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London 1917. 29x23. XII+168 pp. + 38 leaves with 95 designs, town plans, bird's-eye perspectives and photos. 26 drawings and town plans in the text. Publisher's pictorial, cloth-backed boards. Lightly worn and spine darkened, minor foxing of endpapers. Very scarce. First edition of this astonishing collection of utopian ideas for post-war regeneration, harnessing art, religious purpose and community strength to the potential of the city (Gordon E. Cherry). Ashbee was a major force behind the Arts and Crafts movement and the founder of the Gild of Handicrafts. In a sense, 'Where the City Stands' was a summary of Ashbee's work and ideas in the ten years since the liquidation of the Guild ... At the heart of the book was a sense of the city as a progressive social force, expressing the aspirations of democracy towards a finer life (Alan Crawford).

Strasbourg, Amez, 1994. 33x22. 608 pp. including 136 full-page colour photos with descriptive captions on facing pages. 40 additional photos (24 full-page including seven in colour) and two double-page maps. Publisher's blindstamped cloth, dust jacket, very fine. Includes extensive bibliography, and index of subjects, places and persons.

Paris 1877-80. 26x18. XII+552; + IV+572; + IV+576; + VIII+520 pp. + 40 lithographed colour plates with guard-tissues. There are 66 plates printed in black, all of which but one are included in pagination, and there is a running numbering 1-102 of all plates (in Roman numerals) including four plates numbered 15 bis, 43 bis, 46 bis, and 61 bis. Plate no. 48 is erroneously numbered LIV. In addition to the plates there are numerous illustrations throughout the text. Uniformly bound in contemporary half calf. Ernest Bosc (1837-1913) was an architect, Inspector of Public Works, and editor-in-chief of the monthly 'Moniteur des architectes'. He was a prolific author (sometimes under various synonyms) on a variety of subjects from art and architecture to occultism and narcotics including a treatise titled Haschich et des plantes magiques. His idiosyncratic dictionary of architecture and related sciences comprises nearly ten thousand entries, each given a proper explanation and discussed from historical, technical and legal points of view.

Stuttgart 1927. 29x22. IV+80 pp. 75 photos and renderings and 27 plans, sections, etc. Printed wrappers, in rarely seen pictorial dust jacket. The jacket is lightly discolured in top margin, and the jacket flap folds have been neatly strenghtened on the inside. Loosely inserted is a leaf with the publisher's advertisement for the book. (Die Baubücher, 1). After working with Mendelsohn, Neutra moved to the United States in 1923. Wie baut Amerika chronicles his search for an architectural vision based upon American construction and transportation practices, its central theme being the emergence of a new beauty conditioned by American technological promises. The message is brought home with a variety of illustrative examples, including in-depth studies of the Palmer House hotel in Chicago by Holabird and Roche and a terraced house row by Schindler in La Jolla. A key source to the role of Functionalist aesthetics as a link between rationalised technology and modern architectural ideals.

Leipzig 1896-1902, 1900. 27x22. X+302+II pp. + 107 plates (one coloured and 7 folding) + monochrome frontispiece; + VIII+356+IV pp. + 124 plates (19 folding) + coloured frontispiece; + X+374+40+IV pp. + 97 plates (35 folding) + coloured frontispiece; + XII+508+IV pp. + 66 plates (29 folding and 20 partly coloured). All plates protected by guard-leaves. In addition to the plates there are ca 3200 illustrations in the text. An attractive set in original, richly decorated quarter leather bindings with gilt-lettered front boards, marbled edges. Volumes 1-3 in 6th edition; volume 4 in 4th edition. A complete set of this series of works on building construction in stone, timber, steel etc. comprising: 1. Otto Warth, Die Konstruktionen in Stein; 2. Otto Warth, Die Konstruktionen in Holz; 3. Otto Königer, Die Konstruktionen in Eisen; 4. A. Scholtz, Verschiedene Konstruktionen.

Okayama, the author, 1978. 30x21. 310 pp. + two folding charts + enclosed errata slip. More than 900 photos including front / reverse photos etc. Publisher's half cloth with Japanese title on spine, an excellent copy kept in the original slipcase with Japanese title. No. 48 of an edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. A comprehensive descriptive and fully illustrated catalogue of tsubas and other Japanese sword fittings, bilingual in Japanese and English throughout.

Stockholm, C. Wilh. Backe, 1908. 29x21. 64 s. inklusive 11 färgplanscher + 20 s. med relevanta annonser. Kort inledning, och 13 planer, 21 fasad- och perspektivritningar (11 kolorerade) samt 32 foton av uppförda hus och andra vyer från Lidingö. Bunden med ytttre synlig snodd i tryckta omslag med illustration i brunt och ljusblått. Tryckt lapp med två rättelser fäst på främre omslagets insida. Välbevarat ex. förvarat i en något nött, mer eller mindre samtida box med klotrygg. 1907 utlystes en arkitekttävling för utformandet av hus i den nya trädgårdsstaden på Lidingö. Gate och Landén tilldelades första respektive andra pris. I denna publikation presenteras ritningar till nio villor, varav sju återfinns bland fotografierna av uppförda hus. Bland färgplanscherna finns ett förslag (Sveriges första i sitt slag?) till modernt radhus avsett för de bättre bemedlade (av Landén, inte uppfört, men idén förverkligades på Lidingö 1909-10 enligt ritningar av Gate).

Paris 1971. 31x24. 140 pp. + an original colour lithograph by Picasso. Ca 150 reproductions and photos including 28 in colour. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket, a very good copy. (XXe Siècle, Numero Spécial hors abonnement). Includes texts by Paul Éluard, Man Ray, Brassaï, Raymond Coignat, Roland Penrose, Dore Ashton, André Verdet, and others.

Paris 1862. 62x48. 16 pp. + 40 lithographed plates including 15 richly coloured chromolithographs and four monocolour. Publisher's printed cloth-backed boards, exterior darkened and slightly rubbed, neatly rebacked. Some text leaf margins neatly strengthed, mild foxing to some plates and text leaves as usual. A pioneering documentation of Swedish mediaeval church paintings, lithographed after reproductions made on location by Mandelgren. In 1846 he had been granted appropriations to explore and document the art of Swedish mediaeval churches, with emphasis on the interior paintings. Following a conflict with the Director-General of the National Heritage Board however, the material was not published in Sweden. Mandelgren made all the lithographs himself, and the work appeared in parts in Copenhagen and Paris between 1855 and 1862, before the final result was published in Paris with a dedication the Emperor Napoleon III. On two of the plates there are elevations, sections, plans and detail drawings of churches, the others show wall and ceiling paintings and decorations.

New York, Felicie, 1973. 30x21. 328 pp. including endpapers. Ca 70 colour photos (37 full-page) and 90 drawings and paintings by Dalí including several full- or double-page. Publisher's pictorial cloth, in embossed pictorial gold-coloured dust jacket. Very light scuffing of corner tips. First English-language edition of the Surrealist artist's illustrated cookbook comprising 56 courses including recipes prepared by French top chefs.

Paris. Les Beaux-Arts - Editions d'Études et de Documents, 1928. 32x25. VIII+244 pp. including 116 pages (93-208) with ca 230 reproductions (40 full-page). Fine contemporary half red leather binding, spine with five gilt raised bands, top edge gilt. Bound with printed front wrapper but without the two blank leaves (first leaf and a leaf separating the reproductions from the final index). (L'Art Français. Collection dirigée par Georges Wildenstein). An attractively bound copy of this handsomely produced monograph on the French Rococo painter Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695-1736) including a classified Catalogue Raisonné of his works, bibliography, and an index of works, collections, auctions, etc.

Wien, Schroll, (1912). 36x29. 72 pp. text + 68 photogravure plates with ca 210 photographs including 10 coloured. 65 photos in the text. Textbook with printed wrappers kept with loose plates as issued in a cloth-backed portfolio with tie-strings (portfolio slightly rubbed, contents fine). Sumptuous study and photographic documentation of the patterns and techniques of peasant art in Dalmatia as manifested in lacework, knitwork, carpet weaving, costume, jewellery, tableware, etc. Dalmatia, today a region of Croatia, was a kingdom subordinate to the Austrian / Austro-Hungarian emperors between 1815 and the First World War.

S.-Peterburg, Strakuna, (1913). 31x22. 16 pp. + 32 plates with 15 elaborate elevations and 9 drawings of windows, oriels etc. (printed in black, red and blue-green), 4 plans, and 13 photographs. Publisher's pictorial cardboard covers, neatly rebacked with cloth spine. Covers and first/last leaves slightly darkened, and some not very obtrusive traces of damp. 2-e izdanie (2nd edition). A rare publication containing designs by Vladimir Stori for large urban houses as well as a photographic survey of executed town buildings.

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, 1986-2010. 28x21. 104; + 608; + 488 pp. Altogether more than 1000 reproductions (90 full-page, 215 in colour including 59 full-page). Publisher's cloth, dust jackets; vol. 1 inscribed by Cavalli-Björkman. Extensively annotated Catalogue Raisonné of Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Swedish National Art Museum collections, comprising 1: c.1400-c.1600, 2: Dutch Paintings c.1600-1800; 3: Flemish Paintings c.1600-1800.

Stockholm, Chelius, 1899. 37x28. 12 pp. + 18 plates with 22 photographs including 14 full-page. Publisher's printed boards; cover corners lightly worn, a fine copy. (Sammlung F.R. Martin). A documentation of 17th-19th century fabrics from Persia, Bukhara, and Anatolia.

Milano 1956. 22x27. X+368 pp. 611 photos (a few in colour). Publisher's printed boards Excellent photographic coverage of the varieties and forms of contemporary furniture in Europe and the USA with captions in Italian, French, English and German. Index of the designers, which include Aalto, Albini, Bega, Bertoia, Morassutti, Parisi, Ponti, Zanuso, Robin Day, Ernest Race, Tapiovaara, Wegner, Jacobsen, Ditzel, Juhl, Kjærholm, Ekselius, Strinning, Eames, Bertoia, George Nelson etc.

Stockholm, Ivar Hæggströms, 1896. 27x18. XLII+182 pp. text + 48 planscher. Vackert samtida rött halvskinnband (G. Hedberg) med övre guldsnitt, marmorerade pärmar och för-/eftersättsblad, ryggen rikt förgylld med blomstermotiv. Tryckt i 125 exemplar varav detta är nr 75.

Milano (1951). 33x24. 48 pp. text (with one tipped-in plate) + 148 pp. with ca 360 photos. Publisher's printed quarter cloth, covers lightly rubbed. A historical study and survey of Venetian frames with photos of examples from the 14th-18th centuries.

Stockholm, Norstedt, (1901). 34x48. Titelblad + textblad med planschförteckning + 40 planscher tryckta i ockrarött, och blekt ljusrött och ljusgrönt. Lösa som de utgavs i en marmorerad mapp med klotrygg och klotfalsar, tryckt titeletikett på främre pärmen. Första planschen något mörknad i översta marginalen, antydan till brytveck på främre pärmen, i övrigt i utmärkt fint skick. Trettioåtta planscher med dekorativa skalritningar till 115 möbler av skilda slag (de flesta en face och i profil) samt två planscher med ritningar till möbelbeslag. Viktor Adler var anställd vid Victor von Gegerfelts kontor i Göteborg åren 1868-73 och utövade sedermera arkitektyrket både privat och i överintendentsämbetet. Efter att 1886 ha tillträtt tjänsten som rektor för Tekniska Skolan i Stockholm var han verksam som konstindustriell lärare, och deltog i organiserandet av den stora Konst- och Industrutställningen i Stockholm 1897 såväl som i Sveriges deltagande i världsutställningarna i början av 1900-talet.

Paris & Bruxelles, Van Oest, 1929. 35x26. XIV+176 pp. + 106 plates with 191 photogravures and two tipped-in tissue guarded colour reproductions. Full green morocco with gilt ornamental decoration on front cover, spine (lightly faded) with five raised bands. A beautifully produced study and documentation of the various aspects and forms of Islamic miniatures, decoration and calligraphy in Persian manuscripts and books between the 12th and 17th centuries.

Leipzig 1901-03. 26x18. XIV+330; + IV+331-690 pp. + 149 plates (two folding including one with 16 colour designs). 1507 drawings and plans illustrating Gothic construction as well as decorative elements and designs. Contemporary half leather with marbled boards and edges, a fine set with slightly faded spines and minor wear at extremities. Fourth edition, revised by Karl Mohrman. The techniques of Gothic construction revealed by the architect and master builder Georg G. Ungewitter (1820-1864), a German pioneer of Gothic Revival architecture. Relatively few of Ungewitter's designs were actually built, and from 1852 his main priority lay as a writer and a teacher of architecture at the Höheren Gewerbeschule in Kassel, exerting influence particularly on church architecture in the final decades of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth.