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København 1900-20. 36x27. Each volume contains one title leaf and one leaf with list of contents. There is a total of 305 plates (15 folding) with more than 570 measured elevations, sections, plans, and drawings of building details, doors, gates, windows, mountings, etc., and volume 5 also contains 32 leaves with ca 80 photographs and text. Contemporary uniform half cloth bindings (Anker Kyster), volumes 1-4 slightly grubby, contents of all volumes in fine condition. A complete set of these measured drawings and photos of old Danish buildings published by the Association of December the Third 1892, which took its name from the day that the association was formed with the purpose to promote the documentation and preservation of old Danish architecture.

(Amsterdam 1949). 30x24. 28 pp. including pictorial wrappers (with photo montages by the Danish film-script writer Jørgen Ross and artist Wilhelm Freddie) + two mauve paper leaves with drawings by five-year-old Warner. Ca 30 other reproductions and photos including work by Constant, Corneille, Appel, Alechinsky, Wolvenkamp, Asger Jorn, Eiler Bille, Egill Jacobsen, Carl Henning Pedersen, C.O. Hultén, and Shinkichi Tajiri. The fourth issue of the Cobra review was edited by the Dutch Experimental Group that constituted the letter A (for Amsterdam) of the name Cobra - hence it was realised in great part by Corneille who had taken over from Constant as secretary of the group, although the issue opens with a manifesto by Constant (C'et notre désir qui fait la révolution). Other text contributions by i.a. Corneille, Dotremont, Edouard Jaeger, Bert Schierbeek, and Marcel Havrenne, and the issue is illustrated with children's pictures mixed up with reproductions of works by artists participating in the November 1949 Exhibition of International Experimental Art at Stedelijk, with slogans by Corneille appearing throughout.

München 1958. 29x21. One-leaf rose-pink paper flyer with text on front page only. Very fine, with weak trace of having been folded once. The first manifesto of the German section of the Situationist International, dated München, 1. Januar 1958, with the printed signatures of Asger Jorn and Hans Platschek. Das is des letzte Gefecht! 1957/58 ist die grösste Jahrhundertswende aller Völker und Zeiten. Es ist errreicht. Der neue Mensch ist da! ... Kunst ist Aktion. Kunst ist Tod. Die Kunst ist tot. Also ist töten Kunst. Kunst ist Töten. etc.

Paris 1948. 16x12. 24 pp. including four blank leaves. 7 full-page reproductions, and texts by Wols, Picabia, Mathieu, Tapié, and Bryen. Printed wrappers. A fine copy of a rare publication. The booklet published to accompany the historic group manifesto exhibition held in April, 1948 at Galerie Colette Allendy, a follow-up of the breakthrough of the Abstraction-Lyrique movement at the 1947 L'Imaginaire exhibition. The title of the exhibition and publication refers to names of the participating artists: Hans Hartung, Wols, Francis Picabia, François Stahly, Georges Mathieu, Michel Tapié, and Camille Bryen.

Paris, Morancé, 1924. 26x22. IV+20; + IV+21-36 pp. + 47 plates (numbered 1-50 including three folding plates with double numbering). There are 34 plates with drawings, plans, perspective renderings (one full-page coloured) and maps, and 13 plates with photographs. Eight additional drawings in the text. A very fine set, loose as issued in two printed paper covers. A documentation of works J.J.P Oud (four projects), Robert Mallet-Stevens (two projects), Auguste & Gustave Perret, Cornelis van Eesteren & Theo Van Doesburg, Eugène Freyssinet, Tony Garnier, Jacques Greber, etc. Text by Jean Badovici and others.

Roma, Agapito Franzetti, (early 19th century) . 26x40. Engraved title leaf + 40 engraved plates with captions in Italian and French. Contemporary half leather, slightly worn, 19th-century owner's stamp inside front cover. Two plates foxed (Basilica di Paolo / Interior of), some scattered foxing to margins of other plates, last plates with corner repair and weak stain well outside of the plate. A album of engraved views of edifices in Rome and its vicinities, including the Colosseum, Piazza del Popolo, Pantheon, Fontana di Trevi, Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Hadrian's Mausoleum (Castel Sant'Angelo), the Milvian Bridge (Ponte Mollo), Basilica della Madonna della Neve, the Tomb of Caecilia Metella, the Temples of Minerva Medica and Vesta, the Archs of Titus and Septimius Severus, etc.