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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[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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[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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MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.
Urbis Romae topographia.
Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.
First illustrated edition (third overall),...
£5500
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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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NORMAND, Alfred Nicolas.
L’architecture des nations étrangères....
Paris, A. Morel, 1870.
First edition. This is a presentation copy,...
£4000
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[WALLPAPER.]
A substantial album of printed wallpaper...
France, 1923–24.
A delightful sample album of French wallpapers...
£3500
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[HOLBEIN, Hans, the Younger; Joseph SCHLOTTHAUER, lithographer.]
‘Les simulachres & historiees faces de...
[Munich, 1832?]
A seemingly unique set of lithographic...
£3500
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SYMONS, Arthur, editor.
The Savoy.
London, Leonard Smithers, 1896.
First edition of this outstanding, though...
£3000
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WOOD, John.
Portfolio of the artist’s work.
London, 1821–1847.
A collection of finished preparatory drawings,...
£2500
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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
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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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PETRINI, Giovanni.
Sixteen copper engravings depicting scenes...
[Rome, late eighteenth century.]
An attractive volume containing sixteen...
£1750
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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,...
£1650
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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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PLUTARCH; John Moyr SMITH, illustrator.
An Argive Hero … with Illustrations designed...
London, Arthur H. Moxon, 1877.
Scarce first and only edition of John Moyr...
£950
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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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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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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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CELLINI, Benvenuto.
Vita di Benvenuto Cellini orefice e scultore...
‘Cologne’ [i.e. Florence],...
The counterfeit edition of Benvenuto Cellini’s...
£675