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Berlin, Verlag für Wissenschaft, 1933. 33x24. 56 pp. + 64 photogravure plates with photos of more than 300 objects. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth (spine with tiny scuffing and lightly discoloured). A standard work on Germanic early mediaeval jewellery with examples ranging from the 5th to the 10th century, including jewellery discovered in Germany as well as in Italy, Hungary, England, Southern Russia, and Scandinavia.

Paris, Éditions du Regard, 1980. 31x23. 216 pp. Ca 300 photos (75 full-page, 29 in colour including 12 full-page) of furnished rooms and furniture, lamps, etc. All text and captions bilingual in French and English. Publisher's boards, mylar-protected dust jacket, an excellent copy. Edition limited to 4000 copies.

Berlin, Wasmuth, 1935. 27x22. VIII+196 pp. 203 photos, drawings and plans. Publisher's cloth. The rare first edition of this influential publication on Japanese domestic architecture produced with the encouragement of Ludwig Hilberseimer and Hugo Häring, who met Yoshida during his stay in Europe 1931-32. As an example of the adaption of Japanese tradition to modern architecture, Yoshida has included his own Baba House built in Tokyo in 1928.

Venezia, Francesco Andreola, 1803. 23x17. 8vo. XLVIII+240; + VIII+276 pp. + two folding engraved plates. Ca 30 engraved vignettes, tailpieces etc. in the text. A fine, clean copy in a nice 19th-century quarter calf binding with very light, superficial wear to spine.

Paris 1930. 32x25. VIII+64 pp. + 57 photogravure plates with reproductions of ca 115 furniture designs. Half green calf, top edge gilt.

(Sanktpeterburg), Strakuna, (1912). 28x20. 88 pp. 27 perspectives and renderings and 23 sections and plans. Publisher's pictorial cardboard covers, neatly rebacked with cloth spine. Traces of damp in lower margin of some leaves at beginning and end of the volume. Second edition. Twenty-two projects in The Modern Style - the Russian equivalent of Art Nouveau - ten country houses and villas, one town house, and eleven entrance halls, garden pavilions and gates. The designs were prepared by Russian architects with the exception of six houses drawn from Völkel's 'Moderne Villen in Meisteraquarellen'.

Leipzig 1927. 30x24. XVI+184 pp. + 16 plates with 60 reproductions of old renderings + 60 plates with 120 photos + tissue-guarded coloured frontispiece tipped-in on black paper. 19 reproductions in the text. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, a very good copy. A history of fine carriages and sleighs from the Renaissance to Empire and Biedermeier, with emphasis on German-speaking countries and France but including other European examples. Includes indices of names, places and subjects.

Paris, Jacques Povolozky, (ca 1935). 18x13. 48 pp. 12 full-page reproductions and photos. Printed wrappers; typographical design by Hans (Jean) Arp. A very fine copy. Jakovski had written the texts to a catalogue of a group exhibition of these six artists held at Galerie Pierre in Paris in 1933; most likely the present publication is based on those texts. Jakovski was born in Romania, and moved to Paris in 1932, where he developed close relationships to Jean Hélion, Jean Arp, Alexander Calder and other artists, and established himself as an art critic focusing particularly on abstract painting.

Stockholm / London / New York, Biörklund, 1968. 30x21. 200 + II pp. + 15 leaves with coloured conversion and correspondence table. Ca 390 reproductions. A fine copy in publisher's printed half cloth with gilt-lettered spine, pictorial dust jacket. Second edition, revised and considerably enlarged, limited to 600 numbered copies of which the present is no. 229.

New York, Abrams, (ca 1967). 27x29. 196 pp. 143 full-page reproductions and photos including 41 tipped-in colour plates. Publisher's pictorial linen cloth, dust jacket, very fine.

Stockholm, Fougt, 1773. 17x11. XIV+234 s. + 10 utvikbara graverade planscher, varav fyra saknas i detta exemplar. Trevligt samtida halvskinnband med ytnötta pärmpapper. Första fem bladen med minimalt maskhål och mycket svag fuktfläck.. Fredrik Wehtjes namnteckning på främre försättsblad. 'Tredie Uplagan'.

Moskva, Izdanie Moskovskago Arkhitekturnago Obshchestva, 1912. 32x25. VI+48 pp. + 23 tipped-in plates + 13 cardboard leaves with 14 tipped-in plates + errata leaf. 6 plans in the text. Printed, decorated cardboard covers. An attractive publication with plates providing reproductions of original renderings by Matvey Kazakov (1738-1812) as well as photographs of buildings designed by him.

Stockholm 1948-50. 31x24. 152 pp. text + 208 pp. with ca 240 photos; + II+256 pp. text + 208 pp. with ca 300 photos + 27 colour plates (2 folding) + errata leaf. Ca 135 drawings, plans etc. in the text. Two fine half brown leather bindings. Some very light, unobtrusive wear to the decorated paper on boards, otherwise excellent. Bibliographia Sirén 434 / 448. A standard work on Chinese gardens and their influence in 18th-century Europe, covering 1: Gardens in China, 2: Gardens in Europe.

Stockholm, Hos Bokhandlaren W. Lundequist, 1833. 19x11. VIII+116+84 pp. Två delar sammanhäftade i en volym, gråpappersomslag med stämpel Hus:s Sällsk:s Slöjdmagasin, Karlskrona Samtida ägaranteckning på titelbladet Fabrikören Olof Westerhult, Asarum. Carl Sahlin, Förteckning över svensk färgerilitteratur, 153.

(Berlin), Grützmacher, 1966. 23x23. 50 photo plates. Loose as issued in printed portfolio, very fine. Television De-Coll/ages produced by Wolf Vostell on his TV apparatus Kuba on the occasion of the exhibition Fetische held at Galerie Tobiès & Silex in Cologne.

Stockholm, Georg Scheutz, 1839. XII+504 s. + 8 utvikbara graverade planscher med talrika detaljerade illustrationer. Inbundna i två samtida band med identiskt marmorerat pärmpapper, texten i skinnryggsband (17x10) och planscherna i klotryggsband.(21x13). Textbandets rygg något nött med partiell förlust av förgylld titel och dekor, i övrigt ett mycket bra exemplar.

. 29x23. 191 blad med stencillerad maskinskriven text. Hålslagna och bundna med tygsnoddar i kartongpärmar (pärmarna med några lagade revor). No. 15 av icke angett antal exemplar. Dedikation från författaren till Edward Hald med tack för mångårigt samarbete och lika lång vänskap, samt inskription av Edward Hald F.v.b. till docenten Elisa Steenberg från hennes fader. Dec. 1958. Sällsynt. En förteckning med historiska upplysningar om ca 150 svenska glasbruk, med källangivelser. Edvard Strömberg var disponent vid Eda glasbruk, där hans hustru Gerda hade börjat sin bana som formgivare. När driften vid Eda lades ned 1933 övertog och återstartade han det nedlagda Lindesfors glasbruk vars namn ändrades till Strömbergshyttan.

München, Hanfstaengel, 1914. 29x23. L pp. + 98 fine heliogravure plates, each with a printed guard-tissue, including coloured frontispiece. 14 reproductions in the text. A very good copy in publisher's quarter vellum, top edge gilt. No. 959 of 1000 numbered copies on Van Gelden paper.

Stockholm, Ivar Hæggströms, 1896. 27x18. XLII+182 pp. text + 48 plates. A fine copy in contemporary half brown leather with gilt spine decoration and beautifully marbled boards. No. 80 of an edition limited to 125 copies. Very scarce. A history and Catalogue of the Swedish Queen Regnant Christina's remarkable collection of (mostly Italian) paintings which came into Swedish possession during the Battle of Prague and the Peace of Westphalia negotiations. The volume includes Granberg's history of the collection through the centuries and his heavily annotated Catalogue Raisonné of the paintings, as well as early inventories of the paintings in German, French and Italian: the Prague inventory at Skokloster Palace ('Wass sich in denen Pildergangen, Sählen und Gallarien von Gemehlen sind befundten und bestandten, 1648); Marquis de Fresnes 'Inventaire des Raritéz qui sont dans le Cabinet des Antiquitez de la Sérénissime Reine de Suède' (1652): the inventory in the Archivio Palatini in Rome: 'Catalogo dei quadri della Regina di Svezia' (probably 1689); and the 'Inventario de' quadri dell Galleria Memorabile della Regina di Suecia' made 1721 in connection with the sale to the Duke of Orléans.

Stockholm 1979-86. 30x30. A total of ca 490 photos, including 350 full-page and 59 in colour, plus small size versions of all photos in the indices. Publisher's boards, dust jackets. All volumes are presentation copies inscribed by Sigurd Persson. A complete five-volume set of the photographic documentation of silver ware, jewellery, sculpture, miscellaneous industrial design, and glass ware, by Sigurd Persson. Each volume contains introduction by Sigurd Persson, trilingual in Swedish, German and English, as are the indices identifying and dating each object.