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Wiltshire by Julian Orbach
RRP: €71.40€59.15The indispensable guide to the architectural heritage of Wiltshire With hundreds of buildings added to the new gazetteer, this volume offers a fully revised and updated guide to Wiltshire. From prehistoric Stonehenge and thirteenth-century Salisbury... -
Christopher Wren London Map: Guide to the architecture of Christopher Wren in London by Owen Hopkins 9781912018208
RRP: €11.31€10.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018208Author Owen HopkinsPage Count 2Imprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow MediaWeight(grams) 40gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 150mm * 2mm -
These Silent Mansions: A life in graveyards by Jean Sprackland
RRP: €11.89€7.76'A refreshingly original meditation... I wish I had written it myself' Literary ReviewGraveyards are oases: places of escape, peace and reflection. Liminal sites of commemoration, where the past is close enough to touch. Yet they also reflect their... -
Guide to Historic Artists' Homes & Studios: A Guide by Valerie A. Balint
RRP: €29.75€19.96From the desert vistas of Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico ranch to Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's Hamptons cottage, step into the homes and studios of illustrious American artists and witness creativity in the making. Celebrating the twentieth... -
Fallen Idols: A short history of the world in twelve statues by Alex Von Tunzelmann
RRP: €23.80€15.89Books of 2021, The Economist 'Alex von Tunzelmann is one of the most gifted historians writing today. Brilliant and trenchant, witty and wise, Fallen Idols is a book you will adore, devour, and talk about to everyone you know. Hesitate no longer; buy... -
Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America by Sam Roberts
RRP: €17.84€12.14In the winter of 1913, Grand Central Station was officially opened and immediately became one of the most beautiful and recognizable Manhattan landmarks. In this celebration of the one hundred year old terminal, Sam Roberts of The New York Times looks... -
In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials by Spencer Bailey
RRP: €59.44€45.05"A fascinating and insightful meditation on the act of memory as a built reality. " - Daniel Libeskind, architectAn extraordinary book that explores the art, architecture, and design of memorials around the world from the late twentieth century to today... -
Building Britannia: A History of Britain in Twenty-Five Buildings by Steven Parissien 9781801108751
RRP: €41.65€26.42An ambitious history of Britain told through the stories of twenty-five notable structures, from the Iron Age fortification of Maiden Castle in Dorset to the Gherkin. Building Britannia is a chronicle of social, political and economic change seen... -
Coal Mining in Britain by Richard Hayman
RRP: €10.70€8.03An illustrated history of Britain's coal mines and the lives of the miners who worked in them. Coal heated the homes, fuelled the furnaces and powered the engines of the Industrial Revolution. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the coalfields -... -
Abandoned Palaces by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: €23.79€17.06Built to last, built to impress, built with style and grandeur - it is all the more remarkable when the most ostentatious of buildings fall into disrepair and become ruins. From imperial residences and aristocratic estates to hotels and urban mansions,... -
Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent by Owen Hatherley
RRP: €13.08€9.25Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, supermodernist concert halls, imaginative public spaces and futuristic egalitarian housing estates which, interconnected by high-speed... -
Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past. by Robert Bevan
RRP: €23.80€16.35The past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology upon the physical spaces around us. Holocaust deniers use details of the ruins of the gas chambers Auschwitz to promote their lies: 'No Holes; No... -
Kensington Palace: Art, Architecture and Society by Olivia Fryman
RRP: €65.45€57.23Go behind the scenes of generations of the British royal family, exploring both the glamour and domestic life inside the spectacular 300-year-old Kensington Palace Kensington Palace is renowned for its architecture, splendid interiors, internationally... -
Understanding Cemetery Symbols: A Field Guide for Historic Graveyards by H E Cameron 9781547047215
RRP: €21.41€18.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781547047215Author H E CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Georgia Guidestones: America'S Most Mysterious Monument by Raymond Wiley 9781934708682
RRP: €19.03€14.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934708682Author Raymond WileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Disinformation CompanyPublisher Disinformation Company -
Alan Partridge: Big Beacon by Alan Partridge 9781398719224
RRP: €20.22€15.37'With a genuine belly laugh to be found on almost every page, it only cements Partridge's status as the world's greatest comedy character' EMPIRE'Partridge... has become the man our time deserves. Aha!' THE TIMES'This is a deeply silly book. It's also... -
Greyfriars Graveyard by Charlotte Golledge 9781445688183
RRP: €19.03€12.91When Greyfriars Graveyard opened in Edinburgh in the sixteenth century, built on the site of a Franciscan monastery on the edge of the Old Town below the castle, it became Edinburgh's most important burial site. Over the centuries many of Edinburgh's... -
Porto: Gateway to the World by Dr. Neill Lochery
RRP: €17.84€16.34'I fell in love with Porto and I love it still. The city's spectacular bridges, its vertiginous riverbanks, steep with ancient buildings, the old port houses, the wide squares: I was entranced by them all.' J.K. ROWLING One of the oldest cities in... -
Strolling through Florence: The Definitive Walking Guide to the Renaissance City by Mario Erasmo 9781780762142
RRP: €17.84€16.80To walk through Florence is to step into one of the most remarkable histories of any European city. From its establishment by Julius Caesar in the first century BC, through its Golden Age at the epicentre of the Italian Renaissance, to its position as an... -
Remembrance Now: 21st-Century Memorial Architecture by Michèle Woodger
RRP: €53.55€40.46Memorials have long been an important part of our built environments. In recent decades, there have been enormous changes in who and what we commemorate, and how. This increasing need for unique and sensitive memorials opens up new creative horizons for... -
An Introduction to Passive House by Justin Bere
RRP: €47.60€39.48Throughout the world, Passive House is now recognised as the best method to create comfortable, healthy, low energy buildings and it is a key component of the 21st century's green economic revolution. Written by one of the UK's leading passive house... -
Tower by Nigel Jones 9780099537656
RRP: €17.84€13.03No building has been more intimately involved in the story of Britain than the Tower of London - a mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the capital. Castle, prison, torture chamber, execution site, zoo, mint, treasure house, armoury,... -
Tower Bridge: History * Engineering * Design by Kenneth Powell
RRP: €29.69€20.65Tower Bridge, close to the Tower of London, is one of the best-known and most recognizable bridges in the world. Opened on 30 June 1894, this combined suspension and bascule bridge was designed by architect Sir Horace Jones and engineer Sir John Wolfe... -
Nairn's Paris: 2017 by Ian Nairn
RRP: €17.84€14.93Following on from the bestselling Nairn's Towns - a celebration of the city of Paris by cult figure Ian Nairn. Illustrated with original black and white images taken by Nairn himself. More than a guide book - this is a journey of discovery. Out of print... -
Ruskin's Venice: The Stones Revisited New Edition by Sarah Quill 9781848221796
RRP: €29.74€23.56In Ruskin's Venice: The Stones Revisited, photographer Sarah Quill has selected passages from Ruskin's The Stones of Venice and has linked them to her own photographs of Venetian architecture, so creating a fascinating guide that fuses Ruskin's vision of... -
Palace in Sicily by Jean-Louis Remilleux
RRP: €47.60€32.31"A jewel of Baroque architecture, the Castelluccio Palace is the spotlight of a beautiful book retracing its history, its long restoration and its precious ornaments. These photographs reflect the Sicilian Golden Age." -Fanny Guenon des Mesnards, AD... -
Oxfordshire North and West by Alan Brooks
RRP: €71.40€59.63This volume is a fully expanded and revised architectural guide to the greater part of Oxfordshire, based on Jennifer Sherwood's 1970s account, full of new information and with specially commissioned photography.The vernacular architecture of the... -
Mr Barry's War: Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament after the Great Fire of 1834 by Caroline Shenton 9780198707202
RRP: €16.65€11.60When the brilliant classical architect Charles Barry won the competition to build a new, Gothic, Houses of Parliament in London he thought it was the chance of a lifetime. It swiftly turned into the most nightmarish building programme of the century... -
The Classical Buildings of Bath by Mike Jenner 9781908326034
RRP: €29.75€20.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908326034Author Mike JennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Redcliffe Press LtdPublisher Redcliffe Press LtdWeight(grams) 1107gDimensions(mm) 279mm... -
Kensington Palace: An Intimate Memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle by Tom Quinn
RRP: €11.89€8.46For more than 300 years, Kensington Palace has played host to a colourful cast of kings, queens and assorted aristocratic hangers-on. A stone's throw from the bustling streets of central London, this grand building has served as the stage for some of the... -
Sudeley Castle: Royalty, Romance & Renaissance by James Parry
RRP: €41.65€26.37Set in the beautiful Gloucestershire Cotswolds, Sudeley Castle exemplifies popular perceptions of the romantic English country house. The final resting place of King Henry VIII's last wife, Katherine Parr, it is partly castellated and its... -
The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme by Gavin Stamp
RRP: €11.89€8.56Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect in the twentieth century. It is the principal,... -
War Memorials by Roger Bowdler
RRP: €10.70€7.16The last veteran of the First World War has long since died, and those of the Second are getting ever scarcer, but public interest in war memorials continues unabated. The tragic impact of world events on local communities over the past century has... -
The Wonders of Florence by Dario Cestaro 9788831719216
RRP: €23.80€16.16The first pop-up book on Florence. Dario Cestaro's spectacular drawings and paper architecture reveal Florence and its treasures in a pop-up book telling the city's history with straightforward texts and interesting facts. This fascinating journey in... -
The Architecture Lover's Guide to Paris by Ruby Boukabou
RRP: €19.03€13.82Unlock the secrets of Paris's charm with this handy visual guidebook. Learn the history of the city's most famous landmarks, grasp their fascinating details and discover dozens of lesser known architectural gems. Whether you are a Paris regular or... -
Guide to JCT Intermediate Building Contract 2016 by Sarah Lupton
RRP: €61.88€50.34Guide to JCT Intermediate Contract 2016, the new edition of Sarah Lupton's ever popular Guide to IC11, is a practical guide to the operation and administration of the JCT Intermediate Contract suite 2016.All of the contract's provisions, procedures and... -
Sansovino's Venice by Vaughan Hart
RRP: €32.73€27.72This is the first English translation of Francesco Sansovino's (1521-1586) celebrated guide to Venice, which was first published in 1561. One of the earliest books to describe the monuments of Venice for inquisitive travelers, Sansovino's guide was... -
The English Castle: 1066-1650 by John Goodall 9780300110586
RRP: €71.40€62.61From coast to coast, the English landscape is still richly studded with castles both great and small. As homes or ruins, these historic buildings are today largely objects of curiosity. For centuries, however, they were at the heart of the kingdom's... -
Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire by Rob Close
RRP: €71.40€60.34Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire are among the least-explored counties in Scotland, but no other area can lay claim to their astounding diversity of character, from the wild remote moorland of the south to the landscape of the Clyde estuary in the... -
The Dublin Art Book: The City Through the Eyes of its Artists by Emma Bennett
RRP: €20.22€15.30This book is a tribute to Dublin, an impressive artistic collection taking the reader on a tour through this most vibrant city. From the historic Trinity College Dublin and the iconic Ha'penny Bridge to the lively pub scene and secret hidden corners,...