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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Stockholm, Deleen, (1820-26). 35x52. Engraved title leaf + one leaf with list of contents + 72 pp. descriptions to the plates + 36 aquatint plates. Contemporary half green leather with richly gilt spine, marbled edges and endpapers, exterior lightly rubbed. A fine copy with some occasional very light, unobtrusive foxing. An album of attractive views from the Swedish province Östergötland, mainly manors and palatial country estates in picturesque landscape settings, with plate titles and descriptions in Swedish and French. Originally published in nine cahiers, this was the second publication to appear of the monumental series "Fordna och närvarande Sverige" (Ancient and Present Sweden), twelve parts of which were published between 1817 and 1867, the two first parts executed entirely in aquatint.

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.

Ashiya, SOPA (Survey of Persian Art), 1981. 31x23. The eight text volumes I - VI b have a running pagination 1-2817 plus title leaves, other preliminary leaves, and a folding plan (in volume III), and there is a total of 967 drawings, renderings and plans in the text. The seven plate volumes VII-XIII comprise a total of ca 2300 pages, with more than 3200 photos, ca 1185 full-page, 210 in colour including 120 full-page. Volume XIV: XX+2879-3205+XVII pp. (including drawings and photos nos. 968-1210) + 27 leaves with 122 photos. Volume XV: 170 pp. (340 columns) + (XLVI) intermittent pages + XXIV+64 pp. Volume XVI: XIV+II+ 257 pp. (columns 341-854)+ III+XIX+I pp. Publisher's blue cloth (except volume XV which is the 1977 impression in publisher's green and white boards). A very fine set. New impression, to commemorate the centennial of Arthur Upham Pope, of the extended edition of 1977. A lavishly produced reprint of the classic work first published 1938-39, with essays by 70 scholars from twelve countries - "A monumental work, indispensible for research on all of the arts of Persia" (Arntzen Rainwater I-558). // Text volumes: I. Pre-Achaemenid, Achaemenid and Parthian Periods. II. Sasanian Periods. III. Architecture. IV. The Ceramic Arts; Calligraphy and Epigraphy. V a. The Art of the Book. V b. Textiles. VI a. Carpets. VI b. Metalwork and Minor Arts. // Plate volumes: VII. Pre-Achaemenid; Achaemenid; Sasanian. VIII. Architecture of the Islamic Period; It's Ornament. IX. Pottery and Faïence. X. The Art of the Book. XI. Textiles. XII. Carpets. XIII. Metalwork, Minor Arts. // Volume XIV: New Studies 1938-1960 / Proceedings, the IVth International Congress of Iranian Art and Archaeology. // Volume XV: Bibliography I (of Pre-Islamic Persian Art) / Index to volumes I-VI. // Vol. XVI: Bibliography II (of Islamic Persion Art).

Paris, Pierre Seghers, 1948. 21x14. 126 pp. including 39 pages with illustrations by Max Ernst, printed by Mourlot Frères (including 7 coloured by hand or pochoir in blue, yellow, rose, and redwashes). Headings and initials printed in violet throughout. Pictorial wrappers. No. 456 of an edition limited to 610 copies only. A most excellent copy of this scarce and intriguing collaboration between the two surrealists. "For Ernst and the poet Paul Éluard, the eye represented what they called the 'interior of seeing,' a phrase that can be read as a metaphoric description of Surrealist aesthetics. They used the phrase in the title 'A l'intérieur de la vue: 8 poèmes visibles' (The Interior of Seeing: Eight Visible Poems), a book created in 1931 and published in 1947, which also includes a dreamlike image of two rows of eyes facing each other." - Jaroslav Andel, Avant-Garde Page Design 1910-1950, 2002, 328 f.

München, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1986. 28x24. 428; + 429-752 pp. Nearly 1000 photos and reproductions, 50 in colour. Publisher's gilt-decorated cloth, dust jackets. A very fine set kept in the original board slipcase. 1: Katalog der Bronzearbeiten. 2: Beiträge zur Geschichte und Technik der Bronzearbeiten, zu Künstlern und Werkstätten. The sumptuosly produced, comprehensively illustrated standard work on the ormolu (gilt bronze) works of late Baroque and Classicism, composed of an extensive descriptive catalogue of objects, compiled by Ottomeyer and Pröschel, and a volume of authoritative studies on the technique and history of ormolu and its masters, written by F.J.B. Watson, Alastair Lang, Nérée Ronfort, Jean-Dominique Augarde, Roland de l'Éspée, Maria Wanda Przewozna, Christina Baulez, Michael Stürmer, David Harris Cohen, and Denise Ledoux-Lebard.

Stockholm 1967. 24x20. 20 pp. text + 100 pp. with photographs. Publisher's printed boards, in dust jacket with minor edge wear. Presentation copy inscribed by Christer Strömholm to Per-Arne Ehlin, a former pupil of Strömholm at the School of Photography (Fotoskolan) run by him 1962-67. Loosely inserted memorabilia from Strömholm's funeral 15 February 2002. First edition of Strömholm's second photo book, which includes his own notes on the photographs edited from a taped interview held at the Hotel Bouquet de Montmartre in Paris. Strömholm's photographic autobiography details his extensive travels in a book constructed as an Existentialist diary, juxtaposing the urbane and the macabre, combining portraiture and street scenes with abstract photographic fragments. 'Poste Restante' was deemed one of the 175 best photo books ever by an international jury in 2004.

Paris 1874-1885. 34x26. Half title and main title leaves in each volume + a total of 878 text pages with 1756 numbered colums, 536 engraved plates (96 folding). and 42 chromolitographed colour plates (12 folding). Decorative vignettes and ca 435 drawings and plans in the text. Uniformly bound in contemporary half maroon calf. Fourth series of the important and influential architectural magazine founded and edited by César Daly. Cf. Ann Lorenz Van Zanten (1981), 'César Daly and the Revue Générale de l'Architecture'.

Tokyo (1973-76). 42x30. Vols 1-12 comprise each 144 pp. (including 30 folding plates); vols. 13-17 each 124 pp. There is a total of ca 1110 colour reproductions including 950 full-page, and 4600 black and white reproductions. Publisher's quarter cloth, dust jackets, kept in the original pictorial slipcases with cloth tops and bottoms. A complete set of this illustrated, well-researched historial survey of ukiyoe colour woodblock printing and painting. Titles and text in Japanese. 1 - Moronobu; 2 - Harunobu; 3 - Shunsho; 4 - Kiyonaga; 5 - Utamaro; 6 - Utamaro / Eishi; 7 - Sharaku; 8 - Hokusai; 9 - Toyokuni; 10 - Kunisada / Kuniyoshi / Eisen; 11 - Hiroshige; 12 - Kiyochika; 13 - Hokusai: The 35 Views of Fuji; 14 - Hiroshige: The 53 Stations of Tokaido; 15 - Hiroshige / Eisen: The 69 Stations of Kisokaido; 16/17 - Hiroshige: The 100 Views of Edo.

(Copenhagen) 1987. 30x21. 266; + 328; + 396; + 364 pp. Ca 1650 photos of furniture (plus photos of exhibition catalogue covers) and 50 furniture diagrams. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jackets. A complete set of this lavishly illustrated reference work on modern Danish furniture in the years of the annual exhibitions arranged between 1927 and 1966 (each volume covering a 10-year period), including texts taken from the exhibition catalogues. Bilingual throughout in Danish and English. Indices of designers, cabinet-makers, periodicals, etc.

Guildford, Surrey: Genesis/Hedley, 1996. 30x25. 368 pp. + printed transparent title leaf + one leaf with tipped-in paper with signatures and a colour plate. Ca 520 photographs by Michael Cooper (nearly 100 full- or double-page), as well as a number of varicoloured leaves with facsimiles of letters, drawings, etc. Designed black leather / yellow buckram binding kept in a heavy black and yellow box, an excellent copy. This is no. 4148 of 5250 copies and is signed by twelve of the contributors, including Neil Aspinal, Peter Blake, Eric Clapton, Allen Ginsburg, Allen Jones, George Segal, and Bill Wyman. An anthology of reminiscences of and photographs by the British photographer Michael Cooper (1941-1973), best rembered for his photographs of musicians and other protagonists of the British rock scene 1963-1973 (most notably his many photos of The Rolling Stones) and his cover photo of the Beatles LP 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', but included are also photos of renowned artists and authors. Includes a full index of persons as well as brief biographies of contributors. Forewords by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

Paris, Massin, (1932). 32x42. XVI; + II pp. + 164 plates, 44 of which are folding (32 are double-size or larger), comprising ca 60 plates with elevations and house plans, 60 with elaborate perspective renderings, and 40 with town plans. Loose as issued in printed, cloth-backed portfolio with ties. Second edition of Garniers's extensive utopian design for an imaginary modern city, characterised by an emphasis on common property (including a large central building where 3000 citisens could meet together) and the rejection of police stations, law courts, jails or churches, all of which Garnier believed would be unnecessary under socialIsm. Architecturally, the scheme is a pioneering program for the use of reinforced concrete construction. In the decades between the first and the second edition, the Cité Industrielle ultimately influenced the architectural and townplanning philosophy of Le Corbusier and other members of the CIAM.

Paris, Éditions des Commentaires, 1918. 18x13. II+62 pp. Fine quarter green morocco, printed wrappers bound in. Swedish artist Ragnar Hoppe's name on first page. Rare first edition of the first Purist manifesto (although provided with a wrapper designated "Troisième édition"). The Swiss-born artists Amedée Ozenfant and Charles Eduard Jeanneret (who would later adopt the name Le Corbusier) were the founders and early proponents of the Purist movement. realised particularly in painting and architecture, Purism championed traditional classicism with a formal focus on clean geometries and the machine aesthetic. In 1918 Ozenfant and Jeanneret published 'Aprés le Cubism' (After Cubism) in which their commentaries on the current condition of art take the form of a manifesto for postwar French painting, the chapter entitled 'The Laws' establishing the philosophical underpinnings of Purism.

Paris 1934-35. 33x23. X+118 pp. + 101 plates (numbered 1-90, 90bis, 91-100); + II+172 pp. + 126 plates. Ca 285 heliogravure reproductions on the 227 plates. Fine half cloth, original printed wrappers bound in. (Annales du Musée Guimet, Bibliotheque d'Art, Nouvelle Série, 4). Bibliographia Sirén 341 / 349. Yuan 1049-50. Scarce, complete two-volume set of the beautifully illustrated French edition of Sirén's history of Chinese painting from earliest times through Yuan. 1 - Des origines a l'epoque Song; 2 - L'epoque Song et L'époque Yuan.