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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).

Paris, Tardy, 1974-5, 1974. 31x23. XXXVI+224 pp. + 10 colour plates; + II+225-508 pp. + 9 colour plates and one b/w plate; + IV+509-896 pp. A total of more than 2200 photos and reproductions including 120 full-page. Pictorial wrappers. Tiny, weak corner scuffing of volume 2, otherwise an excellent set. A complete set of this standard work on French pendulum clocks. Vol 1: Des origines au Louis XV. Vol. 2: Du Louis XVI à nos jours. Vol. 3: Les Provinces françaises. Horloges et pendules étrangères.

Tokyo, Tokyo Bijutsu Kurabu, (ca 1920). 26x18. Four leaves with titles and list of contents + 63 leaves, including six folding, with ca 250 reproductions and photos including 80 full-page. All text and captions bilingual in English and Japanese. Publisher's pictorial boards, sewn with visible string. A very good copy with light, unobtrusive surface wear and a tiny, weak corner scuffing; contents very fine. Gift inscription by Strehlneek to B.W. Fleischer Esq. Benjamin Wilfred Fleischer left the USA for Japan in 1907, where he ran the newspaper Japan Advertiser between 1911 and 1930, making it one of the best edited and best connected American newspapers in East Asia.

Berlin 1914. 32x26. VIII+58 pp. + 74 photogravure plates with photos. Publisher's printed linen cloth, bookplate on first, blank page. Covers lightly warped, otherwise a very fine copy. (Königliche Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der Christlichen Epoches, 2). Scarce, important documentation of Italian Renaissance bronze sculptures, statuettes and other bronze objects.

Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1937. 32x26. XII pp. + pp. 1-120, 201-264, 301-352, 401-438, II+(78) pp. with ca 135 reproductions, 500-528 pp. + 3 intermittent leaves with 7 reproductions. Idiosynchratic pagination, but complete. Publisher's cloth, a very good copy. No. 172 of an edition limited to 500 copies. Scholarly monograph on the Venetian High Renaissance painter including Catalogue Raisonné of his oeuvre.

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.

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.

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970. 33x25. VI+322 pp. + 15 tipped-in colour plates. Ca 940 black and white reproductions, Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, a fine copy.

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.

Helsingfors 1904. 30x23. 48 pp. Orange-red devices and initials throughout, vigorous period typography at its best. Attractive printed covers; sewn as issued with visible red satin lace. No. 38 of an unspecified edition. Strengell and Frosterus, a pupil of Henry van de Velde's, drew public attention with this pamphlet - most likely a manifestation of anger because the jury had maltreated Frosterus's very modern competiton design for a new Helsinki Railway Station, whereas Eliel Saarinen's winning entry had been raised to the skies. "We have more to learn from machinery, bicycles and automobiles, battleships and railway bridges, than we have from the historical styles. /.../ Even in Finland, we do not earn our living any longer from fishing and hunting; for this reason, plant ornaments and bears, not to mention all the other animals, are not proper symbols for a time of steam power and electricity."

Leipzig, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1921. 27x20. XII+356 pp. + 6 original prints: two lithographs by George Grosz and Franz Heckendorf; four woodcuts by Heinrich Campendonk, Eberhard Wegener, Joseph Achmann, and Ewald Mataré. Ca 300 reproductions and photos of works by Grosz, Erich Heckel, Georg Schrimpf, Ernst Barlach, Oskar Schlemmer, Pablo Picasso, Marie Laurencin, Henri Matisse, and others. Publisher's cloth-backed boards. Binding worn and slightly shaken with front hinge cracking, 5 cms tear in the cloth backstrip, covers slightly smudged.

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.

(London: Burns ?) 2002. 33x23. 320 pp. 100 full-page colour photos of rugs (plus eight double-page), ca 160 small-size colour photos of details; ca 50 photos and reproductions and 13 maps in the text. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jacket, an excellent copy, inscribed by the author.

Potsdam: Müller / Petersburg & Berlin: Efron (1921). 26x20. 52 pp. + 46 photogravure plates including four coloured. 28 drawings in the text. Publisher's decorated cloth designed by Grigoriew; light unobtrusive external wear and the binding slightly weakened. Former owner's name on front endpaper dated September 1925, and a pencil note. Well-illustrated monograph on the Russian artist Boris Grigoriew (1886-1939) including an essay (Die Linie) by the artist.

Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 1982. 26x18. LXVIII pp. with introductions, notes and indices + 728 pp. dictionary with reproductions of seals printed in red. Pictorial wrappers, these slightly wrinkled and worn, minor scuffing, former owner's inscription on front endpaper. Second impression of the revised edition with a new supplement (Further Seals Found on Chinese Paintings in American Public and Private Collections) of the standard reference work first published in 1940.

37x41. . Kompositionen bär alla spår av att vara avsedd som ett tryckoriginal, försedd med kraftiga retuscheringar med tipp-ex eller liknande och hopmonterad av papper med olika nyans, och den är karakteristisk för Rahmbergs illustrationer i tidskriften Puss. På baksidan finns också noteringen "No; 24 1975" i blyerts, Puss nr 24 utkom dock 1974, och blev tidningens sista nummer. Dess omslag är utfört av Rahmberg och numret innehåller teckningar av honom, dock inte denna våldsamma satir i bild och text över bilismen och "Bilmänniskan".

Braunschweig, Klinkhart & Biermann, 1965. XIV+320; + X+302; + X+306 pp. + 62 plates with colour photos. More than 750 black and white photos, plus reproductions of marks. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, dust jackets with colour plates, a very fine set. Arntzen/Rainwater P307. Monumental history and study of porcelain from the Fürstenberg manufactory in the second half of the 18th century, comprising: 1. Geschichte der Fabrik; 2. Geschirre; 3. Figuren.

London & New York, The Studio, 1935. 25x19. 96 pp. 117 photos (16 full-page) and seven drawings by Le Corbusier. First edition. Publisher's printed cloth. A very good copy. (The New Vision, 1). First edition of Le Corbusier's hommage to modern aviation. "The airplane, symbol of the New Age. It is high enough, up there in the sky. Lift head and look above. The airplane, advance guard of the conquering armies of the New Age, arouses our energies and faith.''