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Stockholm 1937. 32x27. 292 pp. + 6 tipped-in colour plates. Ca 370 illustrations. Full brown calf, gilt monogram and dentelles, all edges gilt; a fine copy with some very light rubbing at extremities. No.146 of an edition limited to 550 copies, signed by the author. Grand monograph on the Royal Court Theatres at the Drottningholm and Gripsholm Palaces (built to the designs of Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz and Erik Palmstedt respectively) and their historical background. The volume comprises 145 pages text with ca 180 illustrations, mainly 18th-century renderings, and 134 pages with ca 120 photos and 70 architectural drawings - by the original architects as well as plans, elevations and sections based upon new measurings. Although designated "Förra delen" (First part) on the title leaf, this is the complete published work.

Stuttgart, Arnoldsche / Linden-Museum, 2000. 30x22. 288; + 416 pp. More than 1000 colour photos (33 full-page) and nearly 500 black and white photos of signatures, prints, etc. Publisher's printed boards, dust jackets, as new. Text and captions bilingual in German and English in volume 1 (112 Meisterwerke / Masterpieces); in German in volume 2 (Gürtelschmuck aus Japan).

Portland, Oregon: Nazraeli, 2013. 32x30. 88 pp. 62 full-page photographs. Publisher's satin cloth, dust jacket, kept in a satin cloth slipcase; an excellent copy.

München & Stuttgart 2001. 28x25. 208 pp. Ca 150 photo colour photos including 38 full-page, and 50 drawings and plans. Publisher's boards, dust jacket, very fine. All text biliingual in German and English.

Leipzig (ca 1864). 40x29. Printed title leaf + engraved ornamented title leaf + II+24 pp. (with columns 1-48) + 48 engraved plates with more than 500 drawings. Contemporary gilt-lettered cloth. Minor rumpling and damp stain in lower corner of text leaves and some plates. A comprehensive collection of designs for wooden doors, windows, stairs, framework façades, balconies, canopies, oriels, turrets and wooden ornamentation. One of the last publications prepared by this German Gothic Revival architect and teacher. The publications and teachings of Georg Ungewitter (1820-1864) aimed to maintain high standards of craftsmanship and precision, and his finely detailed Gothic columns, windows and canopies would become mainstream only a generation later.

(Paris), Le Sagittaire, 1955. 21x18. IV+158+II pp. including 16 leaves with illustrations and die-cut holes, provided with a magnifying glass on a string. Black wrappers with four grey text fields including "PARENTS ! racontez vous rêves à vos enfants" etc; over card covers as issued. Very light external wear and minor corner scuffing.

Paris 1945. 27x21. 254 pp. + 2 plates. Ca 400 photos, plans and designs. An excellent copy in handsome half green morocco binding with marbled boards, pictorial wrappers bound in. (Les Architectes Françaises, 1).

Braunschweig, Privatdruck durch die Kandinsky-Gesellschaft, (1930). 29x22. II+22 pp. A German translation of the texts in the monograph published by Cahier d'Art in Paris. Printed wrappers; front wrapper and pagination in Bauhaus style typography. A fine copy with minor traces of handling. On inside of front wrapper neatly inscribed in ink "Gunnar Jungmarker 1932" (Swedish art scholar and art critic). At top of the inside of rear wrapper there is a pencil inscription "Gummeson 1.50" in Jungmarker's handwriting. Kandinsky had been exhibiting at the Gummeson art gallery in Stockholm in 1916 and 1922, and this 1930 publication may well have been for sale there.

London, Pace Gallery, 2012. 31x31. 86 pp. including four pages on one folding leaf. 17 full-page colour reproductions of paintings by Mark Rothko and 16 full-page reproductions of gelatin silver print photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Publisher's printed boards. Introductory essay by Richard Schiff.

New York 1984. 39x30. XX+156 pp. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jacket. A very fine copy kept in original, near perfect slipcase. A facsimile of Matisse's artist's book containing prints of colourful cut paper collages accompanied by the artist's hand written texts, first published in 1947 in an edition limited to 250 copies. Includes introduction by Riva Castleman and English translation of the texts.

London, Country Life, 1954. 38x25. VIII+352; + VIII+334; + VIII+352 pp. + a total of 47 colour plates including frontispieces. More than 2000 photos, drawings and renderings. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, top edges gilt, a very good set. Second edition, revised and enlarged by Ralph Edwards, of this classic work. A classified, well illustrated dictionary covering all kinds of furniture as well as cabinetmakers, light fittings, fireplace implements, clock cases and barometers, globe stands, hangings, bird cages, etc. etc.

London, Academy Editions, 1982. 29x21. 112 pp. Ca 200 photos, drawings and plans (73 in colour). Pictorial wrappers, minor corner scuffing. (Architectural Monographs, 7). Scarce, illustrated project chronology of the works of Alison (1928 -1993) and Peter (1923-2003) Smithson.

Åbo, Åbo Akademi, 1970. 24x16. 228 pp. text + 64 pp. with 133 reproductions + frontispiece with colour reproduction. Printed wrappers, a fine copy in rarely seen printed dust jacket. (Acta Academiae Aboensis, Ser. A Humaniora, vol. 38: nr 2).

Moskva 1954. 29x23. 20 pp. + 53 folding leaves with numerous measured drawings and 56 photos (50 full-page) and Textbook and loose plates as issued in a printed half cloth portfolio. Detailed drawings and photos of Russian Classicist furniture (and details) from the late 18th and early 19th century.

Berlin, Der Zirkel, 1920. 28x19. VIII+464 pp. 566 plans, drawings and (a few) photos. Publisher's half cloth. Spine slightly faded, Edges lightly browned, otherwise a fine copy. Comprehensive town planning manual influenced by contemporary trends, covering various aspects of modern urban building and planning. Gurlitt was one of the first to lecture on urban planning at German technical universities, and as Professor at the Technische Universität Dresden, he was the supervisor of Hermann Muthesius's doctoral thesis.

Paris 1827. XVI+168 pp. + 53 engraved plates + engraved portrait + engraved frontispiece. 20th-century red cloth. Light to moderate foxing, often only in margins, and affecting the text more than the plates.

Berlin, Wasmuth, 1892. 28x32. 12 pp. + 34 plates with reproductions of elaborate garden plans, perspective renderings and designs including buildings, fountains, etc. Loose as issued in a gilt-lettered half cloth portfolio with tie-strings. An album of old garden plans and designs including gardens of Roman villas, Versailles, Vaux-de Vicomte, Malmaison, etc.

Wien: Graeser / Leipzig: Teubner, 1901. 22x14. VIII+188 pp. + 4 photo plates including frontispiece. 109 plans and drawings in the text. Publisher's gilt-lettered decorated maroon cloth, marbled edges. Contemporary owner's name in ink on title leaf, and Ove Hidemark's name on "first blank page" (reverse of the frontispiece). Third, penultimate edition of Sitte's important and influential work on town planning. From the library of the Swedish architect and Professor Ove Hidemark, a pioneer in the development of Swedish architectural conservation and restoration policy and practice.

Milano, Hoepli, 1950-53. 27x22. 40 pp. text + 108 pp. with 298 photos; + 56 pp. text + 134 pp. with 269 photos (3 in colour). Publisher's printed cloth-backed cardboard. (Esempi di arredamento moderno di tutto il mondo, 1-1bis). A two-volume photographic anthology of modern sitting furniture designed by Albini, Belgioioso, De Carli, Gardella, Mollino, Parisi, Peressutti, Ponti, Rinaldi, Zanuso, Ernesto Rogers, Robin Day, Latimer, Ernest Race, Max Bill, Soulek, Eames, Mies, Breuer, Saarinen, McCobb, E D Stone, Nakashima, Josef Frank, Acking, Mathsson, Eklöf, Juhl, Mogensen, Kindt-Larsen, Aalto, Werner West and others. Captions in Italian, French, English and German; index of designers.

New York, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union, 1985. 31x30. 64 pp. + 24 colour plates. Ca 130 drawings, plans and photos in the text. Pictorial wrappers with two mounted red buttons and string. Enclosed leaves with printed and typed invitations to the Oscar Nietzchke exhibition arranged by the Cooper Union at the A. Arthur Houghton Jr. Gallery

London 1877. 22x14. XXVIII+352+IV+353-376 pp.+ 41 plates (7 folding, one coloured). Engraved vignettes, illustrations and marks in the text. Publisher's leather-backed cloth, top edge gilt. Second, extended, handsomely produced edition of the classic work on Worcester porcelain.