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 150...
£100000
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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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GARGIULO, Raffaele.
Cenni sulla maniera di rinvenire i vasi...
Naples, Tipografia Virgilio, 1843.
Second, revised and enlarged edition (first...
£275
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HOLBEIN, Hans; Wenceslaus HOLLAR, engraver; [Francis DOUCE, editor].
The Dance of Death, from the original Designs...
[McMillan] for J. Coxhead, 1816.
An attractive early nineteenth-century...
£375
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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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[ART EDUCATION.]
Der kleine Maler.
[Germany, mid-nineteenth century.]
A delightful suite of plates intended to...
£450
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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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[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 Pound...
£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, Ezra; Mary de RACHEWILTZ, translator.
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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[WANG Gai 王概, WANG Shi 王蓍, and WANG Nie 王臬.]
[芥子園畫譜 Jieziyuan huapu; ‘The...
[China], s.n., (prefaces:) Qianlong renyin...
A handsome set comprising the third and...
£10000
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NORMAND, Alfred Nicolas.
L’architecture des nations étrangères....
Paris, A. Morel, 1870.
First edition. This is a presentation copy,...
£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 catalogue...
£475
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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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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 Low...
£1750