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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.

New York 1970. 30x22. XIV+80; + XIV +92; + XIV+80; + XIV+80 pp. + 477 plates with captions on facing pages. Bound in two volumes, containing the original vols. 1-2 and 3-4 respectively. Publisher's orange cloth, a fine set. A reprint of the classic four-volume corpus on early Chinese art first published in 1929-30, comprising: 1. The Prehistoric and Pre-Han Periods; 2. The Han Period; 3. Sculpture; 4. Architecture.

Dresden, Keller, 1912. 2 leaves (title and list of plates) + 50 plates (48x35) with ca 100 elevations and 100 plans and sections; + 34 pp. textbook (28x22) with 31 photos and designs, in printed wrappers. Plates loose as issued, together with the textbook in a pictorial cloth-backed portfolio. Excellent copy, still in original (slightly repaired) printed cardboard slipcase. Small-home designs published by the Saxonian Heimatschutz, for town houses ranging from single-family houses to buildings designed to house several families, including terraced-house rows and other forms of garden suburb type workers' housing.

Paris, Librairie Floury, 1930. 25x19. VIII+ 292 pp. + 15 plates (including one folding and nine coloured) with printed guard-leaves + one original etching by Dufy. Full blue morocco, top edge gilt; pictorial wrappers, designed by Dufy for this book, bound in. No. 794 of an unspecified edition (probably 1200 copies).

London, Asher, 1877. 39x27. II+14 pp. + 50 coloured plates, each with one leaf with descriptive text + a final leaf with list of contents. Publisher's gilt-lettered, decorated cloth, top edge gilt. Neatly rebacked with the original gilt-lettered label (slightly worn) reattached, later endpapers; some wear to extremities, and a number written on the front board, which has a stain in upper right corner. This copy lacks the text leaf to plate 19.

Lund, Berling, 1772. 17x11. IV+311, 314-414 s. + 20 s. register. (Komplett. 312-313 utelämnade i pagineringen genom att fjärde bladet i U-arket har paginerats 311/314. E-arkets åtta blad mellan sidorna 48 och 65 är dessutom felaktigt paginerade 39-54 i stället för 49-64) Samtida nött halvskinnband med ryggtitel FRUENT FÄRGBOK. Ett mycket bra exemplar, snitten mörknade men inlagan endast obetydligt lagerfläckad samt några svaga marginalfläckar. På främre försättsblad en ägaranteckning Fabrikören Olof Westerhut, Asarum och stämpel Hush:s Sällsk:s Slöjdmagasin, Karlskrona. Carl Sahlin, Förteckning över svensk färgerilitteratur, 48. Första upplagan, på egen bekostnad utgifwen af Carl Gustaf Berling, av den första omfångsrika bok om textilfärgning som utgavs i Sverige. Boken är en översättning av den danska Fuldstændig Fruentimmer-Farve-Bog ... samlet og uddraget af Hellots, Lindners og andres trykte Underretninger og skrevne Opskrifter ... tilligemed en tilføyet Plette- og Kunst-Bog som trycktes i København 1768.

Zwolle: Waanders / Leuven: Davidsfonds, 2009. 31x25. 592 pp. Nearly 300 colour reproductions and photos including more than 180 full-page. Publisher's blind-lettered boards, dust jacket, an excellent copy. Massive documentation and study of the work of the Flemish artist, arguably the foremost and certainly one of the most influential masters of.Early Netherlandish art.

Leipzig-Gohlis, Fröhlich, 1928 - Berlin, Bauwellt, 1931. 29x21. XII+172; + 216 pp. Ca 380 photos and 200 plans and drawings. Printed wrappers. A good set with minor imperfections (light scuffing, and some loss of the silvercoloured lettering on wrapper of volume one). 1: Wohnbauten aus Stahl. 2: Grundlagen zum Bauen mit Stahl. Complete two-volume set of this work on modern building with steel-constructions. The first volume, with Bauhaus-influenced typographical design, displays numerous examples of modern tenement buildings and detached houses, in the USA, England, France, and Germany (including buildings designed by Sauvages, Gropius, and Luckardt & Anker), and there is a final section on tubular and other steel furniture. The second volume is devoted to the technical aspects of building with steel, with many photos of modern buildings in the course of contruction and various building elements, as well as plans and drawings.