Blue hardcover with silver print. Dust in mylar cover. Yorkshire-born Francis Mawson Rattenbury (1867-1935) emigrated to British Columbia as a young architect in 1892. Within months of his arrival in Victoria he launched his brilliant, if abbreviated, career by winning an international competition to design the legislative buildings. While his life was marred by controversy, scandal and, in the end, tragedy, Rattenbury's architecture had an enduring impact on the Canadian landscape and his commercial ventures were important to the economic development of the West. Looks new. Extensive notes an... View More...
Light blue cover and dark blue print. Dust now in mylar protective cover. Most of the earliest colonists to America were Anglican Puritans and the Anglican Church became the established church of Virginia, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia during the colonial period. After the American Revolution, the Anglican Church in America formed an independent body in 1789 and called it the Protestant Episcopal Church. A unique book on the interior elements and furnishings of early Colonial Churches. The focus is on things like Chancels and Screens, Tables and Altars, Mediae... View More...
Written in German on Naval Architecture.The floating material fleet of maritime powers , first supplementary volume with supplements from previous years .. rare original printing. Marble insets with 1/4 leather binding. This is not an xlibrary. See separate listing (60791) for the first in this series entitled "Das schwimmnde Flottenmaterial der seemachte asiatischen kriegsschiffe der neueren und neusten zeit'There is no specific ship number assigned to the ships listed in this book. There is a register of the ships in the back (p. 593-599) listing all the ships in alphabetical order and an i... View More...
