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. [ANTIQUARIAN]

    Architectural Antiquities from the Sussex Coast.

    [Sussex], July 21st – 10th August 1837.

    An interesting and charming antiquarian...

    £950

  2. CARDONNEL, Adam de.

    Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …

    London: Printed for the Author, and sold...

    First edition, the very rare issue with...

    £975

  3. [COLOGNE.]

    Hotel de Belle Vue à Deutz vis-à-vis...

    Cologne, c. 1850

    A ambitious lithograph advertisement for...

    £250

  4. [COLONNA, Francesco.] 

    Poliphili hypnerotomachia, ubi humana omnia...

    Venice, [heirs of Aldus], 1545. 

    Second edition, scarcer than the first...

    £24000

  5. EBERSOLT, Jean.

    Monuments d’architecture byzantine.

    Paris, Les Editions d’Art et d’Histoire,...

    First edition of this classic account...

    £250

  6. FENTON, Roger.

    Lichfield Cathedral, south transept portal...

    1858.

    A fine print of one of Fenton's most...

    £12500

  7. 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

  8. LABORDE, Ernest.

    Vieilles maisons boutiques & paysages de...

    Paris, Jules Meynial, 1918 [1919].

    First edition, very rare: two series...

    £1950

  9. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    The Caliph’s Design. Architects! Where...

    London, The Egoist Ltd., 1919.

    First edition, a pamphlet of art criticism,...

    £400

  10. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo. 

    Urbis Romae topographia. 

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544. 

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500

  11. MIDDLETON, Charles.

    Designs for Gates and Rails suitable to...

    London, Published by J. Taylor, at the...

    First edition of this charming pattern...

    £675

  12. MIGEON, Gaston.

    Les arts musulmans.

    Paris and Brussels, G. van Oest, 1926.

    First edition, published in the series...

    £85

  13. NORMAND, Alfred Nicolas.

    L’architecture des nations étrangères....

    Paris, A. Morel, 1870.

    First edition. This is a presentation...

    £4000

  14. OPPENORD, Gilles-Marie.

    Album containing plates from the Grand...

    Paris, chez Huquier, [c. 1740].

    An interesting album containing plates...

    £2500

  15. PAPINI, Roberto.

    Le Arti d’Oggi: Architettura e Arti Decorative...

    Milan and Rome, Bestetti and Tumminelli, 1930.

    First edition of a thorough and extensively...

    £300

  16. PARKER, Thomas Netherton.

    Leaves out of the Book of a Country Gentleman.

    Oswestry, W. Price, London, Longman &...

    First and only edition of this very...

    £1950

  17. RAM RAZ. 

    Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús...

    London, John William Parker for the Royal...

    First edition, scarce on the market,...

    £975

  18. RENGGER, Albrecht.

    Bericht über die Armen-Erziehungs-Anstalt...

    Tubingen, Cotta, 1815.

    First edition of an account of the agricultural...

    £180

  19. RICKMAN, Thomas.

    An attempt to discriminate the styles of...

    London, [1819].

    Second, much enlarged edition, of Rickman’s...

    £275

  20. ROBERTS, Henry.

    The dwellings of the labouring classes,...

    London, Society for Improving the Condition...

    First edition of one of the most important...

    £250