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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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
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SYMONS, Arthur, editor.
The Savoy.
London, Leonard Smithers, 1896.
First edition of this outstanding, though...
£3000
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TALBOT RICE, David.
Notice on some religious buildings in the...
Brussels, Secrétariat de la Revue, 1930.
An offprint from Byzantion. The...
£65
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[TAYLOR, John.]
The Column called the Monument, described,...
Bryan … for Samuel Arnott, Keeper of...
Third edition (first 1787) of this guidebook...
£350
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‘TELL’, pseud. [i.e. Jacob EPSTEIN].
A rude Book.
Hartford, Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1926.
First edition, one of 500 copies printed...
£350
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[THE BOOK COLLECTOR.]
A special Number to commemorate the 150th...
The Book Collector, 1997.
A collection of essays together recounting...
£25
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THEOCRITUS et al.
Theocriti aliorumque poetarum Idyllia....
[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1579.
An outstanding volume uniting the Estienne...
£9000