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Porvoo 1927. 32x35. 332 pp. + 4 colour plates. 704 photos, plans and drawings including many reproductions of old renderings and plans. Publisher's printed cloth-backed boards. A very well illustrated study of Finnish church architecture in the 17th and 18th centuries, with index of persons and places and index of the illustrations.

London 1888. 22x15. XXXII+352; + VIII+336; + VIII+354 pp. + a total of 80 engraved plates. Ca 90 woodcut illustrations in the text. Publisher's dark blue cloth, top edges gilt. Minor foxing to edges and to first and last leaves of each volume. First published 1762-71, and by Dalloway in 1828; the 1888 edition is revised, with additional notes, by Ralph N. Wornum. "An important pioneering work ... Not limited to painting as the title suggests; contains notes on architecture, sculpture and the other arts" (Arntzen / Rainwater)

Köln, DuMont, 1961. 30x22. 468 pp. Ca 1000 photos and reproductions, including 40 tipped-in plates and 761 small-size reproductions in the Catalogue. Publisher's pictorial cloth, slightly edgeworn / repaired dust jacket. Second edition of a standard monograph including fully illustrated, classified catalogue of paintings, watercolours etc. and extensive bibliography of writings and publications by and on Kandinsky.

London 1936. 28x21. 436 pp. Ca 130 photos, 40 site/district plans and 280 house plans and sections. Publisher's printed cloth. Binding and contents in very fine condition, in rarely seen but faded, chipped and repaired dust jacket. A survey providing detailed, illustrated information on 32 selected housing estates planned and built in the early 1930s in the countries listed in the title. The Swedish examples are all from the Stockholm region: Svedmyra, Kristineberg, Hjorthagen, and Kvarnholmen.

Paris: Vincent, Fréal & Cie, 1960. 27x22. 194 pp. + 150 pp. with ca 230 photos and reproductions (65 full-page) of drawings and plans + frontispiece (portrait). 40 reproductions of drawings and plans in the text (eight full-page). Publisher's silver-lettered cloth. Top of spine faded, otherwise fine. (Les grands architectes).

Paris 2001. 31x24. 240 pp. Ca 315 photos and reproductions, 90 full-page, 85 in colour including 15 full-page. Publisher's boards, dust jacket. Profusely illustrated study of the cultural role and impact of black residents and communities in late-19th and 20th century Paris.

Leningrad 1957. 34x25. 120 pp. (including four foldouts) + 4 plates (2 tipped-in). 60 measured elevations, sections and detail drawings, plans, renderings and photos. Publisher's printed boards, exterior lightly worn. (Pamyatniki Russkoi Arkhitektury, Obmery i Issledovaniya). Survey and study of the Library and Anichkov Palace Pavilion buildings designed by Carlo Rossi near his Alexandrine Theatre building in St. Petersburg.

München 1992. 25x21. 396 pp. More than 500 photos, reproductions, plans and drawings (ca 50 in colour). Publisher's boards, dust jacket. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of Bruno Paul's oeuvre in furniture and interior design, decorative art, architecture and graphic art, with studies by Ziffer and others.

London, Zwemmer, 1978. 33x24. 40 pp. text + 128 pp. with numerous colour renderings. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Very fine copy kept in original cardboard slipcase. Includes all the plates from Tilke's "Orientalische Kostüme" (1923) and "Osteuropäische Volkstrachten" (1925) plus some previously unpublished illustrations, with English translation of the German texts.

Paris, Charles Moreau, (1950). 33x25. 8 pp. + 48 photogravure plates with 87 photographs. Loose as issued in pictorial cloth-backed portfolio, covers lightly browned towards edges. 87 photos of modern fire-places (with surrounding furniture), thirty-three of which are designed by Royère; among the other designers are Jacques Adnet, Suzanne Guiguichon, Gabriel Guévrékian, and Michel Roux-Spitz.

Paris (1935). 32x23. 20 pp. + 48 heliogravure plates with ca 100 photographs. Loose as issued in printed boards with cloth spine and tie-strings. Very light external wear and discolouring; minor foxing to extreme margins of a few plates. An attractive photographic survey of modern church interiors including downright Art Deco style altars, pulpets, fonts, etc. designed by French architects including Paul Bellot, Marcel Favier, Marc Brillaud de Laujardière, Pierre Chirol, Louis Filliol, Henri Vidal, etc. (listed in an index).

Sankt-Peterburg 2003. 24x17. 512 pp. + 24 pp. with 33 colour photos. Ca 240 black and white photos (30 full-page) and 40 line drawings and reproductions of designs. Publisher's pictorial boards, very fine. Russian-language, illustrated historical survey of Russian furniture.

Stockholm, Norstedt, 1911. 22x14. VI+162 s. 45 foton och ca 20 planer och ritningar. Snyggt klotryggsband i fint skick, de tryckta omslagen med illustration medbundna. Storstilad namnteckning daterad 1913 på titelsidan. Första upplagan av denna "översikt och granskning av idéer, strävanden och faktiska resultat i avseende på villabyggandet i Sverige", med illustrationer av villor ritade av Carl Westman, I.G. Clason, L.I. Wahlman, Ragnar Östberg, Ivar Tengbom, Carl Bergsten, Torben Grut, med flera. Boken är utpräglat engelskorienterad med framför allt Baillie Scott och Voysey som förebilder, och Brunius gör en omtolkning för svenska förhållanden av Ruskins teori i "The poetry of Architecture".

Berlin, Baumgärtel (1911). 40x30. 12 pp. + 54 plates (4 coloured) with ca 250 measured drawings. 23 photos in the text. Loose as issued in cloth-backed boards with tie-strings, printed title label on front cover. Boards lightly rubbed, minor cracking to foot of spine, title leaf slightly darkened,

München, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2008. 25x23. 136 pp. More than 115 colour photos including 40 full-page, and 30 plans and drawings. Publisher's boards, dust jacket.

Moskva 1950. 26x17. 172 pp. + 2 folding plates. 174 photos, designs and garden plans. Publisher's cloth-backed printed boards, extremities and corners worn, stamps on endpapers, contents fine. A study of the use, design and construction of fountains, with detailed drawings as well as numerous illustrations from Russian parks and gardens and from old renderings.

London, Duckworth, 1923. 22x15. 160 pp. Six plans and ca 40 perspectives and other drawings. A very fine copy in publisher's blind-lettered cloth. On domestic architecture and planning, the design of fittings and furniture, lighting, etc. illustrated with designs by Leslie Mansfield, who worked as an assistant to Voysey before he established his own practice in 1911.

Stockholm 1905. 20x13. 18 s. + 10 utvikbara planscher med 10 fasadritningar, 13 planer och sektioner, och 13 möbelritningar. Två planer i texten samt ett foto på titelsidan. Första upplagan, tredje tusendet. Publikationen bygger på Östbergs erfarenheter från den arkitektbyrå för gratis rådgivning till arbetarfamiljer som drevs under år 1902 av honom och Lars Israel Wahlman. Texten exemplifieras med ritningar till stugor, från två rum och kokvrå till fyra rum och kök, samt förslag till lämpliga möbler.

Tielt, Lannoo, 1999. 29x25. 320 pp. More than 300 photos of Flemish tapestries, 210 in colour including 44 full-page. Pictorial wrappers, as new.

Stockholm, Chelius, 1903. 21x14. 170 s. + 6 s. med förlagsboklista och annonser. 47 foton och teckningar. Prydligt samtida klotband. Med Ernst L. Hartmanns exlibris signerat V.H. (som avbildar det corps-de-logi i barockstil som uppfördes efter att Hartmann låtit riva Tenhults gamla mangårdsbyggnad). Författaren var en flitig skribent som publicerade sina alster både i eget namn och under en rad olika pseudonymer. Den ofta kritiske Rudolf Enblom recenserade boken i Folkbiblioteksbladet 1904: "Boken påminner om en gammal snäll rådgifvare, som visserligen medgifver att han ej vet allt, men som icke desto mindre på begäran berättar en del bra saker och en del skräp och en del som han hälst skulle tigat med såsom tvifvelaktiga".

København, Selskabet til udgivelse af danske minnesmærker / Christian Ejlers' Forlag, 1991. 28x20. 284; + 576 pp. Ca 80 black and white reproductions and photos in volume 1, and 886 reproductions in volume 2, ca 400 full-page including 78 in colour. Publisher's cloth,dust jackets, a very good set.