HOMES FOR THE PEOPLE, IN SUBURB AND COUNTRY; THE VILLA, THE MANSION, AND THE COTTAGE, ADAPTED TO AMERICAN CLIMATE AND WANTS. WITH EXAMPLES SHOWING HOW TO ALTER AND REMODEL OLD BUILDINGS, IN A SERIES OF ONE HUNDRED ORIGINAL DESIGNS (with diagrams of the Oaxaca Mexico Mint Building tipped in)

Author: Wheeler, Gervase
Title: HOMES FOR THE PEOPLE, IN SUBURB AND COUNTRY; THE VILLA, THE MANSION, AND THE COTTAGE, ADAPTED TO AMERICAN CLIMATE AND WANTS. WITH EXAMPLES SHOWING HOW TO ALTER AND REMODEL OLD BUILDINGS, IN A SERIES OF ONE HUNDRED ORIGINAL DESIGNS (with diagrams of the Oaxaca Mexico Mint Building tipped in)
Publication: New York: The American News Company, 1867
Edition: Revised Edition

Description: Hardcover. Octavo. Green cloth, border-ruled in blind, with gilt lettering to rebacked spine, with original (spinecloth) laid down. Shelfwear and rubbing to extremities, and solidly bound. Previous owner's names to endpapers. Numerous diagrams/plans for houses, twelve full-page illustrations including frontispiece, and numerous in-text pictures as well. TIPPED IN AT REAR, two folding diagrams for the Casa de Moneda (The Mint) in Oaxaca City, Mexico -- quite possibly removed from a book of reports on Mexican municipal development entitled Momeno, Secretaria de Fomento.

Ideas for building everything from a "cheap home" to a "mansion". Chapter by chapter. Also includes remodelling an old stone houses (pp. 378-398). Good.

Seller ID: 88636

Subject: Architecture, Design

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