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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ALAI, Beatrice.
Le miniature Italiane del Kupferstichkabinett...
Florence, Edizioni Polistampa, 2019.
From the presentation leaf: ‘Bernard...
£75
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[ART EDUCATION.]
Der kleine Maler.
[Germany, mid-nineteenth century.]
A delightful suite of plates intended to...
£450
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BARLOW, [Francis].
Barlow’s Birds and Beasts, in sixty-seven...
London, Carington Bowles, [John Bowles,...
An extremely rare edition of this drawing-book...
£8500
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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 of...
£1750
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[BOLOGNA.]
Delle oggetti di belle arti nel famoso...
Bologna, ‘nella stamperia di San Tommaso...
First edition of this detailed description...
£275
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BURNE-JONES, Edward.
The Little Holland House Album … with...
The Roxburghe Club, 2024
The Little Holland House Album was compiled...
£75
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CARTARI, Vincenzo.
Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de...
Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1556.
First edition of Cartari’s influential...
£800
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CELLINI, Benvenuto.
Vita di Benvenuto Cellini orefice e scultore...
‘Cologne’ [i.e. Florence],...
The counterfeit edition of Benvenuto Cellini’s...
£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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[CHRISTIE’S – FOUNTAINE.]
Catalogue of the celebrated Fountaine Collection...
London, [William Clowes & Sons for] Christie,...
An early photographically illustrated auction...
£650
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COMBE, George.
Phrenology applied to Painting and Sculpture.
London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1855.
First edition, scarce in commerce. George...
£350
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COX, John Roalfe.
Horses in Accident and Disease: Notes and...
Edinburgh, George Waterston & Sons for...
First edition of an elegantly illustrated...
£70
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DODGSON, Campbell (editor).
Woodcuts of the XV Century in the Department...
London, British Museum, 1934 [– 1935].
First edition, scarce, of Dodgson’s authoritative...
£750
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DONI, Antonio Francesco.
Disegno … partito in piu ragionamenti,...
Venice, Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1549.
First edition of an important art-theoretical...
£1250
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[DOVES PRESS.]
Pervigilium Veneris.
Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...
One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...
£950
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DU BOS, Jean-Baptiste, Abbé.
Reflexions critiques sur la poésie et...
Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1740.
Fourth edition, expanded and corrected,...
£250
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ERNST, Max.
Une semaine de bonté ou les sept éléments...
Paris, Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934.
First edition, no. 706 of 800 copies on...
£4500
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FARINGTON, Susan Maria (illustrator).
The 104th Psalm. Illustrated by Susan...
...
The Faringtons or Ffaringtons were an ancient...
£650
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GARGIULO, Raffaele.
Cenni sulla maniera di rinvenire i vasi...
Naples, Tipografia Virgilio, 1843.
Second, revised and enlarged edition (first...
£275
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GRÜNEISEN, [Karl].
Niclaus Manuel: Leben und Werke eines Malers...
Stuttgart & Tübingen, J.G. Cotta, 1837.
First and only edition of the first separate...
£120