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Stockholm 1757. 18x11. 48 s. 3 graverade vinjetter. Senare blågrå pappersomslag. Anders Johan von Höpken hade inlett en utbredd och långvarig debatt med sitt tal i Vetenskapsakademien "Om yppighets nytta", där han ville berättiga lyxens berättigande som en ekonomiskt gynnsam manifestation av människans essentiellt själviska natur, snarare än en omoralisk odygd. En av debattens mest ohämmade pläderingar för lyxen var arkitekten Adelcrantz' tal om konstens nytta. Begäret efter lyx skapade enligt Adelcrantz idoghet och sysselsättning - åtminstone för alla de konstnärer som fått i uppgift att smycka kungars och ädlingars palats - men även böndernas vilja att konsumera lyx skulle driva dem till att arbeta hårdare så att de bleve välbärgade och därmed betalade mer i skatt.

Milano 1954. 27x22. II+LXXXII pp. text + 148 pp. with 352 photos (2 full-page in colour) of modern work. 75 photos of historical examples in the introductory text. Publisher's printed cloth-backed cardboard covers. A fine copy with small stamp "ATELIER BORGILA" on front endpaper. (Esempi di decorazione moderna di tutto il mundo). Excellent photographic survey of modern silverware and jewellery, with captions in Italian, as well all captions provided in French, English and German. Introductory text by Agnoldomenico Pica. Index of craftsmen/designers, including Just Andersen, Folke Arström, Atelier Borgila, Sigvard Bernadotte, Harry Bertoia, Max Bill, Jørgen Ditzel, Bertel Gardberg, Eros Genazzi, Luigi Genazzi, Milner Gray, Karl Gustav Hansen, Hans Hansen, Henning Koppel, Cesare Lacca, Ettore Paganini, Jacob Prytz, Magnus Stephensen, Elisabeth Treskow, Russel Wright, and others.

Leipzig (1900). 27x38. VI+66 pp. 29 renderings and photos (10 full-page), 3 plans/drawings and one map. 36 decorative vignettes in the text. Publisher's pictorial, gilt-lettered cloth. Tiny unobtrusive scuffing and one small stain on lower cover, otherwise a fine copy, with book-plate of Swedish architect Rudolf Enblom.

Tokyo. Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1937. 26x21. II+VIII+284 pp. + frontispiece. 11 full-page plans and drawings and 194 photos. Pictorial wrappers. Edition limited to 1000 copies. (K.B.S. Publications, Series A, 8).

Copenhagen 2002. 30x24. 560 pp. More than 1100 photos, designs and plans, ca 300 in colour. Publisher's silver-lettered cloth, dust jacket. Second edition. English-language edition of the standard monograph, with list of works 1925-1971.

Madrid 2004. 33x24. LXXII (adverts.) + 400 pp. Ca 400 photos and renderings including, 350 in colour including 95 full- or double-page, and more then 240 plans and drawings. Pictorial wrappers. Bilingual text and captions in Spanish and English, including excerpts from a conversation with the architects and an essay by Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén García Grinda.. (El Croquis, 121/122).

Paris 2007. 28x25. 304 pp. Nearly 400 colour reproductions. Pictorial wrappers, as new. Comprehensively annotated, descriptive and fully illustrated catalogue of the magnificent collection of portrait miniatures at the Musée Condé in the Palace of Chantilly, including introduction, biographies of the artists, and extensive index.

Oxford 1911. 29x23. XX+516 pp. + 5 colour plates with printed guard-tissues. Ca 450 photos and reproductions in the text including 105 full-page (four of which have printed guard-tissues). Publisher's gilt-decorated red cloth, top edge gilt. A fine copy with minor external wear and lightly sunned spine. First edition of this comprehensively illustrated history of Hindu and Indo-Islamic sculpture, painting and (despite the title) decorative arts and architecture, and Indo-Persian Mughal painting.

(London) 1978. 33x24. 488 pp.+ folding list of plates (paginated 490-494). 655 reproductions with notes and introduction. Privately bound in handsome half blue morocco, top edge gilt.

Helsinki 1987. 28x22. 352 pp. 572 photos, plans and drawings (70 full-page, 210 in colour including 32 full-page). Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Excellent well-illustrated monograph on Jugendstil / Art Nouveau architecture in Helsinki, with biographical index of architects, and index of buildings.

London, Technical Journals Ltd, 1917. 23x15. XII+64 pp. + 62 plates (57 with photos and perspective renderings, and five with plans and drawings) + two leaves with publisher's book advertisements. A few plans and drawings in the text. Publisher's printed boards. An influential work known as the book that the Modernist architect and engineer Sir Owen Williams made reference to throughout the design process for the Boots Nottingham D-10 Factory.

Lübeck, Nöhring, (ca 1900). 39x32. 12 pp. + 37 heliogravure plates with 59 photographs. Publisher's gilt-lettered decorated cloth. Very light rubbing at extremities, contents in excellent condition. Fine large-size album with photographs of old buildings (and some interior decorative work) in Lübeck.

Roma 1950. 34x24. 86 pp. + 186 plates with 250 photos. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth. No. 1201 of an edition limited to 1250 copies. A study and exhaustive documentation of the Islamic paintings in the Capella Palatina in Palermo, including extensive index and 16 pp. notes with bibliographical references.

Berlin, Wasmuth, 1923. 31x24. II+28 pp. + 288 pp. with as many photographs, captions in German, English and French. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, a very fine copy. Yuan 772. From 1902 to 1914 Boerschmann was engaged in fieldwork and research on Chinese architecture. The World War and the subsequent unrest prevented him from study until, in the early 1920s, he was able to attract support from the German Foreign Office, and in 1923 he published his most popular and "commercially successful" book with fine reproductions of his professional photographs from twelve provinces.

Paris, Guérinet, (1880s). 40x30. 8 pp. + 59 plates with ca 140 reproductions. Loose as issued in printed cloth-backed boards with tie-strings. The portfolio a little worn/stained, inner hinges strenghtened, contents fine. (Archives de la Commission des Mounuments Historiques - Musée de Sculpture Comparée).

Stockholm 1902. 19x11. 132 s. inklusive två helsides planritningar över 1) Ett restaureradt skogvaktareboställe i Östergötland; 2) Ett jägareboställe i Vestmanland Fint klotband med gröna pärmar och tegelröd rygg med skinntitelskylt; de attraktiva tryckta omslagen med färgillustration av Elsa Beskow är medbundna.

Moskva 1954. 29x22. 372 pp. + 8 plates. Ca 325 designs, photos and plans. Publisher's printed cloth, in rubbed and repaired dust jacket. (Mastera Russkoi arkhitektury). A monograph on the prominent Russian Classicist architect Prince Dmitry Vasilyevich Ukhtomsky, chief architect of Moscow during the reign of Empress Elizabeth, and the architectural school founded by him in 1749 (and closed in 1764).

Stuttgart 1929. 20x23. IV+144 pp. 142 photos and 75 plans, elevations, perspectives, etc. Publisher's printed cloth, neatly rebacked with original printed backstrip reattached, covers foxed, interior in fine condition. A survey of 'International Style' buildings designed mainly by architects in German-speaking countries: Döcker, Peter Behrens, Otto Wagner, Marcel Breuer, Bruno Taut, Ernst May, Adolf Rading, Hans Poelzig, Adolf Loos, Josef Frank, and others. Also included are examples from France, Holland and the USA: buildings designed by Le Corbusier, André Lurçat, Robert Mallet-Stevens, J.J.P. Oud, Byvoet & Duiker, and Richard Neutra.

Stuttgart 1927. 29x22. IV+80 pp. 75 photos and renderings and 27 plans, sections, etc. Printed wrappers, backstrip and leftmost part of front wrapper slightly worn and darkened. On front endpaper the name of Swedish architect Ebbe Borg dated 30/3 1930. (Die Baubücher, 1). After working with Mendelsohn, Neutra moved to the United States in 1923. "Wie baut Amerika" chronicles his search for an architectural vision based upon American construction and transportation practices, its central theme being the emergence of a new beauty conditioned by American technological promises. The message is brought home with a variety of illustrative examples, including in-depth studies of the Palmer House hotel in Chicago by Holabird and Roche and a terraced house row by Schindler in La Jolla. A key source to the role of Functionalist aesthetics as a link between rationalised technology and modern architectural ideals.

Leningrad 1939. 34x27. 88 pp. + one colour plate (watercolour rendering) + frontispiece (portrait photo). Ca 100 perspectives, plans, elevations and photos (22 full-page). Publisher's printed cloth. Edition limited to 1000 copies. A monograph on the architect Andrei Evgenevich Belogrud, who had studied with Benois at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Art 1900-1910. Foreword by Ivan Fomin.