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Architecture
We have a particular fondness here at Rooke Books for Architecture. As a result we often have a goodly number of special works on the subject. Of course classicism is well represented but we are also very keen on the Gothic. So here you will find Pugin as well as Palladio.
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1868-1875 Dictionnaire Raisonne du Mobilier FrancaisParis: 1868-1875A beautiful set of this densely illustrated nineteenth century French work on furniture by the renowned French architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.
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1909 Our HomesLondon: 1909A beautifully illustrated first edition copy of Walter Shaw Sparrow's guide to home design and architecture.
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1909 La Voie Publique et Son DécorParis: 1909A handsome copy of this book regarding the architecture of Paris, with the original paper wraps bound into a smart half morocco binding.
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1961 The 29th Honorary Fellowship The Weizmann Institute of ScienceStockholm: 1961A finely bound very scarce copy of the addresses delivered at the Weizmann Institute of Science on the 30th October 1960. An association copy, gifted by the wife of Axel L Wenner-Gren, a major contributor of this work.
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c1890 The Royal Album of London Views, with Map and IndexLondon: c1890A fantastic collection of engravings depicting London at the turn of the twentieth century.