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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[PSALMS.]
Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti,...
Antwerp, [(colophon:) Jan Verwithagen...
A collection of verse paraphrases of the...
£975
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[PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich.]
Iubileinyi Al’bom v pamiat’ stoletiia...
St Petersburg, A.F. Marx, 1899.
First edition of an album in celebration...
£1500
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[QUARITCH.]
Guillaume Postel (1510–1581).
Quaritch, 2006.
A catalogue of a collection of the works...
£60
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QUARITCH, Bernard Alexander Christian, editor.
Contributions towards a Dictionary of English...
London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 1969.
A facsimile reprint of Quaritch’s series...
£25
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RAM RAZ.
Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús...
London, John William Parker for the Royal...
First edition, scarce on the market,...
£975
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[RAYNAL, Guillaume-Thomas, Abbé;] Johann Adam HILLER, translator.
Anecdoten zur Lebensgeschichte berühmter...
Leipzig, Lankisch, 1762.
First edition in German of this collection...
£250
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REFELL, A.
Trugbilder: Eine Anleitung Erscheinungen,...
Stuttgart, Rieger, 1865.
First German edition, rare, of this fascinating...
£1250
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RICCI, Giovanni, and Ercolano PORTA.
Storia della missione francescana e del...
Bologna, Stabilimenti tipografici riuniti,...
First and only edition of this history...
£750
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ROBERTS, Henry.
The dwellings of the labouring classes,...
London, Society for Improving the Condition...
First edition of one of the most important...
£250
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ROUQUET, Jean-André.
The present State of the Arts in England. ...
London, for J. Nourse, 1755.
First edition in English, published in...
£19500
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[ROUSSEAU, Pierre.]
Considérations sur le théatre de l’opéra. ...
[Paris,] de l’imprimerie de Rignoux, [1822].
Very rare proposal for a new opera house...
£475
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SASSOON, Siegfried; Paul NASH, illustrator.
Nativity.
London, Faber & Gwyer, 1927.
First edition of this striking collaboration...
£175
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SAULCY, Louis Félicien, Caignart de.
Note sur une inscription punique découverte...
[Paris], Imprimerie Royale, 1843.
Rare offprint from the Journal Asiatique...
£250
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SCHÜBLER, Johann Jacob, et al.
Designs for furniture, funerary monuments,...
Augsburg, [c. 1710s–20s].
An interesting sammelband containing over...
£3750
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[SHANGHAI.]
Shanghai of To-day. A Souvenir Album of...
Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Kelly...
Third edition, revised and enlarged (first...
£1250
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SHENSTONE, William.
The Works, in Verse and Prose… in three...
London: Printed for J. Dodsley … 1777.
Fifth edition of the Works (1764),...
£325
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[SMITH, John William.]
A Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and...
London, Letts, Son & Co, [1870s-90s].
A manuscript book catalogue employing a...
£300
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SPON, Jacob.
Voyage d’Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece,...
Lyons, Antoine Cellier, 1678.
Very rare first edition of ‘one of the...
£4750
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STANCOVICH, Pietro.
Dello anfiteatro di Pola, dei gradi marmorei...
Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1822.
First edition, uncut in the original wrappers,...
£275
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STODDARD, Roger.
Jacques-Charles Brunet, Le Grand Bibliographe....
[London], Quaritch, 2007.
As an undergraduate in Brown University...
£60