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Rosenheim 1983-91. 32x24. 396; + 112 pp. A total of ca 285 full-page reproductions including 155 in colour, plus ca 1385 small-size reproductions in the Oeuvre Catalogue. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jackets (jacket of first volume lightly edgeworn, second volume as new in slipcase). Documentation of the works of Austrian painter Franz von Defregger, including biography in the second volume (Ergänzungsband).

San Fransisco, Art in Cinema Society / San Fransisco Museum of Art, 1947. 22x19. VIII+104 pp. Ca 37 photos and reproductions. Attractive pictorial wrappers; exterior slightly unevenly browned, otherwise fine. Includes Program Notes on some forty fims, and texts by Henry Miller (Introduction: The Red Herring and the Diamond-backed Terrapin), Hans Richter (A History of the Avantgarde), Man Ray (a talk at a film showing October 15, 1943), Luis Bunuel (Notes on the Making of Un Chien Andalou), Erich Pommer (The Origin of Dr. Caligari), Oskar Fischinger (My Statements Are in My Work), Maya Deren (The Camera as a Creative Medium), George Leite (The Creative Arts and The Collective Film Series One Program Notes), and others.

Hamburg 1913. 29x23. 8 + 22 pp. + 117 plates. Publisher's printed linen. A collection of photographs mainly from old Hamburg cemeteries, with an introduction.

Berlin 1924. 31x25. XVI+112 pp. 265 photos. Publisher's pictorial linen cloth, an excellent copy. A survey of furniture and interior decoration in the Tsarskoe Selo residence of the Russian Imperial family.

London & Lisbon, Jorge Welsh, 2005. 30x21. 256 pp. Ca 190 (mostly colour) photos and reproductions including 70 full-page. Publisher's pictorial boards, dust jacket. Former owner's bookplate inside front cover. Extensively documented catalogue featuring 70 examples of Chinese ceramic ware, clay figures, screens and panels, etc. tracing the development of the representation of European scenes on Chinese works of art produced between the Kangxi (1662-1722) and the Jiaqing (1796-1820) periods.

Paris 1955. 37x27. 23 reproductions of watercolours (20 full-page) and 3 double-page reproductions of paintings. Printed wrappers. (Parenthèses, No.1 Fev. 55). "Les trois toiles reproduites dans ce numero ont été exposé à la Galerie Drouant-David 52, Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, et les aquarelles à la Galerie Visconti 35, Rue de Seine à Paris le 4 Février 1955".

Stockholm 1969. 22x14. 276 s. + åtta blad med 29 reproduktioner och foton. Åtta planer och ritningar över byggnaden i texten. Halvskinnband med upphöjda bind, marmorerat pärmpapper; båda omslagen medbundna.

London 1963. 28x22. LXVI+318 pp. + 2 folding genealogical tables; + LXVI+338 pp. 65 mostly full-page reproductions, letter facsimiles and photos. Publisher's decorated cloth, top edges gilt. Spines slightly sunned, otherwise a fine set.

New York 1962. 25x21. 288 pp. Ca 400 photos, drawings and plans. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. The singular architect's own, well-illustrated account of his career.

Leningrad 1980. 26x20. 224 pp. + 6 plates. More than 500 drawings, plans, renderings and photos including 14 in colour. Publisher's printed / gilt-lettered cloth, in very lightly rubbed dust jacket. A monograph on the architect and townplanner Carlo Rossi who designed the major part of the centre of Saint Petersburg.

Stockholm 1936. 25x18. XII+470 pp. + 3 folding plates. Reproductions of makers' marks and signatures and 84 photos. Publisher's cloth, pictorial front wrapper bound in The standard work on the Stockholm gunsmiths from 1527 through the 19th century.

London 2011. 28x24. 280 pp. Ca 225 reproductions and photos, 140 in colour including 58 full- or double-page. Publisher's blind-lettered cloth, dust jacket, very fine. Published on the occasion of en exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Berlin 1994. 26x19. 124 pp. 155 photos, drawings and plans, 24 full-page and 16 in colour. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. (Schriften der Gesellschaft für Theatergeschichte, 71).

Milan, Fratelli Fabbri, 1971. 31x26. VI+226 pp. Ca 175 photos and reproductions, all but a few full-page, 58 in colour. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket, a very good copy. (Le grandi monographie; Scultore d'Oggi).

Espoo, EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art, 2015. 30x25. 304 s. Ca 210 reproduktioner och foton, 160 i färg varav 94 helsides och 22 dubbelsides. Tryckt förlagspappband med illustration. Litet nagg i överkant av främre pärmen, för övrigt i fint skick.

Moskva 1937. 29x23. 188 pp. + portrait. Ca 70 photos and reproductions and 20 plans and line drawings. Publisher's printed cloth. The Life and Work of Vasilii Ivanovich Bazhenov, court architect to Catherine II of Russia, published to the 200th anniversary of his birth.

Lund 1870. 25x21. II+20 pp. Cloth-backed marbled boards with gilt-lettered cover label. A discussion of the design of new, and renovation and decoration of old, Swedish churches. The author gives examples of the prevailing "vandalism" and "horrible malpractice" and recommends that church design be executed in adherence to local tradition - by professional architects rather than "anyone who has learnt to draw and colour on paper some lines supposed to be a working plan".

Moskva 1954. 26x20. 136 pp. + 5 plates (4 coloured, one of which is folding). 117 photos. Publisher's printed cloth. (Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelstvo Literatury Stroitelstvu i Arkhitekture).

Berlin 1921. 24x18. IV+208 pp. 188 photos, renderings and drawings. Publisher's cloth-backed gilt-lettered boards. Historical survey of the architecture and design of bridges written by a prominent Gerrman urbanist, architect and theorist, who went into exile in the USA in 1937.

London, Technical Journals Ltd, 1919. 32x22. IV+16 pp. + 101 plates with 130 photos and one elevation. Publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth. Light scuffing to uppermost part of spine, otherwise a fine copy.

Stockholm 1900. 27x18. XII+128 pp. + 14 photo plates + 3 plates with plans. A fine copy in publisher's gilt-lettered, pictorial grey cloth. Inscribed by the author. The history, development and achievements of the pioneering workers' housing company "Stockholms Arbetarehem" - Stockholm Workers' Home(s) - written by its founder and manager. Miss Lagerstedt was a school teacher who, appalled by workers' housing standards in Stockholm, went to London to study the reform work of Octavia Hill (described in the book). Back in Stockholm she took up her abode as deputy landlord in a notoriously bad housing block, to organise reform work along the same principles. When the block was to be wrecked, she founded the Stockholms Arbetarehem which erected a new building which included library, assembly-room, bakery, co-operative shop, etc. Her management policy based upon a personal relationship between the tenants and herself was a great success, and the company served as a model for a number of similar housing enterprises.

London 1986. 29x24. 284 pp. Ca 680 photos including 280 in colour. Publisher's cloth. Excellent, comprehensive documentation of Art Nouveau / Jugendstil and Art Nouveau lamps and candle sticks from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, and the USA.