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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[ANTIQUARIAN]
Architectural Antiquities from the Sussex Coast.
[Sussex], July 21st – 10th August 1837.
An interesting and charming antiquarian...
£950
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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.]
Hotel de Belle Vue à Deutz vis-à-vis...
Cologne, c. 1850
A ambitious lithograph advertisement for...
£250
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[CROSBY, Theo (editor), and Edward WRIGHT (designer).]
This is tomorrow.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 9 August...
First edition, one of 1300 copies, of...
£400
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DESGODETS, Antoine.
Les edifices antiques de Rome dessinés...
Paris, Jean-Baptiste Coignard, 1682.
First edition of this spectacular folio...
£9000
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EBERSOLT, Jean.
Monuments d’architecture byzantine.
Paris, Les Editions d’Art et d’Histoire,...
First edition of this classic account...
£250
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FUHRMANN, Ernst.
China. Erster Teil: Das Land der Mitte.
Hagen, Folkwang-Verlag, 1921.
First edition of two of the most celebrated...
£175
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[HOLLINGSWORTH, Nathaniel John.]
Fleurs. A poem, in four books.
Newcastle, printed for the author by Edw....
First and only edition of this long blank...
£750
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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...
£1950
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MIDDLETON, Charles.
Designs for Gates and Rails suitable to...
London, Published by J. Taylor, at the...
First edition of this charming pattern...
£675
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MIGEON, Gaston.
Les arts musulmans.
Paris and Brussels, G. van Oest, 1926.
First edition, published in the series...
£85
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OPPENORD, Gilles-Marie.
Album containing plates from the Grand...
Paris, chez Huquier, [c. 1740].
An interesting album containing plates...
£2500
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PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista.
Veduta delle due Chiese, l’una detta...
[Rome, c. 1762].
A marvellous view of Rome by Piranesi,...
£2200
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PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista.
De Romanorum magnificentia et architectura....
Rome, 1761.
First edition, a handsome copy, bound...
£12000
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[POTE, Joseph].
Les Delices de Windsore; or a Description...
Eton: Printed by Joseph, and Thomas Pote, 1755.
First edition of a much-reprinted pocket...
£325
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RENGGER, Albrecht.
Bericht über die Armen-Erziehungs-Anstalt...
Tubingen, Cotta, 1815.
First edition of an account of the agricultural...
£180
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RICKMAN, Thomas.
An attempt to discriminate the styles of...
London, [1819].
Second, much enlarged edition, of Rickman’s...
£275
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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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TALBOT RICE, David.
Notice on some religious buildings in the...
Brussels, Secrétariat de la Revue, 1930.
An offprint from Byzantion. The...
£65