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. ALAI, Beatrice.

    Le miniature Italiane del Kupferstichkabinett...

    Florence, Edizioni Polistampa, 2019.

    From the presentation leaf: ‘Bernard...

    £75

  2. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey, art editor; Henry HARLAND, literary editor

    The Yellow Book.  An Illustrated Quarterly. ...

    London [– & New York], Elkin Mathews...

    An excellent set of the first edition...

    £2000

  3. [BOLOGNA.] 

    Delle oggetti di belle arti nel famoso...

    Bologna, ‘nella stamperia di San Tommaso...

    First edition of this detailed description...

    £275

  4. BURNE-JONES, Edward.

    The Little Holland House Album … with...

    The Roxburghe Club, 2024

    The Little Holland House Album was compiled...

    £75

  5. BUSTEED, Henry Elmsley. 

    The Serampore Portrait.  Is it Madam Grand? 

    Calcutta, Thacker, Spink, & co., 1903. 

    First edition of a study probing the...

    £125

  6. CARTARI, Vincenzo. 

    Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de...

    Venice, per Francesco Marcolini, 1556. 

    First edition of Cartari’s influential...

    £800

  7. CELLINI, Benvenuto. 

    Vita di Benvenuto Cellini orefice e scultore...

    ‘Cologne’ [i.e. Florence],...

    The counterfeit edition of Benvenuto...

    £675

  8. CHEESMAN, Thomas. 

    No. I. Six Heads Drawn and Engraved, by...

    [London,] T. Cheesman, No. 40 Oxford...

    First and only edition, extremely rare,...

    £850

  9. COX, John Roalfe.

    Horses in Accident and Disease: Notes and...

    Edinburgh, George Waterston & Sons for...

    First edition of an elegantly illustrated...

    £70

  10. DASSIER, Jean and Jacques-Antoine. 

    ‘An Explanation of Dassier’s Medals...

    London, c. 1795–1800. 

    An exceptionally fine illustrated manuscript,...

    £6500

  11. DODGSON, Campbell (editor).

    Woodcuts of the XV Century in the Department...

    London, British Museum, 1934 [– 1935].

    First edition, scarce, of Dodgson’s...

    £750

  12. DONI, Antonio Francesco.

    Disegno … partito in piu ragionamenti,...

    Venice, Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1549.

    First edition of an important art-theoretical...

    £1250

  13. [DOVES PRESS.] 

    Pervigilium Veneris. 

    Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...

    One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...

    £950

  14. ERNST, Max.

    Une semaine de bonté ou les sept éléments...

    Paris, Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934.

    First edition, no. 706 of 800 copies...

    £4500

  15. FARINGTON, Susan Maria (illustrator). 

    The 104th Psalm.  Illustrated by Susan...

    ...

    The Faringtons or Ffaringtons were an ancient...

    £650

  16. GARGIULO, Raffaele.

    Cenni sulla maniera di rinvenire i vasi...

    Naples, Tipografia Virgilio, 1843.

    Second, revised and enlarged edition...

    £275

  17. 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

  18. [HERALDRY.]

    Manuscripts relating to Low Countries nobility.

    [Low Countries, mid-seventeenth century?]

    A fine set of manuscripts relating to...

    £1750

  19. LA SERRE, Jean-Puget de.

    Grab-Statt der weltlichen Ergötzlichkeiten,...

    Regensburg, Johann Conrad Peetz und Bader,...

    First edition in German of Tombeau des...

    £375

  20. LEVEY, Michael.

    The later Italian Pictures in the Collection...

    Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991.

    Revised second edition of Levey’s...

    £475