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Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 1980. 24x21. IV+420 pp. 470 reproductions of drawings, plans and photos, several full-page and thirteeen in colour. Handsome half black leather binding (Manne Dahlstedt) with decorative endpapers, both pictorial wrappers and the backstrip bound in. Exrensively annotated exhibition catalogue of an exhibition devoted to Viollet-le-Duc as an architect, restorator, designer and draughtsman. Includes biography, and bibliographies of writings by and on Viollet-le-Duc.

Örkelljunga, Edition Bauhaus Situationiste, 1980. 29x20. 124 s. inklusive blanka omlag. Tryckta ytteromslag med illustrationer. Nr 199 av 1000 numrerade och av Helmer Lång signerade exemplar (ytterligare 200 trycktes för press, medarbetare och bibliotek). Detta ex. har en originalteckning av Nash i blått, rött och svart på baksidan av titelbladet, med dedikation "Till Lars! En varm hälsning från Drakabygget, frihetens verkstad, från din vän Jörgen, The Poet of Denmark. Stockholm 22/9 1980", och dessutom inskription "Venlig hilsen Carsten" (Nash). Boken består av teckningar och texter av svenska, danska och utländska gratulanter. Konstnären, diktaren och provokatören Jørgen Nash föddes Jørgensen men tog sig täcknamnet Nash under den tyska ockupationen av Danmark, liksom hans bror Asger tog sig namnet Jorn. I sina memoarer 'En havfruemorder krydser sit spor' hävdade Nash att det var han som stod bakom avsågandet av Den lille Havfrues huvud den 24 april 1964.

Paris: Vincent, Fréal & Cie, 1951. 28x22. IV+124 pp. 165 drawings and plans by the author. Printed wrappers, pp. 29-124 unopened.

Tel Aviv, The Tel Aviv Museum, 1994. 26x26. 88 pp. 64 full-page duotone photos, and a portrait photo. Introductory commentary by Judith Turner, and a preface by Marc Scheps. Pictorial wrappers, very fine. First published in 1984, this is a special edition in honour of the International Style Architecture Conference in Tel Aviv, May 1994.

Paris, Galerie Flak, 2006. 24x22. 184 pp. (including all endpapers). Ca 200 photos (190 in colour including 60 full-page) of Mumuye statuary from Northeastern Nigeria, and three maps. Publisher's pictorial boards. Bilingual text and captions in French and German.

Helsingfors 1946. 21x15. 80 pp. Reproductions of marks, and 21 photos. Printed wrappers. Inscribed by the author to Karin and Bengt Thordeman. No. 57 of an edition limited to 500 copies. Dictionary of the goldsmiths of the Baltic city Narva (in Swedish possession 1581-1704) and the city Nyen founded by the Swedes in 1611 and largely destroyed when captured by the Russian in 1703.

London, The Trustees of the British Museum, 1964. 28x22. LXXVI+82 ppp. text + frontispiece + 42 pp. with ca 130 photos. 81 illustrations in the text. Publisher's cloth, in lightly worn dust jacket with minor repairs, insignificant scuffing of one corner.

Stuttgart, Hatje, 1998. 32x24. 416 pp. 1050 (mostly colour) reproductions including ca 135 full-page. Pictorial wrappers, as new.

Paris 1928. 38x28. VIII+36 s. + 49 plates with well-made reproductions of engravings. Contemporary half black leather, printed wrappers and backstrip bound in. No. 8 of an edition limited to 250 copies. (Les Albums des Beaux-Arts). Handsome monograph on the Swedish genre and portrait painter Niklas Lafrensen the younger (1737-1807) who worked in Paris between 1774 and 1791 under the name Lavreince.

Lund 1966. 30x22. XX+292; + VIII pp. + 96 pp. with ca 300 photos and 30 drawings. Ca 95 photos and 45 drawings in the text. Printed wrappers. (Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sveciae, Series in 4o, XI).

Paris 1972. 32x24. 136 pp. + one original colour lithograph by Henry Moore. Ca 160 photos and reproductions, 37 full-page including 24 in colour. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket with minor repairs. (XXe siècle. Numéro spécial hors abonnement). Includes texts by Henry Moore, Jacques Lassaigne, Roland Penrose, Pierre Courthion, Herbert Read, Yvon Taillandier, Raymond Cogniat, and others. The original lithograph was made by Henry Moore especially for this publication.

Kiev 1953. 27x33. 216 pp. including 117 pages with ca 800 measured drawings. Ca 50 photos in the text. Publisher's printed cloth-backed boards, former owner's Russian name on title page. Fine despite light rubbing of cover extremities and a small hole in the cloth spine. Elements of park architecture illustrated in detailed measured line drawings and sections providing a great variety of forms and decorations, in four sections devoted to 1. Fences, brick walls, gates and gate-posts, 2. Lamp-posts, 3. Vases and urns. 4. Park sofas and benches.

München 1986. 30x22. 312 pp. 480 photos including 88 in colour. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Descriptive, illustrated catalogue of Swedish art glass from Orrefors, Kosta, Eda, Strömbergshuttan, Gullaskruf, Reijmyre, Elme, Skruf, and Boda. Introductory essays by the editors, Helena Dahlbäck-Lutteman, and Edvard Hald, catalogue of artists, signatures and models; bibliography and index.

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).

Örebro 1972. 32x24. 276 s. + en originallitografi i färg av Chagall. Ca 255 foton, 200 helsides, 127 i färg varav 110 helsides. Tryckt förlagsklotband, skyddsomslag, förvarad i skyddskartong. Fint ex. med minimal ägaretikett på främre försättsblad. Nr 148 av 799 numrerade ex.

(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.

Leningrad 1953. 26x21. 212 pp. + 18 plates of which 15 are folding (one coloured) with plans and drawings + 10 photo plates. Altogether 23 photos and numerous park plans, elevations, sections, and detail drawings. Publisher's printed, cloth-backed boards. Cover edges lightly rubbed, small number-label on front cover. A thorough Russian work on the planning and design of urban parks.

Oslo 1967. 26x20. IV+332 pp. 210 photos (12 full-page in colour) plus ca 40 photos of marks and more than 300 small-size photos in appendix catalogues. Publisher's gilt-lettered boards. English summary.

Hannover 1970. 25x22. 308 pp. + 12 colour plates + portrait photo plate. More than 400 reproductions (in addition to the plates) including 80 full-page. Publisher's cloth, in repaired dust jacket. Former owner's notes and irrelevant newspaper clipping on front free endpaper. The Catalogue Raisonné of Otto Dix's engraved and lithographed works. Introduction by Hans Kinkel.