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København 1912. 23x20. VI+XVIII+276 s. + 2 frontispis-planscher + 56 planscher (de allra flesta fototypier på konsttryckpapper, och samtliga försedda med transparent textblad) med sammanlagt 167 reproduktioner. 48 reproduktioner i texten, därav 13 av signaturer och andra inskriptioner. Samtida rött halvskinnband (G. Hedberg) med fem upphöjda bind, ett fint ex. obetydligt nött i ytterkanterna. (Danske malede Portræter, IV). De 56 planscherna är numrerade I-XVII, XIX-LVI inklusive två planscher numrerade XVa och XVb (i katalogtexten såväl som i katalogens index över konstnärer och avporträtterade finns hänvisningar till planscherna, dock ingen till en plansch numrerad XVIII).

Stockholm 1937. 32x27. 292 pp. + 6 tipped-in colour plates. Ca 370 illustrations. Cloth, gilt monogram on front cover. No. 385 of 550 copies. Grand monograph on the Royal Court Theatres at the Drottningholm and Gripsholm Palaces (built to the designs of Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz and Erik Palmstedt respectively) and their historical background. The volume comprises 145 pages text with ca 180 illustrations, mainly 18th-century renderings, and 134 pages with ca 120 photos and 70 architectural drawings - by the original architects as well as plans, elevations and sections based upon new measurings. Although designated "Förra delen" (First part) on the title leaf, this is the complete published work.

Baltimore & London 1972. 26x22. XXX+592 pp. 268 photos, reproductions and plans. Publisher's pictorial three-quarter cloth (i.e. cloth covered boards with an affixed paper illustration of an Arts and Crafts tapestry depicting swans floating upon a tree-lined body of water), dust jacket. (The John Hopkins Studies in Nineteenth-Century Architecture). The classic monograph on Baillie Scott and his circle, including List of Works 1889-1938, bibliography, and indices of works and persons. Apart from houses the illustrations include designs for and photos of executed interiors and furniture.

Moskva, "Architektura-S", 2007. 29x22. 496 pp. Ca 1650 reproductions of drawings, plans and photos. Publisher's gilt-lettered red rexine, dust jacket, as new. Profusely illustrated authoritative work on the Rationalist current in early Soviet avant-garde architecture.

(Paris), Stock, 1994. 25x19. 128 pp. including 66 pages with reproductions of the plates. Pictorial wrappers. A facsimile of the album of drawings by the 13th-century artist Villard de Honnecourt, including architectural designs, mechanical devices and engineering constructions, ecclesiastical objects, ensembles of religious and secular figures perhaps derived from or intended as sculptural groups, etc. Includes notes on the plates, and studies on Villard and his drawings, by Erlande-Brandenburg, Régine Pernoud, Jean Gimpel, and Roland Bechmann.

München, Slavisches Institut, 1971. 30x21. 132 pp. 1958 reproductions of makers' marks and hallmarks; with an alphabetical index of initials on marks, and an index of names. Publisher's printed boards, a fine copy.

London, Macmillan, 1878. 18x12. XII+146 pp. + frontispiece with guard-tissue + 6 pp. with advertisements. 35 drawings including 11 elaborate full-page renderings. First edition, fifth thousand. Publisher's printed cloth (with a neat contemporary ink note), first or early owner's name on first, blank page.

Stockholm 1951. 28x21. 88 s. + två utvikbara stadsplaner + en stor utvikbar utvikbar stadsplan i en ficka innanför bakre omslaget + samt två löst bifogade blad som sida vid sida återger planförslag av stadsplanekontoret respektive Lilienberg. 21 gatuplaner och perspektivritningar i texten. Tryckta omslag med illustration. Lilienberg, som 1944 blivit efterträdd av Sven Markelius på posten som Stockholms stadsplanedirektör, var kritisk till de officiella planerna för reglering av citydistriktet Nedre Norrmalm, och framlade här sitt eget motförslag.

København (1935). 20x15. 28 pp. including 24 pages of drawings. Pictorial wrappers. Weak exterior dampstain along backstrip, contents in excellent condition. No. 143 of an edition limited to 250 copies. A suite of Surrealist drawings introduced by a portrait drawing of the young man who dreams the sexually suggestive scenes rendered in briefly captioned drawings. Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen had studied under Paul Klee and Kandinsky at Bauhaus Dessau; in the 1930s he was one of Scandinavia's foremost protagonists of Surrealism.

Genève, Skira, 1973. 34x27. 274 pp. including 28 pages on seven folding leaves. 345 photos and reproductions including 52 in colour. Publisher's pictorial cloth, dust jacket, very fine in the original cardboard slipcase.

2 volumes, Hong Kong 1982. 21x19. II+240; IV+172 pp. Altogether 150 photos including 100 full-page in colour. Publisher's cloth, dust jackets. (Kaiserreich Kunst's Oriental Art Series, 1-2).

Neuburg a/D 1874. 20x13. VIII+160 pp. + 11 lithographed plates. Contemporary half leather, slight nick to spine and boards slightly rubbed. A valuable treatise on the history and construction of violins.

Milano, Edizioni Apollinaire, 1963. 23x21. 84 pp. + 10 tipped-in colour plates. Ca 30 black and white reproductions and photos (12 full-page ) plus 69 small-size reproductions in catalogue of Rotella's works in public and private collections. Publisher's printed rexine, slightly darkened dust jacket with some minor wear at extremities. No. 408 of an edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. (I Quaderni del "Nouveau Realisme", 1). A monograph on Mimmo Rotella and his artistic development from the "décollages" made of torn advertising posters to the Nouveau Réalisme promoted by Pierre Restany.

Santa Fe, New Mexico: Arena, 2001. 28x24. 192 pp. 108 full-page faithful reproductions of the original sepia-toned photographs. Publisher's printed cloth with front plate, as new. The 108 photos of Native North Americans were originally selected by Curtis for an exhibition at the Waldorf-Astoria in 1906. Here they are reproduced as a catalogue for an exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum, with an introduction discussing the conflict between art photography and anthropology in Curtis's work.

New York 1930. 22x14. II+XIII+203 + VI pp. 109 photos (including 60 of furniture) on right-hand pages facing the running text. Publisher's printed cloth, partial loss and fading of the gilt lettering and design, some rubbing to cover corners. An extraordinary work on modern interior design elements, with chapters on Furniture, Chairs, Metal, Glass, "Materia Nova", etc. Includes furniture designed by Pierre Chareau, Djo-Bourgeois, Donald Deskey, Josef Hoffmann, William Lescaze, Michel Roux-Spitz, Eugene Schoen, Kem Weber, Gilbert Rohde, Paul T. Frankl, and others. Remarkable typographic design throughout the book with broad black lines and rectangles framing text and photos.

Berlin, Cassirer, 1920. 26x18. VIII+140 pp. including 83 pages with (mostly full-page) perspective drawings, detail drawings and plans, and ten photos (all but one full-page). 22 additional drawings in the text. A very good copy in publisher's printed boards with front illustration; neatly rebacked with cloth spine. Second edition of the influential work unfolding Tessenow's philosophy of house design and craftsmanship, first published in 1916. Illustrated with exquisite line drawings and photographs of his famous houses in the Gartenstadt Hellerau, terraced houses for the Gartenstadt Hohensalza, workers' housing for the Hamburg Consumers' Cooperative, double-family houses for factory workers in Waldkirchen, manor houses, interior design perspectives, furniture drawings, etc.

London: Academy Editions / Berlin: Ernst & Sohn, 1994. 31x25. 264 pp. Ca 400 photos and reproductions of designs, more than 300 in colour. Publisher's boards, dust jacket.

Berlin, Wasmuth, (1927). 32x24. 96 pp. + coloured frontispiece (watercolour perspective) + 5 folding plates, two with exterior perspective renderings, one with interior perspective, and one with two elevations. 74 mostly full-page photos (exterior and interior). 20 plans, elevations, sections and perspectives in the text. Publisher's pictorial orange cloth. Some fading of cover near edges and foxing of endpapers, otherwise a fine copy.

London, Lund Humphries & The Royal College of Art, 1969. 30x21. 108 pp. Numerous examples of typography and typefaces. Publisher's printed boards, dust jacket with subtitle "Problems of legibility", an excellent copy. Second, revised edition. The best edition of Herbert Spencer's influential survey of contemporary typography and typeface design with emphasis on comparative legibility, first published in 1968 in a restricted edition by the Royal College of Art. Includes bibliography of typefaces.

(Monte Carlo), André Sauret - Éditions du Livre, 1970. 27x24. XVI+314 pp. More than 600 reproductions of black and white and colour lithographs. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jacket, an excellent copy protected by transparent mylar jacket. English-language edition of the complete one-volume catalogue raisonné of Picasso's lithographs.