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Zurich 2014. 30x22. 240 pp. More than 200 photos (30 in colour; 60 full-page), and ca 40 drawings and plans, including seven double-page in colour. Publisher's printed cloth with front plate.

Berlin 1893. 33x25. VI+96 pp. + 83 heliogravure plates + 5 portraits + large folding coloured plan. Publisher's pictorial, gilt-lettered cloth, all edges gilt. Binding slightly darkened and extremities rubbed, some light thumbing in lower right corner of the first leaves. A history and description of the garden waterworks of Frederick the Great's Sans-Souci and the adjacent Potsdam palaces, written by the engineer in charge of the waterworks, with photographic plates providing a record of the fountains and basins as they appeared in the early 1890s.

Paris, Massin, (ca 1912-13). 45x33. 8 pp. + 54 plates; + 8 pp. + 36 plates. Handsomely bound in one volume, half calf with marbled cloth boards, top edge gilt (Gustaf Hedberg). The marbling on lower board partly dulled, otherwise fine. Extensive photographic documentation of French chairs from Louis XIV to the Bourbon Restoration. Comprises more than 450 photographs of chairs, all with detailed measurements, and details of chairs, some measured.

Wien & Köln & Graz 1985-90. 31x23. X+422; + X+423-812; + XVI+592 pp. 1087 reproductions of elevations, perspectives, plans, etc. in volumes 1-2; 1111 reproductions in vol. 3. Publisher's cloth, dust jackets. (Schriften des Instituts für Kunstgeschichte, Akademie für bildenden Künste, Wien: 2,1 - 2,3). First three volumes of the massive six-volume work on Otto Wagner, the first two volumes being the standard Catalogue Raisonné of his architectural oeuvre.

London, Smith and Son, 1829-42 / 1908. 25x17. XXXII+412; + LXVI+320; + XXVI+504; + XXII+328; + VI+460; + X+576; + LVIII+288; + LXVIII+488; + XII+898 pp.; + a total of 51 plates with guard-tissues + 2 folding letter facsimile plates. Uniformly bound untrimmed in publisher's red cloth with printed spine labels. A very good, well-preserved set, spines slightly faded with darkened labels, edges slightly dusty; contents fine. Former owner's bookplate on front endpapers. A complete set of the classic eight-volume plus supplement catalogue compiled by the British art dealer who developed the concept of the Catalogue Raisonné. According to the impressums the books were published by Smith & Son 1829-42 and printed by James Skinner & Co. in Edinburgh. The first two volumes, however, contain an additional printed notice to the effect that they were reprinted in 1908 for Sands and Company, London and Edinburgh, in an edition limited to 1250 copies.

Stockholm 1898. 37x26. VIII+122 s. + porträtt + 48 fotogravyrplanscher. 106 planer och ritningar i texten. Vackert samtida rött halvskinnband. Tryckt på fint papper i en upplaga begränsad till 125 numrerade exemplar av vilka detta är nr 25. Sällsynt, attraktivt framställd historik och beskrivning av 1200-talskatedralen i Västerås, författad av den arkitekt som ansvarade för en genomgripande restaurering av katedralen i slutet av 1800-talet.

London, Thames & Hudson, 1991. 34x25. 380 pp. Ca 435 colour reproductions including 67 double-page and seven full-page. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jacket. The jacket lightly edgworn with minor interior tape repairs. English-language edition of the fully illustrated catalogue including essays by Götz Adriani, Peter Schjeldahl, Toni Stooss, and Zdenek Felix.

Berlin, Wasmuth, 1889. 49x32. 8 pp. + 50 heliogravure plates with 57 photographs of furniture, clocks, furnished interiors, etc. Loose as issued in printed half cloth portfolio with tie-strings. Small loss of paper from uppermost inner corner of half and main title leaves. Rare, impressive photographic documentation of Royal furniture in the Charlottenburg, Friedrichkron and Sanssousi palaces.

Hannover, Schäfer, 1986. 32x24. 256 pp. 468 photos and reproductions. Publisher's pictorial boards, a fine copy. Authoritatative and well illustrated historical study on the carpenters' tools of old timber house construction. Extensive introduction "Das Zimmerhandwerk" by Manfred Gerner.

Monte-Carlo, Sauret, 1963. 32x24. II+190 pp. (including lithographed illustration on title page) + one original lithograph. A total of 146 colour reproductions. Original covers designed by Braque (original lithograph). An fine copy in the original slipcase. Fully illustrated Catalogue Raisonné of Braque's lithographs, with an introduction by Francis Ponge.

Stockholm, Beijer, 1875. 22x14. X+794 pp. + 12 utvikbara planscher med 509 teckningar, ritningar och planer. Förlagsklotband med pärmtitel i guldtryck. Ryggen och pärmarnas ytterkanter något nötta, i övrigt ett välbevarat exemplar där de flesta arken fram till sidan 500 är ouppskurna. Tidens mest omfattande svenska byggnadslära, en värdefull källa till husbyggnadspraktik och -teknik i Sverige under andra hälften av 1800-talet. "Andra öfversedda, tillökta och delvis omarbetade upplagan", den sista med de gamla svenska måttangivelserna. En tredje upplaga utgavs 1890 med måtten omräknade till metersystemet.

(London 1901-13) Facsimile reprint, London 1976. 21x14. A total of 418 pp. including ca 170 pages with photos of more than 4000 objects. Publisher's printed boards. A complete facsimile of the auction catalogues 1-130 published 1901-1913 by the British collector and dealer of ethnographic art and artefacts from Oceania, Africa, North and South America, Asia, etc.

Moskva 1937. 34x27. 160 pp. + 4 plates with coloured perspective drawings + one folding plate with drawings. Ca 90 perspectives and elevations, 80 plans and sections, 16 photos of models, and at the end of the book ca 35 detailed measured plans and drawings including doors, windows, etc. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, the lettering slightly dulled, corner tips lightly worn. (Vsesoyuznaya Akademiya Arkhitektury). An album of architectural projects for kolkhoz clubs and district culture centres. Among the architects are Andrei Rostkovskii (three projects); Nikolai Kolli, Fomin & Levinson, and Yakov Kornfeld (each two projects); Arkadi Mordvinov, Oskar Munts, Ginzburg & Rubanenko, etc.

München, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1981. 32x23. 144; + 446; + 460 pp. Altogether 1710 reproductions. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, a fine set in publisher's pictorial cloth/board slipcase. Carl Ehrnrooth's bookplates. Second, extended edition of this comprehensive compilation of German, Italian, Dutch, French, and English ornamental pattern prints with informative text. Vol. 1: Text, Vol. 2: Prints 15th-17th centuries, Vol. 3: Prints 17th-19th centuries.

Berne, chez l'auteur / Kornfeld & Klipstein, 1933, 1968. 30x21. 368; XII+372 pp. Reproductions throughout. Volume I in linen cloth, printed front wrapper (but not the first, blank leaf) bound in; volume in printed wrappers, very fine in the original slipcase. First two volumes of the standard Catalogue Raisonné, fully illustrated, of Picasso's etchings, drypoints, lithographs and monotypes , describing all states; with indices.

Paris (ca 1924). 24x16. VI+XXII+248 pp. Ca 215 photos, drawings and plans. Nice contemporary red calf backed cloth boards with vellum corners, pictorial front wrapper bound in. "14e édition" on the base of front wrapper may be regarded as a continuation of the fictive designation of the 1923 first edition printings, most extant copies of which are marked "5e édition". (Collection de "L'Esprit Nouveau"). 'Vers une Architecture' originally appeared in 1923 under the name "Le Corbusier-Saugnier" which was the joint pseudonym under which Charles-Edouard Jeanneret and Amedée Ozenfant first published the texts in their magazine L'Esprit Nouveau. This new edition was revised and extended by Jeanneret who dropped the "Saugnier", thus taking the whole credit for the texts.

Paris (ca 1925). 24x16. XII+300 pp. + folding coloured pan + large folding plate. Nearly 200 plans, drawings, photos, etc. Fine half cloth binding, pictorial wrappers (designated 11e édition) bound in, one weak stain in margin of front wrapper. (Collection de "L'Esprit Nouveau"). A collection of articles on town building by Le Corbusier first published in 1925 with a number of fictitious edition designations. Partly drawn from the magazine 'L'Esprit Nouveau' published by Le Corbusier and Amedée Ozenfant, the book includes a presentation of the 'Ville Contemporain' project for a modern city which is illustrated on the large folding plate.

Paris, Crès, 1921. 23x15. 168 pp. Printed wrappers. An unusually well preserved copy, with the poor paper only slightly (and evenly) darkened. First edition of the first book to present Adolf Loos's radical theories on design first "spoken into he void" in the Viennese 'Neue Freie Presse' and other magazines. The texts became an important influence on the Viennese avant-garde circles, although rejected by established Austrian and German publishers - in a preface Loos gives an account of the controversial publishing history of the book.

Berlin, Hessling, 1968. 25x18. XXIV+648 pp. + 36 pp. with 137 photos. Numerous reproductions of marks. Publisher's cloth. Weak external stains in margin of front board, otherwise perfect.

London (1905 ). 40x27. XII+(52); + VIII+(36) pp. + 237 plates with 294 photos. Publisher's decorated, gilt-lettered cloth, top edges gilt. "These volumes are a mine of lovely things. Indeed, it would be difficult to better the photographs, and the letterpress is interesting and readable. Those who have spent pleasant hours in the gardens of Tivoli or Frascati will enjoy recalling by means of this work the time passed in those places of ordered beauty." (from the review in The Spectator, 8 December, 1906).

Stockholm 1901. Kolorerad karta med tomtindelning. 78x65, uppfodrad på väv, 36x20 i hopvikt tillstånd. Obetydliga bruksspår. Attraktiv Djursholmskarta med tomtindelning, kolorerad delvis för hand. I hörnen försedd med små kartor över Enebybergs och Svalnäs ägor respektive frälselägenheten Stocksundsbro.