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. [ALMANACK.]

    Calendarium Tyrnaviense ad annum Jesu Chris[ti]...

    [Tyrnau (Trnava), 1731.]

    A remarkable almanack binding of part-printed,...

    £1850

  2. [ALMANACK.]

    London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1820.

    [London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers,...

    An extraordinary binding of silver filigree...

    £2750

  3. [ALMANACK.]

    L’Esprit des chansonniers, extrain [sic?]...

    Paris, Le Fuel, [1826?].

    A very rare enamelled metal binding...

    £2750

  4. [ALMANACK.]

    Les etrennes a la rose, ou le rosier d’amour.

    Paris, Janet, [1804?].

    A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush...

    £2500

  5. [ALMANACK.]

    Étrennes mignonnes, curieuses et utiles,...

    Paris, Guillot, 1790.

    A French almanack for 1790 in a delightful...

    £2750

  6. [BASKERVILLE PRESS.]

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

    Third and final edition of Baskerville’s...

    £1200

  7. [BIBLE.]

    Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis … [with:]...

    Paris, Jacques Vincent, 1741/1740.

    An attractively bound copy of the Old...

    £975

  8. [EMBROIDERED BINDING.]

    Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace...

    Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].

    A charming almanack for 1753 printed...

    £400

  9. HAMILTON, ‘Eliza’ [Elizabeth].

    Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo...

    London, J. Crowder for G. & J. Robinson, 1801.

    Second edition of Hamilton’s first...

    £575

  10. HOSSCHIUS, Sidronius.

    Sidronii Hosschii e Societate Iesu elegiarum...

    Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

    First collected edition of the neo-Latin...

    £600

  11. [HYMNAL.]

    Neu-vermehrt- und vollständiges Gesang-Buch,...

    [Likely Swabia, for] Philadelphia, Ernst...

    First and only edition thus of this...

    £3500

  12. LIVY; [Pedro DE LA VEGA, translator].

    Todas las decadas de Tito Livio paduano,...

    [(Colophon:) Cologne [i.e. Antwerp?],...

    A handsome copy of Livy’s History...

    £3500

  13. MÄNDL, Kaspar.

    Christliche Sitten-Lehr und heylsame Anmuthungen...

    Augsburg, Matthias Wolff, 1737.

    A superb example of Rococo decorative...

    £6750

  14. [MINIATURE BOOKS.]

    ‘Hebdomadaire, ou bibliotheque secrete’.

    France, c. 1800.

    A charming miniature diary in seven...

    £2750

  15. MYERS, Robin, Michael HARRIS, and Giles MANDELBROTE (eds).

    Lives in Book History: Changing Contours...

    Leicester, Garendon Press, 2022.

    ‘This volume has grown out of one event...

    £35

  16. NIXON, Howard M. 

    Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...

    London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...

    First edition, one of three hundred...

    £875

  17. 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

  18. PORTA, Giambattista della.

    De humana physiognomonia … libri IIII;...

    Hanau, Wilhelm Antonius for [Frankfurt,]...

    The second Latin edition and the first...

    £2500

  19. [PSALMS.]

    Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François,...

    Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise...

    New edition of the metrical Psalms of...

    £950

  20. RICCI, Giovanni and PORTA, Ercolano.

    Storia della missione francescana e del...

    Bologna, Stabilimenti tipografici riuniti,...

    First and only edition of this history...

    £450