Can someone point me to a modern treatment of the Veblen-Young characterization of projective spaces of dimension greater than $2$ as $P(V)$ for some vector space $V$? [<b>Added</b>: see [here][1] for a statement of the Veblen-Young Theorem. The article includes a reference to the two-volume work of Veblen and Young in which the result was first proved. --PLC] A precise reference to the original work where this appeared would also be very useful! [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective_space#Axioms_for_projective_space