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Stockholm, Gebers, 1915. 25x17. VIII+280 s. + utvikbar karta + 16 s. annonser. 295 numrerade illustrationer (men summan av foton, ritningar och planer är betydligt högre eftersom åtskilliga av illustrationerna är kombinationer av sådana). . Samtida halvklotband med marmorerat pärmpapper, båda tryckta omslagen medbundna. Pärmarna aningen kantnötta, på främre försättsblad en samtida premiegåvoinskrift daterad 17.4.1916; inlagan i utmärkt fint skick. En oöverträffad redogörelse för de många egnahemsföreningar och egnahemsföretag som växte fram i Sverige efter att en statlig egnahemslånefond upprättats 1904, och en omfattande dokumentation av bostadshus och områden skapade inom ramen för egnahemstanken. Foton och ritningar av enfamiljshus, parhus och radhus i egnahemskolonier och trädgårdsförstäder över hela landet, med detaljerat register över orter och företag, och en bibliografi. Bland de identifierade arkitekterna till avbildade hus märks John Åkerlund, Lars Israel Wahlman, Isak Gustaf Clason, Victor Bodin, Erik Hahr, och arkitektfirman (Sigurd) Lewerentz & (Torsten) Stubelius.

Praha 1966. 29x21. IV+138 typed (duplicated) text leaves; + 21 tissue-guarded leaves with 41 pasted original photographs (40 of paintings, with typewritten titles, and one portrait photo of the artist). Bound in two printed linen cloth volumes. Former owner's bookplates. Numerous corrections and underlinings in the text as well as handwritten additions in Czech. One of originally 41 photos of paintings has been cut out, five other pictures have been crossed-out with ballpoint pen, one of them with extensive handwritten note in the margin. Enclosed slip with text on the photo copyright, signed by the photographer. (Diplomní práce). A thesis on the work of the Czech Cubist painter Emil Filly (1882-1953) during his stay in the Netherlands after the outbreak of the first World War.

Stockholm, Bokförlaget Errata, (1967). 30x25. 20 blad varav fyra blanka och 16 med titel och helsides bilder + en löst bifogad färglitografi signerad av Hillersberg och numrerad 72/300. Boken bär också nummer 72 av 300 ex. Originalklotryggsband med tryckt pärmtitelskylt, i fint skick.

Berlin, Cassirer, 1910. 23x19. 132 pp. + 49 tipped in plates including two in colour + two original etchings by Leistokow with guard-tissues. 12 vignettes in the text. A fine copy in publisher's gilt-lettered boards.

Göteborg 1947. 30x20. 320 s. + 4 färgplanscher. 239 reproduktioner i texten. Fint rödbrunt halvskinnband, övre guldsnitt, tryckta omslag (något mörknade) medbundna, ryggen aningen blekt. Dedikation från författaren till Erik Wettergren.

Paris, Dis Voir, 1996. 18x21. IV+126 pp. including 16 unpaginated pages with colour photos from the film (those appear between pages 12 and 31, thus omitting two numbers in the pagination). Pictorial wrappers. Signed by Peter Greenaway on first, blank page, otherwise as new. The original synopsis and script for the 1995 film by Greenaway, with introductory texts by him.

New York 1960. 28x22. 128 pp. including 60 pages with photos of ca 550 objects. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth-backed boards. Minor discolouring of rear cover, otherwise a fine copy. In his introduction C.T. Loo, the preeminent dealer of Chinese art and artifacts, identifies the present collection as "the best and largest that has ever been assembled".

Leningrad 1981. 29x23. 136 pp. + 8 colour photo plates. 82 full-page black and white photos. Publisher's decorated cloth. A survey of vases, bowles, and other fine objects in marble, jasper, porphyry, rhodonite, malachite, etc. Photo captions and descriptive lists of the objects are trilingual in Russian, English and French; and Efimovas introductory text is summarised in English and French.

London 1974. 25x20. 192 pp. 383 photos and renderings. Pictorial wrappers, a very good copy with tiny unobtrusive corner scuffing. Presentation copy with enclosed Victoria and Albert Museum Keeper of Furniture and Woodwork stationery inscribed by Peter (Thornton) to Elisabet and Ove Hidemark. When researching English country houses, Peter Reid found that no official records had been made of those that had been lost. He rediscovered vast numbers of forgotten houses by tracking down descendants of families who had once lived in them and copying photographs from their family albums. Reid's pioneering researches helped to lay the foundation of the exhibition "The Destruction of the Country House" arranged at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1974, which effectively kick-started the "Heritage movement". Includes studies by John Harris, Marcus Binney, Peter Thornton, Roger Ellis, Nicholas Boulting, and others, as well as testimonies from seven owners of country houses sharing their experiences, and a list compiled by Peter Reid of more than one thousand country houses destroyed in England, Scotland and Wales, classified by counties.

Stockholm, Norstedt, 1921. 25x17. XVI+324 s. Ca 200 ritningar, planer och foton. Fint senare halvklotband med marmorerat pärmpapper, båda tryckta omslagen medbundna, Ett viktigt pionjärarbete som utgör en manifestation av trädgårdsstadsrörelsen i Sverige, författat av en kommitté bestående av arkitekterna Osvald Almqvist, Sigurd Westholm, Carl Bergsten, Cyrillus Johansson, m.fl. Talrika ritningar såväl som foton av uppförda radhus och enfamiljshus i stockholmsförstäder, Arboga, Linköping, etc. och en omfattande illustrerad studie av Osvald Almqvist som kodifierar de ideal han uttryckt i Bergslagsbyn vid Domarvet, "ett samhälle, som står i nivå med de bästa utländska trädgårdsstäderna" (Stavenow-Hidemark, Villabebyggelse i Sverige 1900-1925: 230).

Berlin, Hessling, (ca 1896). Title leaf with illustration + one leaf with list of plates + 60 plates numbered 1-64 including four folding plates with double numbering. Loose as issued in a printed half cloth portfolio with tie-strings, exterior insignificantly worn, a very good copy. German edition of "Specimens of Gothic architecture ... selected from ancient buildings at Oxford &c."

Paris & Bruxelles 1930. 29x23. II+XII+160 pp. + 31 photogravure plates (numered 1-32 including one folding double-plate) with ca 50 reproductions mainly of Tessin's original designs and plans. Fine half cloth binding with marbled boards, printed wrappers bound in.

New York, Abrams, 1980. 32x24. 296 pp. More than 350 reproductions including nearly 100 full-page. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket.

Reading, Garnet Publishing, 1992. 31x25. 352 pp. Ca 370 colour photos including 120 full-page, and 16 drawings. Publisher's boards, dust jacket, very fine. Text by Salma Samar Damluji, Mohamed Benaissa, Catherine Cambazard-Amahan, Ali Amahan, Mohammed Chadli, Nadia Erzini, and Keith Critchlow & Paul Marchant.

Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1991. 34x26. 192 pp. Ca 160 colour photos (50 full-page) and 230 reproductions of drawings by Erté; plus 30 photos in introductory texts. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket.

Moskva 1939. 30x22. 240 pp. + portrait. 285 photos and reproductions. Publisher's printed cloth. Inscribed by the author. Russian monograph on the Scottish-born architect who made an illustrious career at the courts of Catherine II and Alexander I of Russia.

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. 26x22. XVIII + 116 pp. text + 64 plates (numbered 1-62a, 62b-63) with more than 100 photos + one map + erratum slip. Publisher's cloth. Minor corner scuffing, binding slightly worn and stained, light foxing to endpapers, rear endpapers cracking over joint.