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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.

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: Tauris / New York: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1998. 30x25. 296 pp. Nearly 200 reproductions and photos, 118 in colour including 70 full-page. Publisher's boards, dust jacket. Gift inscription on half-title page, trace of pricetag on the back of jacket, otherwise excellent. Extensively descriptive exhibition catalogue, with essays by B.W. Robinson, Abbas Amanat, Layla S. Diba, Maryam Ekhtiar, Adel T. Adamova, Afsaneh Najmabadi, and Peter Chelkowski; material analyses, bibliography, and index.

Berkeley / Los Angeles / London, University of California Press, 1973. 28x21. XX+220 pp. + 80 pp. with 122 photos. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Scholarly study of "transi tombs" on which the corpse of the diseased is portrayed, including List and Categories of transi tombs, selected Bibliography and Index.

Leningrad 1963. 29x22. 188+II+189-204 pp. More than 200 reproductions. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, slightly worn dust jacket. Catalogue of architectural project drawings by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700-1771) with introduction and bibliography.

New York, Tudor, 1972. 35x26. 204 pp. (including 48 pages on 12 folding leaves) + 2 original colour lithographs. Ca 130 reproductions (nearly 100 full- or double-page) including 80 of colour prints (54 full-page and 11 double-page). Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth.

Wien & Leipzig 1906-11. 25x16. X+778; + IV+912; + IV+294 s. Mer än 3000 reproduktioner av signaturer. Tre fina halvklotband med övre grafitsnitt. En fin svit av det klassiska lexikonet över nederländska konstnärer. Arntzen/Rainwater E135.

New Haven & London, Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 1998. XXVI+278 pp. Ca 225 colour reproductions (35 full-page) and 80 black and white photos and reference reproductions etc. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, a fine copy, First volume of the Sargent Catalogue Raisonné, covering portraits and portrait sketches 1874-1889.

Leningrad 1939. 26x20. 216 pp. including 190 pages with 193 photos af ceilings and details + errata slip. Publisher's printed cloth. A comprehensive photographic survey of Russian decorated ceilings of the Classicist era in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Stockholm, Tidskriften Hem i Sverige, 1930. 27x20. 32 s. inklusive omslag med titel tryckt i rött och svart. 14 foton från utställningen (däribland av fem villor ritade av Uno Åhrén, Sven Markelius, Carl Hörvik, Ture Ryberg, och Birger Jonson), samt planritningar över dessa villor. Främre omslaget mycket lätt brunfläckat i marginalerna, i övrigt i utmärkt skick. Mycket ovanlig. Texten består av en inledning om utställningen, samt två längre artiklar om utställningsvillorna respektive utställningsträdgårdarna. Sammanlagt ca 14 sidor upptas av annonser för byggvaror, möbler, etc.

Kjøbenhavn 1907. 34x25. VIII+128 pp. + 5 plates. Ca 90 photos, drawings and plans. Contemporary half leather, printed front wrapper bound in.

Oslo / Bergen / Tromsø, Universitetsforlaget, 1976. 22x26. 180 pp. 24 photos and renderings including 18 full-page. Publisher's pictorial boards, very fine.

Princeton 1985. 28x23. 544 pp. 316 photos and reproductions (24 in colour) in the monographic part and nearly 600 drawings, plans, renderings and photos in the Catalogue of Works. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jacket. English-language edition of the standard monograph on Josef Hoffmann's architecture, with Catalogue Raisonné of his projects and works.

Stockholm 1967. 36x29. 208 pp. on newsprint. Ca 400 photos and drawings including 75 full-page. Pictorial wrappers, a very good copy. Illustrated documentation of the creation, exhibition / public participation, reception, and subsequent destruction of "HON" (Swedish for She) in Stockholm 1966. The multicoloured giant woman (28 metres long) was created by Niki de Saint Phalle; between her legs was the entrance to an environment created by Jean Tinguely and Per Olov Ultvedt. HON was built and finally dismantled by the artists inside the largest exhibition hall in Moderna Museet.

Helsingfors 1946. 21x15. 80 pp. Reproductions of marks, and 21 photos. Contemporary neat half red leather, top edge gilt, printed wrappers and backstrip bound in. No. 235 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.

Berlin 1925. 30x21. IV+104 pp. 26 photos, 134 plans, elevations, perspectives, sections and detail drawings, and 11 reproductions of pictorial signboards. Publisher's printed cloth, a very nice copy with minor external signs of wear. An early work on the design of urban parking buildings and garages, including a special feature on a large parking structure design prepared by Luckhardt & Anker. Not least intriguing are the reproductions of dramatically designed pictorial signboards warning against high-speed or reckless driving, smoking in the garage, and other perils.

New York, Comstock, 1915. 26x19. 126 pp. Ca 80 photos, 28 perspective renderings and elevations, and 70 plans. Publisher's attractive pictorial cloth. Second, revised edition of this classic survey of American bungalow style architecture, including the designs of some thirty architects.

New York, Curt Valentin, 1944. 31x24. II+XXII+136 pp. Ca 85 drawings including 42 full-page. Untrimmed as issued in pictorial cloth-backed boards, dust jacket, a fine copy. Edition limited to 600 copies.

Stockholm 1976-86. 28x21. XXIV+302; + XXVIII+320; + XII+218 pp. 1853 reproductions plus 44 of the drawings reproduced in colour. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth. From Per Bjurström's own library, signed P.B., and some occasional pencil notes (Drawings in Swedish Public Collections, 2,4,5). A complete set of the Catalogue Raisonné of the Swedish National Museum collection of French drawings comprising: (1) Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; (2) Eighteenth Century; (3) Nineteenth Century.

Roma 1983. 33x24. 88 pp. 48 photos mostly of sculptures (28 full-page including eight in colour) and 34 reproductions of drawings (28 full-page). Pictorial wrappers. Signed gift inscription with drawing by Greco on title page.

Stockholm, Lars Salvius, 1762. 8vo. 22x14. II+46 s. Oskuret exemplar i nytt pappband med klotrygg.

Stockholm 2006. 33x30. 468 s. 619 foton och reproduktioner av arkitekturritningar etc. (ca 200 i färg varav 30 helsides), samt 31 uppmätningsritningar av detaljer och profiler. Dekorerat förlagsklotband, skyddsomslag. Akademisk avhandling med bifogat spikningsblad. A comprehensive and extensively illustrated dissertation on Swedish Classicist interior design, with an English summary.