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Paris, Morancé, (1920). 44x32. 20 pp. + 80 heliogravure plates with ca 180 photographs. Loose as issued in a cloth-backed portfolio with tie-strings. (Le Style Empire). A comprehensive photographic documentation of the Hôtel Beauharnais in Paris and its interiors including decorated ceilings, doors, Empire-style furniture, clocks, candelabrae, etc. The building was erected in the early 18th century to the design of Germain Boffrand who sold it to the marquis de Torcy; among the subsequent owners was Eugene de Beauharnais, son of the First Consul for Napoleon Bonaparte. At the proclamation of the German Empire in 1871, the Hôtel Beauharnais became the embassy of the new state, and continued to be the German Embassy till the end of the Second World War, when it was confiscated by the French state.

Charlottenburg, Verlag "Das Plakat", 1919. 24x18. 50 pp. (including six pages with reproductions of entire leaflets in black, red and green) + 22 plates including twelve colour reproductions of posters, five reproductions of pamphlet covers (five coloured), and four reproductions of drawings and woodcuts by Lyonel Feininger et al. from the 1919 publication "An alle Künstler". Printed wrappers with colour illustration by Cesar Klein. Backstrip slightly worn with minor loss, otherwise a fine copy. Socialist posters and pamphlet covers by German Expressionists: Max Pechstein, Cesar Klein, Heinz Fuchs, Willy Jaeckel, Heinrich Richter-Berlin, Wilhelm Plünecke, and A. M. Cay (pseudonym for Alexander M. Kaiser). Text by Adolf Behne (Alte und neue Plakate), Paul Landau (Flugblatt und Flugschrift) and Herbert Löwing (Warum sozialistische Propaganda?).

Frankfurt am Main (1929). 30x21. 32 pp. 39 photos and 12 plans and drawings. Pictorial wrappers, provided with cloth spine, upper corner of wrappers lightly scuffed and neatly repaired. 'Dritte Auflage'. Scarce in any edition. (Der Stein / Holz / Eisen Reihe, 5). A documentation of three new 'International Style' school buildings, published by Städtische Hochbauamt Frankfurt am Main. 1. Die Schule in der Römerstadt (designed by Martin Elsaesser and W. Schütte; 2. Die Ludwig Richter-Schule (designedby Martin Elsaesser); 3. Die Schule in Niederursel (designed by Franz Schuster). Introduction by Martin Elsaesser.

Milano 1958. 20x21. 72 pp. Ca 50 photos of furniture and other objects designed by Ponti. Publisher's printed black boards, backstrip slightly sunned, otherwise a fine copy kept in the original black cardboard slipcase. Layout by Lora Lamm. On inside of front board the bookplate of Arthur Hald, director 1959-65 of the Swedish Society of Industrial Design (Svenska Slöjdföreningen), and the society's stamp in top right corner of title page. (Premio la Rinascente compasso d'oro). Scarce monograph "conceived and created by la Rinascente in order to underline the importance of the work of Gio Ponti for the improvement of the aesthetic level of artisanal and industrial production". In 1954, Gio Ponti and Alberto Rosselli had teamed up with the Italian company La Rinascente to set up the important Compasso d'Oro design award. Bilingual text and captions in Italian and English including Cronaca / Biographical Notes; Carattere di Ponti / Ponti, a summing up; and an essay by Mario Labó: Nota per Ponti / Some considerations on Ponti.

Berlin 1920. 25x23. 160 pp. + 40 pp. relevant advertisements. Ca 100 photos including 60 full-page. Publisher's printed boards, cloth rebacked, very light exterior discolouration. (Jahrbuch des Deutschen Werkbundes, 6). A German Werkbund survey of glass, ceramic and metal ware, fabrics, needlework, etc. including contemporary works by Bernhard Pankok, Max Pechstein, Josef Wackerle, Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke, Karl Gross, Theodor A. Winde, and others.

Berlin, Wasmuth, (1902). 43x31. II+4 pp. + 25 plates with ca 15 perspectives (4 full-page), 25 elevations and sections and 30 plans. Contemporary limp cloth. (Kunst und Architektur im Dienste der Feuerbestattung, herausgegeben vom Feuerbestattungsvereine deutscher Sprache, 3). Contributions to a competition for the design of a crematorium in Bremen, by Karl Winter (awarded first prize), Fritz Schumacher and others. The two last plates are the architect Josef Hassinger's designs for a crematorium built in Mainz.