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. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500

  2. SPON, Jacob.

    Voyage d’Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece,...

    Lyons, Antoine Cellier, 1678.

    Very rare first edition of ‘one of the...

    £4750

  3. NORMAND, Alfred Nicolas.

    L’architecture des nations étrangères....

    Paris, A. Morel, 1870.

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

    £4000

  4. BORBONI, Domenico.

    Architectura Dominici Borbonii celeberrimi...

    [Bassano,] ‘ex typographio Remondiniano...

    Only known edition of this very rare collection...

    £3750

  5. SCHÜBLER, Johann Jacob, et al.

    Designs for furniture, funerary monuments,...

    Augsburg, [c. 1710s–20s].

    An interesting sammelband containing over...

    £3750

  6. ANDERSEN, Hendrik Christian.

    ...

    Paris, 1913.

    First French editions of both parts of...

    £2250

  7. LABORDE, Ernest.

    Vieilles maisons boutiques & paysages de...

    Paris, Jules Meynial, 1918 [1919].

    First edition, very rare: two series of...

    £1950

  8. 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

  9. CARDONNEL, Adam de.

    Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …

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

    First edition, the very rare issue with...

    £975

  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. MIDDLETON, Charles.

    Designs for Gates and Rails suitable to...

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

    First edition of this charming pattern...

    £675

  12. 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

  13. CAPRA, Alessandro.

    Geometria famigliare, et instruttione pratica...

    Cremona, Gio[vanni] Pietro Zanni, 1671.

    An exceedingly rare extract from the first...

    £575

  14. [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

  15. LEWIS, Wyndham.

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

    London, The Egoist Ltd., 1919.

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

    £400

  16. [TAYLOR, John.]

    The Column called the Monument, described,...

    Bryan … for Samuel Arnott, Keeper of...

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

    £350

  17. 山下 富吉 YAMASHITA Takayoshi.

    青島寫真帖 Souvenir Tsingtao.

    Tsingtao, Showa 16, [1941].

    A Japanese souvenir of Tsingtao (Qingdao)...

    £300

  18. 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

  19. STANCOVICH, Pietro.

    Dello anfiteatro di Pola, dei gradi marmorei...

    Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1822.

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

    £275

  20. EBERSOLT, Jean.

    Monuments d’architecture byzantine.

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

    First edition of this classic account of...

    £250