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London 1988. 28x28. 216 pp. Ca 340 photos, plans and drawings, 70 in colour. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jacket. Includes catalogue of extant original designs and Bibliography.

Copenhagen 1965. 23x22. 180 pp. + 4 leaves with section titles + 4 original colour lithographs + 22 tipped-in colour plates (18 on separate leaves). Ca 80 reproductions and photos in the text including 68 full-page. Publisher's pictorial cloth, in the original slipcase. Minor corner wear to the slipcase, otherwise fine. No. 418 of an edition limited to 750 copies; the lithographic printing plates were destroyed after printing. English text.

Londyn (= London), Wernika, 1973. 25x18. 104 pp. text + 108 pp. with 133 photos and six drawings + two leaves with reproductions of portraits + two final, blank leaves. Publisher's boards, dust jacket, a very fine copy. Scarce, important work on Eastern sabres, with a general introduction on history and terminology followed by chapters on Persian, Turkestan, Beduin, Indian, Russian, Caucasian, Turkish, Wegierskian, and finally various kinds of Polish sabres; bibliography and index.

Berlin, Wasmuth, 1889. 48x32. 12 pp. + 80 plates on heavy stock, with 90 photographs. Loose as issued in a printed half cloth portfolio with tie-strings. The boards slightly stained, head of spine repaired. A few plates lightly edgeworn and darkened in outmost margins. A collection of photographs of Baroque and Rococo ornament in German palaces including stucco-work, decorated doors, ceilings, etc.

Helsinki, Rakennustieto, 2018. 29x22. 280 pp. Ca 225 photos (210 in colour including 65 full-page and 25 double-page) and 60 reproductions of drawings and plans. Publisher's pictorial boards, as new.

München, Callwey, (1914). 26x19. 38 pp. + 38 leaves numbered 39-76 with perspective drawings, elevations, plans, and five photos + pp. 77-78 (book advertisements). 18 additional drawings and plans in the text. Printed wrappers, a fine copy, expertly rebacked. Second edition, with a new preface by Tessenow, of this classic and influential work on the exterior and interior design of dwelling houses, first published in 1909.

Uddevalla, Svenska gods och gårdar, 1940. 26x20. 608 s. Ca 2120 foton. Förlagets halvskinnband.

New York, Abrams, 1975. 27x29. II+206 pp. (including four pages on one folding leaf) + 7 tipped-in colour plates. 217 reproductions and photos, 53 in colour, 46 of which are full- or double-page including the tipped-in plates. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, a fine copy. Signed by Sonia Delaunay on first, blank page.

Rennes, Aussant, 1990. 29x23. 64 pp. Reproductions of Sanfourche's handwritten text and drawings, including twelve full-page coloured drawings. Five-page introduction by Jean-Louis Lanoux. Publisher's printed cloth with front plate. No. 52 of 360 numbered copies; inscribed by Sanfourche on front free endpaper.

Kyoto & Tokyo 1961. 35x26. XXII+18+22 pp. + 101 leaves, each with one tipped-in colour plate + errata slip + colophone slip. No. 361 of an unspecified edition. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth. Scarce, fine collection of colour plates with reproductions of watercolour renderings by the painter Koh Horii and his disciple Komatsu Haruo, displaying a rich variety of Japanese cherry blossoms, with descriptive captions on facing pages. Title, introduction and captions are all bilingual in Japanese and English.

Leipzig 1927. 30x24. VIII+336 pp. incl. 2 pages with 105 reproductions of marks + 40 plates with ca 215 photos + 5 plates with 22 colour photos. Publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth.

Stockholm, Byggförlaget, 1996. 24x29. 116 pp. 73 photos including 62 colour photos by Fabio Galli (30 full-page), and ca 55 plans, elevations, perspectives, project sketches, etc. Publisher's pictorial boards, dust jacket; as new.

Torino, Sperrone, 1970. 17x11. 53 leaves including printed free endpapers. Printed white jacket over cloth-backed boards. One of the earliest conceptual art books by Weiner, giving a word in Italian in the top part of the page with a translation of the word in English in the bottom part, in upper-case letters.

(København) 1995. 29x29. 384; + 385-708 pp. More than 700 reproductions and photos, the majority (ca 600) in colour. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jackets, in a slipcase. A beautifully produced two-volume monograph on the important Danish Neoclassicist architect, with a wealth of extraordinarily fine colour reproductions of Hansen's original designs and denderings.

Paris 1990. 30x21. 272 pp. Ca 530 photos, more than 400 in colour. Publisher's printed boards.

London, Kegan Paul - Trench - Trubner / New York, Weyhe / Tokyo, Kyo Bun Kwan, 1934. 31x23. II+XIV+158 pp. text (printed Japanese-style on double folded leaves) + 9 colour plates (three folding) with guard-tissues + 65 leaves (8 folding) with 91 reproductions. 17 reproductions (including seals and signatures) in the text. Bound with visible string in pictorial covers with decorated endpapers, kept in the original blue cloth portfolio with clasps (the gilt-lettered spine sunned). Inner covers and endpapers lightly foxed, otherwise fine. Enclosed is a leaf with a handwritten letter signed by the author, dated April 8th, 1934.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1973. 31x23. 290; + 496 pp. 168 reference illustrations in volume 1, and (more than) 1223 reproductions in volume 2. Publisher's cloth, in a cloth slipcase.

Paris, Floury, 1926. 27x22. XVI+330 pp. + 13 plates including frontispiece. Numerous reproductions of marks and ca 30 drawings in the text. Half cloth with marbled boards, a fine copy but lacking one of the plates (between pp. 46 and 47).

Firenze, Giunti Barbera, 1985. 30x25. VI+8+VI+9-536 pp. including two folding coloured town-plans + four-page insert; + 537-896 pp. Altogether ca 715 photos, reproductions, plans and drawings including 80 in colour, plus 163 colour reproductions of coats-of-arms. Publisher's boards, dust jackets, an excellent set in the original black card slipcase.

Kingston, Rhode Island 1928. 25x19. XII+52 pp. (last leaf blank) + 10 photo plates. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth-backed boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, the other edges untrimmed. Scarce first edition of this study on five Rhode Island silversmiths in the second half of the 18th century; printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, Boston.

Stuttgart 1928. 29x21. II+48 pp. with text, 26 photos, and 18 plans and drawings + 2 folding plates with plans and elevations. Scarce variant with Pierre Jeanneret's name misspelled JEANNARET on front wrapper. Pictorial wrappers, a very good copy with some minor age wear and scuffing. 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'.

Stockholm 1939. 30x21. XII+528 s. + 23 blad med foton och ritningar. Ca 560 foton, ritningar, planer, etc. i texten. Förlagsklotband, främre tryckt omslag medbundet. Ett utomordentligt fint ex. med liten ägaretikett på främre pärmens insida. Andra tryckningen.

s'Gravenhage, Nijhoff, 1932. VIII+344 pp. + 8 photo plates . Numerous reproductions of silversmiths' marks. Half brown calf, printed wrappers bound in. On inside of front wrapper stamped "ATELIER BORGILA - ERIK FLEMING".

London, George Bell & Sons, 1900. 24x16. XVI+284 pp. Drawings, designs and photos throughout the text. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and design by Crane, top edge gilt, a very nice copy. English gift inscription dated 1900, and the signature of the Swedish art and design critic August Brunius. First edition of this classic work on ornament and design by the prominent Victorian book artist and illustrator.