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.]

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

    Paris, Le Fuel, [1826?].

    A very rare enamelled metal binding...

    £2750

  2. [ALMANACK.]

    Les étrennes à la rose, ou le rosier...

    Paris, Janet, [1804?].

    A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush...

    £2500

  3. [ALMANACK.]

    Étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et...

    Paris, Claude-Jacques-Charles [Durand]...

    A very rare Parisian almanack for 1775,...

    £1500

  4. [ALMANACK.]

    London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1785.

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

    A very attractive miniature London Almanack...

    £950

  5. [ALMANACK.]

    étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses...

    Paris, [Jean-François-Hubert] Guillot, 1790.

    Very rare almanack for 1790, in a handsome...

    £1950

  6. [ALMANACK.]

    Les perfidies supposées ou les médisances...

    Paris, Janet, ‘Successeur du Sr Jubert’,...

    A seemingly unrecorded almanack for...

    £1450

  7. [BASKERVILLE PRESS.]

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

    Third and final edition of Baskerville’s...

    £1200

  8. [BIBLE.]

    The Holy Bible, containing the Old and...

    Oxford, T. Wright and W. Gill, 1769.

    First quarto edition of the Oxford ‘standard’...

    £5250

  9. CHALMERS, David.

    Histoire abbregee de tous les roys de France,...

    Paris, Jean Fevrier, 1579.

    First edition of Chalmer’s historical...

    £950

  10. [CRIMEAN WAR.]

    Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....

    Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].

    First and only edition, rare, of this...

    £375

  11. DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.

    Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...

    Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.

    A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...

    £450

  12. [EMBROIDERED BINDING.]

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

    Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].

    A charming almanack for 1753 printed...

    £400

  13. 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

  14. HOSSCHIUS, Sidronius.

    Sidronii Hosschii e Societate Iesu elegiarum...

    Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

    First collected edition of the neo-Latin...

    £600

  15. HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.

    [Missal for feast days.]

    Madrid, 1827.

    An extraordinary and enormous liturgical...

    £9500

  16. LEVEY, Michael.

    The later Italian Pictures in the Collection...

    Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991.

    Revised second edition of Levey’s...

    £475

  17. LUCAN.

    Pharsalia cum annotationibus in margine...

    Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1528.

    An uncommon edition of Lucan’s poem...

    £2500

  18. MEFFRET, Johann.

    Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...

    [Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

    A volume of sermons with early English...

    £6500

  19. 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

  20. NIXON, Howard M. 

    Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...

    London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...

    First edition, one of three hundred...

    £875