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New York, Abrams, 1975. 27x29. 200 pp. + 2 tipped-in colour plates. More than 200 photos and reproductions (ca 80 full-page and 60 in colour including 37 full-page) plus ca 60 small-size photos in the Catalogue of Sculptures. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jacket. Superb monograph including Catalogue Raisonné of the sculptures, with a concordance to other publications where the works may be listed under different names and dates.

Gustavsberg, Artipelag, (2022). 29x29. 208 pp including two folding leaves. Ca 75 colour photos including 65 full-page and one four-page. Publisher's pictorial boards, as new. (Artipelag utställningskatalog / exhibition catalogue, 16).

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.

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

(Monaco), Sauret / (Paris), Trinckvel, 1990. 32x26. IV+348+IV pp. Ca 210 colour / facsimile reproductions including 130 full- or double-page. Publisher's printed linen cloth, dust jacket, very fine.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, (1906). 28x21. IV+176+XII pp. + 28 leaves with attractive coloured renderings (five full-page perspectives and ca 50 elevations, 55 plans and sections, and seven interior and decorative art designs). Ca 135 photos, 20 mostly full-page perspectives, and 100 elevations and sections in the text. A very nice copy in publisher's printed linen cloth, top edge gilt. Four essays by W.H. Bidlake, Halsey Ricardo and John Cash, and illustrated works by British architects and some decorative artists, including the aforementioned and Voysey, Lutyens, Ashbee, Baillie Scott, Norman Shaw, Ernest Newton, Lewis Day, Guy Dawber, Sidney Barnsley, Robert Stodart Lorimer, Walter Crane, and others.

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.

Paris, Éditions de la Différence, 1988. 27x29. 304 pp. 145 full-page photos and reproductions (53 in colour) plus 35 documenting photos. Publisher's pictorial boards, very fine in pictorial board slipcase. Sumptuously produced monograph on the French sculptor and conceptual artist Bernar Venet (1941-), including texts by the artist.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

London 1969. 25x19. X+458 pp. text + 240 pp. with 461 photos. Publisher's cloth, slightly chipped/repaired dust jacket. A comprehensive documentation of wooden artefacts classified under 28 headings including Drinking, Eating, Farm, Kitchen, Pastimes, Tools, Trade signs etc., with illustrations from the author's collection acquired by the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, who referred to it as "one of the most scholarly and revealing pictures of European social history ever assembled".

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.