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London 1962. 25x16. 96 pp. text (including reproductions of signatures) + 96 pp. with 147 photos including 45 full-page + 4 colour photo plates. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. A very good survey of art glass from fin-de-siècle to the 1950s, with photos of pieces designed by Eugène Rousseau, Emile Gallé, L.C. Tiffany, Maurice Marinot, René Lalique, Simon Gate, Edward Hald, Vicke Lindstrand, Arttu Brummer, Alvar Aalto, Paolo Venini, Ercole Barovier, Hugo Gehlin, Gerda Strömberg, Carlo Scarpa, Tapio Wirkkala, Timo Sarpaneva, Edvin Öhrström, Arne Jon Jutrem, Herman Bongard, A.D. Copier, Masakichi Awashima, Floris Meydam, Isamu Noguchi, Clyne Farquharson, Vera Liskova, Sven Palmqvist, and others.

Stuttgart 1939. 30x23. 192 pp. Ca 230 photos and 40 plans. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth. A classified pictorial survey of modern gardens with their houses and other elements. Several German examples but includes gardens in Switzerland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, England, the USA, etc.

London 1974. 24x19. 256 pp. text + 84 pp. with 360 photos + 8 colour plates. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Arntzen / Rainwater P374. Authoritative and generously illustrated handbook on Chinese export porcelain of the 17th through 19th century.

London & New York, Routledge, 2006. 24x22. XVIII+198 pp. 218 photos, drawings and plans including ca 90 in colour. Pictorial wrappers, as new.

Berlin, Wasmuth, (ca 1926). 32x25. LVI pp. text + 320 pp. with ca 630 photos. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth. A survey of decorative sculpture and sculptured ornament from Antiquity to Renaissance, including sections on Egyptian, Oriental and Islamic, with a historical introduction.

Stockholm 1916. 25x17. XII+160 s. + frontispis. 37 foton samt 15 planer och ritningar. Publisher's printed half parchment, a very fine copy with former owner's name dated 1925 on front endpaper. This pioneering Swedish work on new architecture was, in the author's own words, "a propaganda publication made into a luxury book by the publishers". Includes chapters on housing, town building, garden suburbs, industrial art, etc. with illustrations from the work of Raymond Unwin, Heinrich Tessenow, Peter Behrens, Bruno Taut, Eliel Saarinen, Carl Westman, Carl Bergsten, Ragnar Östberg, L.I. Wahlman, Cyrillus Johansson, Ivar Tengbom, and others.

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne, 1984. 30x23. 496 pp. More than 1400 photos and reproductions, 56 in colour including 46 full-page. Pictorial wrappers.

Stockholm 1949. 24x16. 164 s. Ett av femtio exemplar tryckta på lumppapper från Lessebo och försedda med ett Gregor Paulsson-porträtt tecknat av Birger Lundquist på sidan som vetter mot titelsidan. Förlagets halvpergamentband med övre guldsnitt; löst ilagt 4-sidigt vik med Tabula Gratulatoria. Ett urval texter från 1911-1939 inklusive 'Modärna stilrörelser' (1911), 'Vackrare vardagsvara' (1919), 'Kubister' (1920), 'Stockholmsutställningens program' (1928), 'Stockholmsutställningen 1930 som led i samhällsarbetet' (föredrag hållet vid flera tillfällen), 'Konstteorins nödvändighet' (1939), m.fl.

Uppsala 1960. 30x23. XIV+132 pp. + 4 leaves with ten reproductions after Thomas Worsnop, Édouard Delessert, etc. 54 drawings and 17 full-page maps in the text. A fine copy in patterned boards (Knut Hässler, Stockholm) with gilt-lettered leather label on spine. (Studia Ethnographica Upsaliensia, 18).

München, Christian, 2007. 29x26. 276 pp. Ca 380 photos and reproductions, 180 in colour, 130 full-page including 63 in colour. German-language edition. Publisher's pictorial boards, as new.

New York 1994. 29x25. 272 pp. Ca 185 reproductions, 78 in colour including 26 full-page. Publisher's blind-lettered cloth, dust jacket. Extensively commented descriptive catalogue by Anne Brown Price of an exhibition arranged by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, with introductory essays by Price, Jon Whiteley, and Geneviève Lacambre.

Berlin, Cassirer, 1919. 21x15. 44 pp. Publisher's pictorial boards with minor age toning.

Paris, Collection Prisme, 1953. 20x19. 44 pp. 18 full-page reproductions including three in colour, plus full-page portrait photo. Pictorial wrappers.

New York, Clarkson Potter, 2011. 28x23. 256 pp. Ca 300 photos, 250 in colour including 60 full-page. Fine in publisher's pictorial boards, dust jacket.

Paris, Picard, 1991. 27x21. 288 pp. Ca 145 photos and reproductions of drawings. Pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by former owner "Ove Hidemark Paris 94-12". Comprises seventeen essays in French (six), Italian (five), English (four), and Spanish (two).

Neuchatel 1977. 28x25. 248 pp. + 12 tipped-in colur plates. More than 200 reproductions and photos in the text, 110 full-page including 44 in colour. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, as new in cardboard slipcase. Selection of reproductions and biographical chronology by Diana Vierny.

New York 1991. 31x23. 416 pp. Ca 360 photos and reprods. (80 in colour) including 100 of furniture, lamps and furniture designs. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket.

Habana 1979 (colophon: 1980). 28x26. VI+406 pp. 267 illustrations (253 full-page) comprising 217 photos and 50 plans, elevations, perspective renderings, etc. Publisher's printed cloth, very lightly scuffed. Second volume, covering the 18th century, of this comprehensively illustrated study of the Colonial architecture on Cuba (the first volume covered the 16th-17th centuries).

London, Thames & Hudson, 2014. 32x24. 288 pp. Ca 330 colour photos including 86 full-page and 26 double-page. Publisher's pictorial boards, dust jacket, as new.

Kristiania 1911. 32x24. VIIII+146 s. + VIII s. register och bibliografi + 16 planscher med 35 ritningar + en färgplansch. 348 foton, reproduktioner och teckningar i texten. Rödbruna originalomslag med dekor och (aningen nött) titel i guldtryck. Manne Hofréns namnteckning på första sidan daterad Kristiania 1923, samt några blyertsmarkeringar av honom. (Gammel Norsk kultur i tekst og billeder udgivet af Norsk Folkemuseum).

Milano, Electa & London, The Architectural Press, 1986. 29x24. 72 pp. Ca 90 drawings and plans (27 in colour including 9 full-page) and 50 photos (11 in colour). Pictorial jacket over white card covers. (Quaderni di Casabella). Text by Vittorio Gregotti, Riichi Miyake, and Tadao Ando. Bilingual text and captions in Italian and English.