Art & Architecture
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Art & Architecture encompasses a broad sweep of material, from early works concerning architecture and architectural history, and books and manuscripts on the fine arts and aesthetics, antiquities and archaeology, to pattern and design books, and private press books and fine bindings. The department also handles original artwork, artistic archives, posters, and propaganda material.
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ALAI, Beatrice.
Le miniature Italiane del Kupferstichkabinett...
Florence, Edizioni Polistampa, 2019.
From the presentation leaf: ‘Bernard...
£75
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ALBUM
of watercolours and pencil drawings including...
England, mid-eighteenth century?
An attractive sketchbook, seemingly...
£2250
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[BERLIN.]
Verzeichnis der Werke lebender Künstler...
Berlin, Hofbuchdruckerei, 1860.
Exhibition catalogue of contemporary artists.
£45
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[BOLOGNA.]
Delle oggetti di belle arti nel famoso...
Bologna, ‘nella stamperia di San Tommaso...
First edition of this detailed description...
£275
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BUSTEED, Henry Elmsley.
The Serampore Portrait. Is it Madam Grand?
Calcutta, Thacker, Spink, & co., 1903.
First edition of a study probing the...
£125
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CARTARI, Vincenzo.
Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de...
Venice, per Francesco Marcolini, 1556.
First edition of Cartari’s influential...
£800
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CORBOULD, Henry (illustrator).
[Cover title:] Illustrations to...
London, Edward Lacey, 1829.
Unrecorded, a suite of five engravings...
£650
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[COSTUME.]
6 Blätter Altenburger Trachten.
Altenburg, Schnuphase’sche Buchhandlung,...
Charming Altenburg costume plates, lacking...
£150
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COX, John Roalfe.
Horses in Accident and Disease: Notes and...
Edinburgh, George Waterston & Sons for...
First edition of an elegantly illustrated...
£70
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DASSIER, Jean and Jacques-Antoine.
‘An Explanation of Dassier’s Medals...
London, c. 1795-1800.
An exceptionally fine illustrated manuscript,...
£7500
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[DEFOE, Daniel.]
The Life and strange surprizing Adventures...
London: Printed for John Stockdale … 1790.
First Stockdale edition, a unique copy,...
£7500
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DIEDO, Antonio.
Sui Soffitti memoria.
Venice, Alvisopoli, 1838.
New edition, dedicated to Count Antonio...
£45
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DODGSON, Campbell (editor).
Woodcuts of the XV Century in the Department...
London, British Museum, 1934 [– 1935].
First edition, scarce, of Dodgson’s...
£750
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ERNST, Max.
Une Semaine de Bonté ou les sept éléments...
Paris, Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934.
First edition, no. 706 of 800 copies...
£4500
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FARINGTON, Susan Maria (illustrator).
The 104th Psalm. Illustrated by Susan...
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The Faringtons or Ffaringtons were an ancient...
£650
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FIORILLO, Johann Dominicus.
Geschichte der zeichnenden Künste, von...
Göttingen, bei Johann Georg Rosenbusch,...
First edition. Fiorillo began as a painter,...
£600
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GARGIULO, Raffaele.
Cenni sulla maniera di rinvenire i vasi...
Naples, Tipografia Virgilio, 1843.
Second, revised and enlarged edition...
£275
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GROSSI, G. B. Gennaro.
Le Belle Arti.
Naples, dalla tipografia del Giornale...
First edition in book form, reprinted from...
£150
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GRÜNEISEN, C.
Niclaus Manuel. Leben und Werke eines Malers...
Tubingen, Cotta, 1837.
First edition of the first separate biography...
£250
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HELMAN, Isidore-Stanislas-Henri.
Faits mémorables des empereurs de la Chine,...
Paris, chez l’auteur … et chez M....
Two handsome engraved works by the French...
£6000