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Berlin, Wasmuth, 1902-11. 31x22. VII+VIII+184; + X+448; +XII+360 pp.; + XIV+80; + X+222 pp. + 2 coloured lithographed plates (in vol. III). 1675 drawings, plans and photos. A fine, complete set bound in two volumes, contemporary maroon cloth (labels of bookbinder Carl Asplund, Stockholm). A systematic and profusely illustrated work tracing the development of the constructional and aesthetic features of architecture, in parts II - IV:2 classified into the building materials wood, stone, iron and bronze. I. Geschichtliche systematische Entwickelung, begründet durch Material und Technik, II. Der Holzbau, III. Der Steinbau in natürlichem Stein, IV:1. Der Steinbau in Künstlichem Stein, IV:2. Eisen und Bronze. Uhde is the author of all parts except the last one (IV:2) which was written by Carl Zetschke.

München, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1999. 24x17. 484 pp. Ca 275 reproductions (83 in colour including ca 60 full-page and 23 of details etc). Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, a very fine copy. Scholarly, mainly English-language anthology, comprising fifteen essays in English, four in in German, and three in French. Includes index of persons and works, and general subject index. (Herausgegeben im Auftrag der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen des Doerner-Institutes und des Zentralinstitutes für Kunstgeschichte, München).

Weil am Rein, Vitra Design Museum, 2005. 27x24. 304 pp. Ca 500 photos and reproductions of drawings and sketches, 230 in colour including 25 full-page. Publisher's pictorial plastic-covered boards, very fine.

Augsburg, Conrad Heinrich Stage, 1781. 19x12. 8vo. VIIII+216 pp. Four engraved vignettes including one on title leaf. Nice contemporary half calf, spine gilt with gilt-lettered orange title label, boards lightly rubbed. Minor browning in corners of first and last leaf, otherwise a very fine, clean copy. First edition of this classic lexicon of art and artists.

Malmö, Image förlag, 1947. 30x22. 32 pp. including 10 leaves, each with one tipped-in original frottage plate by C.O. Hultén. Introduction by Max Walter Svanberg. Pictorial wrappers, light external wear. No. 134 of an edition limited to 190 copies; this is an artist's presentation copy with a signed inscription. The first artist book to appear out of the Swedish group of artists formed in 1945 and deeming themselves Imaginisterna (The Imaginists).

Leipzig & Wien 1927. 26x20. 28 pp. + 80 pp. with 28 full-page photos, 51 elevations, perspectives, etc. (28 full-page) and 15 plans (5 full-page). Publisher's printed, attractively designed cloth, a very fine copy. The only monograph on Friedrich Wagner-Poltrock, important modern architect of Chemnitz in the interwar years.

London 1967. 29x24. II+176 pp. including portrait photo frontispiece. More than 100 full-page reproductions including 41 full- or double-page, plus ca 85 small-size reproductions in a chronological catalogue of 520 oil paintings, and black gouache drawings in the text and on endpapers prepared by the artist for this book. Publisher's pictorial boards with silver lettering. Includes statements by the artist, biographical summary, list of exhibitions, and bibliography.

London 1837. 32x25. XII+76 pp. + 8 engraved plates with guard-leaves. 16 drawings and 18 diagrams in the text. Publisher's boards with printed front label; neat cloth rebacking. Boards darkened and rubbed at extremities, endpapers and first/last leaves browned, plates fine albeit lightly foxed in margins. The Scottish painter and engraver John Burnet (1784-1868) published a number of works on the techniques and aesthetics of painting. The present work forms the first part of his Treatise on Painting which was published both as a whole and as four separate books.

S.-Peterburg 1908. 27x20. 24 pp. including 12 pages with 102 drawings. Printed, decorated wrappers (disbound with holes where it was stitched, minor crease mark). Rare Russian album of designs for garden buildings and furniture including pavilions, elaborate gates, bridges, benches and sofas, hammocks, pergolas, etc.

Paris 1996. 27x21. 400 pp. More than 1800 reproductions including 16 full-page in colour. Pictorial wrappers First volume of the Catalogue Raisonné of Picasso drawings in the Musée Picasso.

Moskva 1952. 29x22. 388 pp. + tipped-in portrait plate + 3 leaves, each with one tissue-guarded tipped-in colour plate. Ca 400 reproductions of architectural drawings and photos, and 30 plans. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth. (Mastera Sovetskoi arkhitektury). Senkevitch 1086. Classic monograph on the Russian and Soviet architect Aleksej V. Shchusev (1873-1949) including chronological list of projects and a bibliography of writings by and on Shchusev.

Basel 1935. 21x15. 114 pp. + 10 pp. relevant advertisements. Numerous examples of advertisements, letterheads, magazine covers, etc. printed on various kinds of paper, partly in red, blue, green. Publisher's blue cloth, original printed paper label on spine with title printed in black and author's name in red (sunning has extinguished the latter). A nice copy with a couple of unobtrusive stains on rear cover, and former owner's stamp on front free endpaper. First edition of Tschichold's widely read and highly influential treatise on the principles, practice and aesthetics of typographic design, including a concise overview of rules, colours, paper, posters, the use of abstract art, photography and drawings, etc. Although Tschichold continues to elaborate on the principles he had advocated in the more propagandist 'Die neue Typographie', the new work is much less dogmatic on the virtues of sans-serifs and asymmetrical design, and the text is set in Bodoni.

Boston 1923. 31x24. XX+320 pp. 181 photographs and plans. Publisher's gilt-lettered red cloth with gilt emblem. A fine copy with negligible external wear and a very weak, unobtrusive stain in lower margin of one text fold. A collection of photographs, and a few plans, of old colonial houses (and building details) on the Bermudas, with an introduction.

Paris, Massin, (ca 1922). 45x33. 24 pp. + 44 photogravure plates. Loose as isued in a half cloth portfolio with printed front label and tie-strings. Grand private gardens designed by contemporary French garden architects, illustrated each with one plan and with a total of ca 60 photographs. Introductory text by René-Edouard André providing a précis of the history of garden design followed by an outline of the principles of landscape gardening. The gardens include some designed by André himself as well examples from the work of Jacques Gréber, Jules Vacherot, Jules Allemand, and Albert Tournaire.

Paris, Floury, 1925. 24x18. VIII+84 pp. + 8 photogravure plates with photos of 24 glass pieces. 44 drawings in the text, 12 coloured by hand or pochoir including nine full-page. Pictorial wrappers over first and last blank leaves as issued, exterior slightly darkened and backstrip ever so lightly worn; inscribed by the author. A very good presentation copy of this beautifully produced monograph on the artist and glass designer Maurice Marinot.

Leipzig 1900. 32x25. 8 pp. title, introduction and descriptions to the plates + 24 plates with 132 drawings and plans. Loose as issued in a printed half cloth portfolio with tie-strings. Exterior very lightly rubbed and dusty, contents very fine. A charming collection of elaborate designs of richly ornamented garden and park buildings, grandiose entrances and pavilions, gates, fences and balusters, boat houses, greenhouses, wellheads and fountains, skittle alleys, etc. and two garden and park plans.

Madrid 1998. 34x24. 340 pp. Nearly 400 photos and renderings (360 in colour including 70 full- or double-page) and ca 350 drawings and plans. Publisher's printed boards, fine in dust jacket with very light wear at extreme corners. Bilingual text and captions in Spanish and English, including an interview with Rem Koolhaas. (El Croquis, 53+79). Revised re-edition in one volume of the two earlier Croquis volumes on Koolhaas.

Trier 2013-16. 29x21. 250; + 250; + 250 pp. including pictorial wrappers. More than 460 colour photos including 220 full-page, and two full-page maps. Pictorial wrappers. All inscribed / signed by Markus Ehrhard on title pages, otherwise as new. I: Wenn Brauch Gebrauch beeinflusst. II: Wenn Neuordung Ordnung schafft. III: Wenn Urform Form bestimmt. Volumes II and III have bilingual titles, text and captions in German and French.

Washington, D.C. 1926. 41x30. IV+252 pp. + 8 colour plates + 8 pp. supplement printed in 1928. Ca 120 photos and renderings and 65 plans and drawings. Publisher's decorated cloth. Inscribed by the author. First edition of a classic work on the architecture of the South American Maya civilization. One of Washington D.C.'s most prolific and prominent architects in the Gilded Age, Totten's international training and interest in architectural decoration yielded a practice characterized by continuous experimentation and stylistic eclecticism.