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. BORBONI, Domenico.

    Architectura Dominici Borbonii celeberrimi...

    [Bassano,] ‘ex typographio Remondiniano...

    Only known edition of this very rare collection...

    £3750

  2. LEWIS, Wyndham.

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

    London, The Egoist Ltd., 1919.

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

    £400

  3. [TAYLOR, John.]

    The Column called the Monument, described,...

    Bryan … for Samuel Arnott, Keeper of...

    Third edition (first 1787) of this guidebook...

    £350

  4. [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

  5. ANDERSEN, Hendrik Christian.

    ...

    Paris, 1913.

    First French editions of both parts of...

    £2250

  6. STANCOVICH, Pietro.

    Dello anfiteatro di Pola, dei gradi marmorei...

    Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1822.

    First edition, uncut in the original wrappers,...

    £275

  7. SCHÜBLER, Johann Jacob, et al.

    Designs for furniture, funerary monuments,...

    Augsburg, [c. 1710s–20s].

    An interesting sammelband containing over...

    £3750

  8. MIDDLETON, Charles.

    Designs for Gates and Rails suitable to...

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

    First edition of this charming pattern...

    £675

  9. ROBERTS, Henry.

    The dwellings of the labouring classes,...

    London, Society for Improving the Condition...

    First edition of one of the most important...

    £250

  10. RAM RAZ. 

    Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús...

    London, John William Parker for the Royal...

    First edition, scarce on the market,...

    £975

  11. CAPRA, Alessandro.

    Geometria famigliare, et instruttione pratica...

    Cremona, Gio[vanni] Pietro Zanni, 1671.

    An exceedingly rare extract from the first...

    £575

  12. [COLOGNE.]

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

    [Cologne, c. 1880.]

    An ambitious lithographic advertisement...

    £250

  13. NORMAND, Alfred Nicolas.

    L’architecture des nations étrangères....

    Paris, A. Morel, 1870.

    First edition. This is a presentation copy,...

    £4000

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. OSTROWSKA, Wanda; Viola G. GARVIN.

    London’s Glory.

    London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1945.

    First edition, a poignant collection of...

    £75

  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. EBERSOLT, Jean.

    Monuments d’architecture byzantine.

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

    First edition of this classic account of...

    £250

  19. TALBOT RICE, David.

    Notice on some religious buildings in the...

    Brussels, Secrétariat de la Revue, 1930.

    An offprint from Byzantion. The...

    £65

  20. CARDONNEL, Adam de.

    Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …

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

    First edition, the very rare issue with...

    £975