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London, Laurence King, 1997. 36x30. 368 pp. Ca 500 photos, 424 in colour including 150 full-page. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, kept in publisher's massive, decorated slipcase; as new. Splendid documentation of the entire Guido Goldman collection as well as some unpublished photographs of Ikat manufactures in late 19th century Central Asia; studies on the influences of Ikat dyeing patterns on embroideries, carpets, jewelry and ceramics, etc.; glossary, bibliography, and index.

Munich / London / New York, Prestel, 2012. 30x24. 416 pp. Ca 350 photos and reproductions, all but a few in colour or duotone, including 80 full-page and 27 double-page. Pictorial wrappers, virtually as new. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Alberta in Vienna.

(Paris), Maeght, 1982. 28x29. 312 pp. including front endpapers. Ca 250 reproductions in Catalogue (148 full-page, 96 in colour including 58 full-page) and 45 reproductions and photos in the text. Publisher's massive blindtooled linen cloth, dust jacket. Some loss of the thin transparent film covering the jacket, otherwise excellent.

London, The National Housing and Town Planning Council, (1915). 24x19. VIII+680 pp. including one folding table and 28 plates (one folding) with 34 town plans, perspectives and photos. Ca 30 plans and drawings (15 full-page) in the text. Publisher's red gilt-lettered cloth, a very fine copy. One of the best and most detailed sources on the principles and practice of early modern Town Planning in Britain, including a chapter on the "Growth of the Garden Suburb Movement and of Public Utility (Co-partnership) Societies", and plans of Bournville, Port Sunlight, Letchworth, Hampstead Garden Suburb (with photos), Harborne, etc. Includes an appendix by Frank M. Algood and Edmund R. Abbott, and index of persons, places, and subjects.

Paris 1965. 28x22. XXII+602 pp. text + 128 pp. with 308 photos. Reproductions of marks in the text. Publisher's cloth with printed front label. Tiny corner scuffing. The standard dictionary of Paris cabinet-makers in the 19th century.

Uppsala, Stiftelsen för Albin Elisons samlingar, 1939. 32x24. 32; + 32 s. + 48 planscher med skalritningar av möbler och detaljer. 150 teckningar i texten. Texten bunden i svart skinnryggsband med randig pärmdekor, de lösa planscherna i ett fodral i likadan skinnryggspärm. Förvarade i en kassett med samma dekor som pärmarna. En synnerligen elegant ensemble av bokbindaren Manne Dahlstedt. Studies and meticulous documentation of historical furniture forms, illustrating in detail: Chairs (1), and Tables (2).

Stockholm 1985. 34x21. 252 s. + 16 s. med 25 färgreproduktioner. Ca 335 foton, planer och ritningar i texten. Tryckt förlagsklotband med skyddsomslag.

Basel, Birkhäuser, 2016. 31x23. 368 pp. Ca 900 photos, renderings, drawings and plans; including ca 430 in colour. Publisher's pictorial boards, as new. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at MAK, Vienna

Paris 1983. 31x22. 312 pp. Ca 365 photos (35 in colour) and 80 reproductions of designs (15 in colour) mainly of furniture. Publisher's decorated cloth. Well-illustrated study including bibliography and index.

New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1996. 27x22. X+238 pp. 320 reproductions, photos and diagrams, 28 in colour including 10 full-page. Publisher's boards, dust jacket, a fine copy.

Leningrad 1963. 29x22. 252 pp. + tipped-in coloured portrait plate. Ca 400 reproductions, photos and plans. Publisher's silver-lettered cloth. (Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelstvo literatury po stroitelstvu, arkhitekture i stroitelnym materialam). A monograph on the architect Vasily Stasov 1769-1848, a protagonist of Russian Reviaval architecture during the reign of Nicolas I.

Paris 1919. 32x25. II+96 pp. 83 reproductions. Half green marbled cloth, printed wrappers (unevenly sunned) bound in. Crease mark on first four leaves, otherwise fine. Catalogue Raisonné of Degas's engraved and lithographed oeuvre.

Köln, J.M. Heberle (H. Lemperts' Söhne), 1892. 31x24. VI+134 pp. + 15 plates with photos of more than 170 objects and a table of fayence marks. Photos and reproductions of 37 objects in the text. A fine copy in publisher's blind-tooled gilt-lettered cloth, with very little external wear. All sale prices and buyers have been inserted in ink and pencil. The catalogue of the first sale from Christian Hammer's magnificent collection comprises 1337 items in the following categories: Töpfereien, Majoliken, Fayencen, darunter namentlich schwedische, Porzellane, Arbeiten in Glas, Elfenbein und Email, Arbeiten in Gold und Silber, Orden und Ehrenzeichen, Arbeiten in Bonze, Eisen und Zinn, Textil-Arbeiten, Schildpatt, Perlmutter, Bernstein etc., Arbeiten in Holz, Möbel und Einrichtungsgegenstände, Miniaturen und Gemälde.

München 1966. 27x21. 208 pp. text + 288 pp. with 1178 photos + 32 plates (including frontispiece) with colour photos. A very fine copy privately bound in half green cloth with marbled boards, the pictorial wrappers bound in. Former owner's bookplate inside front cover.

Paris 1949. 31x23. 16 pp. introduction and list of the sculptures with datings and measures + 142 pp. with 216 photographs including 87 full-page + a final, blank leaf. Publisher's pictorial quarter cloth. boards' corner tips scuffed, very light surface wear to rear cover, contents very fine.

Tokyo. Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1937. 26x21. II+VIII+284 pp. + frontispiece. 11 full-page plans and drawings and 194 photos. Fine quarter calf binding with marbled boards, spine with five raised bands, front wrapper bound in; former owner's bookplate inside front board. Edition limited to 1000 copies. (K.B.S. Publications, Series A, 8).

Stockholm 1996. 27x21. II+350 s. Ca 500 foton, ritningar, planer, teckningar och kartor. Tryckt förlagspappband med illustrationer, i fint skick. Omfattande och ingående om svenskt trähusbyggande i skiftesverksteknik i Västergötland, Halland, Skåne, Blekinge och Småland samt på Öland och Gotland. Med ordlista, bibliografi, samt person- och ortsregister.

Wien 1981. 20x29. 256 pp. Ca 400 photos and reproductions (24 in colour) including 115 of furniture, lamps and furniture designs and 270 of buildings, plans, elevations and perspectives. Designed wrappers, backstrip sunned. Inscribed by Hermann Czech to Stuart Wrede. Extensive documentation and studies published by the Hochschule für angewandte Kunst in Vienna.

Essen 1976. 29x24. 276 pp. including 102 pages with 278 photos, drawings and plans. 24 illustrations in the text. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jacket. The first major monograph on Tessenow, comprising Wangerin: 'Heinrich Tessenow. Seine Tätigkeit als Stadtplaner, Architekt und Möbelgestalter', Weiss: 'Der Wohnungsbau Heinrich Tessenows', a contribution by Steen Eiler Rasmussen, extensive Notes, Bibliography, and Catalogue of projects and works.