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Paris, Floury & Pellet, (1910). 26x20. IV+276 pp. + 12 original etchings (six prints, each in two states) + 22 plates with fine heliogravure reproductions of etchings (11 prints, each in two states) + six colour plates. All plates provided with guard-tissues. Ca 120 reproductions in the text (30 full-page) as well as 20 vignettes by Legrand. No. 56 of the 'Édition de luxe' in 100 copies with the print plates in two states. Contemporary full green morocco, spine with five raised bands, gilt cover borders, all edges gilt, pictorial wrappers bound in. Spine evenly sunned, otherwise excellent; kept in a flannel-lined slipcase. (Études sur quelques artistes originaux).

New Haven & London, Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2000. 30x25. VIII+612+IV; + VIII+630+II pp. 1478 reproductions including 136 full-page in colour. Publisher's cloth, dust jackets, a fine set kept in the original sturdy pictorial slipcase.

(Stuttgart, Wittwer) impressum cancelled with new label of Kanter & Mohr, Berlin, 1885/86. 50x35. Title leaf + 60 plates comprising 40 colour lithographs, each with one coloured elevation, and 20 plates with a total of 99 plans. Loose as issued in a printed half clothportfolio with tie-strings. The boards slightly worn, with an oval stamp on front removed by scratching, spine expertly repaired. Contents very fine apart from light browning in margins of some plates.

Leningrad, Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelstvo / Édition de l'État, 1924. 30x23. 168 pp. + 32 plates (11 coloured) with 43 photos (14 in colour) + errata slip. In the text there are 45 photos with captions in Russian and French, and five full-page charts of 79 porcelain marks. Publisher's cloth with gilt front title and hammer & sickle. A very good copy, with very light external wear, and spine and top of front cover sunned. Early documentation of the work of the Soviet State Porcelain Factory. After the 1917 Revolution the Russian Imperial Porcelain Factory was renamed the State Porcelain Factory, and it was placed under the authority of the Narkompros (Commissariat for Enlightenment), largely through the efforts of Sergei Chekhonin who was appointed director of the factory's Art Section. The volume contains articles in Russian with summaries in French, three by Gollerbach on the manufactory before 1917, on the activities 1917-1922, and on the subjects and character of porcelain painting; one by Farmakovski on porcelain sculpture; one by Sergei Chekhonin on porcelain painting; and two by M.L. Egorov-Kotaubai on the Porcelain Manufactory Museum etc. Photos include Suprematist porcelain by Nikolai Suetin, propaganda porcelain including portrayals of Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg, and works by Chekhonin, Natalya Danko, Elena Danko, Zinaida Kobyletskaya, Mikhail Adamovich, Maria Lebedeva, Tamara Karsavina, Rudolf Vilde, Alisa Golenkina, and others.

Santpoort, C.A. Mees, (1925-)1926. 33x32. II+166 pp. (printed Japanese-style on folded leaves) including decorative title page designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Ca 105 photos (25 full-page), 30 perspective renderings, and 65 plans and drawings. A very good copy in publisher's cloth with gilt-lettered red spine label, exterior a tad grubby with wear to extreme cover corners, endpapers browned and the last folding leaf opened; contents fine. The renowned seven 1925 issues of the monthly art magazine Wendingen devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright which were combined into one volume published in 1926, with extensive text by the architect (In the Cause of Architecture) running from page 8 to 64, an introduction by Hendrik Theodorus Wijdeveld, and contributions by J.J.P. Oud, H.P. Berlage, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Eric Mendelsohn, Louis Sullivan, and Lewis Mumford. All text in English except Mallet-Stevens's which is in French.

Stockholm, Verlag der lithographischen Anstalt des Generalstabs, 1909-10. 40x30. VIII+76; + VIII+100; + XII+112+II+24; + XIV+32 pp. + a total of 118 plates (comprising 33 tissue-guarded heliogravure plates with mostly full-page photos, 75 tipped-in plates with photos of more than 350 objects, and 10 plates with detailed measured drawings of the cabinet, introduced with a printed slip) + erratum slip. 51 additional photos and reproductions in volume 3. Printed wrappers, a fine set. Edition limited to 200 copies. An historical study and full description of the Hainhofer Kunstschrank (curiosity cabinet) in Uppsala. Philipp Hainhofer (1578-1647), the Augsburg merchant, banker, diplomat and art collector, created a number of Kunstschränke with the assistance of Augsburg artisans. The best preserved of them is the one that was presented on behalf of the city of Augsburg to the Swedish King Gustav II Adolph; today it is kept in the Museum Gustavianum of the University of Uppsala.

London, Yamanaka, 1916. 25x32. VIII+48+II+49-92 + IV (blank); + IV+93-214 + X (table of contents, colophon, and two blank leaves) pp. + a total of 170 plates (eight coloured) with a total of ca 1280 photos and reproductions (30 coloured); printed guard-leaves to all plates. One leaf with 42 drawings of tsubas included in pagination. Bound in one volume, contemporary half leather, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. A fine copy with minor rubbing of extreme cover corner tips. No. 65 of an edition limited to 175 numbered copies.

New York, Privately printed for A. W. Bahr, 1937. 26x19. II+54 pp. + 20 leaves with photos (7 in colour) of ca 135 objects. Publisher's cloth-backed, gilt-lettered boards, extreme corner tips slightly nicked.

Paris, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1941. 28x22. XLII+302 pp. text +II+IV pp. + 70 plates (one folding) comprising 22 plates with plans and drawings and 48 heliogravure plates with ca 125 photographs. 62 plans and drawings in the text. Bound in one volume, contemporary blue cloth, first printed front wrapper bound in. (Université de Paris - Faculté des Lettres). Classic scholarly thesis on the development and architecture of the Syrian city Aleppo, based on the explorations and research of a leading French orientalist and historian. Sauvaget was appointed General Secretary of the French Institute of Damascus in 1929, and elected to the School of Advanced Studies, Director of Studies of History of Islamic East, in 1937.

Stockholm 1879-80. 28x20. Vol. 1: RÖRSTRANDS HISTORIA OCH TILLVERKNINGAR 1726-1850. XXVI+LXXII+II+156+II+88 s. + 12 färglitografiska planscher. Vol. 2: MARIEBERGS HISTORIA OCH TILLVERKNINGAR 1758-1788. XII+172+II+76 s. + 12 färglitografiska planscher. Inbundna, med bevarade tryckta originalomslag, i ett grönt och ett rött men i övrigt uniforma, vackra hfrbd.

London / New York / Toronto & Melbourne, Cassell, 1911. 25x17. VIII+162 pp. + 121 photo plates (including frontispiece), twelve of which are colour plates with guard-tissues. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth with English and Chinese titles on front cover and spine; top edge gilt, the other edges untrimmed. A very good copy with minor external wear including a small, superficial and unobtrusive abrasion at rear exterior joint, and mild foxing to the free endpapers. Yuan 275. The author claims that the original exhibition of which this catalogue is a record was the first of its kind. Organised by the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, the 1908 art exhibition was also, Bahr claims, representative of China's artistic legacy as it was then known. The organizing committee included Chinese representatives, and a significant number of Chinese collectors and dealers lent items, giving further credence to Bahr's claims of the exhibition's originality and compass. (Cf. Nick Pearce, "Shanghai 1908: A. W. Bahr and China's First Art Exhibition," in: 'West 86th. A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture', vol 18: no. 1: 4-25).

München between 1908 and 1917. 21x16. XIV+204; + VIII+308; + 10+IV pp. + 120 plates; + X+256; + XIV+486; + IV+6+IV pp. + 150 plates; + XII+304; + II+324 pp. + 3 folding plates; + II+356 pp. + 3 folding plates; + VIII+340 pp. + 7 plates (5 folding). A total of more than 2000 photographs of houses, villages, gardens, pavilions, doors, gates, porticoes, stairways, etc. Uniformly bound in publishers printed green cloth (I-VI) and printed green cloth-backed boards (VII-IX), all edges red. A very good set with a few unobtrusive flaws - occasional light foxing in volume 2, partial rubbing of front board of volume VII (with some loss of lettering) and rear board of volume IX. Light red Chinese-character stamps on half title pages. Volumes I and II:1 are in the fourth and third edition respectively, vols. II:2 - V in the second edition, and vols. VI - IX in the first edition. A complete set of this impressive photographic archive of German domestic architecture and town building, also including didactic examples contrasting "good" with "bad" housing. I: Domestic architecture; II:1-2: Gardens; III: Villages; IV: Town building; V: Urban middle-class homes; VI: Castles; VII-IX: Landscape architecture and planning etc.

Boulogne-sur-Seine (1935). 23x29. 348 pp. Drawings, plans and photos throughout. Publisher's printed, cloth-backed boards, rebacked with cloth spine. Boards slightly darkened and lightly worn, front board with some chipping of right bottom corner. (Collection de l'Equipement de la Civilisation Machiniste). First edition of Le Corbusier's seminal, extensively illustrated manifesto on city planning, presenting The Radiant City - his scheme for an ideal, totally geometric capital city where all life would be regulated - as well as radical redevelopment schemes for i.a. Paris, Moscow, Barcelona and Stockholm.

Milano, Edizioni Futuriste di "Poesia", 1915. 26x19. 36+116 pp. including 12 plates (one folding) with "war paintings" and a foldout Futurist diagram + portrait photo frontispiece. Printed, designed wrappers, these a little soiled/worn, front wrapper and initial leaves nibbled; front portion of the book has traces of damp in lower margin. '3.o migliaio' (3rd thousand). Guerrapittura (Warpainting) was published under the name of "Carrrà, Futurista" with a fierce extra R, perhaps as a counterblast to Boccioni's 'Futurist Painting and Sculpture' in which Carrà's contribution to Futurism was dismissed to a couple of pages. The War-painting collages show Carrà's increasing interest in the Cubist approach as opposed to Boccioni's Dynamism. Pure Futurist dynamism, however, is displayed in the foldout "Futurist Synthesis of War" - a witty line-up of the eight "poet-peoples" against the bigot and constipated Austrians and Germans - and in the seven pages of words and typography strung into "words-in-freedom" poetry. Despite its mix of old and new ideas including articles from 'Lacerba', manifestoes, and texts foreshadowing Carràs defection in favour of Metaphysical Painting, 'Guerrapittura' remains one of the major Futurist books - which earned its author a stay in a mental hospital during the war: on perusing it, the medical officer concluded that it could only be the work of a madman!

Stockholm 1930-31. 44x29. II+158; + 180 s. + 123 planscher med ca 200 fotografier av C.G. Rosenberg. 164 planer, ritningar etc. i texten, flera utvikbara planer inkluderade i pagineringen. Två eleganta gröna halvskinnband med grönt marmorerat pärmpapper, i utmärkt fint skick. Upplagan begränsad till 510 ex. varav dessa bär nummer 297. Vackert producerad dokumentation av de detaljerade uppmätningar och avbildningar av svenska slotts- och herrgårdsträdgårdar som utfördes under en period av tolv år av Svenska Arkitekturminnesföreningen under överinseende av Hakon Ahlberg och Harald Wadsjö.

Berlin, Wasmuth, (1877). 36x53. 2 (title leaf) + 5-24 (Allgemeine Einleitung; Geschichtliches; Erklaerung der Tafeln) pp. + 30 fine chromolithographed colour plates. Loose as issued in cloth-backed printed boards with tie-strings. Exterior with insignificant edgewear and slightly unevenly darkened, contents very fine. Enay / Azadi 361: 'Das früheste Teppichbuch überhaupt'. First edition of the first publication on oriental carpets, that inititated serious modern study of the subject.

Paris, Ducher & Daly, ca 1883. 45x32. 4 pp. (title leaf and list of plates) +80 fine chromolithograph plates. Loose as issued in a gilt-lettered red cloth portfolio with tie-strings. The two last pages chipped in margin, outside the plate,otherwise a fine set. Second volume (mainly depicting large villas and houses in Paris, all identified) of this extraordinary work on brick architecture depicted in beautiful colour lithographs.

London, The Robin Garton Gallery / Scolar Press, 1990. 35x24. 512 pp. + erratum leaf loosely inserted at page 450. Ca 385 reproductions (more than 100 full-page including 50 in colour) plus 48 photos and reproductions in the biography. Publisher's cloth, in the original pictorial slipcase, an excellent copy. Edition limited to 750 copies. The sumptuous, heavily annotated oeuvre catalogue of paintings by the Victorian artist, including a biography supplied with notes and index.

Bologna, Giovanni ZecchI, 1827. 20x27. Engraved title leaf + printed dedication leaf + 76 engraved plates + one leaf with list of the plates. Cloth binding (Nils Bernard Andersson 1949) with gilt-lettered leather label on spine. Some very light unobtrusive foxing mainly in margins, and some light stains in lower right corner. Gift inscription in Italian dated 1839. Rare album with engraved renderings of architectural ornaments in Bologna. From the little known about Magazzari, he can be identified as a multifaceted figure, dedicated to restoration, architectural design, and engraving. Born around 1796, he studied between 1815 and 1824 at the Academy of Fine Art in Bologna, and was later made an honorary member of the Academy. It may be presumed that the incentive behind this album documenting the "choicest ornaments of Bologna" was the radical urban transformations undertaken in the city in the early 19th century.