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Paris, Morel, (1860)-1874. 58x42. VIII; + VI; + VI pp. + engraved frontispiece + 354 engraved plates + folding engraved map. Loose as issued, kept in three fine green/black cloth portfolios with gilt-lettered spines and tie-strings. The map is browned, one title leaf is chipped (not affecting text), otherwise fine. A monumental collection of elevations, sections, perspectives and plans of buildings in Rome, from Renaissance to latter day Classicism. Letarouilly, a pupil of Percier, first traveled to Italy in 1820 and began his sketches then. The published collection was widely consulted by the Classicist Revival architects in France and abroad. A text volume was published separately and is not present in this set.

(Stuttgart, Wittwer, 1893-1900) but impressum cancelled and substituted with labels reading 'Berlin, Kanter & Mohr'. 50x35. 4 pp. + 100 plates with more than 500 elevations, sections, detail drawings and plans. Loose as issued in pictorial cloth-backed boards with tie-strings, boards lightly darkened, neatly rebacked. A collection of measured drawings, including many details, of wooden architecture in Germany from old buildings in i.a. Nürnberg to modern houses in Berlin's Westend and other Villenkolonien.

Paris, Hachette, (1902). 32x25. 316 pp. + 49 excellent colour plates with guard-tissues (including one folding double-plate) + 17 black and white plates. Numerous illustrations in the text including ca 35 full-page. Publisher's pictorial cloth, top edge gilt. Binding slightly darkened and edgeworn, a damp stain around top of spine. Classic, extensive history of toys written by the French historian, librarian, author and collector.

Paris, Berggruen, 1977. 31x29. LXXVI+364; + 520 pp. 621 reproductions of paintings (more than 120 full-page) plus ca 65 reproductions of related drawings etc. and 12 additional full-page colour reproductions. 34 reproductions of falsifications, and 27 photos of sculptures and costume/stage designs; additional illustrations in biography etc. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, a fine set.

Berlin, Wasmuth, 1911. 28x19. 114 pp. + coloured frontispiece + 2 advertisement leaves. 122 photos and ca 30 plans. A very fine copy bound with both printed wrappers in neat half cloth (Die Architektur des XX. Jahrhunderts, Sonderheft 8). Sweeney 157. Interior and exterior photographs of buildings executed before Wright's departure to Chicago in 1909. Wright visited the British Arts and Crafts architect in England in September 1910, and asked him then to write the introduction (also appearing in the Ausgeführte Bauten published by Wasmuth in the same year).

Berlin, Wasmuth, 1894. 48x32. IV+22; + IV pp. + 175 heliogravure plates. Loose as issued in two printed half cloth portfolios with ties. A magnificent photographic survey of English architectural monuments featuring the work of Wren, Inigo Jones and others, including cathedrals, castles, country houses, and Stonehenge (!) as well as some less famous edifices.

Leipzig 1730. 16x10. XIV+560 pp. + 51 engraved plates on foldout leaves. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt, red edges. Lightly browned but a very nice copy. First edition of this work which appeared in a second edition in 1756. A school teacher and rector, Benjamin Hederich (1675-1748) was a prolific author of textbooks and dictionaries on a great variety of topics, perhaps best remembered for his Mythological Dictionary heavily utilized and praised by Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, and other contemporary authors. Hederich's pedagogical zeal is mirrored in the title's 'Progymnasmata' as well as in the arrangement of the book as a series of Übungen providing a sterling overview of established architectural practice and theory. Berlin cat. 2000.

München (1924). 23x18. 88 pp. + one folding coloured plate + one transparent overlay plate with drawing. Ca 55 photos, photo montages, drawings and plans, 40 full-page including one coloured. Publisher's printed yellow cloth with lightly warped covers and minor loss of red colour from the cover design; on first page a stamp from a Saarbrücken school library. Front portion of the pictorial dustwrapper (with cropped margins) loosely inserted. (Bauhausbücher, 4). The fourth volume in the Bauhausbuch series is devoted to Bauhaus stage design and costume, with illustrated texts by Schlemmer (Mensch und Kunstfigur), Moholy-Nagy (Theater, Zirkus, Varieté), Molnár (U-Theater), and a survey of other designs by Marcel Breuer, Kurt Schmidt, and Alexander Schawinsky.

Paris, Editons Prisma, 1961. 28x24. 120 pp. 90 full-page photographs of nude women and details. Publisher's cloth-backed boards, dust jacket; the jacket lightly rumpled with small repaired tear.

London 1926. 28x22. XII+72+ II pp. + 55 plates with 68 photos (16 in colour) + printed guard-tissues to all plates. Publisher's cloth with gilt cover decoration, a very good copy. Edition was limited to 600 copies. Yuan 2145. A fine copy of the scarce, classic work on the history, techniques and types of Chinese lacquer work, with illustrations of objects in the Victoria and Albert Museum (where the author was Keeper of The Department of Woodwork) as well as from other British collections.

Leipzig, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1923. 28x20. VIII+450 pp. + 6 original prints (of seven): two woodcuts by Conrad Felixmüller and Karl Fredrik Gotsch; four lithographs by Heorg Schrimpf, Othon Coubine, Wilhelm Wagner, and Carl Mense. One lithograph by Archipenko is called for but not present in this copy. Ca 430 reproductions of works by Felixmüller, Schrimpf, Emil Nolde, Christian Rohlfs, Max Pechstein, Max Beckman, Franz Marc, Oskar Kokoschka, Lovis Corinth, Lyonel Feininger, Paula Modersohn, Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, George Braque, Maurice Utrillo, André Derain, Marie Laurencin, Alexander Archipenko, Marc Chagall, and others. A fine copy in publisher's printed half cloth binding.

Paris: André, Daly fils & Cie, (ca 1892). 40x30. II+28 pp. + 79 plates numbered I-LXXX including a folding plate numbered LXIV-LXV. Ca 75 perspective renderings and elevations (37 full-page) and 40 plans and sections. Loose as issued in pictorial cloth-backed boards, the original tie-strings neatly substituted with new ones. Some plates with minimal fraying of outermost edge, a fine set, from the library of the Swedish architect Rudol Enblom. An attractive documentation of edifices at the grand World's Fair held in Paris in 1889, including the grandiose national pavilions and other buildings. The twelve first plates present Charles Garnier's idiosyncratic and picturesque History of Habitation project, illustrating the history of human habitation with twenty houses designed as dwellings from prehictoric times and early civilizations through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to modern, as well as a general view of the entire ensemble.

München, Galerie van de Loo, 1976. 26x23. XXII+270 pp. including one folding leaf with original colour lithograph. Nearly 500 reproductions, 100 full-page including 42 in colour. Cloth-backed as issued in blank covers and jacket with colour lithograph by Jorn. Jacket spine and edges slightly rubbed, otherwise fine.

Berlin, Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, (1919). 43x33. Textbook comprising 24 pp. + 6 heliogravure plates; + 37 loose heliogravure plates (comprising five leaves eaves, each with one tipped-in colour plate, and 32 heliogravure plates with 51 photographs). 12 plans, elevations, etc. in the text. Textbook in printed wrappers kept together with the loose plates as issued in a beautiful marbled portfolio with printed front label and tie-strings. Light browning of the outermost margins of plates, otherwise an excellent copy. No. 105 of an edition limited to 300 copies. A rare, sumptuously produced documentation of the Paretz country palace built to design of David Gilly around 1800. The building and its interiors and furniture are shown on the photographs; the five colour plates are reproductions of colour renderings by the artist Wilhelm Blanke.

Budapest 1901. 56x44. II+12 pp. + 16 fine photogravure plates with eleven photographs, elevation, section, perspective, and two renderings of decorative ceiling (one coloured) + 4 plates with plans. Loose as issued in a gilt-lettered portfolio with tie-strings, covers slightly stained. (Magyar Mérnak- és Építész-Egylet Knyvkiado Vállalato. A Vállalat Ügyeinek Intézéré Válaszlott Bizottság Megbizás ábol Szerkeszti: Nëy Béla. III-ik Cyklus, I-sö Illetmény). A presentation of the Royal Hungarian Palace of Justice building built 1893-1896 to the design of Alajos Hauszmann. The photographs and the photogravure plates were prepared by the pioneering Hungarian photographer Károly Divald (1830-97) and/or his son Károly Divald Jr.

Wien 1931. 18x12. VIII+192 pp. Publisher's printed cloth (backstrip neatly repaired). First edition. Author's presentation copy inscribed Für Karin Ahlin dieses Buch als Symbol. Josef Frank. Despite the title focusing on architecture, the book constitutes an extended essay on what Frank viewed as the problems of contemporary design. At its core is an attack on the German functionalists who lacked the courage to rely on any human feeling. Citing the tubular steel chairs which he believed summed up the recent tendencies in design he writes that steel is not a material but an ideology and notes sarcastically that the new German feels he is under a moral obligation to sit uncomfortably, and does not want to know that any other type of chair exists. The God who made iron grow did not want wooden furniture.

Paris 1982. 27x21. LXVIII+272 pp. Ca 1340 reproductions (41 in colour including 23 full-page). Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket, a fine copy. The fully illustrated standard Catalogue Raisonné of Emile Bernard's paintings.

London, Heinemann, 1898. 34x19. 18 pp. + 12 plates with colour lithographs after Nicholson's original coloured woodcuts. Publisher's cloth-backed printed boards with a colour lithograph. An oval stamp (C. Roberson & Co. Artists' Colourmen, 154 Piccadilly) on title page. Contents of the book including the plates in fine condition, but there is some exterior foxing mainly to the cloth spine, minor wear to extremities of covers, one small stain to rear cover, and browning to free endpapers. List of the plates printed on reverse of title leaf: Guardsman, Hawker, Beef-eater, Sandwich-Man, Coster, Lady, Bluecoat Boy, Policeman, News-Boy, Drum-Major, Flower Girl, and Barmaid (all of which are faced by a printed quatorzain by Henley), and Bus Driver (on front board).