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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.

Bremen, Müller, 1876. 32x25. X+54 pp. + 8 plates including coloured frontispiece and one folding plate. Publisher's printed half cloth, the paper on boards slightly defective with some loss at edges and corner, binding slightly weakened. Very light foxing in margins of a few text leaves. (Denkmale der Geschichte und Kunst der Freien Hansestadt Bremen, Dritte Abteilung: Die Bremischen Kirchen, 1). A building history and survey of the Bremen Cathedral published shortly before the extensive conversion that commenced in 1888 and continued on and off between 1888 and 1901 when the cathedral was reopened. The plates comprise one lithographed colour rendering of the cathedral in 1633 (made with guidance of 17th-century renderings); one engraved plate showing the cathedral in 1874; one plan; three plates with a total of seven photographs; and two mounted "heliogravures" (one folding) resembling original photographs.

Zurich - Berlin - New York, Scalo, 1996. 28x22. 240 pp. Ca 190 full- or double-page photos including 135 in colour. Publisher's boards, dust jacket, very fine.

Milano 1955. 35x25. 64 pp. text + (396) pp. including 385 pages with ca 700 photos. Publisher's cloth, chipped dust jacket. Some occasional light foxing. Comprehensive survey of Italian Neoclassical furniture classified into Rome, Piemonte, Liguria, Emilia, Florence, Naples, Lombardy, and Venice.

Moskva 1948. 34x26. 166 pp. including 130 pages with 145 photos and plans + 7 leaves, each with one tipped-in colour plate + errata slip. Publisher's printed, cloth-backed boards, corner tips slightly scuffed, in worn and repaired dust jacket. A monograph on the architectural monuments of Samarkand, which had been designated the first capital of the Uzbek SSR in 1924. Polupanov was the planner of the capital of the Soviet Union republic Ukraine before moving to Central Asia, and he designed model communes for Tashkent and Samarkand based on those planned for Moscow and other cities.

Berlin & Leipzig, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1927. 26x19. VIII+76 pp. 145 photos, 21 drawings and plans. Orignal black wrappers with orangebrown lettering. Top of backstrip neatly repaired, otherwise fine. First edition of this polemic work on modern housing architecture including a varied survey of buildings and estates from 1900-1927 with emphasis on the 1920s.

Oxford, Privately printed at The University Press, 1936. 30x24. XVI+240 pp. + 73 plates (including colour frontispiece with guard-tissue). Publisher's decorated cloth, top edge gilt, a very fine copy, inscribed by the author. No. 52 of an edition limited to 250 copies.

Leipzig 1873, 1868-70. 22x14. X+276; + X+150; + VI+210 pp. + 76 folding lithographed plates, 8 of which are coloured + one additional coloured lithographed plate. 420 wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Uniformly bound in contemporary half brown calf, spines slightly worn. Endpapers and title leaves lightly foxed, old library stamps and rejection notifications. Volume 1 in third edition, vols. 2-3 in first edition. A characteristic example of the illustrated textbooks on historical architectural forms published for the elucidation and use of German architects and Baufachshule during the Historicist epoch. 1: Die Säulenordnungen und Uebersicht der wichtigsten Baustile christlicher Zeit. 2: Darstellung der beim Privatbau gebräuchlichen Bauformen zur Ausbildung des Aeussern. 3: Darstellung der beim Privatbau gebräuchlichen Bauformen zur ornamentalen und dekorativen Ausbildung.

Shanghai, Shanghai Museum, 1989. 30x21. 184 s. Ca 125 colour photos (80 full-page) plus 35 colour phogtos of marks. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. No. 367 of an edition limited to 1000 copies. Catalogue, captions and introduction bilingual in English and Chinese as is an illustrated List of Marks from Kanxi to Xuantang.

London, Architectural Press, 1956(-1957). 31x25. IV + 365-456 + II; IV + 355-436 + II pp. Altogether ca 780 photos, drawings and plans. Publisher's pictorial boards (dust jackets preserved but edgeworn and edge-repaired, one jacket torn with a piece missing at upper corner). Minor rust and damage at the staples in inner margin of the first two leaves of the first volume; contents otherwise in fine condition. A set of the uniformly designed book editions of Nairn's attack on current British urban planning, originally published as special numbers of The Architectural Review (hence the pagination). 'Outrage' is a provoking attack on the mindless tendency to build new British town areas like thinly spread suburbs, creating a "fake-urban, fake-rural fake"; 'Counter-Attack' provides a plan of action for better town and country planning.

(Malmö), Ellerströms / Tragus, (2021). 28x30. 600 pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. Printed wrappers, as new. Bilingual text in English and Swedish.

London, Ernest Benn, 1925. 31x22. XVI+90 pp. + 152 plates with ca 150 photogravures and 120 elevations, perspectives and plans. Publisher's cloth. A handsomely produced pictorial survey of works by some twenty Swedish architects including Ferdinand Boberg, Isak Gustaf Clason, Ragnar Östberg, Carl Westman, Carl Bergsten, Gunnar Asplund, Sigurd Lewerentz, Lars Israel Wahlman, Ivar Tengbom, Cyrillus Johansson, Torben Grut, Erik Lallerstedt and Erik Hahr. Preface by Francis Rowland Yerbury.

Paris, Éditions Sociales Internationales, 1933. 23x13. 48 pp. + 8 coloured plates (lithographs or pochoirs). 8 illustrations from drawings or woodcuts in the text. Pictorial wrappers, a very fine copy. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée (second, revised edition). Although publishing year on title leaf is 1933, according to a colophon the book was printed on 25 November 1932. (Mon Camarade. Collection de livres pour l'enfance). Vaillant-Couturier was the pen name of Paul Charles Couturier. Both he and the artist Jean Lurçat were members of the French Communist Party PCF, and Couturier was, intermittently, editor-in-chief of its newspaper L'Humanité. "Jean sans pain" tells the story of a starving orphan who befriends a hare that can fly and a flock of partridges. They encounter rich but dishonest people, and end up in the midst of battle during the First World War. The moral of the story is that war is ugly, and that he who does not work shall not eat.

Palermo 1978. 34x24. 248 pp. 239 photos, reproductions and drawings, 95 in colour including ca 60 full-page. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth with front colour plate; dust jacket. Well-illustrated historical study of Sicilian carts and carriages and their elaborate decorations.

Stockholm, Nordiska Bokhandeln, 1908. 28x22. 52 s. text + 26 s. med 41 foton och 62 planritningar samt sex perspektivritningar av ej uppförda villor. Samtida grågrönt klotband med dekorerade för- och eftersättsblad, det främre tryckta omslaget av grågrönt grängat papper medbundet. Dedikation från författaren "Till kamraterna i Konstnärsklubben". En vägledning till val av arkitekt, byggmästare och byggnadsplats, och råd om hur man utarbetar en plan utifrån bostadsbehoven med plats för representation, barnkammare och lekrum, rymliga och ljusa sovrum för hembiträdena etc. - uppenbart anpassat för den burgna beställarkrets i Djursholm för vilken de flesta avbildade villorna uppförts. "På många sätt är texten bra och relativt tidlös /.../ Hans tekniska kunnande och lättfattliga framställning bör ha gjort hans bok mycket användbar, inte minst genom alla de tankeställare han ger den blivande byggherren" (Stavenow-Hidemark, Villabebyggelse i Sverige 1900-1925: 170-1).

København, Galerie Jensen, 1965. 28x19. 16 pp. Six full-page reproductions and photos, with running text by Dotremont on facing pages, and a preface by him in the form of a facsimile of a handwritten letter + seven original colour lithographs by Balle on card paper including lithographed board covers with superimposed black lettering BALLE.

London 1938. 31x25. 10 pp. + 48 monotype plates with nude photographs. Publisher's silver-lettered cloth. The scarce first edition of this album of arty photographs of nude women, produced by London's most fashionable portrait photographer in the 1930s.

Fribourg, Office du Livre, 1960-65. 36x25. 428; + 458; + 362; + 326 pp. + a total of 257 tipped-in colour plates. Ca 550 black and white photos and reproductions including 350 full-page. Publisher's linen cloth, a fine set. Three of the volumes have dust jackets with some minor repairs. A complete set, comprising: 1) Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt: BRONZE, JADE, SCULPTURE, CÉRAMIQUE. 2) R. Soame Jenyns / William Watson: OR, ARGENT, BRONZES DES ÉPOQUES TARDIVES, ÉMAUX, LAQUES, BOIS. 3) Werner Speiser / Roger Goepper / Jean Fribourg: PEINTURE, CALLIGRAPHIE, ESTAMPAGES, ESTAMPS. 4) R. Soame Jenyns: SOIERIES ET TAPIS, VERRE, IVOIRE, PIERRES DURES, FLACONS À TABAC, PIERRES À ENCRE ET AUTRES OBJETS D'ART.

London, Hutchinson, (1928). 29x23. 128 pp. + 12 leaves, each with one tipped-in colour plate. Publisher's white and gilt-lettered blue cloth; text pages partly unopened. A good copy with unobtrusive foxing of front cover and light wear to extreme corner tips.

London, Alexandra Press / Thames and Hudson, 1989. 36x26. 284 pp. Ca 815 photos, 265 in colour including 84 full-page, and 30 drawings and maps. Publisher's gilt-lettered decorated cloth, dust jacket, as new.

Paris, Rotschild, 1889. 28x20. IV+XII+349 pp.+ 108 plates. Ca 65 reproductions and 20 vignettes in the text. Near contemporary, fine quarter red leather binding, top edge gilt, original pictorial wrappers (heavily decorated in colours and gold) and backstrip bound in.

Paris, Editions Nilsson, (ca 1930). 40x30. 24 pp. text + 56 grey cardboard leaves, each with one tipped-in plate, with a total of ca 120 colour photos. Loose as issued in cloth-backed boards with tie-strings. A fine copy, neatly rebacked, contents in excellent condition. An attractive album of patterned silk fabrics in the Lyon Museum of Textile History; from Coptic, Byzantine and Mediaeval to the magnificent textiles of the Lyonnais silk manufacturers.

Stuttgart 1927. 30x21. II+48 pp. + 2 folding plates with plans, sections and elevations. Perspectives and detail drawings and 26 photos. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy with minor external wear. A detailed account of the houses designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin at the Weissenhof Exhibition 1927, including Le Corbusier's own text (Fünf Punkte ...) also printed in the Weissenhof publication 'Bau und Wohnung'.

(Visby), Länsmuseet på Gotland, 2002-03. 30x24. 464; + 544 s. Mer än 1000 foton, och talrika kvartersplaner. Tryckta förlagspappband med illustrationer, i nyskick.

New York 1970. 25x17. XXX+392 pp. + 64 pp. with ca 130 reproductions; + XII+460 pp. + 64 pp. with ca 110 reproductions. More than 300 drawings in the text. Publisher's cloth, dust jackets. Third edition.