practical remarks observations building (6 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Oversized hardcover. 10 x 12.75 inches. Plain gray paper over boards (all original); paper label chipping on the spine. Some scuffing and bumps to corners, but overall good condition for inelegant original binding. 36 pages + 33 plates. 8 page catalogue of other books published by J. Taylor bound in at the rear (a smaller size than the rest of the book). Printed on good quality paper, with wide margins. Inoffensive foxing, mostly noticeable in the margins. Text pages provide explanations for the plates. Plates themselves are quite handsome, sepia aquatints, with landscapes and floorplans. Plate-marks clearly visible. All 33 plates present and in very good condition. Please email with questions or to request photos.

First and sole edition of this scarce treatise. Admiral Schomberg (1774-1850) fought at the Battle of Martinique (1794) and the Invasion of Guadeloupe (1794), and served in the Boyne under Sir John Jervis and the Glatton under Sir Henry Trollope. He was a commander during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, commanding the Loire frigate from 1807 to 1812. Schomberg remarks that "the science of naval architecture has much advanced, but still there appears more to be done; and why should not this be the case, as well as in all other great arts and sciences? The true motive for this technical brochure is for the advancement from good to better" (pp. viii-ix). WorldCat records nine copies worldwide: 6 in the UK, but not the British Library, Hagley Museum and US Naval Academy in the US, and Darmstadt in Europe. Octavo (201 x 120 mm). Mid-20th century dark blue straight-grain half morocco, blue cloth sides, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Extremities slightly rubbed, light foxing to endpapers, lacking half-title, couple of spots to contents but overall quite clean. A very good copy.

First edition. First edition. viii, 36 pp. letterpress + 33 sepia aquatint plates of domestic architecture. 1 vols. 4to. Lovely copy of the first book of this busy professional, illustrated with thirty-three exquisite sepia aquatints of his rural designs for villas, "Cabânes ornées", in the "antient English character," farm houses, servants' cottages, a "huntsman's house" which includes stables, dog kennel, etc., etc. "He designed a wide range of public buildings as well as housing, and in this he was representative of the increasingly complex nature of early nineteenth-century architecture . " - ODNB. Later quarter grey morocco and marbled paper boards, red leather spine label. Beautiful, immaculate copy viii, 36 pp. letterpress + 33 sepia aquatint plates of domestic architecture. 1 vols. 4to.