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Sverdlovsk, Middle-Urals Publishing House, 1979. 29x26. 140 pp. including 16 pages on four folding leaves. 144 photos, 108 full-page including 70 in color. Publisher's decorated boards, fine in decorated slipcase with minor cracking. Russian text, with chapter headings, summary and list of illustrations in English.

Warsaw 1959. 27x21. 220 pp. + folding coloured map. Ca 180 photos and 150 elevations, sections, perspectives and plans. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Ove Hidemark's name on front endpaper. English-language edition of this important study of East European wooden synagogues, first published in Polish in 1957. Well illustrated with photos as well as detailed drawings of the buildings including many which were destroyed in the 1930s and '40s.

Roma 1949. 34x25. 134 pp. including 8 folding plates. 168 photos, drawings and plans, ca 110 full-page. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth. Very light external wear, interior fine. Trilingual text in Italian, English and Spanish.

London, The Fine Arts Society, 1905. 26x20. X+176 pp. + publisher's slip + frontispiece (portrait photo) + 41 plates with facsimiles of etchings and drawings + 4 colour plates. Printed guard-tissues to all plates. Publisher's leather backed, gilt-lettered cloth, top edge gilt. Cover corner tips and spine slightly worn, very light trace of damp in top corner of rear cover. The inserted slip reads "The Publishers wish it to be clearly understood that both Editions of this Work are strictly limited. They have Mr. Axel Haig's authority for stating that after these are exhausted there will be no further reproductions of his Etchings."

München 1955. 30x21. 240; + 304 pp. Ca 100 perspectives and 700 plans, details etc. in volume one; Ca 460 photos and 145 plans etc. in volume two. Publisher's printed cloth. 1: Planung, Entwurf, Konstruktion. 2: Ein internationaler Querschnitt. The first volume covers planning, design and construction of industrial buildings; the second volume is an international pictorial survey of modern industrial buildings designed by Kraemer, Schramm & Elingius, Saarinen, SOM, Lodders, Brinkman & van der Vlugt, Nervi, Giordani, Figini & Pollini, YRM, Erskine, Aalto, and many others (with a certain predominance of German-speaking countries).

Paris, Éditions "Cahiers d'Art", 1956. 37x27. XIV+428 pp. including 430 pages with 807 photos + 4 colour photo plates + folding map with caption leaf. Publisher's printed cloth, former owner's name stamps, binding somewhat shaken with minor cracking of endpapers over inner hinges. Major documentation and study of the Neolithic and Minoan art of Crete, including notes, bibliography, and indices of subjects and object types, places, and names.

Berlin 1920. 25x19. XX+384 pp. Linen cloth. The paper slightly browned, title leaf slightly damaged and repaired in outer margin without loss of text. 'Sechste, vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage'.

Munich / London / New York, Prestel, 1989. 31x24. 368 pp. Ca 535 photos including more than 200 in colour, and 15 maps. Publisher's boards, dust jacket.

Leningrad 1968. 30x24. 272 pp. + one tipped-in plate with colour reproductions of marks and monograms. Ca 200 photos (mostly full-page, including 90 in colour). Publisher's cloth, slightly chipped dust jacket. Introductory text in Russian; summaries and lists of illustrations in English, German and French.

London & Lisbon, Jorge Welsh, 2004. 30x21. 176 pp. Ca 115 colour photos including 50 full-page. Publisher's pictorial boards, dust jacket. Former owner's bookplate inside front cover. Excellent, extensively documented catalogue of intricately reticulated porcelain ware known in Chinese as linglong or guigong (devil's work), mainly of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Augsburg, Wissner, 1997. 34x24. 388 pp. Ca 385 reproductions of paintings and drawings incuding 85 in colour. Publisher's blind-lettered cloth, dust jacket, a fine copy. Second, revised edition. Standard monograph on Johann Moritz Rugendas including Catalogue Raisonné (pp. 135-385) of the works of the German artist famous for his depictions of landscapes and ethnographic subjects in several countries in the Americas. Spanish text.

London 1982. 26x25. 394 pp. Ca 580 photos, more than 100 full-page including 72 in colour Publisher's cloth, dust jacket.

(Kobenhavn), Grizanta Fonden, 1962. 20x20. 32 pp. A collage of indian ink drawings, drippings and writings on gray, maroon and white paper. Original binding with cloth spine protruding between very thick boards with front title designed by the artist(s). A collaboration between the artist Mogens Balle and Christian Dotremont, the Cobra co-founder renowned for his "logogramme" word paintings. Published in an edition limited to 500 copies on the occasion of Dotremont's 40th birthday.

New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 2003. 29x25. X+434 pp. Ca 430 reproductions, 146 in colour including 88 full-page. Publisher's boards, dust jacket, as new. Catalogue Raisonné of the remarkable collection of paintings at the Kenwood country house, in three sections covering 17th-Century artists, 18th- and 19th-Century continental artists, and 18th- and 19th-Century British artists. Includes essays on Kenwood, the collection, Lord Iveagh as collector, etc. as well as bibliography and index.

Leipzig 1911. 28x21. VIII+280 pp. + 12 plates with 44 reproductions. Publisher's printed cloth. The Life and Work of Rembrandt's teacher and mentor, the Dutch painter Pieter Lastman (1583-1633).

New York & New Haven & London 1996. 30x23. 312 pp. Ca 250 photos and designs, 150 in colour. Pictorial wrappers, decorated endpapers. Fully illustrated catalogue of the exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center and studies by the Stritzler-Levine, Christopher Long, Kristina Wängberg-Eriksson, and others.

New York, The American Federation of Arts, 1987. 24x28. XVI+368 pp. 514 photos and reprods. Publisher's decorated cloth, dust jacket. Excellent reference work published in conjunction with the exhibition with the same name; includes fully illustrated, descriptive and commentated catalogue of 118 pieces, as well as authoritative studies on the genesis and development of modern bentwood and metal furniture.

(Woodbridge, Suffolk), Antique Collectors' Club, 1974. 27x21. XII+484 pp. Ca 500 illustrations, mainly photos. Publisher's gilt-lettered rexine, dust jacket.

Stockholm 1978. 26x19. 196 pp. 188 plans, drawings and photos. Printed wrappers, dust jacket. (Stockholm Studies in History of Art, 29). Authoritative study of Speer's plans for what was meant to become the Capital City of the Third Reich.

Hölö, Rosengården, 1999. 22x15. 340 s. 38 reproduktioner varav 32 helsides i färg. Tryckt förlagspappband med illustration.

Paris, Hazan, 1961. 35x29. 12 pp. + 12 colour plates. Text folds and plates losse as issued in blank wrappers and printed jacket over card covers. Kept in the original printed slipcase with very light external wear, contents excellent. Former owner's bookplate on reverse of title leaf.