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(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.

Paris, Flammarion, 1996. 25x26. 192 pp. Ca 180 reproductions and photos, 67 full-page, 80 in colour including 45 full-page. Pictorial wrappers, very fine. (La Création contemporaine. Collection dirigée par Bernard Marcade). Ouvrage publiée en coédition avec le Centre national des Arts Plastiques.

København 1938. 28x21. 164 pp. Ca 125 photos. Publisher's printed boards with illustration, spine darkened, light foxing to title leaf, otherwise a very good copy of a scarce publication. Official report on the Danish participation at the Paris 1937 international exhibition. Among the views are drawings and photos of the Danish pavilion (designed by Tyge Hvass) and of the Danish exhibitions of decorative art and design, as well as photos of the main pavilion buildings of Sweden (Sven Ivar Lind), Norway (Schistad - Korsmo - Knutsen), Finland (Aalto), Germany (Speer), Austria (Haerdtl), Great Britain (Oliver Hill), Belgium (Van de Velde), Netherlands (Van den Broek), Italy (Piacentini), the Soviet Union (Iofan), Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, etc.

London 1934. 26x19. IV+144 pp. Ca 130 photos including 32 full-page. Publisher's grey cloth with design in black, red and blue by Herbert Bayer who also is responsible for the typographical design. A good copy with some very light soiling of covers. First edition.

Cambridge ..., Cambridge University Press / Fitzwilliam Museum, 1981. 28x22. 142 pp. Nearly 200 photos and ca 40 drawings. Fine in publisher's boards with dust jacket. Scholarly catalogue of an exhibition organised by the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Ginevra-Milano, Skira, 2001. 28x24. 216 pp. Ca 380 reproductions, 110 in colour including 33 full-page, plus ten photos of signatures. Publisher's boards, dust jacket. Studies on miniature portrait painting in Brescia in the 18th and 19th centuries, and catalogue describing 350 portrait miniatures, including 82 by Giambattista Gigola (1767-1841), with biographies of the artists, notes on the subjects, provenance, bibliographical references, etc, a list of exhibitions pertaining to miniatures of Brescia, bibliography 1760-2001, and index of artists and subjects.

Helsinki, Ateneum Art Museum, 2001. 28x22. 400 pp. 369 colour reproductions (75 full-page), plus ca 35 colour reproductions and 85 photos (including 50 artists' portrait photos) in the text. Pictorial wrappers, as new.

Göteborg 1923. 26x19. 236 s. 96 foton av hus, interiörer, kakelugnar m.m. samt 46 fasadritningar, planer, etc. Samtida hfrbd (Nils Linde), etikett med tillägnan till Dr. Rikard Lindahl på främre försättsblad. Nr 169 av 200 numrerade exemplar. (Småskrifter utgivna till Göteborgs stads trehundraårsjubileum genom jubileumsutställningens publikationskommitté, XIII). Landeri är en term som användes (i synnerhet i Göteborg) om ståndsmässiga lantegendomar på mark som tilldelats staden när den fick sina stadsprivilegier. Landeriet ägdes eller arrenderades av en borgare i staden och kunde användas antingen till sommarvistelse eller som åretruntbostad.

Philadelphia & London 1914. XVI+330 pp. + coloured frontispiece + 84 plates with 125 photos. Publisher's pictorial cloth, top edge gilt. Spnie lettering faded, small white stain on front cover. An illustrated work on garden design practice with photos of bridges, gateways, porches and pergolas, walls, lake pavilions, bath houses, towers, temples, windmills, tree-houses, pools, fountains, wellheads, spring houses, etc.

Munich ..., Prestel, 2006. 31x23. 156 pp. Ca 140 colour photos including 90 full-page, mostly of terracotta sculptures. Publisher's boards, dust jacket, as new. Includes essays by Joseph F. Jemkur, Gert Chesi, and Mark Rasmussen; and bilbliography.

(Höganäs & Malmö), Bra Böcker / Galleri Leger, 2000. 29x29. 368 s. Ca 180 färgreproduktioner, 150 helsides. Tryckt förlagspappband med illustration. Bilingual Swedish/English text and captions.

Eszlingen a. N. 1914. 26x18. XII+490; VIII+538 s. 675 foton, ritningar och planer. Fina samtida halvskinnband (G. Hedberg) med ryggförgyllning, marmorerade snitt, främre tryckta omslag medbundna. Arkitekt Rudolf Enbloms exlibris, samt namnteckning (1918) av antikvarien vid Riksarkivet Ivar Simonson. 'Dritte Auflage, neu bearbeitet von Professor Dr. Albert Haupt'. (Geschichte der neueren Baukunst, III:1-2). Lübke's history of German Renaissance architecture handsomely bound in contemporary half calf.

Paris (1959). 33x27. XXXVIII+110 pp. including one leaf being an original linocut by Miró (and 16 pages on four folding leaves). Ca 90 reproductions (80 full-page including 13 in colour). Additional drawings and title page made by Miró for this publication. Publisher's boards, mylar-protected dust jacket. Covers and jacket designed by Miró. A fine copy despite tiny scuffing and insignificant wear to the extreme top and bottom edges of jacket.

Tokyo, Shueisha, 1996. 30x22. X+248 pp. including 208 pp. with full- or double-page colour photos from stage performances featuring the Noh actor Umewaka Rokuro. Publisher's decorated cloth, kept in a pictorial slipcase, very fine. Includes bilingual Japanese / English list of illustrations and introductory texts: Umewaka Rokuro, 'On the 45th Anniversary of My Stage Career'; Shirasu Masako, 'Umewaka Rokuro and His Art; Kanze Hideo, 'The Flower of the Umewaka Family'; Domoto Masaki, 'The Lineage of Umewaka Rokuro's Noh'; Takahashi Noboru, 'The Human Behind the Mask'.

New York, Macmillan, 1927. 29x23. 16 pp. + 100 plates with ca 120 colour photos and reproductions; printed guard-leaves to all plates with descriptive captions in English, French, and German. A very good copy in publisher's green cloth with small gilt cover image. Yuan 1480.

Berlin, Siemens, 1895. 45x31. 34 pp. + 2 chromolithographed colour plates with guard-tissues. 16 photos and drawings in the text. Publisher's printed half cloth. Covers slightly stained and one corner scuffed. Enay / Azadi 502: 'Ausserordentlich aufschlussreich in Methodik und Aufbau'.

University Park & London, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1980. 26x18. XVIII+254 pp. 99 photos and 53 plans and drawings. Publisher's boards. Third printing.

Paris, Hartmann, 1948. 28x22. 392 pp. including 306 pages with photos. Contemporary linen cloth, lightly worn gilt-lettered title label on spine, printed wrappers bound in.

Berlin 1908. 27x19. XII+160 pp. 19 plans and drawings and 123 photos of cemeteries, tombstones etc. An attractive copy in publisher's decorated, gilt-lettered cloth. An early publication on cemetery design by the German garden architect who worked with the design, creation and maintenance of parks in a number of European cities. Born in Berlin 1872, he settled in Stettin where he designed the main cemetery together with Wilhelm Meyer-Schwartau.