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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.

Wien & New York 2003. 32x23. 320 pp. Ca 300 plans, drawings, photos and reproductions (39 in colour). Publisher's printed boards, very fine. The standard monograph on the Moravian-born architect, designer, theorist and author of influential books like 'Architecture Without Architects' and 'The Prodigious Builders'. Educated in Austria, he was active as an architect in Europe before he settled in Brazil where he designed several notable residences in Sao Paolo. In 1940, he was invited by MOMA to New York City where he remained based until his death in 1988, designing a number of landmark exhibitions in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, while continuing to travel extensively. Includes previously unpublished material and provides a comprehensive understanding of this central figure in twentieth-century design.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1978. 29x23. 264 pp. Ca 300 drawings, renderings and photos, 37 in colour including 18 full-page; pictorial endpapers. Publisher's printed boards, fine in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. The British issue of the first edition of this influential architectural-cultural history of New York, positing the mega-city as an arena for the terminal stage of Western civilisation.

Stockholm, Gernandts Boktryckeri-Aktiebolag, 1891. 23x15. 24 s. 13 reproduktioner av akvareller och teckningar av David Ljungdahl, däribland Järnvägshållplats, Interiör av boggievagnen, Restaurangen, Viktor Rydbergs villa Ekliden, Pripps och Gagges villor, Elektriska ljusstationen, Vattentornet, Hamnen vid Svalnäsviken, Kälkbacken vid Auravägen, m.m. Tryckta, högst obetydligt nötta omslag, det främre dekorativt utfört av Ljungdahl, det bakre med Karta öfver Djursholms Villastad upprättad år 1890. Oval stämpel i nedre hörn av omslaget: Djursholms Restaurant & Café / Wilh: Strandberg. Attraktivt exemplar av en tidig och sällsynt presentation av den nya villastaden som grundats 1889. På bakre omslagets insida uppges att Upplysningar om bygnadsplatser och färdigbygda villor lemnas af grefve C.G.F. Wirsén, Stockholm, Storkyrkobrinken n:r 13, samt å Djursholms slott.

Stockholm, Iduns Tryckeri AB, 1894. 26x18. VI+42 s. + 24 planscher. Samtida elegant skinnryggsband med vackert dekorerade pärmar. Sällsynt katalog över tavlorna på Finspångs slott, med 124 verk av bl.a. Cranach, Frans Hals, Jordaens, Rembrandt, Rubens, David Teniers d.y. och Tizian, samt 240 av von Breda, Ehrenstrahl, Per Hilleström d.ä. resp. d.y., Masreliez, Roslin, Sergel, Troili, och andra svenska konstnärer.

Paris, Phaidon, 2016. 31x30. 368 pp. Ca 280 full-page photos including more than 40 in colour. Includes chronological index with technical data on the prints. Publisher's massive cloth binding with mounted front plate, in a cloth slipcase with another mounted plate.

Insjön, Clas Ohlsson & C:o, (ca 1927). 45x34. 15 färgplanscher + fyrasidigt texthäfte (22x14). Lösa så som de utgavs i tryckt kartongpärm. Bifogat kvitto på inköpet från Clas Ohlsson, daterat 8/2 1927. Bifogade är också två småskrifter av A. Alvén: 'Undervisning i färgberedning, grundning, spackling och målning' (Osby 1923, 8 s.) och 'Undervisning i ådring i ek' (Osby 1928, 12 s.), samt några småtryck och kvitton från Osby Korrespondensinstitut.

Christiania, Chr. Tönsberg (tryckt av Winckelmann & Sønner). (1856). 29x41. Litograferat titelblad i färg + sju planscher med färglitografier + 8 s. text på norska, tyska och engelska. Tryckt förlagspappband med klotrygg. Ett välbevarat exemplar med mycket svag bruntoning i övre marginalerna utanför bildytan, och en minimal fläck på främre pärmen. Lithographed title leaf, and seven colour lithographs of the summer palace Oscarshall which was commissioned by King Oscar I and Queen Joséphine of Norway, and completed in 1852 to the design of Johan Henrik Nebelong. Trilingual text in Norwegian, German and English.

Stockholm, Art and Theory Publishing, 2012. 21x15. 16 pp. text + 128 pp. with 83 full-page photographs and list of Tuija Lindström's solo exhibitions etc. 1983-2012. Printed wrappers, as new. Preface by Dragana Vujanovic, bilingual in Swedish and English.

Jena 1919. 25x18. 144 pp. 72 illustrations including four tipped-in plates, 40 pages of photos on coated paper, and drawings by Taut in the text. Publisher's quarter cloth with cover design by Taut. First edition of Taut's utopian town building manifesto, with contributions by Paul Scheerbart, Adolf Behne and Erich Baron. Introduced by Scheerbart's Das neue Leben. Architektonische Apokalypse the central part of the book is Taut's utopian City Crown scheme, the basic argument of which was the presence in every major city of buildings serving as a focus of the community: palaces, churches etc. Taut provides a new town for the modern man, with a central City Crown of theatre and opera houses, libraries, museums and other buildings grouped around a huge crystal house in which the lonely wanderer can see his town below his feet and, above him, the rise and fall of the sun.

Stockholm 1911-13. 32x25. XII+144; + XII+112; + XII+112 pp. + a total of 292 photogravure plates with ca 320 reproductions; printed guard-leaves to all plates. Printed wrappers, entirely unopened (and kept in original cardboard slipcases with printed labels); backstrips slightly darkened, otherwise immaculate. No. 64 of an edition limited to 160 numbered copies. A pioneering and sumptuosly produced Catalogue Raisonné of important paintings and sculptures mainly by foreign (non-Scandinavian) masters in Swedish collections, all of which are identified.

London, Architecture iIlustrated, 1933. 32x23. VIII + 298 pp. (numbered 1-294 plus one unpaginated page between pages 3 and 4 and three between 81 and 82) + 12 plates with 15 colour renderings. Ca 235 photos, 35 elevations and perspectives and 100 plans. Publisher's printed cloth-backed boards. Covers and spine a little discoloured, with some light rubbing at extremities; interior fine although binding slightly shaken with minor incipient cracking. Scarce. The second coverage of architectural works published by Baillie Scott. This proved to be a timely publication, as the London office of Baillie Scott (and his assistant Beresford) was destroyed in the Blitz in 1941, together with all practice records.

Paris, Morancé / Copenhague, Illum, 1935-37. 28x22. 112; + 104; 108 pp. + erratum slip in vol 1. Includes a total of 178 pages with photos of ca 230 objects. Publisher's printed boards, dust jackets. Large chipping from jacket of first volume, the other jackets fine with minor edgewear. 1: Afrique Occidentale Française. 2: Guinée Portugaise, Sierra-Leone, Libéria, Còte d'Or, Togo, Dahomey et Nigeria. 3: Congo Belge.

Wien & Leipzig (1903). 32 coloured plates (34x24) mounted on heavy cardboard (47x34) with caption labels on reverse sides. Loose as issued in two printed board portfolios. Twenty-four fine reproductions of attractive coloured perspective renderings of modern private houses in Germany and Austria (Vienna) and eight plates with 31 plans and elevations (to 16 of the houses). Among the architects of the houses are Josef Hoffmann, Theodor Fischer, Martin Dülfer, Friedrich Pützer, and Oskar Marmorek.

Paris (1925). 24x16. 122 pp. Drawings and plans and ca 70 photos. Neat half cloth, pictorial wrappers (with light signs of wear) preserved. A publication devoted to the New Spirit in Architecture, including the discource L'Esprit Nouveau en Architecture delivered at Sorbonne in 1924, and describing Le Corbusier's Pavillon L'Esprit Nouveau at the Paris Exhibition 1925 (the title design of which is reproduced on the book's front wrapper). Le Corbusier's survey of other recent works by him includes the studio building he designed for Ozenfant, The La Roche / Albert Jeanneret twin house in Auteuil, and other villas.

Berlin, Wasmuth, 1903. 48x32. 6 pp. + 100 heliogravure plates with ca 330 photographs. Loose as issued in a printed half cloth portfolio with tie-strings. Very light foxing to a few plates, two plates with damp stain in margin, otherwise very fine. Scarce large-format album of photographs of Romanesque, transitional and Gothic pillar capitals and other ornamental building details, mainly from German churches and abbeys.

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.

Bergen, Gullsmedlauget i Bergen & Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum, 1957. 25x19. 388 s. + utvikbar färgplansch; + VIII+256+IV s. med ca 340 foton (100 helsides) av ca 440 föremål + 4 blad med avsnittsrubriker. Mer än 600 reproduktioner av stämplar och ca 60 foton etc. i textbandet. Förlagsklotband, något nötta skyddsomslag.