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Paris, Galerie Denise René, 1966. 24x16. 28 pp. 39 reproductions, 13 full-page including six in colour; and full-page photo of the artist. Printed wrappers. Scarce exhibition catalogue with biographcal notes and a four-page introduction by Ignace Meyerson.

Taipei, National Museum of History, (1988). 38x26. 15+317 pp. Ca 190 colour reproductions (106 full-page) with catalogue entries on facing pages. A fine copy in blue cloth binding with Chinese characters on cover and spine; pictorial dust jacket bound in; former owner's bookplate on inside of cover. Handsomely produced catalogue of the 90th anniversary exhibition of paintings and calligraphy by one of the best-known Chinese artists of the twentieth century. Originally known as a guohua (traditionalist) painter, by the 1960s he was also renowned as a Chinese exponent of Impressionist and Expressionist painting. Although the catalogue entries are in Chinese, the works' titles are provided in English with dating, and a Chronological Biography of the artist is bilingual in Chinese and English (as is the title of the catalague).

Monte-Carlo, André Sauret, 1989. 32x24. II+214; II+198 pp. + 2 original colour lithographs by Cassigneul. 393 colour reproductions including ca 290 full- or double-page. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jackets, in original cardboard slipcases. Fully illustrated Catalogue Raisonné of the lithographed and engraved works of Jean-Pierre Cassigneul 1965-1988, with prefaces by Roger Passeron and Jean-François Josselin.

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1931. 29x22. II+72+II pp. 92 photos (22 full-page, five in colour including two full-page). Printed wrappers, a fine copy with minor traces of handling. Rare catalogue of a Stedelijk exhibition of modern Italian art glass designed by Giacomo Cappellin, Napoleone Martinuzzi, Guido Balsamo-Stella, Flavio Poli, Michele Marelli, and Fratelli Barovier; ceramics designed by i.a, Gio Ponti, Felice Tosalli, and Italo Griselli; lacework and fabrics designed by i.a.Tomasi Buzzo, Ugo Nebbia, Giulio Rosso, Bice Lazzari, and Francesco dal Pozzo; and (despite the title) bronze sculptures by Sirio Tofanari and some other metalwork. Bilingual text in Dutch and Italian.

Stuttgart (1900). 42x29. 16 pp. + 97 plates (numbered 1-100 including three folding double-plates) with perspectives, elevations (two coloured) and photographs. 38 plans in the text. Loose as issued in a cloth-backed, printed portfolio. (Einzelausgaben der Architektonischen Rundschau, 2). Modern residential and commercial town buildings, most of them executed, the majority in Germany and Austria but including buildings in London, Paris and New York. Architects: Gabriel Seidl, Emanuel Seidl, Friedrich Ohmann, Paul Wallot, Bruno Schmitz, Stéphane Sauvestre, and others.

Copenhagen (1920s). 23x21. 24 pp. Ca 170 renderings (and 12 photos of chair seats) with article numbers and measures. Printed wrappers with Thonet logotype and stylized chair. Title leaf detached along perforation in left margin. Small stamps AKSO O.Y. on front wrapper and title leaf. Catalogue of Thonet furniture (mainly chairs) issued by the Scandinavian branch of Thonet-Mundus, published not long after the merger of the Austrian furniture manufacturers Gebrüder Thonet and Mundus in 1922.

(Carlsruhe ca 1840). 32x24. Lithographed title leaf + 70 lithographed plates with reproductions (35 full-page) of ca 225 works + 2 leaves with list of plates Table des Matières de l'Oeuvre Complète de H. Vernet. Contemporary quarter black calf, lightly rubbed, plates fine with occasional light foxing.

Paris / New York / Düsseldorf, Galerie Denise René, 1975. 30x31. 44 pp. + enclosed double-page poster (120x62 unfolded). Ca 100 photos and reproductions plus eight full-page portrait photos. On the poster a sequence from the film Le Mouvement directed and filmed by Pontus Hultén and Robert Breir, Paris 1955. Pictorial wrappers. Published in conjunction with an exhibition commemorating the the groundbreaking kinetic art exhibition Le Mouvement organised by Denise René in 1955. Includes texts (all in English) by Denise René, Roger Bordier, Pol Bury, Robert Lebel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pontus Hultén, Yaacov Agam, Victor Vasarely, and others.