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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FARINGTON, Susan Maria (illustrator).
The 104th Psalm. Illustrated by Susan...
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The Faringtons or Ffaringtons were an ancient...
£650
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[LOO, Pieter van, attributed.]
156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.
[Holland, c. 1760–80].
A truly stunning collection of over...
£100000
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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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GARGIULO, Raffaele.
Cenni sulla maniera di rinvenire i vasi...
Naples, Tipografia Virgilio, 1843.
Second, revised and enlarged edition...
£275
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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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[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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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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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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[VILLAMENA, Francesco.]
A fan leaf drawing of a street fight in Rome.
[Italy, late eighteenth century.]
A fine fan leaf drawing, Italian school,...
£2200
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POUND, Ezra.
Gaudier-Brzeska, a Memoir …
[London,] The Marvell Press, [1960].
Revised edition, inscribed by Dorothy...
£250
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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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POUND, Erza.
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, con un manifesto...
Galleria Apollinaire Milano [Milan, All’insegna...
First edition thus, no. 123 of 500 copies,...
£75
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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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TENNYSON, Alfred, and Eleanor FORTESCUE-BRICKDALE, illustrator.
The Idylls of the King … Illustrated...
London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1911].
Deluxe edition of Tennyson’s Idylls...
£600
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NORMAND, Alfred Nicolas.
L’architecture des nations étrangères....
Paris, A. Morel, 1870.
First edition. This is a presentation...
£4000
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LEVEY, Michael.
The later Italian Pictures in the Collection...
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Revised second edition of Levey’s...
£475
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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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ALAI, Beatrice.
Le miniature Italiane del Kupferstichkabinett...
Florence, Edizioni Polistampa, 2019.
From the presentation leaf: ‘Bernard...
£75
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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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[HERALDRY.]
Manuscripts relating to Low Countries nobility.
[Low Countries, mid-seventeenth century?]
A fine set of manuscripts relating to...
£1750