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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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tokyo, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1970. 32x26. VI+X pp. title and text in English + in reverse order from a Western point of view: XII pp. + 70 leaves (four folding) with 81 tipped-in colour plates (of 73 works) + 160 pp. with 520 reproductions + 212 pp. text in Japanese with ca 270 reproductions including 210 of signatures and calligraphy. Publisher's printed cloth, kept in printed cloth slipcase with colour plate. Edition limited to 2000 copies. Scarce. Fully illustrated Catalogue Raisonné of 593 works by Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige. Text in Japanese but includes catalogue in English giving descriptive title, technique, size, publisher and dating of each work.

Leningrad & Moskva, Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelstvo Literatury po Stroitelstvo i Arkhitekture, 1953. 29x22. 168 pp. + loosely inserted 12-page booklet with tables. 135 photos and 15 drawings. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth-backed boards. Inscription scraped from front fixed endpaper, resulting in a few small holes. An important work on Russian art glass and its application in architecture and interior decoration, with pictorial documentation of glass columns and other architectural elements as well as chandeliers and candlebars, furniture, vases and urns, etc.

S.-Peterburg, Vaznova, 1904. 30x24. IV+24 pp. + 152 plates; + II pp. + plates 153-200 + one leaf with publisher's book advertisements. The two parts bound as issued in one volume, publisher's printed cloth. A good, lightly edgeworn copy with minor cracking of paper over inner front joint, contents very fine. Rare Russian edition of Brausewetter's 'Das Bauformenbuch. Die Bauformen des bürgerlichen Wohnhauses' (Leipzig 1895, complete sets of which are almost equally scarce). Includes ca 50 plates with elaborate elevations, as well as numerous measured drawings of windows, facade elements, columns and entablatures, finials, and other decorative details.

Neuchatel, De l'Impremerie de la Société Typographique, 1777. 26x21. II+446 pp. + 22 engraved plates. Contemporary boards with contemporary inked title on spine. Exterior discolouring, top and foot of backstrip strenghtened. The two last plates slightly stained in left margin, otherwise a fine, clean copy with a minimum of foxing. Includes eight works. (1) Monsieur de Beauvais-Raseau: ART DE L'INDIGOTIER (4 plates). (2) Monsieur le Comte de Mille: ART DE LA PORCELAINE (4 plates). (3)-(7) are written by Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau: (3) ART DU POTIER DE TERRE (3 plates); (4) ART DE FAIRE LES PIPES A FUMER LE TABAC (3 plates); (5) ART DE FAIRE LES COLLES (2 plates); (6) FABRIQUE DE L'AMIDON (1 plate); (7) ART DU SAVONNIER, OU LA MANIERE DE FAIRE DIFFÉRENTES ESPECES DE SAVON (3 plates). (8) Monsieur Dudin: ART DU RELIURE, DOREUR DE LIVRES (2 plates)

Moskva 1939. 22x17. 84 s. 73 photos and renderings mainly of the station buildings and interiors, and one map. Pictorial wrappers. Backstrip slightly worn with tiny loss of paper, otherwise a fine copy. (Populjarnaja biblioteka po architekture). Rare presentation of the architecture of the Moscow Metro stations.The author was one of the architects of the grandiose Dvorets Sovetov station (renamed Kropotkinskaya in 1957). When opened in 1935, the Moscow Metro was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union. It was named (until 1955) after Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich, the Communist Party Secretary who organised and contributed greatly to the building of the Moscow Metro. From 1935 to 1937 he was Narkom (minister) for the railways, and was given the nickname Iron Lazar for his ruthless implementation of Stalin's purging policy, organizing the arrests of railway administrators and managers as alleged saboteurs.

Paris, Morancé, (ca 1925). 27x22. 24 pp. textbook + 32 colour pochoir plates + one advertisement leaf. Textbook and loose plates as issued in printed cloth-backed boards with embossed design, tie strings. A very fine copy. (Documents d'Architecture). Excellent pochoir-coloured reproductions of 19th-century renderings of elaborate classicist shopfronts in Paris during the First Empire (1804-15): Milliners, jeweller, perfumer, pharmacies, butcher, porcelain shop (purveyors to her Majesty the Emperess), tobacco shops, restaurant etc. The original renderings are kept in the Cabinet des Estampes at the Bibliothèque Nationale.

Louvain-la-Neuve, Institut Supérieure d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art, 1977. 27x21. 520 pp. Ca 460 photos including 110 full-page, and 30 maps and (groups of) drawings. Pictorial wrappers over blank wrappers as issued. Very light wear to the external wrappers, weak unobtrusive corner scuffing, otherwise fine. (Publications d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie de l'Université Catholique de Louvain, XII).

Berlin 1910. 45x34. X+30 pp. textbook; + 4 pp. + 130 heliogravure plates (2 folding). Textbook and loose plates as issued in two printed cloth portfolios with tie-strings. A classic, important documentation and study of architectural monuments in Dalmatia, a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. On the plates are exterior and interior photographs of buildings made by Kowalczyk during his travels in Dalmatia in 1909, as well as reproductions of architectural drawings by Robert Adam who studied the ruins of Diocletian's Palace at Spalato in Dalmatia in the 1760s.

Roma 1945. 25x34. 56 pp. 12 full-page colour reproductions and 12 black/white reproductions of drawings. Publisher's pictorial boards, new morocco spine (repairs in text leaf margins outside the text). No. 586 of an edition limited to 715 copies only. Guttoso took an active part in the struggle against the Fascists and Nazis, and his experiences with the Resistance movement led him to produce this bitterly satirical series of drawings on the theme of wartime atrocities. The title is drawn from the text on the belt buckles of German soldiers in the Second World War. Trombadori who wrote the introduction was an art critic and journalist who had escaped from Fascist imprisonement in 1943, was subsequently arrested by the Germans in February 1944, and managed to escape again in August.

Basel & Boston, Birkhäuser, 1987. 25x43. 440 pp. Drawings, plans and photos throughout, including some in colour. Publisher's printed cloth, a fine copy in the original cardboard slipcase. Second, revised and enlarged edition of the standard catalogue of Louis Kahn's works.