Architecture of the Old South, North Carolina, First Edition by Mills Lane

Architecture of the Old South: South Carolina by Mills Lane. Savannah GA Beehive Press 1985. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This was the first of the "Architecture of the Old South." It showcases South Carolina's famous buildings; including Charleston, nearby plantations, and 19th-century building of upland South Carolina. It covers famous places like Drayton Hall, Hampton, the Miles Brewton, Joseph Manigault, Nathaniel Russell, Aiken, Horry and Edmonston Allston houses (a pretty thorough coverage of Charleston), and also harder to find floor plans and pictures of places like Medway, the main house at Middleton Place...

Architecture of the Old South: Louisiana by Mills Lane. New York: A Beehive Press book or Abbeville Press, 1990. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 203 pp. The book has chapters on: The Colony, Federal Era...

Architecture of the Old South: Mississippi-Alabamba by Mills Lane. NY, Beehive Press, 1989. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Oversized book, 204 pp. beautifully illustrated with vi...

"Charles Burchfield", the architecture of painting. New York: DC Moore Gallery, 2009. First Edition hardcover with no dust jacket as issued. 111 pp. Exhi...

Beaux-Arts Estates, A Guide to the Architecture of Long Island by Liisa and Donald Sclare. New York: Viking Press, 1980. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 274 pp. A tour of t...

History of old Sheffield plate being an account of the origin, growth, and decay of the industry and of the antique silver and white or Britannia metal trade with chronological lists...

Antique map titled 'Novus Brasiliae Typus'. Fine old color example of Blaeu's first map of Brazil, with north oriented to the right. Includes inset map of Baya de todos Santos, elaborate cartouche, 2 compass roses and richly embellished vignettes of native Brazilian life and animals. The interior of the map includes vignettes of indigenous animals and native scenes, including cannibalism. Inset within a decorative border is a small map of "Baya de todos Sanctos". In the sea are monsters, a galleon and two compass roses. The large title cartouche features a male and female Brazilian, both of whom are shown naked. Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) was a prominent Dutch geographer and publisher. Born the son of a herring merchant, Blaeu chose not fish but mathematics and astronomy for his focus. He studied with the famous Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe...

Presenting a rare book, namely, Sketches of North Carolina by Rev WH Foote. Titled: “Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the principles of a p...

New Forms Architecture in The 1990s First Edition Hardcover 1997.This is the first edition hardcover book "New Forms - Architecture in The 1990s" Introducing a captivating addition t...

Kane, Paul (1810-1871) Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America; From Canada to Vancouver Island and Oregon Through the Hud...

Presenting a gloriously rare book …. The Return of Tarzan First Edition by Edgar Rice Burroughs Grosset & Dunlap 1st Edition. First edition. Il...

Presenting a gloriously rare book …. The Return of Tarzan First Edition by Edgar Rice Burroughs Grosset & Dunlap 1st Edition. Very good +, squa...