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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BORBONI, Domenico.
Architectura Dominici Borbonii celeberrimi...
[Bassano,] ‘ex typographio Remondiniano...
Only known edition of this very rare collection...
£3750
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CARDONNEL, Adam de.
Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …
London: Printed for the Author, and sold...
First edition, the very rare issue with...
£975
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[COLOGNE.]
Hôtel de Belle Vue à Deutz vis-à-vis...
[Cologne, c. 1880.]
An ambitious lithographic advertisement...
£250
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EBERSOLT, Jean.
Monuments d’architecture byzantine.
Paris, Les Editions d’Art et d’Histoire,...
First edition of this classic account of...
£250
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HOWITT, William.
The rural and domestic life of Germany:...
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,...
A fine copy of the first edition of Howitt’s...
£100
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LABORDE, Ernest.
Vieilles maisons boutiques & paysages de...
Paris, Jules Meynial, 1918 [1919].
First edition, very rare: two series of...
£1950
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
The Caliph’s Design. Architects! Where...
London, The Egoist Ltd., 1919.
First edition, a pamphlet of art criticism,...
£400
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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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NORMAND, Alfred Nicolas.
L’architecture des nations étrangères....
Paris, A. Morel, 1870.
First edition. This is a presentation copy,...
£4000
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OSTROWSKA, Wanda; Viola G. GARVIN.
London’s Glory.
London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1945.
First edition, a poignant collection of...
£75
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PARKER, Thomas Netherton.
Leaves out of the Book of a Country Gentleman.
Oswestry, W. Price, London, Longman &...
First and only edition of this very rare...
£1950
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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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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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[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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SCHÜBLER, Johann Jacob, et al.
Designs for furniture, funerary monuments,...
Augsburg, [c. 1710s–20s].
An interesting sammelband containing over...
£3750
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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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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