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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MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.
Urbis Romae topographia.
Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.
First illustrated edition (third overall),...
£5500
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CARTARI, Vincenzo.
Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de...
Venice, per Francesco Marcolini, 1556.
First edition of Cartari’s influential...
£800
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VIAS, Balthasar de.
In clarissimum virum Nicolaum Claudium...
Marseille, Claude Garcin, 1642.
Uncommon first edition of Balthasar...
£3250
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[HERALDRY.]
Manuscripts relating to Low Countries nobility.
[Low Countries, mid-17th century?].
A fine set of manuscripts relating to...
£1500
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[LOO, Pieter van, (attributed).]
156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and...
[Holland, c. 1760–80].
A truly stunning collection of over...
£110000
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LA SERRE, Jean-Puget de.
Grab-Statt der weltlichen Ergötzlichkeiten,...
Regensburg, Johann Conrad Peetz und Bader,...
First edition in German of Tombeau des...
£375
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ALBUM
of watercolours and pencil drawings including...
England, mid-eighteenth century?
An attractive sketchbook, seemingly...
£2250
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MONALDINI, Venanzio.
Risposta alle reflessioni critiche sopra...
Lucca, per il Busdrago, 1755
Not in Cicognara or Schlosser-Magnino.
£120
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ROUQUET, Jean-André.
The present State of the Arts in England. ...
London, for J. Nourse, 1755.
First edition in English, published...
£19500
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[REYNOLDS, Joshua, Sir].
A Discourse, delivered at the Opening of...
London: Printed in the Year 1769.
First editions of seven discourses addressed...
£950
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HELMAN, Isidore-Stanislas-Henri.
Faits mémorables des empereurs de la Chine,...
Paris, chez l’auteur … et chez M....
Two handsome engraved works by the French...
£6000
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MICHETTI, Charles.
Catalogue des estampes des plus grands...
Vienna, 1790.
First edition. Description of the cabinet...
£350
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CELLINI, Benvenuto.
Vita di Benvenuto Cellini orefice e scultore...
‘Cologne’ [i.e. Florence],...
The counterfeit edition of Benvenuto...
£675
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CHEESMAN, Thomas.
No. I. Six Heads Drawn and Engraved, by...
[London,] T. Cheesman, No. 40 Oxford...
First and only edition, extremely rare,...
£850
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FIORILLO, Johann Dominicus.
Geschichte der zeichnenden Künste, von...
Göttingen, bei Johann Georg Rosenbusch,...
First edition. Fiorillo began as a painter,...
£600
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DASSIER, Jean and Jacques-Antoine.
‘An Explanation of Dassier’s Medals...
London, c. 1795–1800.
An exceptionally fine illustrated manuscript,...
£6500
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[MUSÉE NAPOLÉON.]
Notice des tableaux exposés dans la Galerie...
Paris, Bubray, 1810.
Pocket guide to the pictures exhibited...
£125
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MICHELETTI, Giacomo Lolli.
Tivoli illustrata proposta ai giovani della...
Rome, Mordacchini, 1818.
First edition of this history of Tivoli.
£225
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GROSSI, G. B. Gennaro.
Le Belle Arti.
Naples, dalla tipografia del Giornale...
First edition in book form, reprinted from...
£150
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CORBOULD, Henry (illustrator).
[Cover title:] Illustrations to...
London, Edward Lacey, 1829.
Unrecorded, a suite of five engravings...
£650