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Uddevalla, Svenska gods och gårdar, 1940. 26x20. 608 s. Ca 2120 foton. Förlagets halvskinnband.

(København) 1995. 29x29. 384; + 385-708 pp. More than 700 reproductions and photos, the majority (ca 600) in colour. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jackets, in a slipcase. A beautifully produced two-volume monograph on the important Danish Neoclassicist architect, with a wealth of extraordinarily fine colour reproductions of Hansen's original designs and denderings.

New York, Abrams, 1975. 27x29. II+206 pp. (including four pages on one folding leaf) + 7 tipped-in colour plates. 217 reproductions and photos, 53 in colour, 46 of which are full- or double-page including the tipped-in plates. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, a fine copy. Signed by Sonia Delaunay on first, blank page.

Rennes, Aussant, 1990. 29x23. 64 pp. Reproductions of Sanfourche's handwritten text and drawings, including twelve full-page coloured drawings. Five-page introduction by Jean-Louis Lanoux. Publisher's printed cloth with front plate. No. 52 of 360 numbered copies; inscribed by Sanfourche on front free endpaper.

Torino, Sperrone, 1970. 17x11. 53 leaves including printed free endpapers. Printed white jacket over cloth-backed boards. One of the earliest conceptual art books by Weiner, giving a word in Italian in the top part of the page with a translation of the word in English in the bottom part, in upper-case letters.

Leipzig, Kurt Wolff, 1916. 29x23. 64 pp. + tissue-garded frontispiece portrait after a lithograph by Oskar Kokoschka. Publisher's half black leather with red gilt-lettered cloth boards, top edge gilt, very fine. No. 201 of 300 numbered copies. First edition of this early book by the Viennese Expressionist poet (1886-1950) who first published his works in Karl Kraus's 'Die Fackel' and Herwart Walden's 'Der Sturm'. His first book 'Tubutsch" was illustrated by Ehrenstein's close friend Oskar Kokoschka; the present work is adorned only with the frontispiece portrait from a lithograph by Kokoschka.

Moskva 1955. 34x26. 20 pp. + 44 plates (three coloured) with ca 45 measured elevations, sections, detail drawings of doors, ceilings, decorations, columns, etc. and 36 photos. Text and loose plates as issued in a printed cardboard porfolio with title "ARKHITEKTOR M.F. KAZAKOV. ZOLOTYE KOMPATY ...". (Pamyatniki Russkoi arkhitektury. Obmery i issledovaniya). A survey of the house designed by the Neoclassicist architect Matvey Kazakov (1738-1812) for the Demidov family in Moscow, including interior details, furniture, etc.

(Paris) 1969. 31x24. 132 pp. + one folding original lithograph made by Chagall for this publication. Ca 160 reproductions and photos (24 full-page in colour). Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket; book-plate on inside of front cover. Ever so tiny scuffing of outer bottom corners, otherwise very fine. (XXe Siècle, Numero Spécial). Texts by Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Mircea Eliade, Dora Vallier, Manuel Gasser, Gilbert Lascault, André Verdet, Jacques Thirion, Denis Milhau, and others.

London 1963. 24x21. 272 pp. Ca 210 reproductions and photos (several with superimposed geometrical analysis) and 80 drawings and diagrams. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, a fine copy. Bouleau's renowned, seminal study translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin. Preface by Jacques Villon.

Berlin & Leipzig 1928. 27x20. IV+232 pp. + 5 charts with med 80 mounted paint samples. Publisher's printed cloth-backed boards. Former owner's name on front cover.

London, Benn, 1923. 28x22. XII+198 pp. + 3 colour plates (one folding); + XIV pp. + 202 plates (16 in colour) comprising 190 plates with ca 225 photos and 12 plates with some 200 drawings of motives + one plate with two maps. Printed guard-tissues to all plates. A fine set in publisher's cloth with gilt cover designs. No. 568 of an edition limited to 1000 numbered sets.

Leningrad 1962. 34x25. 176 pp. + 2 photo plates + 8 colour plates (4 folding, 4 tipped-in). Ca 120 photos and reproductions of old renderings and plans plus 20 line drawings & plans. Publisher's pictorial, gilt-lettered cloth. A monograph on the Ostrovsky / Lomonosov Square complex created by Carlo Rossi in Saint Petersburg.

Guatemala (City), University of San Carlos of Guatemala, 1968. 31x23. XXIV+480 pp. + 10 coloured plates. Ca 850 photos and 120 plans and drawings. Publisher's printed cloth. All text and captions bilingual in English and Spanish.

New York, Near Eastern Art Research Center, 1965. 31x24. 388 pp. including 64 pages on 16 folding leaves. 152 photos, ca 110 full-page; 123 in colour including 86 full-page and (on the foldouts) eight four-page. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket, former owner's bookplate inside front cover. Dust jacket preserved but worn and frayed, otherwise a very good copy.

Kingston, Rhode Island 1928. 25x19. XII+52 pp. (last leaf blank) + 10 photo plates. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth-backed boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, the other edges untrimmed. Scarce first edition of this study on five Rhode Island silversmiths in the second half of the 18th century; printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, Boston.

Stuttgart 1928. 29x21. II+48 pp. with text, 26 photos, and 18 plans and drawings + 2 folding plates with plans and elevations. Scarce variant with Pierre Jeanneret's name misspelled JEANNARET on front wrapper. Pictorial wrappers, a very good copy with some minor age wear and scuffing. A detailed account of the houses designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin at the Weissenhof Exhibition 1927, including Le Corbusier's own text (Fünf Punkte ...) also printed in the Weissenhof publication 'Bau und Wohnung'.

London, George Bell & Sons, 1900. 24x16. XVI+284 pp. Drawings, designs and photos throughout the text. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and design by Crane, top edge gilt, a very nice copy. English gift inscription dated 1900, and the signature of the Swedish art and design critic August Brunius. First edition of this classic work on ornament and design by the prominent Victorian book artist and illustrator.

Firenze, Giunti Barbera, 1985. 30x25. VI+8+VI+9-536 pp. including two folding coloured town-plans + four-page insert; + 537-896 pp. Altogether ca 715 photos, reproductions, plans and drawings including 80 in colour, plus 163 colour reproductions of coats-of-arms. Publisher's boards, dust jackets, an excellent set in the original black card slipcase.

Londyn (= London), Wernika, 1973. 25x18. 104 pp. text + 108 pp. with 133 photos and six drawings + two leaves with reproductions of portraits + two final, blank leaves. Publisher's boards, dust jacket, a very fine copy. Scarce, important work on Eastern sabres, with a general introduction on history and terminology followed by chapters on Persian, Turkestan, Beduin, Indian, Russian, Caucasian, Turkish, Wegierskian, and finally various kinds of Polish sabres; bibliography and index.

Paris 1990. 30x21. 272 pp. Ca 530 photos, more than 400 in colour. Publisher's printed boards.

London, Kegan Paul - Trench - Trubner / New York, Weyhe / Tokyo, Kyo Bun Kwan, 1934. 31x23. II+XIV+158 pp. text (printed Japanese-style on double folded leaves) + 9 colour plates (three folding) with guard-tissues + 65 leaves (8 folding) with 91 reproductions. 17 reproductions (including seals and signatures) in the text. Bound with visible string in pictorial covers with decorated endpapers, kept in the original blue cloth portfolio with clasps (the gilt-lettered spine sunned). Inner covers and endpapers lightly foxed, otherwise fine. Enclosed is a leaf with a handwritten letter signed by the author, dated April 8th, 1934.

Copenhagen 1965. 23x22. 180 pp. + 4 leaves with section titles + 4 original colour lithographs + 22 tipped-in colour plates (18 on separate leaves). Ca 80 reproductions and photos in the text including 68 full-page. Publisher's pictorial cloth, in the original slipcase. Minor corner wear to the slipcase, otherwise fine. No. 418 of an edition limited to 750 copies; the lithographic printing plates were destroyed after printing. English text.

Paris, Éditions Cercle d'Art, 1962. 37x27. 200 pp. 165 colour and duotone reproductions plus 24 reproductions of drawings in the text. Publisher's pictorial linen cloth designed by Picasso; in original pictorial cloth/board slipcase.