 1967
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Essays Presented to Rudolf Wittkower on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, Part I. Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9.25" x 12.5", is bound in dark green cloth, with gilt-lettered black spine label. Book is like new. Texts appear in double columns. Illustrated with a plate section, with photos, architectural drawings and plans. Dust jacket exhibits light shelfwear, with sunning to spine and top edge on front panel. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. viii/381 pages. Contents: "Battlements in the Military Architecture and in the Symbolism of the Ancient Near East" by Edith Porada; "The Montjoies of Saint Louis" by Robert Branner; "Hidden Records of the Holy Sepulchre" by I. Q. Regteren Altena; "Piu II's Piazza S. Pietro and St. Andrew's Head" by Ruth Olitsky Rubinstein; "Alvise Cornaro et il Teatro" by Giuseppe Fiocco; "Über die Massgrundlagen des Kuppelentwurfes Bramantes für die Peterskirche in Rom" by Franz Graf Wolff Metternich; "Observations on Bramante's St. Peter's" by Peter Murray; "Bramante's "Ultima Maniera": Die St. Peter-Studien Uff. arch. 8v und 20" by Ludwig H. Heydenreich; "Vasari's Painting of "The Foundation of Florence" in the Palazzo Vecchio" by Nicolai Rubinstein; "L'Escalier de la Cour Ovale à Fontainebleau" by André Chastel; "Architecture and Magic: Considerations on the "Idea" of the Escorial" by René Taylor; "Palladio's Lost Portico Project for San Petronio in Bologna: by James S. Ackerman; "Perchè il Palladio non fu neo-classico" by Cesare Brandi; "Proposta per una nuova lettura critica dell'arte palladiana" by Renato Cevese; "L'Opus Architectonicum" del Borromini" by Paolo Portoghesi; "Michelangelo Garove and the Chapel of the Beato Amedeo of Savoy in the Cathedral of Vercelli" by Henry Millon; "Unknown Designs for the "Temple of Jerusalem" by Claude Perrault" by Wolfgang Herrmann; ""La sainte Antiquité": Focus on an Eighteenth-century Architectural Debate" by Dorothea Nyberg; "Peter II Thumb and German Rococo Architecture" by Henry-Russell Hitchcock; "Le Geay, Piranesi and International Neo-classicism in Rome, 1740-1750" by John Harris; "Robert Adam and Piranesi" by Damie Stillman; "Burke and Chambers on the Sublime and Beautiful" by Eileen Harris; "Chambers and Potsdam" by Hans Huth; "The Completion of Stafford House" by Winslow Ames; "Una disputa ottocentesca sull'"Architettura Simbolica"" by Enrico Castelnuovo; "The Stoclet House by Josef Hoffmann" by Eduard F. Sekler. The Writings of Rudolf Wittkower. Seller Inventory # ABE-1687829087307
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Title: Essays in the History of Architecture ...
Publisher: Phaidon Press (London)
Publication Date: 1967
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
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Essays in the History of Architecture presented to Rudolf Wittkower.
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Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG- DW. 2nd Impression. Label, stamp or embossed stamp of owner at start of book. Name of owner at front of book. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Entire DW has some wear. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES MAY APPLY Packed weight 1999g. Seller Inventory # at085.022
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Essays in the History of Architecture presented to Rudolf Wittkower.
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Condition: Good. Second impression (hardback). 4to (31cm by 23cm), x, 381pp, including 128pp plates. Original red cloth, dustwrapper. Slight chafing to the top edge of a few of the plates, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwarpper is in good to very good condition (some light creasing). From the library of art historian and professor Sir Lawrence Gowing. ISBN 0714813001. Seller Inventory # 77825
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Essays in the History of Architecture Presented to Rudolf Wittkower
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Phaidon, London, 1967
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ISBN 13: 9780714813004
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Edited by Douglas Fraser, Howard Hibbard, & Milton J. Lewine. (London): Phaidon Press, (1967). First Edition. 12.25" x 9". [ix],381pp, including The Writings of Rudolf Wittkower. Green cloth, spine letters gilt. Book in fine condition, dj very good plus (slight sticker residue on front cover panel). With 26 contributions and numerous illustrations. Vol. 1 of a two-part work honoring Rudolf Wittkower. ; 12.25 x 9 inches; 381 pages. Seller Inventory # 13587
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Essays in The History of Architecture Presented to Rudolf Wittkower
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Impression. Essays[26 Contributions].48 Black-and-White Illustrations[Photographs,Plans].Previous Owners Insc.ffep.Small Booksellers Label inside crnr of front cover.Lightly bumped crnr[s].d/w:p.c.Some fading[discolouration] to spine & spine edge & top edge of front cover.Minor creasing to head of spine & crnr[s]. Seller Inventory # 001967
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