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. LUCAN.

    Pharsalia cum annotationibus in margine...

    Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1528.

    An uncommon edition of Lucan’s poem on...

    £2500

  2. MACDIARMID, Hugh.

    Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone 1933 …

    Edinburgh, K.D. Duval, [1963].

    First edition.

    £25

  3. MARKHAM, Sheila.

    A third Book of Booksellers: Conversations...

    London, 2025.

    First edition, limited to five hundred...

    £35

  4. MARKHAM, Sheila.

    A Book of Booksellers: Conversations with...

    London, 2007.

    First paperback edition of the first collection...

    £20

  5. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500

  6. [MATHIEU, Adolphe.]

    Notice sur Frédéric-Auguste-Ferdinand-Thomass...

    Mons, Hoyois, 1850

    Only edition, published in 100 copies by...

    £85

  7. MEFFRET, Johann.

    Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...

    [Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

    A volume of sermons with early English...

    £6500

  8. MESNY, William.

    Mesny’s Chinese Miscellany. A Text Book...

    Shanghai, printed at the “China Gazette...

    The first volume, collecting the first...

    £1500

  9. [METEOROLOGY.] ZHAO Jingdong 赵静东, illustrator.

    氣象知䛊掛图(供小型展览)...

    Tianjin, Tianjin Municipal Press for the...

    An apparently unrecorded set of posters...

    £2000

  10. MIDDLETON, Charles.

    Designs for Gates and Rails suitable to...

    London, Published by J. Taylor, at the...

    First edition of this charming pattern...

    £675

  11. MILLER, Philip.

    The Gardeners Kalendar, directing what...

    The Fourteenth Edition. London, John Rivington,...

    A very attractive copy of the most popular...

    £165

  12. [MONROE, Marilyn.] 

    DIENES, André de.  Marilyn. 

    Cologne, Taschen, 2002. 

    First edition of this celebratory book...

    £200

  13. MORROW, Bradford, and Bernard LAFOURCADE.

    A Bibliography of the Writings of Wyndham...

    Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1978.

    First edition.

    £75

  14. MYERS, Robin, Andrew BURNETT, and Renae SATTERLEY.

    ‘I do not eat the bread of idleness’:...

    The Garendon Press, 2023.

    This volume brings together revised versions...

    £45

  15. MYERS, Robin, Michael HARRIS, and Giles MANDELBROTE (eds).

    Lives in Book History: Changing Contours...

    Leicester, Garendon Press, 2022.

    ‘This volume has grown out of one event...

    £35

  16. [NATIONAL SOCIALISM] [OCCUPIED FRANCE]

    Finis les mauvais jours! Papa gagne de...

    [Paris], Office de Répartition de l´Affichage,...

    Rare, encouraging the voluntary relocation...

    £350

  17. NIXON, Howard M. 

    Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...

    London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...

    First edition, one of three hundred copies,...

    £875

  18. NORMAND, Alfred Nicolas.

    L’architecture des nations étrangères....

    Paris, A. Morel, 1870.

    First edition. This is a presentation copy,...

    £4000

  19. OSTROWSKA, Wanda; Viola G. GARVIN.

    London’s Glory.

    London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1945.

    First edition, a poignant collection of...

    £75

  20. [PAPER TRADE.] 

    Arrest du conseil d’état du roi, portant...

    [Besançon?, 1772?] 

    A seemingly unrecorded issue of this decree...

    £175