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New York, Japan Society, 1914. 32x25. XII+132 pp. + 25 plates with 64 photos + 2 colour photo plates with guard-leaves. Uncut in publisher's gilt-lettered cloth-backed boards, the binding slightly worn with scuffed corner tips, minor soiling in innermost margin at the beginning and end of the book, damp streak in upper margin corner of the first colour plate (frontispiece). No. 153 of an edition limited to 1500 copies.

Stockholm, J.P Lindhs Enka, 1822. 23x19. X+312 pp. + 3 engraved plates with perspective, elevation and plan. A fine, clean copy in contemporary half calf, spine gilt. A description of the the church at the Riddarholmen island in Stockholm, first built as an abbey in the 13th century. Rothlieb's work was a timely publication in that it appeared thirteen years before the church was damaged by fire; when restored in 1838-41, the new towers were provided with latticed forged-iron spires on the initiative of Samuel Owen.

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1985. 26x20. XII+500 pp. 219 photos (16 full-page in colour), designs and plans. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket with small repair. The standard monograph on the protagonist of the Arts and Crafts movement "who did more than any other Arts and Crafts architect to try to turn Morris's ideas into practice" (Peter Davey).

Bielefeld, Kerber, 2009. 27x22. 160 pp. Ca 165 reproductions and photos, 130 in colour including 45 full-page. Publisher's pictorial boards, as new. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Kirchnermuseum, Davos, and Arp Museum, Remagen.

Stockholm 1949. II+356 s. + 27 färgplanscher. 187 reproduktioner i texten. Nr 269 av 500 numrerade exemplar i band komponerat av Iván Grünewald: hfrbd med pärmdekor i blått och rött. Ryggen något fläckad, ett hörn obetydligt stött.

London, Privately Printed, 1868. 30x21. IV+40 pp. + XXIV pp. appendix + Corrigenda slip + 5 plates, each with one mounted photograph. Publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth. Presentation copy with a handwritten letter signed by the author tipped-in on front endpaper.

Port Melbourne, Victoria: Thames & Hudson Australia, 2016. 34x17. 240 pp. 167 photos (123 in colour, 44 black and white or semicoloured) including 103 full-page and 34 double-page. Publisher's pictorial cloth, as new.

Berlin, Gebr. Mann, 1970. 28x22. XXIV+464;+ VIII+158 pp. + nine intermittent section-title leaves. Puiblisher's purple cloth. Exhaustive, classified documentation of the information on artists, exhibitions, places, institutions, fine and decorative art, titles of art works, etc. to be found in the important Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) magazine 'Pan' published from 1895-1900. Includes complete record of the contents in each issue, with index of the authors. Introduction on the magazine 'Pan' in German, English and French.

London ..., Longmans, Green and Co., 1907. 34x25. II+X+160 pp. text + 52 colour plates, each with one leaf with caption. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, top edge gilt. A fine copy with neat gift inscription to the Swedish architect Ingegerd Waern Bugge.

Christiania 1878. 23x16. VIII+102 s. 30 träsnittsillustrationer. Dekorerat förlagsklotband med pärmtitel i guldtryck, pärmarna något nötta.

Berg en Dal, Afrika Museum, 2004. 29x22. 272 pp. Ca 330 colour photos including 44 full-page. Publisher's pictorial boards, a very good copy.

Stuttgart 1964. 26x20. IV+312 pp. + 26 leaves with 212 photos (8 full-page) + 22 plates (12 folding) loosely inserted in a holder inside rear cover, with ca 80 elevations, sections and plans. 100 drawings and plans in the text. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth. Second edition, with new prefaces by Friedrich Metz and the author. (Alemannisches Institut Freiburg im Breisgau). Well-illustrated scholarly work on the characteristic wooden residential houses adapted to the specific nature of the Schwarzwald forested mountain range in southwestern Germany

Milano, Bruno Alfieri, 1964. 23x24. 198 pp. + 2 leaves with poems by Hans Arp from 1962, printed in orange. 172 photos, 13 in colour. Publisher's decorated boards, lightly worn dust jacket with strengthening on inside. Trilingual text in Italian, French and English.

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Eighth ICOC, 1996. 31x23. XII+278 pp. 324 colour photos. Publisher's printed boards, dust jacket, a fine copy.

London 1934. 23x15. XXIV+232 pp. + 63 leaves with ca 110 plans and 275 photos + folding vocabulary. Publisher's printed cloth, a good copy although exterior slightly darkened and very lightly worn. Former owners' names on front endpaper, the first dated Edinburg 1935, the second by Eva von Zweigbergk dated Stockholm 1960. Splendid survey of some 120 modern villas, with more than 85 examples of ultramodern 'International Style'. Although some of the famous exponents of this style are represented, the strength of the book is the inclusion of prominent Modernist architects of lesser fame, including thirty-eight from Britain as well as examples from France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Greece, Iceland, Norway, the USA, Australia, Japan, and South Africa. The text is written in Charles Kay Odgen's Basic English with its vocabulary of only 850 core words.

(Paris & Angers) 2003. 28x23. 200 pp. Ca 120 photos, more than 200 in colour including 33 full-page, plus 20 photos in the introductory texts including eight in colour of stamps and signatures. Publisher's pictorial boards, dust jacket, virtually as new.

Paris, Éditions des Chronique du Jour, 1928. 19x14. 20 pp. + 23 plates. Printed, pictorial jacket over blank grey wappers as issued. Head and foot of jacket backstrip slightly chipped, and outer margin of one text leaf slightly torn. No. 566 of an edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. Rare French edition of the equally rare, early publication on Modigliani published in Italian in 1927.

(Paris) 1998. 28x23. 304 pp. 240 photos, plans and drawings, ca 100 in colour. Publisher's pictorial limp boards.

München 1919. 21x16. VIII+160 pp. + 6 original lithographs by Rudolph Grossmann with guard-tissues + 20 tissue-guarded heliogravure plates. 8 reproductions in the text (in 'Ergänzung des Marées-Kataloge'). Publisher's printed boards, a very fine copy.

Leipzig 1910. 27x19. XII+236 pp. + 2 folding plans including one printed in red and black (ca 100x100 cm unfolded). Publisher's printed, decorated cloth. Ragnar Josephson's copy with his name in ink dated 1921 and three loosely inserted leaves with notes and two drawings by him. An historical survey of the buildings of Florence with indices of architects and buildings, and folding plan of the present town in 1919 as well as 1783 town plan.

Paris, Éditions de la Différence, 1998. 27x29. 348 pp. Ca 245 colour reproductions including 195 full- or double-page, and 75 photos. Publisher's pictorial boards, very fine. Handsomely produced monograph on the French painter Jean Miotte (1926-2016).