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Petrograd 1915. 24x19. 80 pp. + 2 colour plates. 90 photos. Contemporary cloth.

München, Braun & Schneider, (ca 1880). 34x23. 4 pp. (title page and three pages with list of plates) + 125 folding plates, each with four coloured drawings of groups of men and women costumed according to a certain epoch, part of the world, trade, etc. A very good copy neatly bound in green cloth with the original green gilt-lettered / pictorial front wrapper and backstrip mounted on front and spine.

Stockholm, Iduns Tryckeriaktiebolag, 1897. 21x18. 114 pp. Ca 90 foton och perspektivritningar varav femtio av villor. Luxuöst utförd praktutgåva av andra upplagan, i helt pergamentband (pärmarna som väntat aningen böjda) med samma pärmdekor som den häftade utgåvans omslag, samt förgyllda denteller, helt guldsnitt, och dekorerade för-och eftersättsblad; båda omslagen medbundna. Arkitekt Viktor Åströms exlibris på främre pärmens insida.

(Paris) 1955. 29x23. IV+168 pp. + 4 colour plates with reproductions of gouaches. Ca 140 black and white photos and reproductions including 120 full-page. Printed wrappers, a fine copy with some very light chipping of wrapper extremities. Ink note on last, blank leaf. The edition was limited to 1200 copies. A documentation mainly of sculptures and reliefs but including engravings and drawings. Introductions by Paul Bères and Marie Laurens and brief texts by Léonce Rozenberg and Christian Zervos.

Roma, Edizioni del Secolo, 1944. 13x10. 32 pp. 16 full-page reproductions of (thirteen works by Prampolini, and three by Boccioni, Dalí, and Picasso). Printed wrappers, a very fine copy. ("Anticipazioni" n.7). A manifesto by the painter, sculptor and and scenographer who founded the "Futurist Theatre Prampolini" in 1927 and participated in the design of the major Fascist propaganda exhibition "Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista" held thrice, in 1932-34, 1937 and 1942.

Berlin 1928. 29x21. XVI+132 pp. Ca 140 photos of buildings and models, and 30 plans and perspectives. Publisher's attractive red cloth binding with silver lettering and design. A fine copy with minimal rubbing of extreme corners and traces of an inscription on front endpaper. An attractive survey of buildings erected in Berlin in the 1920s, designed by Bruno Taut, Max Taut, Mies van der Rohe, Bruno Taut, Erich Mendelsohn, Luckhardt Brothers, Arthur Korn, Walter Gropius, Hans Poelzig, Hans Scharoun, Heinrich Tessenow, and others. Includes an introduction by Edwin Redslob, and presentation of each architect listing their main buildings in Berlin and other works.

Stuttgart 1928. 29x23. 124 pp. 238 photos and 26 drawings and plans. Printed wrappers, a good copy. (Der Baubücher, 5). A survey of modern concrete construction including buildings and bridges by Maillart, Freyssinet, Le Corbusier, Mendelsohn, Neutra, Schindler, Bonatz, MaxTaut, Brinkmann & van der Vlugt, etc.

Paris, Cercle d'Art, 1978. 29x25. 344 pp. 361 reproductions and photos, 137 in colour (mostly full-page); a total of 222 full-page. Publisher's cloth, very fine in mylar-protected dust jacket. Presentation copy with signed inscriptions by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and Guy Weelen.

Stockholm 1904. 28x20. 392 pp. + title plate + frontispiece (portrait photo of Prince Gustaf Adolf) + folding coloured exhibition plan. 229 photos, drawings, etc. Printed wrappers, all edges red. A good copy with slightly faded/darkened backstrip and a creasemark on lower wrapper. Very scarce. Official account of the exhibition of industry, arts and crafts, arranged in Helsingborg in 1903 by the Swedish Arts and Crafts Association (Svenska Slöjdföreningen). Chapters on metal, textiles and clothing, woodwork, coachmaking and leather craft, machinery, musical instruments, fine art, etc. Illustrations include photos of exhibition pavilions (exterior and interior), the exhibition poster designed by Oscar Björck, and paintings and sculptures by Anders Zorn, Prince Eugen, Richard Bergh, Gustaf Rydberg, Otto Hesselbom, Carl Milles, Christian Eriksson, Carl Eldh, and others.

New York, Abrams, 1991. 30x22. 352 pp. More than 1300 photos (170 in colour including 39 full-page). Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket, a very fine copy. The standard monograph on the Swiss-born French Art Deco designer Jean Dunand (1877-1942), including a descriptive, illustrated catalogue of his works comprising 1236 entries (plus 98 works by Bernard and Pierre Dunand)

Stockholm 1923. 27x18. 80 pp. text + 48 pp. with full-page reproductions + one blank leaf. No. 261 of an edition limited to 400 numbered copies. Neat cloth, printed wrappers bound in. Presentation copy inscribed by Rolf De Maré on half title page, and on the face paging the title page he writes that those marked with a red X have been excluded from the collection (while new ones by Picasso, Bracque, Léger and others have been added). Studies on artists and paintings in the collection of Rolf de Maré, leader of the Ballet Suédois founded in Paris in 1920 by de Maré and the artist Nils (von) Dardel. Includes an essay in French by Maurice Raynal: "Les Picassos, les Légers et les Braques de la collection Rolf de Maré". Reproductions of paintings by Picasso, Léger, Braque, Gris, Laurencin, Bonnard, Seurat, Monet, Gauguin, Redon, Courbet, Daumier, Narcisse Diaz, Juan Carreno, Zurbaran, El Greco, Juan de Roelas, and the Swedish artists Nils Dardel, Ernst Josephson and August Jernberg.

Paris, Beuque & Frapsauce, 1929. 28x19. II+XII+344+II pp. Ca 3000 reproductions of stamps. Printed grey wrappers. Lightly shaken and spine slightly worn with some cracking of the backstrip / front wrapper joint. First edition of a standard dictionary of the hallmarks of French goldsmiths from the 14th century to 1838. Antzen / Rainwater P484.

Stockholm, Stockholmia, 1999. 22x24. 240 pp. Ca 245 photos, renderings and plans (57 in colour, 43 full-page including 17 in colour). Publisher's pictorial boards, as new.

Berlin, Atlantis, 1930. 30x24. 48 pp. + 256 pp. with full-page photographs + final blank leaf. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt cover lettering and design, spine very lightly sunned.

München 1908. 29x21. XXXVIII pp. + 240 pp. with ca 550 photos including ca 330 of furniture and lamps. Publisher's printed cloth (neatly rebacked). A comprehensive survey of modern furniture designed by Riemerschmid, Behrens, Bruno Paul, Kolo Moser, Poelzig, Josef Hoffmann, Niemeyer, Pankok, E Seidl, Schultze-Naumburg, Berlage, van de Velde, Ashbee, Johan Rodhe, Gesellius & Saarinen, Axel Gallén and others as well as wallpaper, fabrics, tableware, etc. Index of designers and manufacturing firms.

Stockholm 1882. 26x16. II+IV+60 s. + 75 fotogravyrplanscher. Reproduktioner av signaturer i texten. Förlagsklotband med pärmtitel i guldtryck, övre guldsnitt. Tryckt i 75 exemplar, varav detta är nr 48 tryckt för Friherre Gustaf af Ugglas. Fotografierna av målningarna utförda i "hoffotografen J. Jaegers atelier".

Stockholm 1939. 30x21. XII+504 s. + 8 planscher med 14 färgfoton. 567 foton, teckningar och ritningar i texten. Dekorerat förlagsklotband i fint skick, främre tryckt omslag medbundet. Andra, reviderade och utökade upplagan.

Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, 1922. 32x25. IV+72 pp. + 8 plates (two tipped-in on separate leaves) with reproductions of drawings + 38 plates with reproductions of paintings. Six reproductions of drawings in the text (three full-page) plus a number of small vignettes. Cloth (Edith Welinder), pictorial front wrapper (lightly darkened) bound in.

München, Fred Jahn, 1990. 27x21. 506 pp. including 12 pages on three folding leaves. Ca 500 photos and reproductions (147 full-page) and 12 maps. Publisher's pictorial cloth, very fine.

Paris 1945. 18x13. XIV+242 pp. + six leaves with 10 full-page reproductions and photos. Four full-page reproductions of drawings and a two-page letter facsimile in the text. A very nice copy in neat contemporary half cloth, pictorial wrappers and backstrip bound in.

Köln, Taschen, 2000. 25x20. Each volume comprises 576 pp. Black-and-white and colour photos and reproductions throughout. Publisher's pictorial flexible boards. A complete set of this comprehensive pictorial archive of decorative art and design from 1900 to the 1970s.