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.

  1. ALAI, Beatrice.

    Le miniature Italiane del Kupferstichkabinett...

    Florence, Edizioni Polistampa, 2019.

    From the presentation leaf: ‘Bernard...

    £75

  2. ALLOM, Thomas and George Newenham WRIGHT.

    China in a series of views, displaying...

    London, Peter Jackson, late Fisher, Son,...

    Later edition of this handsome work...

    £1250

  3. [ALMANAC.]

    Le Parnasse des dames.

    Paris, Janet, [1814].

    An attractive copy of Janet’s Parnasse...

    £325

  4. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Science and Engineering of Water: An...

    Toronto, A.E. Publications, 2022.

    A lavishly illustrated catalogue, tracing...

    £85

  5. [ANTIQUARIAN]

    Architectural Antiquities from the Sussex Coast.

    [Sussex], July 21st – 10th August 1837.

    An interesting and charming antiquarian...

    £950

  6. Aristotle: From Antiquity to the Modern Era.

    Preface by Martin J. Gross. Essays by Benjamin...

    Lewes, D. Giles Ltd for the Martin J....

    Aristotle’s influence towers over western...

    £30

  7. BARKER, Nicolas.

    Bibliotheca Lindesiana. The Lives and Collections...

    The Roxburghe Club, 1977.

    The Bibliotheca Lindesiana was perhaps...

    £50

  8. BARKER, Nicolas, and David QUENTIN.

    The Library of Thomas Tresham and Thomas...

    The Roxburghe Club, 2006.

    Sir Thomas Tresham (1543–1605) remains...

    £95

  9. BARKER, Nicolas, ed.

    The Pirie Library. A Short-Title Catalogue...

    London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2019.

    The library of Robert S Pirie, ‘one of...

    £25

  10. [BASKERVILLE PRESS.]

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

    Third and final edition of Baskerville’s...

    £1200

  11. BEISNER, Monika.

    Dante Alighieri: La Commedia in 100 tavole.

    Turin, Attini, 2021.

    Limited edition, one of 500 numbered...

    £60

  12. BELLONI, Girolami, Marchese.

    Del Commercio dissertazione.

    Rome, Niccolo and Marco Pagliarini, 1757.

    Second edition to be authorized by Belloni,...

    £300

  13. [BENDISCIOLI, Faustino.]

    Quadro ossia saggio epilogato del Sistema...

    Milan, Stamperia [dei Patrioti d’Italia]...

    An impassioned tract attacking the claims...

    £200

  14. [BERLIN.]

    Verzeichnis der Werke lebender Künstler...

    Berlin, Hofbuchdruckerei, 1860.

    Exhibition catalogue of contemporary artists.

    £45

  15. BIBLIA LATINA.

    A single folio leaf (389 x 281 mm.), containing...

    [Mainz: Printed by Johann Gutenberg &...

    A fine single paper leaf from the first...

    £100000

  16. BLANQUI, Jérôme Adolphe, l’Ainé.

    Histoire de l’économie politique en...

    Paris, Guillaumin, 1837.

    First edition of ‘the first major history...

    £300

  17. [BODONI.] 

    D. Francesco Giacinto Rovero Cavaliere...

    Saluzzo, Giovandomenico Bodoni, [December...

    Very rare survival, apparently unrecorded,...

    £1250

  18. [BOLOGNA.] 

    Delle oggetti di belle arti nel famoso...

    Bologna, ‘nella stamperia di San Tommaso...

    First edition of this detailed description...

    £275

  19. BOLZANI, A. M.

    Wegweiser zum Seidenbau für Nord-Deutschland...

    Berlin, Vereinsbuchhandlung, 1831.

    First edition. Bolzani, originally from...

    £275

  20. [BRISTOL.] 

    The Bristol Contest, being a Collection...

    Bristol, ‘sold by the Printing-Office...

    Extremely rare first edition of this...

    £650