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New York, Leo Castelli / Eminent Publications, 1971. 16x11. 40 leaves including first and two last blank leaves. Printed card covers, metal spiral spine, a very fine copy. Edition limited to 1000 copies. A conceptual art book in which Weiner employs minimalist typography in applying the concepts Affected and Effected to five 'and/or' pairs of impacts or conditions: Pressure/Pull, Heat/ Cold, Explosion/Implosion, Corrosion/Vacuum, and Noise/Silence.

Stockholm 1948. 31x23. XVI+148 pp. + 110 plates (24 coloured and 86 heliogravure plates) with ca 470 photographs. 332 drawings in the text. Publisher's cloth. Yuan 1615. When Gustaf Adolf ascended the throne shortly before his 68th birthday in 1950, much of his life as Crown Prince had been devoted to the assembling of an important collection of ancient Chinese pottery and other art objects.

Ulricehamn, Ulricehamns Konst- o Östasiatiska Museum, 1999. 30x25. 216 pp. Ca 290 colour photos and 24 pattern drawings. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. Ulricehamn Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities catalogue, with introduction by Rosemary E. Scott who, along with Bo Gyllensvärd, was responsible for the assessment of objects. The important Carl Kempe collection was sold to an anonymous buyer after the museum was dismantled and closed in 2008.

Milano, Skira, 2004. 28x24. 232 pp. Ca 320 colour photos (35 full-page) and mnumerous drawings and plans. Publisher's boards, dust jacket. Includes introduction by Álvaro Siza and a brief conversation with him.

(Stockholm, Moderna Museet and the artist) / printed in Malmö, (1971). 18x18. 50 card leaves, with reproductions of coloured drawings and handwritten text. Leporello-folded in pictorial covers. Faint shadow of removed price-tag in bottom corner of rear cover, otherwise a very good copy. An intense, and eventually melancholy, love story told by Niki de Saint Phalle with her idiosyncratic and occasionally "psychedelic" drawings.

Basel / Boston / Berlin 1995. 29x21. 30 pp. introductory texts + 144 pp. Ca 225 photos, plans and drawings including 24 full-page (plus 36 photos in the introductory texts) Publisher's boards, lightly chipped dust jacket. Scarce English-language edition of Wachsmann's 'Holzhausbau' (1930) with introductory texts by Christa & Michael Grüning and Christan Sumi.

Milano 1936. 22x20. 416 pp. Ca 440 photos (60 full-page) and 200 plans and drawings. Publisher's printed cloth. A fine copy of a scarce book, with very little wear to head and foot of spine, neat signature of former owner dated -42 on front endpaper. (Quaderni della Triennale). A survey of modern Italian architecture published in conjunction with the sixth Triennalo in Milano. Excellent documentation of the protagonists of Italian Modernist and Rationalist architecture including Ponti, Albini, Nervi, Terragni, Baldessari, Pagano, Michelucci, Magistretti, Gardella, Moretti, Sartoris, Figini & Gino Pollini, Mucchi, Vaccero, Adalberto Libera, Piero Bottoni, Piero Portaluppi, Vito Latis, Ettore Sottsass Sr, etc.

Paris, Comité français des expositions à l'´étranger, (1912 or -13). 28x19. XII+CCLXXIV+188 pp. + 20 photo plates + coloured diploma plate + folding exhibition plan. Ca 110 photos in the text, plus 103 photos of exhibition medals and plaquettes in the extensive introduction. Contemporary half calf, gilt decoration to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, printed wrappers and backstrip bound in. Some external wear and rubbing to the boards, otherwise fine.

Berlin, Wasmuth, 1908-11. 32x22. XVI+220; + VIII+240; + VIII+240 pp. + 26 pp. index. 762 photos, drawings and plans. Publisher's decorated, gilt-lettered quarter cloth. A very good set with very light external wear. Second, revised edition of the first real history - in any language - of English domestic architecture in the latter half of the 19th century (first published 1904-5). Muthesius was stationed as an architect at the German embassy in London from 1896 to 1903 to study English housing and architecture. He returned full of enthusiasm for the current movement and praised architects such as Norman Shaw, Webb, Baillie Scott, Voysey and Mackintosh at a time that many in Britain did not. The influence of this lavishly illustrated three-volume work can hardly be exaggerated. Muthesius himself sought to promote the qualities of English design in his own work and as a founder of the German Werkbund.

Zürich 1985. 560 pp. + errata slip. Ca 660 reproductions and photos, 140 in colour including 27 full-page. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, a very fine copy. The standard monograph on the first French disciple of Mondrian, including illustrated Catalogue Raisonné of paintings, reliefs, constructions, and architectural drawings. Trilingual text in French, English and German.

München 1893. 35x28. IV+84 pp. + 50 plates (including frontispiece portrait). Ca 60 reproductions in the text including 22 full-page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt title design on front cover, and endpapers with gilt ornamental designs. An attractive copy handsomely rebacked with black leather spine; very light trace of damp in upper margin corner of the frontispiece, binding slightly weakened. Major monograph on the co-founder of the Munich Secession, published thirteen years before he was ennobled Franz Ritter von Stuck.

Paris, Librairie d'Art, 1924. 28x22. II+XIV+128; + VI+120 pp. + a total of 200 plates (100 in each volume) with ca 215 photographs. A fine set in two contemporary quarter black leather volumes, gilt spines with four raised bands, top edges gilt and the other edges untrimmed; marbled endpapers; printed wrappers preserved. No. 953 of an edition limited to 1010 copies.

Stockholm, NordIska Museets förlag, 1925-26. 28x19. 60+VIII s. text + 248 s. med foton + rättelselapp; + IV+LXIV+XIV s. text + 266 s. med foton. Vackra bruna hfrbd i utmärkt fint skick, ryggar med upphöjda bind, övre guldsnitt, samtliga originalomslag medbundna (ett av dem med liten reparation på baksidan).

New York, Seth Siegelaub, 1968. 20x20. 20 pp. including 15 pages with illustrations of the projects. Pictorial wrappers, lightly edgeworn. An artist book published in conjunction with a legendary conceptual art exhibition at which the contents of the book itself was the exhibit. The projects presented in the book include the exchange of postal receipts across fourteen locations along the 42º parallel of the United States; extensive site sculpture projects for New York City, Portland, and Schenecteday-Albany; "Duration Pieces" #1, #2 and #4 (including a suite of photographs taken at 2 minute intervals); a scheme for a "snow melting sculpture", etc.

Wien: Graeser / Leipzig: Teubner, 1909. 22x14. VIII+216 pp. + 4 photo plates including frontispiece. 114 plans, drawings and photos in the text. Publisher's gilt-lettered decorated bluegrey cloth, very light wear to head and foot of spine and extreme cover tips. Two names on front free endpaper: one dated -09, and Göran Sidenbladh's dated -43. Some pencil markings and margin notes by Sidenbladh. The fourth, revised, extended and definitive edition of Sitte's famous work on town building. This is the copy Göran Sidenbladh used when he made the Swedish translation, which was published with his commentaries in 1982. As Director of City Planning for Stockholm from 1953 through the 60s and early 70s, Sidenbladh was instrumental in the obliteration of the old city centre district (Nedre Norrmalm) and the planning of the suburbs Skärholmen, Spånga, Rinkeby, Tensta, etc.

Leipzig, Verlag der Weissen Bücher, 1915. 25x19. II+XXX pp. text + 112 pp. with 116 photos. Publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards. Exterior very lightly worn, contents excellent, a very good copy. First edition of this publication credited as being one of the first important books acknowledging African art in Europe, as well as an influence on the modern Cubist art promoted by Carl Einstein.

Paris 1999. 24x16. Each volume comprises 960 pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered burgundy cloth, as new. Nouvelle édition entièrement refondue sous la direction de Jacques Busse.

Andra Samlingen om Jämtland. Westerås, Joh. L. Horrn 1775. Graverad titel. (14), 272, 33, (3) sidor + karta. Senare halvfranskt band. Mycket fint ex.

Københavns Snedkerlaugs Møbeludstillinger 1927-1966. Illustrerad. Kbhvn 1987. 363 sidor. 4:o. Original linneband. Skyddsomslag

Mit 4 Kupfern und 1 Karte. (Together with:) Paul Sumarokoffs Reise durch die Krimm und Vessarabien im Jahre 1799. Aus dem Russischen von Joh. Richter. Mit 1 Karte. Berlin und Hamburg 1802. (4),378,(2) pages + 4 plates and 2 maps. Slightly worn half leather. Interior fine. Bibliothek der neuesten und interessantesten Reisebeschreibungen. Eilfter Band.

Nordisk Rotogravyr, Stockholm 1965. First edition. 32 pp. with photographs + 4 cardboard leaves with text and colophon. Pictorial wrapper. Fine condition.

Librarie des Amateurs A. Ferroud. - F. Ferroud, Paris 1922. 61, (2) pp. + 69 plates. Illustrations in colouer and black and white. 18,7x14 cm. Printed soft cover. Edition of 1500. No. 1-50 printed on Japon Impérial wirh "quatre états dont un état en noir et une aquarelle originale de l'illustrateur". This is copy nr. 8. Spine professionaly repaired.

Hamish Hamilton, London [193-]. xii, 483 pp. Publisher's cloth. Somewhat worn. Illustrated.