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München 1987. 30x21. 488 pp. 867 photos and reproductions including 168 in colour. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, very fine.

London 1963. 22x14. X+290 pp. + 6 plates with 13 reproductions.. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket with minor repairs on inside. The history - "one of scandal, confusion and disaster" - of the development of the English Schools of Design from their genesis to the creation of the Department of Practical Art in 1852.

Mannheim 1911. 25x18. 232 pp. + 5 plates (4 folding). 67 plans, reproductions of architectural drawings, and photos. Publisher's decorated cloth. A study on the Bretzenheim Palace in Mannheim and its architect Peter Anton von Verschaffelt.

London 1988. 28x22. IV+272 pp. Ca 160 photos, 72 in colour including 40 full- or double-page, plus 76 small-size photos in the catalogue. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Well-illustrated scholarly study of the richly illuminated Qur'an manuscripts produced during the Bahri Mamluk period which spanned the second half of the thirteenth and the whole of the fourteenth centuries. Includes a descriptive catalogue of 76 fourteenth-century Qur'ans in national and private collections, glossary, chronology of dynasties, notes, bibliography, and index.

Vicenza, Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura "Andrea Palladio", 1968. 34x25. IV+138 pp. + 2 colour photo plates + 9 folding plates with plans and drawings. 75 black and white photos including 62 full-page. Publisher's decorated cloth, dust jacket, very fine. Former owner's bookplate inside front cover. (Corpus Palladianum, 1).

Tokyo 1991. 23x20. 184 pp. Ca 190 photos and reproductions of plans and drawings, 38 in colour; 120 full- or double-page. Pictorial wrappers over blank white covers as issued. This volume covers the houses designed for Aline Barnsdall, Tazaemon Yamamuro, Alice Millard, John Storer, Charles Ennis, Richard Lloyd Jones, David Wright, Harold Price, Gerald Tonkins, and Toufic Kalil.

Copenhagen 2005. 27x21. 176; + 177-368 pp. 235 photos, 120 in colour including 38 full-page. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, dust jackets. (Journal of the David Collection, Vol. 2: 1-2). Seventeen papers from a symposium held in Copenhagen in November 2003, and catalogue of the Spanish Muslim ivories in the David Collection.

2 vols. Oslo, Cappelen, 1974. 23x15. XVI+VI+148+II+149-178 pp + one colour plate; IV+174+II+175-190 pp. + one colour plate. Altogether 113 reproductions at end of the volumes. Publisher's printed linen cloth, dust jackets, very fine. A reprint of the original editions (Berlin 1907 and 1927), extended with new reproductions.

København 1919, 1920. 25x17. II+42 pp. / 26x18. II+46 pp. Altogether 34 reproductions including works by Archipenko, Arp, Burliuk, Chagall, Klee, Matisse, Picabia, Picasso, Schmidt-Rottluff, etc. Printed wrappers with pictorial vignettes. In this discourse held and published in 1919, the former Rector of the University of Copenhagen makes a fierce attack at the modern art movements, which he describes as the outcome of "contagious insanity". The attack is aimed especially at the tendencies to "deform the human body" for which he coins the term Dysmorphism. In the 1920 sequel, Salomonsen resumes his condemnation of modern art and extends it to smite Dada poetry.

Paris 1987. 24x15. 468 pp. Ca 220 photos and 60 drawings and diagrams. Pictorial wrappers. (Notes et documents des Musées de France, 18). Scolarly, scientific survey and studies of wax sculptures from ancient Egyptian to abstract art, with glossary, bibliography, and index.

Paris, Flammarion, 2011. 33x25. 210 pp. 130 full-page and 11 double-page colour photos. Publisher's printed boards, dust jacket, as new.

Wien, Anton Schroll, 1913. 36x29. 16 pp. title, introduction and description to plates + 60 heliogravure plates with 148 photographs. Loose as issued in a gilt-lettered cloth portfolio with tie-strings. Spine slightly worn, otherwise fine. A photographic documentation of Renaissance sculpture, 17th-18th century furniture, tapestries, pocelain stoves, and objects in faience, glass, ivory, wrought iron, etc. in the Austrian Museum of Fine and Decorative art named after its patron, the Archduke Rainer of Austria.

(Stockholm), Författarförlaget, 1987. 23x19. 104 s. + en inklistrad färgplansch; + en löst bifogad färgserigrafi signerad av Bo Larsson och numrerad 32/200. 48 reproduktioner (de flesta helsides i färg), samt 12 foton i texten. Förlagspappband och skyddskassett, båda med dekoration i silkscreentryck. Nr 32 av 300 ex. med originalserigrafi.

München 1932. 27x20. VI+118 pp. 156 photos. Printed wrappers, pictorial dust jacket. Furniture, lamps and furnished interiors designed by Mies, Lichtblau, Behrens, Loos, Schuster, Elsässer, Bruno Paul, Griesser, Vanek, Wagenfeld and others.

Leningrad & Moskva 1954. 29x22. IV+228 pp. + 2 plates. Ca 35 plans and 200 reproductions of architectural drawings and photos of buildings (exterior and interior). Publisher's printed cloth. (Mastera Russkoi Arkhitektury). A monograph on the Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi who was active in Russia between 1779 and 1817.

Roma 1970. 29x31. IV+16 pp. (including four full-page colour photos of the artist) + 25 card leaves, each with one tipped-in colour plate. Publisher's printed boards, dust jacket with title 'Picinni. Paessagi italiani'. Edition limited to 1000 copies. A selection of paintings by Gennaro Picinni with an introduction on the artist.

London, Hali OCTS, 1986. 25x18. VIII+312 pp. Ca 180 photos and drawings. Publisher's silver-lettered cloth, very fine.

München 1902. 24x17. VI+68 pp. + 2 folding plans + large folding plate with drawing. Printed wrappers. An account of the new East Cemetery in Munich and its buildings designed by Hans Grässel - "almost as 'modern' as anything by Olbrich" according to Henry-Russell Hitchcock.

Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club, 1993. 28x22. 484 pp. 365 reproductions and photos including 110 in colour. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. Excellent scholarly dictionary comprising 2200 entries including many quite extensive.

Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Tuttle ... 1962. 31x23. XII+50 pp. text + 162 pp. including 122 pages with ca 170 photos and 39 pages with detailed drawings. 24 additional drawings in the text. Publisher's gilt-lettered satin cloth, dust jacket. Jacket backstrip slightly sunned, otherwise very fine. Fine reprint of a classic first published by in Peking in 1944 as a portfolio limited to 200 copies.

Helsinki, Museum of Finnish Architecture ... 1984. 24x21. 180 pp. 279 photos (40 in colour), furniture diagrams and designs, and 62 additional line drawings in Chronology of Standard Furniture. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket.

(Leningrad) 1938. 29x22. 228 pp. + portrait. 163 photos of buildings (exterior and interior) and reproductions of architectural drawings. Publisher's decorated cloth, covers slightly dulled. The leading architect in Russia in the mid-18th century, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli carried out all major court commissions including the principal Royal palaces in and around Saint Petersburg, and supervised important architectural activities throughout Russia.