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. [BASKERVILLE PRESS.]

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

    Third and final edition of Baskerville’s...

    £1200

  2. NIXON, Howard M. 

    Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...

    London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...

    First edition, one of three hundred...

    £875

  3. [ALMANACK.]

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

    [Tyrnau (Trnava), 1731.]

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

    £1850

  4. [WALLPAPER BINDING.]

    ‘Chassereau des Biens et Rentes deves...

    Hainaut, 1750–1773.

    A manuscript account book compiled by...

    £3500

  5. MÄNDL, Kaspar.

    Christliche Sitten-Lehr und heylsame Anmuthungen...

    Augsburg, Matthias Wolff, 1737.

    A superb example of Rococo decorative...

    £6750

  6. PORTA, Giambattista della.

    De humana physiognomonia … libri IIII;...

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

    The second Latin edition and the first...

    £2500

  7. MERULA, Giorgio.

    Enarrationes Satyrarum Juvenalis.

    Treviso, Bartholomaeus Confalonerius,...

    The first book printed by Bartolomeo...

    £6500

  8. [EMBROIDERED BINDING.]

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

    Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].

    A charming almanack for 1753 printed...

    £400

  9. [MINIATURE BOOKS.]

    ‘Hebdomadaire, ou bibliotheque secrete’.

    France, c. 1800.

    A charming miniature diary in seven...

    £2750

  10. PLINY the Elder.

    Historiae mundi libri XXXVII, cum castigationibus...

    Frankfurt, Claude de Marne and heirs of...

    First Frankfurt edition of Pliny’s...

    £1400

  11. LEVEY, Michael.

    The later Italian Pictures in the Collection...

    Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991.

    Revised second edition of Levey’s...

    £475

  12. 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

  13. [ALMANACK.]

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

    Paris, Janet, [1804?].

    A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush...

    £2500

  14. [ALMANACK.]

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

    Paris, Le Fuel, [1826?].

    A very rare enamelled metal binding...

    £2750

  15. [PSALMS.]

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

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

    New edition of the metrical Psalms of...

    £950

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. [ALMANACK.]

    London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1820.

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

    An extraordinary binding of silver filigree...

    £2750

  19. HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.

    [Missal for feast days.]

    Madrid, 1827.

    An extraordinary and enormous liturgical...

    £9500

  20. [HYMNAL.]

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

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

    First and only edition thus of this...

    £3500