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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.

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.

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.

(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.

Milano 2002. 28x25. 476 pp. Nearly 900 photos, drawings and sketches, ca 170 in colour. Publisher's boards, dust jacket. A complete English-language documentation of Castglioni's works in industrial design, furniture, architecture, and exhibition design.

Stockholm 1963-70. 400; + 448; + 428; + 380 pp. Comprises a total of 232 pages with text (introductions, catalogue of the pictures, indices) and 1544 pages with 2420 reproductions. Publisher's half leather, top edges gilt. A fine set with some very light external wear, and a gift inscription on front endpaper in one of the volumes. The complete, fully illustrated documentation of Erik Dahlbergh's drawings for the monumental documentation of Swedish palaces, mansions, churches, etc. published as a corpus of engraved plates in the early 18th century under the title 'Svecia Antiqua et Hodierna'. Text by Wallin, Andrén, Göran Axel-Nilsson, Nils Sundquist, Manne Hofrén, and Harald Wideen

Woodbridge, Suffolk 1998. 41x31. 300 pp. including 110 pages with drawings and plans and 120 pages with 271 photos. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. A reprint from the Country-Houses volume of the three-volume set 'The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens' published in 1950.

Berlin, Wasmuth, 1881. 48x32. 8 pp. + 22 plates (including two folding) with 41 colour rendering. Loose as issued in printed, cloth-backed boards; old bookplate inside front board. A fine set with minor unobtrusive darkening of top margins.

Paris, Henri Broca, 1929. 22x18. 176 pp. + 2 plates. 45 mostly full-page reproductions. Neat contemporary cloth, printed front wrapper with mounted portrait plate bound in. First edition. The memoirs of 'Kiki de Montparnasse', the artists' model, actress, nightclub singer and painter, with reproductions of her own paintings and drawings as well as portrait photos of her by Man Ray, and Kiki portraits by Moïse Kisling, Tsuguharu Foujita, Per Krogh, Hermine Davide, Eileen Mayo, and Tono Salazar.

Helsingfors 1951. 24x16. 552 pp. text and reproductions of marks + 40 pp. with 75 photos of gold and silver works. A beautiful copy, handsomely bound in half morocco with marbled boards, printed wrappers bound in (minor discolouring of front wrapper, one leaf with repaired tear in margin). Inscribed by the author. No. 231 of an edition limited to 500 copies. Scarce, classic dictionary of the gold- and silversmiths and jewellers of Saint Petersburg 1714-1870.

Paris 1867. 40x29. VIII+56; + VIII+114+II; + VIII+90+II; + VIII+114+II pp. + 293 engraved plates (3 folding) and 2 coloured lithographed plates. Ca 220 drawings and plans in the text. Contemporary half brown morocco, top edges gilt, bindings slightly rubbed but a very good set with fine, clean plates. Descriptions and carefully drawn elevations, perspectives, details and plans illustrating twenty-five French buildings from the 15th-18th centuries including Le Vau's Hôtel Lambert in Paris and other prominent houses and major Châteux.

Leipzig 1925-29. 32x25. VIII+448; + VIII+284; + IV+250 pp. + a total of 65 plates with ca 100 heliogravure reproductions, 35 coloured. 137 reproductions in the text including 40 full-page. Publisher's decorated, gilt-lettered cloth, some foxing of edges. Herman Lindberg's name in pencil on front free endpaper. Classic, scholarly history of Japanese woodcut art, covering: 1: from earliest times to Harunobu, 2: from Harunobu to Eishi, 3: from the Sekien school to Hiroshige. Includes numerous reproductions of signatures, and dictionary of important Japanese terms and concepts with their Japanese characters.

Stuttgart 1929. 29x23. VII+128 pp. Ca 300 photos and renderings and 75 plans, sections, etc. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth. An influential work on modern architecture, with an introduction that put the new style firmly in a line of descent from selected aspects of 19th-century designs and gave importance to he Expressionists and the Amsterdam school at a time when their reputations were declining. The introduction is followed by an 158-page survey of buildings designed by Bruno Taut, his brother Max, Mendelsohn, Döcker, Gropius, Mies, Scharoun, Häring, Ernst May, Josef Frank, Josef Hoffmann, van der Vlugt, Oud, Rietveld, Bohuslav Fuchs, Le Corbusier, Lurçat, Mallet-Stevens, and others. A truncated version in English, without the plans and sections, was published in the same year.

Stockholm 1762. 17x10. XII+108 s. + 6 utvikbara graverade planscher med 44 fasadritningar, sektioner, planer och detaljritningar. Samtida halvskinnband. Andra upplagan av ett arbete som först utgavs 1761.

New York 2008. 22x22. 224 pp. Ca 190 photos by Keld Helmer-Petersen (76 full-page) and 46 reproductions of furniture drawings (22 full-page). Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, as new.

Stockholm 1948. 31x23. XVI+148 pp. + 110 plates (24 coloured and 86 heliogravure plates) with ca 470 photographs. 332 drawings in the text. Publisher's cloth. A Royal presentation copy of the sumptuously produced catalogue, inscribed by Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, February 1949. Yuan 1615. When Gustaf Adolf ascended the throne shortly before his 68th birthday in 1950, much of his life as Crown Prince had been devoted to the assembling of an important collection of ancient Chinese pottery and other art objects.

Paris 1933. 24x16. 92 pp. 40 photos, designs and plans. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy with minor traces of handling and light wear to backstrip. First edition of the "Crusade, or the Twilight of the Academies". Le Corbusier was constantly on guard against the academic establishment, and this crusade against academism and traditionalism may be regarded as a response to the prolonged campaign against Le Corbusier mounted by the 'Art National' journal published by the Association des Architectes Anciens Combattants.

(Stockholm 1917). 16x11. 72 s. katalog (inklusive personregister) + 16 s. med 23 foton + 45 s. annonser över möbler, inredningsartiklar, husgeråd, etc. + 3 s. annonsregister (där sista bladet saknas men har ersatts med ett faksimil). Fint exemplar av denna sällsynta katalog, bunden i ett klotryggsband där pärmarna klätts med tapet vars mönster skapades av Uno Åhrén för Hemutställningen; de tryckta omslagen medbundna (det främre med liten bläckfläck nedtill). Katalogen över den legendariska Hemutställningen, ett genombrott för Slöjdföreningens yngre och radikalare falang. Utställningen föregicks av en tävling i tre klasser: 1. Enkelrum med kakelugnsspis, 2. Bostadskök med ett rum, 3. Två rum och kök. Ytterligare tävlingar tillkom om ugnar, spisar och kaminer, samt om nya bohagsting. Fotografierna visar rum skapade och inredda av Uno Åhrén, Carl Malmsten, Gunnar Asplund (bostadskök) och Ernst Spolén (kök), ugnar av Asplund och Ragnar Hjorth, bohagsföremål av porslin, glas och metall av Wilhelm Kåge, Edgar Böckman, Edvard Hald, Simon Gate, Edvin Ollers, Eva Jancke-Björk, Hakon Ahlberg, Paul Hedqvist, Folke Bensow, och Jacob Ängman, samt ritningar till arbetarbostäder av Gunnar Asplund.

(Oppenheim), Verein zur Wiederherstellung der Katharinenkirche ... 1889. 67x43. II+44 pp. + 16 photogravure plates on heavy stock, with 7 elevations, sections etc. (four full-page and two double-page), 18 smaller detail drawings, and 12 photographs. 12 additional photos in the text. Loose as issued in a gilt-lettered half cloth portfolio with tie-strings (one missing), head and tail of spine slightly cracking, title leaf slightly browned, the plates moderately foxed with weak dampstains. (Festschrift zur Feier der Vollendung am 31. Mai 1889 zugleich dem 200jährigen Erinnerungstrage der Zerstörung Oppenheims). The Saint Catherine church in Oppenheim is one of the most important Gothic churches on the Rhine. It was heavily damaged in the late 17th century, and a first renovation was made in 1834-45. This large album was published as a documentation of the major restoration carried out between 1879 and 1889 by the Viennese architects Friedrich and Heinrich von Schmidt.