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NARJOUX, Felix.
Notes and Sketches of an Architect Taken During A Journey In The Northwest of Europe. Translated from the French of Felix Narjoux by John Peto.
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877. First edition in English.
Tall 8vo., orig. green cloth with pictorially gilt decoration on upper cover and spine, 441pp.
Bookplate, inner front hinge badley cracked, name on title, some rubbing to the foot of the spine but o/w a near fine copy.
"....therefore we have travelled, pencil in had, like an architect, making sketches wherever we have taken notes, so that the illustrations and descriptions should afford each other mutual aid. The sketches themselves, besides representing the larger public buildings erected in each country....show the intereriors and less conspicuous parts of houses which have been constructed with a veiw to meet the wants of the inhabitants....." The author travels to Holland, Germany and Denmark.
$200 CAD
NARJOUX, Felix.Notes and Sketches of an Architect Taken During A Journey In The Northwest of Europe. Translated from the French of Felix Narjoux by John Peto.
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877. First edition in English.
Tall 8vo., orig. green cloth with pictorially gilt decoration on upper cover and spine, 441pp.
Bookplate, inner front hinge badley cracked, name on title, some rubbing to the foot of the spine but o/w a near fine copy.
"....therefore we have travelled, pencil in had, like an architect, making sketches wherever we have taken notes, so that the illustrations and descriptions should afford each other mutual aid. The sketches themselves, besides representing the larger public buildings erected in each country....show the intereriors and less conspicuous parts of houses which have been constructed with a veiw to meet the wants of the inhabitants....." The author travels to Holland, Germany and Denmark.
$200 CAD
