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. STODDARD, Roger.

    Jacques-Charles Brunet, Le Grand Bibliographe....

    [London], Quaritch, 2007.

    As an undergraduate in Brown University...

    £60

  2. SYMONS, Arthur, editor.

    The Savoy.

    London, Leonard Smithers, 1896.

    First edition of this outstanding, though...

    £3000

  3. TALBOT RICE, David.

    Notice on some religious buildings in the...

    Brussels, Secrétariat de la Revue, 1930.

    An offprint from Byzantion. The...

    £65

  4. ‘TELL’, pseud. [i.e. Jacob EPSTEIN].

    A rude Book.

    Hartford, Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1926.

    First edition, one of 500 copies printed...

    £350

  5. [THE BOOK COLLECTOR.]

    A special Number to commemorate the 150th...

    The Book Collector, 1997.

    A collection of essays together recounting...

    £25

  6. UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION.

    The Tariff. A Bibliography. A select list...

    Washington, U. S. Government Printing...

    First edition of a prodigiously comprehensive...

    £200

  7. [UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD.]

    Subscription list for repairs to the College...

    [Oxford, c. 1860].

    A printed appeal from University College,...

    £50

  8. VILLA, Antonio, and Giovanni Battista VILLA. 

    Dispositio systematica conchyliarum terrestrium...

    Milan, ex typis Borroni et Scotti, 1841. 

    First edition of this catalogue of molluscs...

    £275

  9. [VILLAMENA, Francesco.]

    A fan leaf drawing of a street fight in Rome.

    [Italy, late eighteenth century.]

    A fine fan leaf drawing, Italian school,...

    £1650

  10. VOLOSHIN, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich.

    O Repine [On Repin] …

    Moscow, “Ole-Lukoie”, 1913.

    First edition thus: three pieces written...

    £450

  11. [WALLET.]

    Wallet with manuscript and printed waste.

    France, c. 1790.

    An attractive late eighteenth-century wallet...

    £950

  12. [WANG Gai 王概, WANG Shi 王蓍, and WANG Nie 王臬.]

    [芥子園畫譜 Jieziyuan huapu; ‘The...

    [China], s.n., (prefaces:) Qianlong renyin...

    A handsome set comprising the third and...

    £10000

  13. [WHISTLER, Rex.] Brian North LEE.   

    The Bookplate Design of Rex Whistler. 

    [Pinner,] Private Libraries Association...

    First edition, one of 350 copies with a...

    £350

  14. WISE, Francis.

    A Letter to Dr Mead concerning some Antiquities...

    Oxford, Printed for Thomas Wood … 1738

    First editions. A Letter to Dr Mead...

    £350

  15. WOOD, John.

    Portfolio of the artist’s work.

    London, 1821–1847.

    A collection of finished preparatory drawings,...

    £2500

  16. 山下 富吉 YAMASHITA Takayoshi.

    青島寫真帖 Souvenir Tsingtao.

    Tsingtao, Showa 16, [1941].

    A Japanese souvenir of Tsingtao (Qingdao)...

    £300

  17. YAMAZAKI Kane’ichirō 山崎 鋆一郎.

    满洲の展望 [Manshū no tenbō, i.e....

    Dalian, Kane’ichirō Yamazaki for Kinjirō...

    A highly illustrated photobook on Manchuria...

    £650

  18. ZACHARIÄ, Just Friedrich Wilhelm.

    Les quatre parties du jour, poëme traduit...

    Paris, J. B. G. Musier fils, 1769.

    First edition in French of this proto-Romantic...

    £1500