Donaldson (Thomas Leverton) A Collection of...Doorways, from Ancient Buildings in Greece and Italy, 26 engraved plates, contemporary ink signature at head of title, 1833; A Collection of...Doorways, from Modern Buildings in Italy and Sicily, presentation copy inscribed "Simpson Esq. Architect of Aberdeen with the author's compts." at head of title, 28 engraved plates, a few pencil annotations, 1836, together 2 works in 1 vol., occasional spotting or soiling, contemporary half calf, rubbed and faded, [BAL 896 & 898] § [Avril (Louis, Abbé)], "M.L.M.". Temples Anciens et Modernes; ou Observations historiques et critiques sur les plus célèbres Monumens d'Architecture Grecque et Gothique, 2 parts in 1, half-titles, 7 folding engraved plates (including the Pantheon in Rome, Santa Sophia in Constantinople, St. Peter's in Rome and St.Paul's in London), charming woodcut architectural head-pieces, unobtrusive embossed library stamp to one or two leaves, contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt, rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine with red and green roan labels, corners repaired, [BAL 165; Berlin Kat. 1899], London & Paris, 1774 § Huet (Jean Charles) Parallèle des Temples Anciens, Gothiques et Modernes, half-title, contemporary blue paste-paper wrappers, uncut, rubbed, spine a little worn and frayed, [Not in BAL], Paris, 1809, first editions, 4to & 8vo (3)

⁂ The first two are scarce studies of classical and renaissance doorways, the second is an interesting and anonymous work by a Jesuit on the structure of the gothic church and the third is a scarce pamphlet favouring the Gothic and Greek Revival styles over Italianate classical, mentioning particularly Notre Dame and Sainte Geneviève (now the Panthéon) in Paris, and at one point refering to Avril's work.

Archibald Simpson (1790-1847) was the leading architect in Aberdeen during the early nineteenth century and the designer of many of its principal public buildings, many in the Greek Revival style.