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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MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.
Urbis Romae topographia.
Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.
First illustrated edition (third overall),...
£5500
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PIGHIUS, Stephanus Vinandus.
Themis dea, seu de lege divina … Mythologia...
Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1568.
First edition of Pighius’s two treatises...
£450
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PERUCCI, Francesco.
Pompe funebri di tutte le nationi del mondo,...
Verona, Francesco Rossi, 1639.
First edition of Perucci’s account of...
£975
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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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WISE, Francis.
A Letter to Dr Mead concerning some Antiquities...
Oxford, Printed for Thomas Wood … 1738
First editions. A Letter to Dr Mead...
£350
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DAVY, Sir Humphry.
Autograph letter, signed, to Charles Stuart,...
‘23 Grosvenor Street London’, 26 May 1821.
An unpublished letter in which Davy discusses...
£750
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GARGIULO, Raffaele.
Cenni sulla maniera di rinvenire i vasi...
Naples, Tipografia Virgilio, 1843.
Second, revised and enlarged edition (first...
£275
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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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BATTY, John.
The Scope and Charm of antiquarian Study...
London, George Redway, 1883.
First edition of The Liberty of independent...
£150
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[CHRISTIE’S – FOUNTAINE.]
Catalogue of the celebrated Fountaine Collection...
London, [William Clowes & Sons for] Christie,...
An early photographically illustrated auction...
£650
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CROOKES, William, Sir.
Autograph letter, signed, to Sir John Evans.
London, 7 Kensington Park Gardens, 26 May 1892.
The scientist Sir William Crookes writes...
£250