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Stockholm, Nordisk Rotogravyr, 1941. 25x20. 240 s. Ca 110 foton (de flesta helsides) och 25 trädgårdsplaner. Fint grönt halvklotband med marmorerade pärmar, båda omslagen medbundna.

Cambridge, Mass. & London, The MIT Press, 1985. 26x18. XVI+200 pp. Ca 70 reproductions including 30 full-page. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. The Chrystal Chain (Die gläserne Kett) was a utopian correspondence initiated by Bruno Taut, in which a small group of like-minded architects and artists exchanged ídeas on the forms of future architecture. Texts by Bruno Taut, Hans Scharoun, Hermann Finsterlin, Wassili Luckhardt, Wenzel Hablik, and others, edited and translated by Ian Boyd Whyte with introduction, biographies and notes.

Stockholm, Chelius, 1902. 23x15. 120 s. 21 helsides ritningar (19 sidor med fasadritning + plan, samt två sidor med kompletterande planer för ett par större hus). Tredje omarbetade och tillökade upplagan, i tryckta omslag med dekorativ husritning; Anna Retzius' namnstämpel på främre omslaget. Anna [Hierta] Retzius hade 1887 i Stockholm öppnat Sveriges första arbetsstuga för fattiga arbetarbarn, och verkade för upprättande av förbättrade arbetarbostäder efter Octavia Hills system

London, The Architectural Press, 1987. 34x24. 262 pp. + 16 colour plates. Ca 240 black and white drawings, plans and photo including 180 full-page. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, very fine. Includes lists of contents, Otto Wagner's introductions to the volumes, and an essay on Wagner by Dagobert Frey. Translated from the German by Edward Vance Humphrey. Introduction by Peter Haiko,

Chicago 1947. 28x22. 376 pp. 439 photos and designs, a few in colour. Publisher's printed cloth. First edition (second printing) of this work on new methods and approaches of art and design including kinetic art and space-time problems, colour photography, 'group poetry' etc. "While 'The New Vision' gave mainly particulars about the educational methods of the old Bauhaus, 'Vision in Motion' concentrates on the Institute of Design, Chicago, and presents a broader, more general view of the interrelatedness of art and life" (from the Foreword).

New York 1980. 27x29. 192 pp. including two foldout plates. Ca 120 colour reproductions (90 full-page) and 10 photos, plus 45 drawings made by Appel to illustrate the Appel-Towarnicki conversation. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Signed by Appel on half-title page. Includes essay by Frankenstein, text by Appel on Appel (translated), a conversation between Appel and Frederic de Towarnicki, biographical data, and index of ilustrations.

London, Allen / Griggs, 1880. 26x18. VIII+162 pp. + 15 plates (including two chromolithographic and six folding) with ca 170 drawings and 14 colour rendering + folding coloured map. 35 drawings in the text. Near contemporary green boards, spine ends and corners lightly worn. Binding slightly weakened, strengthened with strip at beginning of the book.

Paris, Ollendorff, 1877. 24x16. 16 pp. + two folding plates. Printed wrappers. Baron Emanuel Cederström's name in ink on front wrapper. An important document on the statue of Aphrodite from Milos (Vénus de Milo), based upon a conversation held in 1847 between the architect Charles Doussault, and Louis Brest who witnessed the discovery of the statue. The Vénus de Milo was unearthed by Olive Vauthier, an ensign on the French naval schooner "Estafette", when the ship stopped in 1820 at the island of Milos in the Aegean Sea. Vauthier brought Louis Brest, the French vice-consul on Milos, to see what he had found. The folding plates are fascimiles of drawings, made with the aid of Brest and confirmed by him, of the statue in its original setting and the site where it was found.

(London 1852) Facsimile reprint, London: Victoria and Albert Museum / HMSO (1971). 29x20. VI+IV+46 pp. text + 28 folding plates numbered 1-20, 20a, 21-27. Pictorial wrappers. Facsimile edition of "a rare volume containing reduced plans, elevations and sections of the 1851 building, set out by Charles Downes from the contractors' working drawings and published by John Weale, 59 High Holborn, with an accompanying description by Charles Cowper. It is the only surviving reference of the physical structure of the building, and will surely be of great interest to architects and historians." (from new foreword by Charles H. Gibbs-Smith).

Oslo 1958. 37x27. 152 pp + 10 plates with full-page colour photos. 129 photos and reproductions in the text. Pictorial wrappers, lightly worn with a few closed tears. (Kunstindustrimuseet i Oslo: Fortids Kunst i Norges Bygder, Serie II, Publikasjon 6). History and study of Norwegian tapestry double-weaving with scientific catalogue of the coverlets discussed in the work; Bibliography; summary and list of illustrations in English.

Porvoo / Helsinki / Juva, Söderström, 1988. 25x22. 312 pp. + 16 leaves with 95 colour photos. Ca 540 b/w photos including 36 full-page, Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, as new. Profusely illustrated monograph on the Finnish designer of interiors, glass ware and jewellery.

Paris 1971. 31x24. 26 pp. + 11 tipped-in colour plates. 106 full-page reproductions of black ink and pencil drawings. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. A fine collection of 117 drawings by Giacometti from 1915-1965 (reproduced in colour when called for).

London, Batsford, (1916). 24x19. XVI+36 pp. + 33 plates (2 folding) as well as illustrations in the text. Altogether 34 perspectives, 37 photographs, plans of four houses, and a general town plan. Publisher's decorated, gilt-lettered cloth. A fine copy with former owner's stamp on front free endpaper. An attractively produced and illustrated survey of the famous model village planned and built at the expense of William H. Lever to provide homes for the workers at the Lever Brothers soap factory (the name of the village derived from their most popular brand of cleaning agent). Illustrated with representative housing by John Douglas & Daniel P. Fordham, G.E. Grayson & Edward Ould, William & Segar Owen, J.J. Talbot, and other architects.

København 1979. 27x14. 352; + 353-688 pp. Portrait photos, marks and monograms and ca 380 photos of objects, furniture, posters, etc. Publisher's printed linen cloth, as new in the original sliopcase The standard general dictionary of Danish decorative artists and designers 1925-1979.

Erlenbach-Zürich & Stuttgart 1957. 27x22. 188 p. + 8 colour plates. 316 photos. Publisher's cloth. Pictorial dust jacket preserved but worn and repaired with some loss. Excellent photographic survey of furniture by leading designers in Europe and the USA in the 1950s. Trilingual introduction and captions.

Lübeck, Nöhring, 1906. 25x18. XII + 122-448 pp. + pp. 499-512 (Personen-Verzeichnis) + 32 photo plates + publisher's printed red slip. More than 200 photos, plans and drawings in the text. Neat light grey cloth binding with gilt-lettered leather label on spine; printed front wrapper bound. From the library of the Swedish architect Erik Fant, with his name in ink on first page. (Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler der Freien und Hansestadt Lübeck, II. Band, 2. Teil). The text on the red slip reads: "Notiz. Dieser zuerst erschienene Band des Werkes "Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler der Freien und Hansestadt Lübeck" ist bezeichnet mit Bd. II, der folgende Band wird die Bezeichnung Bd. III tragen, und der zuletzt erschienende Band wird mit Band I bezeichnet ..."

Stuttgart (1953). 29x21. 34 leaves ("japanese" binding with 17 double leaves) + loosely inserted folding colour lithograph signed by Wagner (42x59 unfolded). 8 near full-page reproductions (framed by a variety of colours) and 32 small-size reproductions. Pictorial foldout card covers, light external wear. Enclosed: 4-page invitation folder to a Rolf Wagner exhibition at Galerie Samlaren in Stockholm (1954) with text by the artist The first monograph on Rolf Wagner including catalogue of 31 paintings which were exhibited at Galerie Lutz und Meyer in 1953.

Istanbul (1950). 33x24. 364 pp. + 34 coloured (some monochrome) plates, two of which are folding. 717 photos and designs in the text. Publisher's printed cloth-backed boards. An extensive, comprehensively illustrated survey of Ottoman and Islamic decorative arts in Turkey throughout the centuries.

London 1865. 21x14. XX+228 pp. Ca 35 engraved illustrations besides marks and monograms and vignettes. Publisher's decorated cloth, top edge gilt. First edition..

Basel / Boston / Berlin, Birkhäuser, 1998. 24x28. 392 pp. Ca 440 photos (60 full-page, 68 in colour including ten full-page) and 330 drawings and plans, plus ca 135 photos and designs in chronological catalogue of works. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. a fine copy. Signed by Calatrava with a drawing (in blue crayon) on the title page and facing blank page..

Köln, Oktagon, 1996. 29x23. 136 pp. 54 full-page colour photos with brief captions on facing pages. Publisher's pictorial boards. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of photographs by Männikö held at Portikus Frankfurt am Main, De Pont foundation for contemporary art in Tilburg, Lenbachhaus München, and Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles. Bilingual essays in German and English, by Rudolf Schmitz and Heikki Kastemaa.