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London 1922. 38x26. XVI+284 pp. (last leaf blank) including 13 pages with ca 180 reproductions of artists' signatures, publishers' seals and actors' crests + 65 leaves (one folding) with ca 275 reproductions + 9 plates (each with printed guard-leaf) with 22 colour reproductions. Neat later half cloth. One text page with a closed tear, otherwise a very fine copy.

Paris, Éditions "Cahiers d'Art", 1962-63. 37x27. VIII+IV+112+IV+113-272; + IV+273-504 pp. including 390 pages with 843 photos + 18 photo plates (4 coloured). 9 maps and plans (2 double-page) in the text. Publisher's printed cloth. Former owner's name stamps, corner scuffing of first volume. Major documentation and study of Greek Neolithic art including Macedonia, Anatolia, Cyprus, the Balkans, Palestine, Kurdistan, etc. with notes, bibliography, and indices of subjects and object types, places, and names.

Berlin 1936. 30x22. 46 pp. text (including frontispiece) + 70 pp. with full-page photos. 15 plans, sections and perspectives and 2 photos in the text. Publisher's printed linen cloth, a fine copy. The architect's own account of the Reichssportfeld complex built in Berlin 1934-36, with a photographic survey. In 1931, Berlin hade been made the host of the 1936 Summer Olympics. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they decided to use the Olympic Games for propaganda purposes, and Hitler ordered the construction of a great complex named the Reichssportfeld with a new Stadium and other edifices.

Moskva 1953. 29x22. 224 pp. + errata slip. 219 photos, 52 full-page, and 42 elaborate line drawings. Publisher's patterned cloth, dust jacket. An authoritative work on Russian parquet flooring with emphasis on extravagant parquetry, illustrated in detail.

Stockholm 1923. 23x17. XII+264 s. + porträtt. Ca 90 reproduktioner och foton. Bunden utan första och sista blanka bladen i ett fint halvskinnband med övre guldsnitt. Med dedikation "Hans Excellens Statsminister Ernst Trygger vördsamt från förf."

Washington, D.C., Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation, 1979. 22x14. 112 pp. + 2 leaves with 19 photos. 257 drawings in the text. Publisher's cloth, former owner's bookplate inside front cover. Scarce, authoritative and admirably well illustrated treatise on the subject.

Leipzig 1907. 48x34. IV+20 pp. + 80 plates with photographs in heliogravure + 8 plates with plans and sections. Loose as issued in a printed portfolio with tie-strings. Exterior slightly darkened and worn, contents fine. Second revised edition. Large-format photographic documentation of Baroque and Rococo churches and church interiors in Schwaben and Switzerland.

München, Bruckmann, 1932. 27x20. 122 pp. 180 photos including 28 full-page, and 80 plans. Printed wrappers, fine. A survey of modern buildings in Germany and Austria designed by Walter Gropius, Bruno Taut, Ernst May, Richard Döcker, Hans Scharoun, Otto Haesler, Josef Frank, Lois Welzenbacher, Luckhardt & Ancker, Adolf Rading, Martin Elsässer, Grete Schütte-Lihotzky, Heinrich Tessenow, Josef Hoffmann, and others.

Darmstadt (1919). 31x23. VIII+118 pp. 80 full-page photos and plans. Publisher's printed, decorated boards. The architect's presentation of his own country house as well as the interiors of his home in the city.

Paris, Papierski, (1989). 30x24. 220 pp. (including two folding plates ) + an original colour lithograph by Coignard, with guard-tissue. Publisher's printed cloth, very fine. English-language version, from an entire edition of 6000 of which this is 1720.

Berlin, Wasmuth, 1910. 32x23. XVI+286 pp. 400 photos, drawings and plans. Publisher's decorated, cloth-backed boards. Boards rubbed at extremities, partial but extensive loss of gold colour from the cover title design, stamp on title page. Although designated "Band 1" on cover and last page, this volume, delineating the development of domestic architecture in the United States up to the beginning of the 20th century, was the only one to appear of a work planned according to the same principles (and sub-title) as Muthesius's 'Das Englishe Haus'.

Oslo 1942. 36x27. II+48 s. inklusive kolorerad frontispis + 40 s. med 44 foton (11 helsides i färg). 37 foton i texten. Prydligt halvklotband, ryggen något blekt, båda originalomslagen medbundna. Upplaga: 1000 exemplar. (Kunstindustrimuseet i Oslo: Publikasjon Nr. 100. Fortids Kunst i Norges Bygder, Serie II, Publikasjon 1).

Amsterdam, Heirs of Gerrit Rietveld ... 1983. 22x30. 13 card leaves with cut-out model parts + one heavy cardboard cutting-out template + 16 pp. booklet in pictorial wrappers. Kept in the original printed, pictorial cardboard box, all in very fine condition. Build-your-own-model kit with detailed instructions in the booklet which also contains site and floor plans of Rietveld's original Schröder house and a brief essay by Marieke Kuipers.

Praha 1967. 26x23. 104 pp. + frontispice photo portrait + 4 colour plates. Ca 200 photos of buildings and reproductions of perspectives, elevations and plans. Publisher's printed cloth, lightly worn dust jacket.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.