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S.-Peterburg 1908. IV+376 pp. More than 400 marks and monograms (reproduced in the text as well as in an alphabetical index) plus ca 30 photos and other illustrations. Bound up with: Eduard von Lenz (ed.), IMPERATORSKIJ ÉRMITAZH'. AL'BOM' IZOBRAZHENIYA VYDAYUSHCHIKHSYA PREDMETOV' IÉ' SBRANIYA ORUSHCHIYA - COLLECTION D'ARMES DE L'ERMITAGE IMPÉRIAL. S.-Peterburg 1908. Title leaf + 30 heliogravure plates with ca 220 photos + 30 leaves with descriptions in Russian and French. 25x17. Neat half grey cloth. Book-plate of Karl Konrad Meinander. Rare inventory and study of the collection of arms and armour in the Hermitage Museum (published as part 1 of the Catalogue of the Mediaeval and Renaissance Department), supplemented with a bilingual volume of plates. This copy is from the library of the art scholar Karl Konrad Meinander, curator at the Historical / National Museum of Finland 1900-1933 and founder of the Helsinki City Museum in 1912.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1990. 28x25. 288 pp. Ca 600 photos, designs and plans (90 in colour). Publisher's boards, dust jacket, very fine.

Stuttgart 1928. 29x20. 164 pp. including 114 pages with 184 photos. A very fine copy in publisher's grey cloth with black and red lettering on front and spine. The account of the interiors and furniture in the 'International Style' houses at the pioneering exhibition arranged by the German Werbund at Weissenhof. Photos of furniture designed by Breuer, Gropius, Mies, Josef Frank, Lilly Reich, Schuster, Mart Stam, Oud, Le Corbusier and others; lamps by Marianne Brandt, W H Gispen, Richard Döcker, Poul Henningsen, etc. Includes texts by Breuer, Gispen, Josef Frank, Mart Stam and Le Corbusier.

Lausanne 1929. 33x25. II+56 p. including three leaves which are etchings by Clément. Half orange morocco, orange printed wrappers bound in. Offset from plates and other scattered foxing onto text leaves, not affecting the etchings. Printed on handmade paper, edges uncut. No. 274 of an edition limited to 500 copies (one of 150 copies "reservés aux éditions "Au sans Pareil", à Paris"). The Swiss-born artist Charles Clément was a co-founder and illustrator of the satirical and pacifist journal l'Arbalète published in Lausanne. In 1927 he left Switzerland to settle in Paris.

Paris, Morel, (1860)-1874. 58x42. VIII; + VI; + VI pp. + engraved frontispiece + 354 engraved plates + folding engraved map. Loose as issued, kept in three fine green/black cloth portfolios with gilt-lettered spines and tie-strings. The map is browned, one title leaf is chipped (not affecting text), otherwise fine. A monumental collection of elevations, sections, perspectives and plans of buildings in Rome, from Renaissance to latter day Classicism. Letarouilly, a pupil of Percier, first traveled to Italy in 1820 and began his sketches then. The published collection was widely consulted by the Classicist Revival architects in France and abroad. A text volume was published separately and is not present in this set.

Dresden 1912. 2 leaves (title and list of plates) + 60 plates (48x35) with ca 60 elevations and perspectives and 75 site, house and flat plans; + 48 pp. textbook (28x22) with 33 photos and designs, in printed wrappers. Plates loose as issued, together with the textbook in a pictorial cloth-backed portfolio. An attractive collection of designs for courtyard tenement-blocks, mainly contributions by Dresden architects to a competition announced by the Saxonian Heimatschutz, also illustrating some other schemes including terraced house designs by Bruno Möhring.

Hägersten 1974-(1975). 30x21. 132 s. + inklistrad plansch + inklistrat tidningsurklipp; 124 s; 142 s; 50 blad; 188 s; 98 s; 72 s; 198 s. Tryckta främre omslag, bakre kartongomslag. Upplagans storlek varierade kraftigt mellan 500 ex. (4, 8) och som mest 2000 ex. (3). Vargen var en stencillerad tidskrift med material som tillställdes redaktionen gratis eller hämtades ur andra tidskrifter och böcker, såväl som teckningar och collage av Carsten Regild samt texter av Rolf Börjlind och Jan Olof Mallander (för de två första numren ingick Mallander och Olle Granath i redaktionen). Ett minnesvärt inslag i Nr 3 är enkätsvaren till fyra frågor som skickades till bl.a. Erik Dietman, Harry Schein, Allan Fagerström, Kjell Alinge, Lars Gyllensten, Kerstin Vinterhed, Torbjörn Säfve och Mikael Wiehe. Nr 4 utgörs av 49 kopior av ett kedjebrev på engelska, där man under parollen "Occupy the brain!" bjuder in folk från hela världen att skicka in material (med ett första blad som återger texten på svenska), och Nr 5 innehåller bilder och texter som inkom från 24 länder, däribland svenska bidrag av bl.a. Jarl Ingvarsson, Bengt af Klintberg, Anna-Clara Tidholm, Ulf Lundell och Bruno K. Öijer. I Nr 6 är alla texter på engelska, även dem av Börjlind, Eric Fylkeson, Bruno K. Öijer, Bengt Emil Johnson, C F Reuterswärd, Ulf Linde, Olle Granath, och andra svenskar varav flera skulle bidra till Vargens utställning på Moderna Museet i November 1975. Nr 7 utgör katalog till utställningen (Moderna Museets kat. nr 132), och Nr 8 består av bidrag av besökare på utställningen, som framställdes på den tryckutrustning som fanns till hands där.

Paris 1926. 32x25. IV+164 pp. + 3 photo plates + 120 heavy-paper photogravure plates (one folding) with ca 230 photographs. Half brown calf, top edge gilt, printed front wrapper bound in. Extremities of spine lightly worn with tiny cracking, otherwise a very fine copy kept in a marbled flannel-lined slipcase. No. 459 of an edition limited to 510 copies. Scarce, magnificently produced study and documentation of Turkish, Arabian and Persian illuminated manuscripts in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

Berlin, Wasmuth, 1894. 48x32. IV+22; + IV pp. + 175 heliogravure plates. Loose as issued in two printed half cloth portfolios with ties. A magnificent photographic survey of English architectural monuments featuring the work of Wren, Inigo Jones and others, including cathedrals, castles, country houses, and Stonehenge (!) as well as some less famous edifices.

München (1924). 23x18. 88 pp. + one folding coloured plate + one transparent overlay plate with drawing. Ca 55 photos, photo montages, drawings and plans, 40 full-page including one coloured. Publisher's printed yellow cloth with lightly warped covers and minor loss of red colour from the cover design; on first page a stamp from a Saarbrücken school library. Front portion of the pictorial dustwrapper (with cropped margins) loosely inserted. (Bauhausbücher, 4). The fourth volume in the Bauhausbuch series is devoted to Bauhaus stage design and costume, with illustrated texts by Schlemmer (Mensch und Kunstfigur), Moholy-Nagy (Theater, Zirkus, Varieté), Molnár (U-Theater), and a survey of other designs by Marcel Breuer, Kurt Schmidt, and Alexander Schawinsky.

Paris, Editons Prisma, 1961. 28x24. 120 pp. 90 full-page photographs of nude women and details. Publisher's cloth-backed boards, dust jacket; the jacket lightly rumpled with small repaired tear.

Leipzig 1730. 16x10. XIV+560 pp. + 51 engraved plates on foldout leaves. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt, red edges. Lightly browned but a very nice copy. First edition of this work which appeared in a second edition in 1756. A school teacher and rector, Benjamin Hederich (1675-1748) was a prolific author of textbooks and dictionaries on a great variety of topics, perhaps best remembered for his Mythological Dictionary heavily utilized and praised by Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, and other contemporary authors. Hederich's pedagogical zeal is mirrored in the title's 'Progymnasmata' as well as in the arrangement of the book as a series of "Übungen" providing a sterling overview of established architectural practice and theory. Berlin cat. 2000.

(Stuttgart, Wittwer, 1893-1900) but impressum cancelled and substituted with labels reading 'Berlin, Kanter & Mohr'. 50x35. 4 pp. + 100 plates with more than 500 elevations, sections, detail drawings and plans. Loose as issued in pictorial cloth-backed boards with tie-strings, boards lightly darkened, neatly rebacked. A collection of measured drawings, including many details, of wooden architecture in Germany from old buildings in i.a. Nürnberg to modern houses in Berlin's Westend and other Villenkolonien.

Leipzig, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1923. 28x20. VIII+450 pp. + 6 original prints (of seven): two woodcuts by Conrad Felixmüller and Karl Fredrik Gotsch; four lithographs by Heorg Schrimpf, Othon Coubine, Wilhelm Wagner, and Carl Mense. One lithograph by Archipenko is called for but not present in this copy. Ca 430 reproductions of works by Felixmüller, Schrimpf, Emil Nolde, Christian Rohlfs, Max Pechstein, Max Beckman, Franz Marc, Oskar Kokoschka, Lovis Corinth, Lyonel Feininger, Paula Modersohn, Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, George Braque, Maurice Utrillo, André Derain, Marie Laurencin, Alexander Archipenko, Marc Chagall, and others. A fine copy in publisher's printed half cloth binding.

Paris, Berggruen, 1977. 31x29. LXXVI+364; + 520 pp. 621 reproductions of paintings (more than 120 full-page) plus ca 65 reproductions of related drawings etc. and 12 additional full-page colour reproductions. 34 reproductions of falsifications, and 27 photos of sculptures and costume/stage designs; additional illustrations in biography etc. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, a fine set.

Paris, Hachette, (1902). 32x25. 316 pp. + 49 excellent colour plates with guard-tissues (including one folding double-plate) + 17 black and white plates. Numerous illustrations in the text including ca 35 full-page. Publisher's pictorial cloth, top edge gilt. Binding slightly darkened and edgeworn, a damp stain around top of spine. Classic, extensive history of toys written by the French historian, librarian, author and collector.

London 1926. 28x22. XII+72+ II pp. + 55 plates with 68 photos (16 in colour) + printed guard-tissues to all plates. Publisher's cloth with gilt cover decoration, a very good copy. Edition was limited to 600 copies. Yuan 2145. A fine copy of the scarce, classic work on the history, techniques and types of Chinese lacquer work, with illustrations of objects in the Victoria and Albert Museum (where the author was Keeper of The Department of Woodwork) as well as from other British collections.

Berlin, Wasmuth, 1911. 28x19. 114 pp. + coloured frontispiece + 2 advertisement leaves. 122 photos and ca 30 plans. A very fine copy bound with both printed wrappers in neat half cloth (Die Architektur des XX. Jahrhunderts, Sonderheft 8). Sweeney 157. Interior and exterior photographs of buildings executed before Wright's departure to Chicago in 1909. Wright visited the British Arts and Crafts architect in England in September 1910, and asked him then to write the introduction (also appearing in the "Ausgeführte Bauten" published by Wasmuth in the same year).