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Stockholm, Kerberos / Rönnells, 1965-2003. 15x17. Samtliga i tryckta omslag med illustrationer. De fem första häftena utgavs 1965-70 av Kerberos, och omfattar vardera 24 sidor med kolorerade serieteckningar, plus ett bifogat klippark i nr 3. Häftena 6-15 utgavs av Rönnells antikvariat 2001-2003, med varierande sidantal (totalt 230), här är teckningarna endast sparsamt kolorerade.

Berlin 1923. 30x23. VIII+32 pp.+ 128 plated with colour renderings. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, a good copy with minor wear/discolouring to spine ends. Former owner's name dated 1930 on half-title and title page. First edition of this classic documentation of costumes from North Africa, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syria, Persia, Caucasus, Turkestan, Afghanistan, India, Tibet, China, Japan, etc.

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.

(Helsinki) 1986. 26x24. 344 pp. Ca 210 colour photos including many full-page. Publisher's cloth, in lightly tainted dust jacket, minor scratch on rear endpaper. Layout by Sarpaneva and Marjatta Svennevig. Beautifully produced monograph on Timo Sarpaneva with illusy´trations of glass, ceramic and metal ware, textiles, posters and book design, packages, door handles, etc.

Wien, Artur Wolf, (1919). 28x25. Ornamental title leaf + 4 pp. text + 24 leaves, each with one tipped-in plate. No. 300 of an edition limited to 500 copies, with plates printed and mounted on handmade paper. Loose as issued in a decorated portfolio with printed front label. A fine copy with minimal external wear and a small crease mark at top corner of the two text leaves. Rare, beautifully produced facsimile edition of the 'Balli de Sfessania' series of engravings by Jacques Callot.

Paris, Éditions Cercle d'Art, 1988. 39x30. 256 pp. 252 colour reproductions (106 full-page) of works on paper in ink, gouache, watercolor, and crayon (and five colour photos). Publisher's printed cloth, dust jacket. Preface by Marshall McLuhan.

London 1969. 23x15. XIV+410 pp. text (including 12 pages with reproductions of marks) + 160 pp. with ca 480 photos + 6 colour plates. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Still a standard reference work on the Chinese white porcelain produced at Dehua in the Fujian province.

(Paris), Vial, 1986. 47x35. 20 pp. text + 24 colour plates on stiff card. Plates loose as issued together with text book in publisher's pictorial boards with gilt-lettered spine and tie-strings, a fine copy. Colour reproductions of decorative painting by Desaint imitating various woods and marbles, with explanatory text by Ducroizet.

Stockholm 1940-41. 32x25. XIV+346 s. + ett kartongblad med monterat fotografi av kung Gustaf V; + VIII+288; + VIII+340 s. + sammanlagt 162 blad med ca 550 foton och reproduktioner + fem utvikbara planer + en kolorerad karta. Ca 65 planer, fasad- och detaljritningar etc. i texten. Röda halvskinnband med gulddekorerade ryggar, övre guldsnitt, marmorerade för- och eftersättsblad, främre omslagen medbundna; Gustaf V:s monogram i guldtryck på främre pärmarna. Nr 51 av 500 numrerade exemplar tryckta för namngiven ägare.

Madrid 2015. 33x24. XVI (adverts.) + 288 pp. Ca 310 photos and renderings (270 in colour including 40 full- or double-page) and 240 plans and drawings (45 coloured). Publisher's pictorial flexible boards. Bilingual text and captions in Spanish and English, including texts by the architects. (El Croquis, 182).

(Göttingen), European Photography, 1985. 25x21. 8 pp. + 28 plates with full-page reproductions of photographs. Pictorial wrappers. The 'Herbarium' series of photographs by the Catalan conceptual artist and photographer is a number of inanimate objects arranged into what appear to be exotic plants, thereby creating "pseudoplants" resembling the photographs of Karl Blossfeldt. Bilingual German / English introduction by Vilém Flusser.

Stuttgart, Bergstrasser/Kröner (1896) / Leipzig, Gebhardt, 1914. 27x18. 180 pp. 270 drawings and plans; XII+306 pp. 512 photos, drawings and plans. Bound in one volume, contemporary half blue leather, top edge gilt, boards slightly rubbed. (Die Volksschulhäuser in den verschiedenen Ländern, 1 / Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Architektur, 8). The first and the second edition - the latter actually a fully revised, extended and newly illustrated version - of this comprehensively illustrated and detailed study of elementary-school buildings in the Scandinavian countries, covering buildings, class-rooms, handicraft shops, cookery-classes, gymnasiums and baths, furniture and equipment. The emphasis is on the large schools in the towns but rural examples are included as well.

Berlin 1930. 24x18. 252 pp. + portait photo plate. 24x18. II+254 pp. Ca 340 photos, plans, drawings and sketches (95 full-page) plus 75 small-size photos and designs in margins of text pages. Publisher's printed cloth. A very fine copy.

Berne, Kornfeld & Klipstein, 1971. 31x25. 252 pp. 124 reproductions, including 17 in colour of coloured engravings. Publisher's printed cloth, very fine; dust jacket preserved but slightly worn. First volume of the fully illustrated Catalogue Raisonné of Chagall's engravings.

Paris (ca 1913). 40x30. 12 pp. (title, introduction, and descriptions to the plates) + 60 heliogravure plates with ca 100 photographs and 21 reproductions of renderings (11 coloured and 10 monochrome). Loose as issued in printed cloth-backed portfolio with tie strings (expertly rebacked). A rare, complete set of the corpus of plates originally published in two parts. Excellent photographic documentation of Empire furniture and interior decorative elements, including pieces and interiors in the Compiègne, Grand Trianon, Malmaison, and Fontainebleu palaces, etc. as well as reproductions of original renderings.

London, Ethnographica / Lester Crook Academic Publishing, 1992. 29x23. VI+126 pp. + 4 leaves with 19 colour photos. 124 photos and ca 30 drawings and plans in the text. Publisher's boards, dust jacket. A pioneering work by Father Kevin Carroll (1922-1993), the missionary priest, anthropologist, photographer and linguist who mastered, in addition to Yoruba, the Hausa, Kamberi and Tiv Languages.

Stockholm 1928. 34x24. VIII+328 s. Mer än 210 ritningar, åtskilliga helsides. Förlagets pergamentband med rik blinddekor och övre guldsnitt, främre omslag medbundet. Översättning av Ebba Atterbom och Anna Mohr Branzell, från den italienska första upplagan (1580). Illustrationerna hämtades från 1768 års upplaga som utgavs i Venedig med de ursprungliga träsnitten ersatta med koppargravyrer som gjorde bättre rättvisa åt Palladios ritningar.