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London, Smith Elder, and Co., 1855. 26x18. XX+208 pp. + 32 pp. publisher's book list + 14 plates with guard-leaves, including frontispiece. Publisher's cloth with embossed decoration, top edge gilt. Neatly rebacked, cover corners slightly rubbed, endpapers darkened. Several text folds unopened. Second edition.

Zürich 1940. 23x28. VIII+236 pp. Ca 330 photos and more than 200 plans, sections, elevations and detail drawings. Publisher's printed cloth, designed dust jacket (this is lightly rubbed at extremities and insignificantly stained on the back). Inscribed by the author. Author's presentation copy of the first edition. A thorough documentation of selected buildings designed between 1930 and 1939 by Le Corbusier, Alfred Roth & Marcel Breuer, Max Bill, Brinkman & van der Vlugt, Richard Neutra, Beaudoin & Lods, Junzo Sakakura (the Japanese pavilion at the Paris 1937 Expo), Bandi & Belgioioso & Peresutti & Rogers, Alvar Aalto, Erik Friberger, and others.

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1987. 30x27. 29 leaves (12 folding) with reproductions of Duchamp's photographs and notes (plus reproductions inside covers) + loosely inserted 4-page folder with text by Anne d'Harnoncourt, three photos of the cardboard model of Étant Donnes, and two colour photos of the work as installed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Publisher's black leatherette, the original printed semi-opaque wrap-around band with title in black and red preserved and loosely enclosed. A scrupulously produced facsimile of Duchamp's own manual for the fabrication of his large and complex 'Étant Donnés' tableaux on which he worked for two decades before completing it in 1966.

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.

Tokyo & New York & London 2000. 30x22. 192 pp. Ca 175 photos (36 in colour) and 300 drawings. Publisher's printed boards, dust jacket, a pristine copy.

Moskva 1940. 29x22. 132 pp. + portrait. 106 reproductions of architectural drawings and photos of buildings. Publisher's printed cloth, covers lightly stained and bent. (Mastera Arkhitektury Russkogo Klassitsizma). The life and work of the Neoclassicist architect best known as the designer of the Admiralty in Saint Petersburg.

Paris 1949. 31x24. XII+232 pp- + 13 colour plates; + IV pp. + 140 pp. with more than 1000 photos. Publisher's printed boards with colour plates; exterior lightly rubbed and discoloured. No. 433 of an edition limited to 1565 copies.

(Stockholm & Göteborg) 1977. Vol. 1-2 (22x19): 152; + 196 s. Vol. 3 (22x29): 208 s. Ca 80 foton i vol. 1 (om egendomen och dess ägare) och 150 foton i vol. 2 (om slottsbyggnaden). Vol. 3 innehåller reproduktioner av Carlbergs originalritningar med hans egen text, uppmätningar gjorda 1949, etc. Tryckta förlagsklotband, skyddsomslag. Nr 10 av 100 numrerade ex. (Nordiska Museets handlingar, 88-90). Omfattande studie av Gunnebo slott som byggdes i slutet av 1700-talet efter ritningar av Carl Wilhelm Carlberg.

Múnchen, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1987. 26x21. 504 pp. + 6 leaves with 11 full-page colour reproductions. More than 300 reproductions including reference illustrations, and 16 reproductions of signatures. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jacket with short repaired tear at the back. The Life and Work of the Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes; including Catalogue Raisonné of his works, bibliography, etc.

Berlin 1932. 30x22. XVI+256 pp. Ca 170 photos including 95 full-page. A very fine copy in printed wrappers over blank covers as issued. (Sammlung Baron Eduard von der Heydt, 1. Another volume appeared the same year, titled 'Kunst der Naturvölker. Afrika, Ozeanien, Indonesien'). Yuan 1379.

Stockholm 1979. 24x17. 304 s. Ca 105 foton av byggnader samt drygt 200 små reproduktioner av porträtt och porträttfoton. Tryckt förlagsklotband med skyddsomslag i gott skick. Namnteckning på främre försättsblad.

Milano 1988. 30x21. 204 pp. Ca 440 photos and reproductions of designs, including 24 in colour. Publisher's printed cloth with colour plate. (From Project to Product, 1). Revised and extended English-language edition of Casciani's 'Mobile come Architetture' (1984), a number of essays and case studies of the design and production of the Zanotta company as a micro-model of Italian furniture design from 1927 to the 1980s, including the work of Terragni, Castiglioni, Zanuso, Max Bill, Tapiovaara, Colombo, Aulenti, Sottsass, Cacciani, and others. Introductory notes by Emilio Ambasz and Benedetto Gravagnuolo.

München / Wien / Berlin, Drei Masken Verlag, 1926. 25x19. 84 pp. text + 64 pp. with ca 45 photos and 50 perspectives, elevations, plans, etc. + 2 folding plates with city perspectives by Tony Garnier. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, some loss from spine lettering. (Die Baukunst herausgegeben von Dagobert Frey). A study of modern functional building illustrated with designs and executed buildings by Behrens, Döcker, Rading, Häring, Mendelsohn, Mies van der Rohe, Max Taut, Bruno Taut, Luckhardt Brothers, Gropius & Meyer, Adolf Loos, Berlage, Mart Stam, Oud, Garnier, Mallet-Stevens, Le Corbusier, Guevrekian, Sant Elia, Vesnin, F.L. Wright, and others.

Wiesbaden & Zürich, Heimkultur, (1912-14). 25x20. VIII+272 pp. Ca 200 elaborate elevations, perspectives and plans, and 200 photos. Publisher's red cloth with Swiss white cross and gilt lettering. A survey of contemporary single- & double-family houses, terraced-house rows, garden suburbs and similar estates in Switzerland, designed by thirteen architects and partnerships. This first, only part to appear was originally published in six fascicles.

Berlin 1937. 31x24. 104 pp. text + 70 pp. with ca 130 reproductions and photos + 3 plates with 10 reproductions + folding town plan. Publisher's printed linen cloth. (Forschungen zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte herausgegeben vom Deutschen Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, 20).

(Paris), Hazan, 1960. 24x30. VIII+76 pp. + 29 leaves with 82 photos and reproductions (33 in colour) + 16 plates on fine heavy paper, with reproductions of drawings. Publisher's pictorial cloth, in the original pictorial slipcase. A monograph written by the founder and curator of the Musée d'Antibes, including a Catalogue Raisonné of the works by Picasso in the museum.

Tokyo, Edita, 1977. 36x26. 52 pp. 16 b/w and five colour photos (ten full-page and 11 double-page); five drawings and plans (four full-page and one double-page). Pictorial wrappers. (GA - Global Architecture, 7).

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.

Paris 1965. 31x24. XIV+118 pp. including 8 pages on two folding leaves. Ca 370 photos, plans, drawings and sketches, plus ca 75 small-size illustrations on folding chronology. Pictorial wrappers, very light unobtrusive corner scuffing. Special issue (no. 51) of the review 'Aujord'hui. Art et Architecture'. English summary of the texts.