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Vendor:R. a. Somerville
The Early Residential Buildings of Trinity College Dublin: Architecture, Financing, People
This book contains a history of the early buildings of Trinity College, from the Elizabethan Quadrangle up to the residential buildings of the early 18th century. Among all those red-brick buildings only the Rubrics remains, albeit much altered, to suggest what Trinity College looked...- $74.50
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Vendor:David L. Finnigan
Inside Allerton: The Essential Guide to Robert Allerton Park
Named one of the Seven Wonders of Illinois, Robert Allerton Park is visited by nearly 100,000 people annually. Allerton, a wealthy Chicago philanthropist and art collector, donated his palatial country estate to the University of Illinois in 1946 with the intent that it should...- $34.99
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Vendor:David Domine
Old Louisville
A forty-five-square-block neighborhood in the heart of Kentucky's largest city, Old Louisville is among the largest and most significant historic preservation districts in America. Comprising some 1,400 structures built primarily between 1885 and 1905, it is a veritable time capsule of late-Victorian and early...- $31.99
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Vendor:Roger W. Moss
Historic Houses of Philadelphia: A Tour of the Region's Museum Homes
With 160 color photographs that invite the reader to step over the threshold, Historic Houses of Philadelphia brings the region's most impressive museum homes to life. The only comprehensive readers' tour of the nation's richest array of historic residences open to the public, the...- $95.00
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Vendor:Suzanna Clarke
House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco
The Medina -- the Old City -- of Fez is the best-preserved, medieval walled city in the world. Inside this vibrant Moroccan community, internet cafes and mobile phones coexist with a maze of donkey-trod alleyways, thousand-year-old sewer systems, and ArabAuthor: Suzanna ClarkeISBN-10: 1416578935ISBN-13: 9781416578932Publisher:...- $18.99
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Vendor:Robert Cartmell
The Incredible Scream Machine: A History of the Roller Coaster
In 1984 America celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the first successful roller coaster device: La Marcus A. Thompson's switchback railway, erected at Coney Island. Robert Cartmell examines every phase of roller coaster history, from the use of the roller coaster by Albert Einstein...- $34.95
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Vendor:Ballard Historical Society
Preserving Ballard
As the first community to incorporate after Washington achieved statehood in 1890, the original city of Ballard has one of most storied histories in the state.Bordered by Salmon Bay, the famous Ballard Locks, a bascule bridge, and the Salish Sea, the longtime joke was...- $23.99
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Vendor:Emile de Bruijn
Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland
Chinese wallpaper has been an important element of western interior decoration for three hundred years. As trade between Europe and China flourished in the seventeenth century, Europeans developed a strong taste for Chinese art and design. The stunningly beautiful wall coverings now known as...- $35.00
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Vendor:John Andrew Gallery
Philadelphia Architecture: A Guide to the City, Fourth Edition
Philadelphia Architecture, A Guide to the City (Fourth Edition) provides more than three hundred descriptions and photographs, both color and black and white, of the city's architecturally most significant buildings. Spanning more than three hundred years, these great buildings characterize Philadelphia as unique among...- $28.00
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Vendor:David W. Erdman
100 Lost Architectural Treasures of Old Charlotte
In its ascent to becoming a top-20 city, Charlotte, North Carolina, has demolished one-by-one a greater proportion of its historic buildings than were lost to Chicago in the great Chicago Fire or to San Francisco in the 1906 earthquake.Through photographs and brief essays, 100...- $34.95
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Vendor:Simon C. Green
Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses - A Military Engineer's Perspective
Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses is a fresh analytical look at how the construction of over 9,000 small fortifications during the Anglo-Boer War sought to change its course. The author examines all aspects of the South African blockhouses during the war: how the initial concept of...- $34.99
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Vendor:Annie Coggan
The Book of Errors
The Book of Errors by Annie Coggan is a tale of three architects who shaped and altered the stories of three historic American structures--the Henry Knox Museum in Maine, Fraunces Tavern in New York City, and the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia. The book...- $18.00
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Vendor:Juliette Magill Kinzie
Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" in the Northwest: Historic Preservation Edition
Even if you've read this fascinating classic before, don't miss this new edition loaded with extra features!First published in 1856, Mrs. Kinzie's firsthand account of life in the Early Day of the upper Midwest remains captivating, thought-provoking, heart-rending, enlightening, amusing, and inspiring. It's all...- $32.95
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Vendor:Arthur Millner
Indian Tiles: Architectural Ceramics from Sultanate and Mughal India and Pakistan
This definitive book tells the visual history of tile decoration in the Indian subcontinent, through vibrant photography and thorough research. Historic India, which now encompasses the modern nations of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, is celebrated for the richness of its architectural and decorative arts,...- $95.00
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