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(Paris), Éditions Art d'aujourd'hui, 1952. 22x20. 300 pp. including endpapers + 30 plates on thick card including 27 original colour pochoirs. Ca 170 reproductions and photos including 145 full-page, plus 34 portrait photos. Boards with original jacket printed in black and yellow. An excellent copy kept in a custom-made box with gilt-lettered spine. From the library of the Swedish art scholar and museum curator Folke Holmér, signed by him at top of title page. A survey of thirty-four protagonists of modern Abstract art, including conversations and statements by the artists, and exquisite original colour pochoir plates by Jean Arp / Edgar Pillet, André Bloc, Silvano Bozzolini, Sonia Delaunay, Jean Dewasne, Jean Deyrolle, César Domela, Jean Gorin, Auguste Herbin, André Lanskoy, Alberto Magnelli, Serge Poliakoff, Marie Raymond, Nicolas de Staël, Victor Vasarely, Fahrelnissa Zeid, and others. Introduction by Léon Degand.

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.

Berlin, Wasmuth, (1905). 25x22. IV+60 pp. 26 full-page photos and 15 pages of plans, elevations and sections. An attractive copy in later morocco-backed yellowbrown cloth, original wrappers bound in (these slightly wrinkled and discoloured with minor discreet repairs), first owner's name on title page. Secession-style lettering on front cloth cover, identical to the title lettering on front wrapper. An illustrated account of the Colour Gardens (Farbengärten) and adherent buildings and furnishing designed by Olbrich for the Gartenbauausstellung in Darmstadt 1905. The Secessionist architect's three octagonal gardens based upon the colours red, yellow and blue respectively, was the main attraction of the exhibition. When the exhibition was over, it was all obliterated.

Bari, Bonomi Gallery, 1978. 20x20. 100 pages, including 92 pages with 823 renderings. Printed wrappers with title Five Cubes on Twenty-five Squares. Inscribed by Sol Lewitt. Signed presentation copy of this artist book consisting of renderings of five cubes positioned in various patterns on a twenty-five square grid..

Tokyo, Mayuyama & Co., 1976. 32x26. IV+VIII+476; + VI+340 pp. Altogether 2151 photos including 28 in colour. Publisher's cloth, a fine set. Originally not for public sale, and very scarce. Magnificent documentation of objects possessed or sold by the company founded by Matsatutaro Mayuyama in 1906. Volume 1 covers Chinese, Korean and Japanese ceramics; volume 2 covers Asian sculpture, painting and woodblock prints, laquer work, metal work, textiles, glass ware, etc. with captions identifying each object and occasionally the museum where it has found its home. Titles, introduction and captions bilingual in Japanese and English.

Hong Kong 1974. 29x21. 252 pp. Ca 200 reproductions, 150 full-page including 41 in colour, plus 8 reproductions of calligraphy, and a full-page portrait photo. Publisher's gilt-lettered red boards, a fine copy with former owner's bookplate on insides of covers. Catalogue of paintings by Ch'i Pai-Shi (Qi Baishi, 1864-1957), bilingual in English and Chinese.

Stuttgart impressum cancelled with new label Kanter & Mohr, Berlin (ca 1900). 46x34. Title leaf + 4 pp. text to the plates + 40 plates with 214 photographs. Loose as issued in a printed half cloth portfolio (ties missing, front cover slightly worn and rear cover stained; interior fine). Zweite Auflage. A large-format photographic album of furniture at the Paris 1900 International Exhibition. Excellent comprehensive documentation of Art Nouveau furniture designed by Majorelle, Lambert, Bing, Bigaux, Guimard, Olbrich, Valabrega, Heal, Bindesbøll, Saarinen, Gallén, Boberg and others.

London 1823. 30x23. 4to. 8+36 pp. + 33 handsome aquatint plates with 22 perspectives and 30 plans. Contemporary quarter cloth. Second edition of a work first published in 1807. The epitome of the picturesque cottage book, containing plans and attractive perspective rendering of rural dwellings in current styles, from the labourer's cottage to the villa. Pocock (1779-1849) had a flourishing and varied architectural practice in England, Ireland and Canada.

Petrograd, Wolf, 1916. 30x23. XII+752 pp. + 36 pp. index and classified bibliography + 28 plates (facsimiles of engravings) + 4 leaves, each with one tipped-in colour plate. Ca 500 reproductions, photos and plans in the text. Original decorated cloth. A massive work on the history, theory and practice of garden and park design, written by a versatile Saint Petersburg scientist and scholar, a member of the Russian Physics and Chemistry Society from 1901, and from 1922 Chairman of the Department of Physics and Chemistry at the Petrograd Technological Institute. Being close to the Mir Iskusstva circle, he had also studied history of art and architecture, and after the October Revolution he worked at the Agency for the Protection of Monuments of Art and Antiquity, and was appointed commissar and head of the Department of Gardens and Parks. From 1920 he served as a professor at the Petrograd Institute of Art History while successfully pursuing his career as a chemistry scientist.

Moskva 1950. 29x22. 276 pp. including 216 pages with 227 photos and elaborate scale drawings + 2 colour plates + erratum slip. Publisher's printed cloth-backed boards. A standard reference work on Russian 18th-19th century chandeliers, sconces etc.

Paris & Ermonville 1788. 21x14. 68 pp. + 25 exquisite acquatint plates + one folding leaf with engraved music (Chanson du Berger de la Grotte verte) on green paper. A fine copy in a nineteenth century quarter leather binding. First edition of the description of the famous Ermenonville garden created by the Marquis de Girardin between 1769 and 1778, written by his son. A tour through one of the earliest French picturesque gardens, beautifully illustrated with aquatints including a view of the island where Girardin's friend Jean Jaques Rousseau was entombed -the park was largely designed around ideas suggested by Rousseau's Nouvelle Héloise.

Paris, Caractères, 1955. 32x24. IV+48 pp. including 7 leaves being original etchings by Villon. Unbound as issued in printed wrappers over initial and last pairs of blank leaves. No. 95 of 111 copies only; signed by Jacques Villon and Tristan Tzara. A rare poetry-art collaboration between the Dada Doyen and the painter, printmaker and innovator in the cubist movement who was the elder brother of Marcel Duchamp and Raymond Duchamp-Villon. Born Gaston Emile Duchamp, he adopted the name Jaques Villon in order to to distinguish himself from his siblings.

Stuttgart, Wittwer, (1889-91). 50x35. 4 pp. (title and list of plates) + 100 coloured plates. Publisher's printed half cloth portfolio with tie-strings. Light external wear, contents very fine. A very attractive collection of colour renderings - mainly exterior perspectives, many with plans, of recently executed villas and urban residential buildings, but also including interior renderings and details. The majority are built in German-speaking countries but there are examples from Paris, London and even Japan (by a Swiss architect).

(Vallauris), Madoura, 1988. 29x24. 320 pp. 645 photos, 570 in colour including 54 full-page. Publisher's cloth dust jacket. Former owner's discreet signature on front endpaper, jacket backstrip sunned, otherwise very fine.

Leipzig, Breitkopf, 1789. 34x22. VI+66 pp. + 40 engraved plates with more than 360 numbered drawings. Dritte Auflage. Mit neuen Zusätzen und Kupfern vermehrt. A fine, clean copy neatly bound in later marbled boards, spine label with title printed in German blackletter type. Scarce work on wooden construction techniques. Third edition, extended with a section on new bridges constructed in Saxony (eight pages including separate title leaf, and four new plates): Flöha-Brücke bei Flöha; die Elbe-Brücken von Wittenberg und Meissen; die Saale-Brücke von Weissenfels. Reuss has an interesting Swedish connection as the construction of the Stage Machinery at the Drottningholm Palace Theatre most likely was based upon Reuss's drawings.

Paris 1937. 23x29. 148 pp. Several hundred photos, drawings and plans - some coloured - incorporated in the text. Publisher's printed cloth-backed boards with photo montage on front cover. A good copy with minor external age toning, corner tips of boards lightly scuffed and minor rubbing at extremities. Le Corbusier's typographically most advanced publication, issued to coincide with his Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux at the 1937 Paris World Fair. Text and illustrations brilliantly composed into a vivid propaganda work on behalf of modern architecture, and an antiwar plea arguing for the employment of new technology and investments in modern housing and urban design rather than armament.

Recklinghausen, Aurel Bongers, 1977. 23x25. 18 leaves with text, nine full-page reproductions of compositions in black, grey and white, and two photos + nine double-folded thick paper leaves, each with one colour silkscreen plate. A very good copy in publisher's printed white boards. The nine silkscreen plates are reproductions of works from Albers's Homage to the Square series: Study to Homage to the Square - R-I d-5, 1969 / Homage to the Square - R-III a-4, 1968 / Study to Homage to the Square - blue + darkgreen with 2 reds, 1955 / Homage to the Square - Protected Blue, 1957 / Homage to the Square - Renewed Hope, 1962 / Homage to the Square - Grisaille and Patina, 1965 / Study to Homage to the Square - La Tehuana, 1951 - 1956 / Study to Homage to the Square - Yes Sir, 1955 / Homage to the Square - Selected, 1959. The other reproductions are from Albers's 'Transformation eines Schemas'. Introductory studies by Jürgen Wissman ('Homages to the square als Wechselwirkung der Farbe'; 'Strukturale Konstellationen als Mehrdeutigkeit der Linie'); poems and statements by Albers, biographical chronology, and catalogue of the reproduced works.

Stuttgart, Wittwer, (1895-98). 50x35. 4 pp + 100 coloured plates. Loose as issued in a printed half cloth portfolio. Lacks one of the plates (no. 80). A very attractive collection of coloured exterior perspectives, many supplied with with plans, interior renderings and details, of modern villas and residential buildings. Mainly by German architects, including eleven buildings designed by Lambert & Stahl, but there are also some examples from Italy, France, and England.

S.-Peterburg, Tipografiya Ministerstva Vnutrennikh Diel, 1903. 30x29. VI pp. with title, list of contents, and competition program + 32 leaves, the first with introduction by Karpovich, the following 31 with drawings, plans and photographs (including several printed in monochrome shades of mauve, brown, or bluish grey) + three section-title leaves with woodcut illustrations, on tissue paper. The illustrations comprise ca 28 perspective renderings and elevations (nine full-page), 20 sections and details, 27 plans, and five photos of actual house including three full-page. A well-preserved copy of a rare publication, in a later half grey cloth binding, with minor unobtrusive internal flaws. Mostly award-winning contributions to an architectural wooden house competition, by students or alumni of the Imperial Academy of Arts. An intriguing collection of large elaborately designed villas reflecting the Russian turn-of-the century currents, including designs designated Russian style, Neo-Russian style, Carpathian style, Swiss style, and Norwegian style.

Firenze, Giuseppe Feroni, 1876. 56x41. VIII+48+6 pp. + 181 plates including five coloured. Contemporary half vellum; a very good copy with small repaired rupture at bottom of spine, the vellum mildly grubby; a few plates evenly browned, some minor occasional foxing. One text leaf missing unless 39/40 was excluded in pagination. A comprehensive collection of elevations, sections, plans and detail drawings displaying the best old and modern edifices of Florence, with emphasis on Renaissance architecture. In 1865 Florence had been designated capital of the unified Kingdom of Italy, and extensive redevelopments were made in an effort to modernise the city. According to the preface, one purpose of the publication was to serve as an inspiration for architects designing new public and private buildings in the city.