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Madrid 2013. 33x24. VIII (adverts.) + 272 pp. Ca 240 photos and renderings, 210 in colour including 60 full- or double-page, and 215 drawings and plans. Publisher's pictorial flexible boards. Bilingual text and captions in Spanish and English, including a conversation with Adam Caruso and Peter St John, and an essay by Pier Vittorio Aureli. (El Croquis, 166).

Paris, Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1937. 33x25. 152 pp. + 70 heliogravure plates with 210 photographs. A fine copy in printed wrappers over blank wrappers as issued. The work was published with a printed dedication "Á JOHNNY ROOSVAL" on page 7. This is Roosval's own copy, with his pencilled name on the first page and underlinings in the text by him.

Berlin, Wasmuth, 1910. 49x33. IV+24 pp. + 28 heliogravure plates on heavy stock, with 29 excellent large-size photographs and 9 plans. 23 plans, drawings and photos in the text. Text and loose plates as issued in printed cloth-backed boards.

Bruxelles 1987. 30x24. 572 pp. Ca 650 reproductions in the Catalogue Raisonné (on pp. 201-492) and 160 photos and reproductions (43 in colour including 35 full-page) in the monograph and biography. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, very fine. Second, revised and extended edition.

Copenhagen, Arkitektens Forlag / The Danish Architectural Press, 1968. 30x21. 140 pp. 75 photos (52 full-page) and more than 100 furniture drawings. Publisher's cloth, in printed dust jacket with very light edge wear. Enclosed letter from Poul Erik Skriver to the Swedish design critic Ulf Hård af Segerstad; his small bookplate on front free endpaper. Bilingual text and captions in Danish and English.

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.

London 1994. 21x14. 192 pp. Ca 60 photos and renderings (15 in colour; 32 full- or double-page) and more than 50 plans, drawings and sketches. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jacket. Scarce. The architect's own commented survey of eleven projects (pp. 59-183), and essays on his design philosophy and practice; complete list of projects 1981-1994.

Tokyo, A.D.A. Edita, 2007. 30x31. IV+216 pp. Ca 380 photos and renderings (including 260 in colour) and more than 220 drawings and plans, plus ca 100 small-size photos and drawings in List of Works 1987-2005. Pictorial wrappers, very fine. Bilingual text in English and Japanese (captions in English only). (GA Architect, 18).

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.

Moskva 1948. 39x28. IV+26 pp. text + one tipped-in portrait plate + 56 plates (three folding) with ca 40 measured elevations, sections, plans and detail drawings, 30 reproductions of old drawings and plans, and 40 photos. Textbook and loose plates as issued in a printed half cloth portfolio, this slightly worn, contents fine with some occasional very light foxing. (Pamyatniki Russkoï Arkhitektury, VII). Thorough documentation of the Admiralty building erected in Saint Petersburg 1806-23 to the design of Andreyan Zakharov (1761-1811), one of the greatest monument of Russian Empire architecture.

Helsinki 1962. 23x16. 366 pp. + 4 plates. 179 reproductions, including four of details (on the plates) and six of signatures. No. 86 of a limited, numbered edition supplied with four extra plates. Pictorial wrappers, a very fine copy. Inscribed by the author. (Societas Scientiarum Fennica, Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum, 31:1). The English-language version of the scarce monograph with Catalogue Raisonné.

Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, The MIT Press, 1986. 30x25. 264 pp. 363 photos, drawings and plans including 77 in colour. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, a fine copy.

Milano 1930. 30x23. VI+68 pp. text + 226 pp. with 383 photos. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, spine sunned and slightly stained. Cloth cracking at top of spine, incipient cracking of rear hinge. On front free endpaper the pencilled name of Swedish artist Hilding Linnqvist. Chamberlin 1052. Classic, authoritative and comprehensively illustrated standard work on Italian Renaissance bronze statuettes.

Kyoto-shi, Shobo, 1991. 37x26. 212 pp. Ca 230 colour photos including 175 full-page, and 100 photos of signatures. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, in a heavy pictorial slipcase, protected in the original printed cardboard case; an excellent copy.

New York, Comstock, 1913. 25x19. 152 pp. + frontispiece. Ca 70 elevations and perspectives, 150 plans, sections and detail drawings, and 60 photos. Publisher's pictorial cloth. A fine copy of the scarce first edition.

(Riga, Häcker, 1905) but later, undated photo facsimile . 20x13. II+75 pp. printed on 78 leaves, thus intermittent blank pages. Numerous reproductions of marks and monograms. Neatly bound in maroon cloth (Rybrandts Bokbinderi, Stockholm).

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.

Paris / printed in Amsterdam 1949. 16x12. Two pages with text by Dotremont (Par la Grand Porte) + nine leaves, each with one full-page reproduction. Printed wrappers. No 94 of an unspecified number of copies. Published in conjunction with a presentation of the three Dutch Cobra artists on 3 May, 1949 at Galerie Collette Allendy in Paris. The trio was among the founders of the Reflex / Groupe Expérimental Hollandais which joined forces with Danish and Belgian artists in November, 1948 to form the international CoBrA group, which held its first exhibition 13-27 March, 1949 in Bruxelles.

Christiania, udgiverens forlag, (1877-79). 25x34. 8 pp. including trilingual lists of plates + 24 engraved plates with guard-leaves. Publisher's gilt-lettered grey cloth with decorations in black and gold, edges gilt. An extraordinarily well-preserved copy in rarely seen printed dust jacket (with some chipping and repairs) and original printed cloth-edged slipcase. A handsome album of engraved pictures after works by Adolph Tidemand, the protagonist of Norwegian National Romantic art in the mid-19th century. Among the titles are: Sunday night in a cabin in Hardanger; The woman winding worsted; Fishing by torch-light; Decorating the bride; A wedding procession in Hardanger; Fight at a country wedding; Return of the bearhunters; A funeral on the Fjord; Christmas custom; etc.

Paris, Michèle Trinckvel, 1975. 32x24. 216 pp. + tipped-in portrait photo + erratum slip; + enclosed, signed colour lithograph. 108 reproductions, the majority full-page, 52 in colour including a tipped-in plate. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jacket; the lithograph in protective printed covers; book and lithograph kept in printed cloth portfolio; very fine. No. 53 of numbered 150 copies signed by Hilaire; the original lithograph also signed and numbered 53/150. Attractive monograph on the French painter and graphic artist Camille Hilaire, including biographical notes and quotes from reviews from 1947-1973.

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.