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. HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.

    [Missal for feast days.]

    Madrid, 1827.

    An extraordinary and enormous liturgical...

    £9500

  2. THEOCRITUS et al.

    Theocriti aliorumque poetarum Idyllia....

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1579.

    An outstanding volume uniting the Estienne...

    £9000

  3. MÄNDL, Kaspar.

    Christliche Sitten-Lehr und heylsame Anmuthungen...

    Augsburg, Matthias Wolff, 1737.

    A superb example of Rococo decorative...

    £6750

  4. MERULA, Giorgio.

    Enarrationes Satyrarum Juvenalis.

    Treviso, Bartholomaeus Confalonerius,...

    The first book printed by Bartolomeo...

    £6500

  5. 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

  6. [HYMNAL.]

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

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

    First and only edition thus of this...

    £3500

  7. [WALLPAPER BINDING.]

    ‘Chassereau des Biens et Rentes deves...

    Hainaut, 1750–1773.

    A manuscript account book compiled by...

    £3500

  8. [MINIATURE BOOKS.]

    ‘Hebdomadaire, ou bibliotheque secrete’.

    France, c. 1800.

    A charming miniature diary in seven...

    £2750

  9. [ALMANACK.]

    London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1820.

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

    An extraordinary binding of silver filigree...

    £2750

  10. [ALMANACK.]

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

    Paris, Le Fuel, [1826?].

    A very rare enamelled metal binding...

    £2750

  11. STRABO.

    Strabonis geographicorum lib. XVII ......

    Basel, Johann Walder, 1539.

    Second edition of Strabo’s masterful...

    £2500

  12. PORTA, Giambattista della.

    De humana physiognomonia … libri IIII;...

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

    The second Latin edition and the first...

    £2500

  13. [ALMANACK.]

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

    Paris, Janet, [1804?].

    A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush...

    £2500

  14. [ALMANACK.]

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

    [Tyrnau (Trnava), 1731.]

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

    £1850

  15. 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

  16. PLINY the Elder.

    Historiae mundi libri XXXVII, cum castigationibus...

    Frankfurt, Claude de Marne and heirs of...

    First Frankfurt edition of Pliny’s...

    £1400

  17. [BASKERVILLE PRESS.]

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

    Third and final edition of Baskerville’s...

    £1200

  18. [PSALMS.]

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

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

    New edition of the metrical Psalms of...

    £950

  19. [WALLET.]

    Wallet with manuscript and printed waste.

    France, c. 1790.

    An attractive late eighteenth-century...

    £950

  20. NIXON, Howard M. 

    Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...

    London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...

    First edition, one of three hundred...

    £875