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Stockholm, Gummesons Konsthandel, 1916. 16x12. 32 pp. Original printed wrappers with an original two-colour lithograph by Kandinsky (Roethel 159). A good copy with some very weak external stains and a faint crease mark on rear cover. First edition of Kandinsky's manifesto On the Artist. During Kandinsky's stay in Stockholm in 1916, the text was translated into Swedish and published by the Gummeson art gallery that arranged the first Swedish Kandinsky exhibition that year, with a lithographed cover made by Kandinsky for the occasion, and a printed dedication to Gabriele Münter.

Paris, Charles Moreau, (1929). 33x25. 8 pp. including introduction by Jourdain and list of plates + 48 photogravure plates with 57 photographs and 7 pochoir-coloured perspective renderings. Loose as issued in printed cloth-backed boards with tie-strings. Spine lightly worn, foxing to front cover, insignificant stains to title leaf; minor foxing to extreme edges of a few plates. (L'Art international d'aujourd'hui, 6). An attractive portfolio displaying modern interior design and furniture by Jourdain, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Pierre Chareau, Le Corbusier & Charlotte Perriand, Gabriel Guévrekian, René Herbst, Jan Wils, Schröder & Rietveld, and a few others.

London, Ernst Benn, 1925. 28x21. XXX+156+II pp. + 81 plates (31 in colour, nine of which are folding) with a total of ca 118 photos including 58 in colour; printed guard-tissues to all plates. No. 87 of 250 numbered copies signed by the author, printed on hand-made paper, and provided with five extra colour plates. Publisher's full brown pigskin binding, top edge gilt, other edges uncut; some textfolds unopened. A very good copy with light wear to spine, and some mild foxing in margins of text leaves.

Stuttgart, Wittwer (1894). 50x35. Title leaf + 60 coloured lithographed plates. Loose as issued in a printed half leather portfolio (stain on cover, contents very fine). An attractive collection of chromolithographed designs for brick buildings by Bethke comprising fifteen large residential buildings (four with shop premises) and twelve private houses illustrated in 27 elevations, 100 detail drawings and 54 plans.

Stuttgart, Engelhorn, 1885-93. 39x28. Each volume contains IV+24 pp. and there is a total of 825 plates (including 41 folding) with elevations, perspectives, plans, detail drawings, and a few photographs. More than 300 additional plans and drawings in the text. Nine contemporary uniform half leather bindings with large printed lettering ARCHIT. RUNDSCHAU. on front linen cloth covers. Lacks plate no. 66 in volume 4. Some wear to spine ends and corners and minor external stains, margins of title leaves darkened, otherwise fine.. The first nine volumes of this monthly documentation of contemporary architecture, with emphasis on German-speaking countries but including examples from other European countries and the USA. Architects include Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Emil Bressler, Jules Brunfaut, Joseph Cades, Thomas Edward Collcutt, Edouard Corroyer, Curjel & Moser, Marcel Deslignières, Heinrich von Ferstel, William Flockhart, Charles Garnier, Felix Genzmer, Karl Gerster, Isaac Gosschalk, Axel Guldahl, Franz Habich, August Hartel, Carl von Hasenauer, Karl Henrici, Otto Hieser, Hermann von der Hude, József Kauser, Eduard Kreyssig, Willem Kromhout, Lambert & Stahl, Hugo Licht, Max Läuger, Otto March, Julius Martinet, Wilhelm Manchot, Skjøld Neckelmann, Friedrich Ohmann, Johannes Otzen, Zsigmond Quittner, Simon Ravenstein, Gustave Rives, Leonhard Romeis, Arwed Rossbach, Bruno Schmitz, Paul Sédille, Gabriel Seidl, Paul Stegmüller, Friedrich von Thiersch & Martin Dülfer, William Flockhart, Jan Verheul, Thomas Verity, Johannes Vollmer, Paul Wallot, Alfred Waterhouse, Alexander Wielemans, etc.

Plauen, Stoll, (1907-09). 48x32. IV; + IV; + VI; + II pp. + a total of 86 plates with ca 110 colour illustrations, cromolithographs in volumes I-II, colour collotypes in volumes III-IV (the plates in volume III are tipped-in on grey stock). Fourteen of the colour renderings are supplied with an inserted black and white photo of the entire carpet or garment. In addition to the title leaves, series I-III include introductory text and descriptive lists of plates. Loose as issued, series I-III in publisher's printed half cloth portfolios with tie-strings, series IV in contemporary cloth-backed boards. A rare, complete set of these documentations of Oriental carpets and other fabrics. Enay / Azadi 12.

(Stockholm) 1965. 20x15. 32 pp. with photographs + 4 cardboard leaves with text and colophon. Pictorial wrappers. Presentation copy inscribed on front wrapper by Christer Strömholm to Per-Arne Ehlin, a former pupil of Strömholm at the School of Photography (Fotoskolan) run by him 1962-67. (Foto Expo Bok, 5). First edition of Strömholms first photo book, which includes a conversation on Strömholm by Peter Weiss et al. 'Till minnet av mig själv' (In memory of myself) was deemed one of the 175 best photo books ever by an international jury in 2004, as was his second, more substantive book 'Poste Restante'.

Stockholm, Chelius, 1897. 37x28. 12 pp. + 15 plates with 25 photographs including eight full-page. Publisher's printed boards, a fine copy with minor external discolouring and edge wear. Edition limited to 300 copies. (Sammlung F.R. Martin). A rare documentation of 11th-18th fabrics from Egypt, Persia, Anatolia, and Constantinople.

Paris, Firmin-Didot, (1885-87). 40x28. IV+IV+64 pp. + 100 lithographed colour plates, each with one text leaf + 4 pp. with tables of contents. Ca 100 illustrations in the text. Publisher's red richly decorated leather-backed cloth, all edges gilt. The last three text leaves with faint trace of damp in upper outer corner, otherwise a fine copy. Second edition.

London, Benn, 1923. 28x22. XVI+240+IV pp. text + 59 plates (each with one printed guard-leaf) with ca 125 photos, 11 in colour. Publisher's cloth. Rear hinge slightly weakened, otherwise a fine copy. No. 592 of 1500 copies printed on rag paper (from a total edition of 2283 copies). Arntzen/Rainwater P367. Yuan 1688. The scarce, attractive first edition of this classic work on Ming wares by a renowned scholar of Oriental ceramics.

Tokio: Imprimerie de Tsoukidji-Tokio, S. Magata, 1894. 25x18. 50; + 50 pp. printed Japanese-style on double-folded leaves. Includes 28 pages with 14 double-page colour woodblock illustrations, and drawings and vignettes on text pages. Sewn with visible string in pictorial wrappers; kept in a neat cloth box. A nice set with some minor external wear and darkening, and weak stain to rear wrapper of first volume. La Fontaine's Fables illustrated by a number of Japanese artists, identified in indices of the illustrations. French text, with Japanese colophon on inside of rear wrappers.

Milano, Muggiani, 1956. 24x17. Publisher's black boards with title and image in blue and (the cat's eyes) yellow. An excellent copy of the first edition, inscribed by Munari July 9, 1957, to the photographer Kary Lasch. A remarkable publication by the innovative Italian artist and designer at his most hilarious. The book consists of: 12 black leaves (including free endpapers), eight with a die-cut hole and one with 16 ditto; twelve translucent leaves (including four smaller slips), and eight grey leaves including seven with large irregular holes. Text and images throughout in black, blue, green and red, plus, tipped-in, a black treasure chest foldout printed in gold, and a small yellow paper slip; on the inside of rear cover there are two tipped in foldouts, one with text on Munari and one with his homage to the book's printer-typographer Giuseppe Muggiani.

Berlin, Wasmuth, 1891. 46x32. X+88; + IV; + IV; + IV pp. + a total of 300 plates. An extraordinarily fine set in publisher's four gilt-lettered half black leather bindings, top edges gilt. A complete, attractive ensemble of this massive photographic survey of German Renaissance architecture.

Paris, L'Internationale Situationiste, 1958. 28x22. 140 pp. Ca 30 reproductions and photos, plus small drawings in the text, and a double-page psychogeographic town plan by Debord printed in black and red. Printed wrappers designed by Jorn. Presentation copy with a large signed inscription by Jorn. Edition limited to 750 copies. A collection of texts written between 1954 and 1957, according to the author's introduction constituting a chronicle of an experimental approach the development of which corresponds to the historical transition between the activity organised around the magazine Cobra (1948-1951) and the present positions of the Situationist International. Illustrated with works by Jorn as well as Alechinsky, Wols, Corneille, Dubuffet, Michaux, Pollock, etc.

Vicenza, Giovanni Rossi, 1797. 4to. 24x17. 56 pp. + 25 engraved plates, 16 of which are folding. A fine, clean copy in contemporary boards, lacks front endpaper. Palladio's elevations, sections, plans and detail drawings of the Roman Thermae, copied from the plates published by Richard Boyle, Third Earl of Burlington, and engraved by Carlo Barrera. Palladio was greatly impressed by the ancient Roman bath establishements, and studied them carefully, making accurate measured plans and drawings. Their domed ceilings and their lighting proved useful lessons that would be applied in due course in the design of his Venetian churches. First published in Vicenza by Francis Modena in 1785; this second Italian edition is considered as the fifth volume of ''Le fabbriche e i disegni di Andrea Palladio'' edited by the architect Bertotti Scamozzi, the doyen of the Italian Palladian revival in the 18th century.

(Vallauris), Madoura, 1988. 29x24. 320 pp. 645 photos, 570 in colour including 54 full-page. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket.

Geneve, Salle Simon I. Patino / Centre d'art contomporain (sic), 1976. 15x15. 53 leaves, including 50 with drawings. Printed wrappers, very fine. Inscribed by Sol Lewitt. Signed presentation copy of this artist book composed of a series of various configurations of uniform squares within the limitations of a presupposed grid.

Paris, Massin, (ca 1925). 45x32. 16 pp. + 100 plates; 10 pp. + 200 plates; IV+4 pp. + 100 plates. Loose as issued in three uniform, red gilt-lettered cloth portfolios, neatly repaired. The second volume lacks text pages 5-6, this gap falls between the title leaves and a complete list of the plates, presumably the missing leaf may be some kind of preface. In the third volume (Moyen Age et Renaissance) there is light foxing to text leaves and first plate and some even lighter occasional foxing; otherwise the plates are in excellent condition. A rare, fine set of the remarkable corpus of plates with renderings of architectural ornaments and fragments from Antiquity to Renaissance, produced under the auspices of Marie Désiré Hector Jean-Baptiste d'Espouy, the architect, painter and Professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. The photo-aquatint plates were first published in installments around 1900 by by Charles Schmid - Librairie Générale de l'Architecture et des Arts Décoratifs. Although it has been a matter of dispute whether the plates of Massin's 1920s editions are reprints or origin from the original stock of plates, the 200 plates depicting antique architecture are excellent photo-aquatints, particularly those in the first volume of unsurpassable quality, while the 100 plates in the third volume are very fine albeit not of the extraordinary brilliance of the former.