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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DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.
Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...
Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.
A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...
£450
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[BASKERVILLE PRESS.]
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...
Third and final edition of Baskerville’s...
£1200
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NIXON, Howard M.
Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...
London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...
First edition, one of three hundred copies,...
£875
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[WALLPAPER BINDING.]
‘Chassereau des Biens et Rentes deves...
Hainaut, 1750–1773.
A manuscript account book compiled by Joseph...
£3500
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[ALMANACK.]
Étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et...
Paris, Claude-Jacques-Charles [Durand]...
A very rare Parisian almanack for 1775,...
£1500
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[EMBROIDERED BINDING.]
Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace...
Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].
A charming almanack for 1753 printed in...
£400
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CHALMERS, David.
Histoire abbregee de tous les roys de France,...
Paris, Jean Fevrier, 1579.
First edition of Chalmer’s historical...
£950
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[BIBLE.]
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and...
Oxford, T. Wright and W. Gill, 1769.
First quarto edition of the Oxford ‘standard’...
£5250
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[ALMANACK.]
Les étrennes à la rose, ou le rosier...
Paris, Janet, [1804?].
A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush...
£2500
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[CRIMEAN WAR.]
Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....
Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].
First and only edition, rare, of this unusual...
£375
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[ALMANACK.]
Les perfidies supposées ou les médisances...
Paris, Janet, ‘Successeur du Sr...
A seemingly unrecorded almanack for 1800,...
£1450
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[ALMANACK.]
L’Esprit des chansonniers, extrain [sic?]...
Paris, Le Fuel, [1826?].
A very rare enamelled metal binding with...
£2750
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[PSALMS.]
Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François,...
Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise...
New edition of the metrical Psalms of the...
£950
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ZACHARIÄ, Just Friedrich Wilhelm.
Les quatre parties du jour, poëme traduit...
Paris, J. B. G. Musier fils, 1769.
First edition in French of this proto-Romantic...
£1500
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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
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[ALMANACK.]
London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1785.
[London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers,...
A very attractive miniature London Almanack...
£950
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PITOU, Louis-Ange.
L’Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons, ou...
Paris, [Beraud for] L.A. Pitou, 31 August...
First and only surviving edition of this...
£650
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HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.
[Missal for feast days.]
Madrid, 1827.
An extraordinary and enormous liturgical...
£9500
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LUCAN.
Pharsalia cum annotationibus in margine...
Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1528.
An uncommon edition of Lucan’s poem on...
£2500
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[OXFORD UNIVERSITY.]
Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum...
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1761.
First edition, one of fifty copies on large...
£10000