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New York: Abrams / Paris: Hermann, 1987. 28x24. 220 pp. 310 photos, 58 full-page including 26 in colour. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. English translation from the French 1986 edition. Preface by Jean Leymarie.

Paris, de Nobele, 1962. 28x19. VI+VI+376; + X+310 pp. Ca 5800 reproductions of stamps. Printed wrappers. New edition of a standard dictionary of the hallmarks of French and other European platinum, silver and gold from the 14th century to the early 20th century; first published 1925-28. Antzen / Rainwater P483.

Stuttgart, Julius Hoffmann, 1925. 30x23. 96 pp. + 14 colour plates (photos and renderings). Ca 40 estate and town plans, bird's-eye perspectives, house plans and elevations, and ca 100 photos. Publisher's printed, decorated cloth. Minor stains on lower cover, otherwise a fine copy. An account of a garden suburb and similar developments in Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, undertaken 1921-24 by the Siedlungs-Gesellschaft Ostmark. Text by the responsible architect, and plans for future developments. An excellent pictorial record of (some would say overly) charming German town building in the interwar period.

Bergamo 1913. 29x23. IV+508 pp. + errata slip tipped-in on rear endpaper. Ca 120 reproductions and photos including one full-page with guard-tissue. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, top edge gilt. Inscribed by the author "A Monsieur de Heidenstam en souvenir de l'auteur Mouromtzoff-Wolkoff 28 Avril 1916" to Verner von Heidenstam, the Swedish author, critic, and Nobel Prize laureate.

Washington, Smithsonian Institution - Freer Gallery of Art, 1956. 28x22. XVI+172 + II + 173-196 pp. + 142 plates with ca 380 photos plus 60 photos of fragments and 50 sketches of foot profiles. Publisher's cloth. Partial light scuffing of outer top corner. Yuan 1851.

(Chicago / Hong Kong: Art Media Resources) 2000. 31x23. 216 pp. Ca 90 full-page or near full-page colour photos. Publisher's decorated cloth, in pictorial slipcase, very fine

Stockholm, Gummesons Konstgalleri, 1958. 27x22. 12 pp. + one tipped-in colour plate. One full-page relief etching, and four reproductions including two full-page. Unsewn in printed grey wrappers with relief etching. Edition 1350 copies. Inscribed by the author to Jean Clarence Lambert, and the full-page etching signed by the artist "Till Jean från vännen CO / C.O. Hultén -58". An essay on Carl Otto Hultén published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Gummeson art gallery in September 1958.

Stockholm 1964. 25x19. 122 s. + en utvikbar plansch med modellteckningar och signaturer. Ca 80 foton, 14 i färg, 52 helsides. Inbunden i ett fint brunt halvskinnband.

Leipzig, Pandora-Verlag, 1923. 24x16. 48 pp. + errata slip. Ca 75 reproductions and photos. Printed wrappers. Scarce publication on Lavian art from 1860 to the early 1920s, including biographical notes on 48 artists, and index of the artists of the reproduced works.

Paris 1972. 31x24. 132 pp. + one folding original colour lithograph made by Miró for this publication. Ca 140 reproductions and photos (36 in colour including 18 full-page). Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. (XXe Siècle. Numero spécial hors abonnement). Texts by Miró, Tàpies, Ionesco, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Patrick Waldberg, Roland Penrose, and others.

Stuttgart 1970. 30x21. 224 pp. Ca 365 photos and 50 plans and drawings. Publisher's printed cloth in fine condition. Scarce. A pictorial survey of some thirty modern villas designed by Neutra, with text by the architect. The majority of the houses are built in California, but examples are included from other American states as well as from Switzerland.

Berlin 1930. 30x21. 512 pp. Ca 130 photos, drawings and plans (25 full-page). Publisher's linen cloth, a fine copy. First edition. "An architectural, housing and planning history of Berlin from its origins until about the 1920s, and a bitter critique of 'Absolutist' planning, on which the author blames the extreme overcrowding of Berlin dwellings. One of the most influential pieces of planning history ever written" - Anthony Sutcliffe. Hegemann left Germany for America in 1933, shortly before 'Das steinerne Berlin' and other books of his were burned by the Nazis.

Madrid 1996. 34x24. 136 pp. Ca 120 colour photos and renderings (30 full- or double-page) and 100 plans and drawings. Pictorial wrappers. (El Croquis, 77[I]). Bilingual text in Spanish and English including a conversation with Kazuyo Sejima and an essay by Toyo Ito.

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Norwich & London, Jarrold, 1945. 30x25. XII+276 pp. + 43 leaves (including frontispiece) five of which are folding, with ca 58 plans (50 coloured including 20 full-page), 35 perspective renderings (six coloured including two full-page), and 110 photos. 45 additional plans, diagrams and graphs in the text. A fine copy in publisher's blue cloth with red lettering; the scarce pictorial dust jacket preserved but with a few large chippings in bottom margin and rear. Rowland's utopian Manchester Plan was arguably the the most ambitious re-imagining of a British city ever conceived, verging on obliteration and replacement of a city rather than a mere 'redevelopment'. To realise the vision of a rational modern city, most of the older buildings would have to go, including Alfred Waterhouse's Town Hall. "Despite all the beautiful illustrations and stirring prose of the 1945 ideas, if carried through we would have been left with a Stalinist vision of a city, a huge extended version of Nova Huta close to Cracow" (Jonathan Schofield, https://confidentials.com/manchester/manchester-plan-1945-the-biggest-manchester-redevelopment-plan-of-all-time).

Berlin 1905. 24x18. VIII+XVIII+576+VI pp. 852 drawings and diagrams and 64 photos. Contemporary gilt-lettered half leather with front plate, edges and corners of covers and spine rubbed. Old stamp and label (Stockholms stads Byggnadskontor, Hamnafdelningen). From the library of Ove Hidemark.

Chicago 1933. 14 pp. 3 photos (one full-page) and one drawing. Pictorial wrappers, inscribed by the author. Offprint from The Art Bulletin, Vol XV, No. 1. Bound up with: Arthur Upham Pope, REVIEWS OF BOOKS ON NEAR EASTERN ART. Chicago 1932. III+374-382 pp. Printed wrappers, inscribed by the author. Offprint from The Art Bulletin, Vol XIV, No. 4. And: Ernst Cohn-Wiener, DIE RUINEN DER SELDSCHUKEN-STADT VON MERW UND DAS MAUSOLEUM SULTAN SANDSCHARS. (Leipzig 1925). 114-122 pp. + 3 leaves with 14 photos. Offprint from Jahrbuch der asiatischen Kunst. Bound in one volume, cloth, 31x22 cm. Carl Johan Lamm's bookplate.

Jyväskylä 1985. 35x32. 204 pp. Ca 175 mostly colour photos, more than 75 full- or double-page, and 17 plans and drawings. Publisher's printed cloth with colour plate, kept in the original cloth slipcase, very fine. Excellent survey with exterior and interior colour photos of thirtyone selected buildings designed by Lars Sonck, Eliel Saarinen, Alvar Aalto, J.S. Sirén, Erik Bryggman, Aulis Blomstedt, Viljo Revell, Kaija & Heikki Sirén, Raili & Reima Pietilä, Kristian Gullichsen, and others. Bilingual text in Finnish and English.

Moskva 1984. 29x22. 140 pp. Ca 65 elevations, perspective renderings and photos, and 100 plans and sections. Publisher's grey cloth with red and black front lettering. Minor foxing to top and fore edges, otherwise fine. (Akademiya Nauk SSSR). A thorough architectural documentation of Soviet Workers' Club and 'Culture Palace' design between 1926 and 1932, including entries to architectural competitions. Includes several projects by Konstantin Melnikov, among the other architects are Ilya Golosov, Ivan Leonodov, Nikolai Kolli, Moisei Ginzburg, Yakov Kornfeld, Mikhail Barshch, the Vesnin brothers, etc.