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Looking for fonts from the book S, M, L, XL by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau

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Can somebody help me identify the fonts on the images? 

These are pages from the book S, M, L, XL by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau, 1995.

I know nothing about typography but I guess the font in the images are of three different families: the ones of images 1-2, the ones of images 3-4-5 and the ones of image 6.

I was thinking of Akzidenz Grotesk as a font similar to the one of pages 3-4-5, am I wrong?

Thanks!

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Solved by Riccardo Sartori

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Thank you very much! Is image 5 Grotesque MT too?

1 hour ago, Mick9 said:

Is image 5 Grotesque MT too?

The small text almost surely, down to the heavy capitals and incongruously narrow numerals. As for “Dutch Section”, the ascender of |t| doesn’t match Monotype Grotesque or lighter weights of Franklin Gothic either, at least in the digital cuts I could find (also, the joint between curve and stem in |u|h|n| seems a bit steeper).

Similar, but not exactly, to some of the innumerable versions of Akzidenz-Grotesk:

 

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Grazie mille!

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