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. [ANTIQUARIAN]

    Architectural Antiquities from the Sussex Coast.

    [Sussex], July 21st – 10th August 1837.

    An interesting and charming antiquarian...

    £950

  2. BOLZANI, A. M.

    Wegweiser zum Seidenbau für Nord-Deutschland...

    Berlin, Vereinsbuchhandlung, 1831.

    First edition. Bolzani, originally from...

    £275

  3. [BRIDGE, Stephen.]

    Illuminated memorial manuscript on vellum...

    [Designed and executed by Witherby & Co.,...

    A beautiful memorial volume presented to...

    £850

  4. [COLOGNE.]

    Hotel de Belle Vue à Deutz vis-à-vis...

    Cologne, c. 1850

    A ambitious lithograph advertisement for...

    £250

  5. DALI, Salvador.

    Alpes: French Railways.

    France, Draeger for SNCF, 1970.

    A gorgeous and colourful surrealist...

    £250

  6. DALI, Salvador.

    Normandie. French Railways.

    France, Draeger for SNCF, 1970.

    Mont Saint-Michel meets stone circles,...

    £200

  7. DALI, Salvador.

    Roussillon. French Railways.

    France, Draeger for SNCF, 1970.

    Further butterfly-interspersed surrealism...

    £250

  8. DALI, Salvador.

    Alsace. French Railways.

    France, Draeger for SNCF, 1970.

    A striking monochrome image of the Temple...

    £250

  9. DOLLMAN, Francis C.

    Examples of antient pulpits existing in...

    First edition of this scholarly study of...

    £85

  10. DREYFUS, John. 

    Aspects of French Eighteenth Century Typography. ...

    Cambridge, The Roxburghe Club, 1982.

    A history of French type design in the...

    £120

  11. FOUNTAINE, Andrew.

    Catalogue of the celebrated Fountaine collection...

    [London], 1884

    First day only of the Majolica sale of...

    £25

  12. GARGIULO, Raffaele.

    Cenni sulla maniera di rinvenire i vasi...

    Naples, Tipografia Virgilio, 1843.

    Second, revised and enlarged edition...

    £275

  13. [LABOURS OF THE MONTHS &c.] 

    Januarius.  Februarius.  Merz.  April … 

    Nuremberg, Joh. Andreae Endterische Handlung,...

    A scarce popular print depicting the...

    £475

  14. ‘MAWE, Thomas’ [but John ABERCROMBIE]. 

    Every Man his own Gardener.  Being a new,...

    London: Printed for W. Griffith … 1767. 

    Second edition, published in the same...

    £225

  15. MIDDLETON, Charles.

    Designs for Gates and Rails suitable to...

    London, Published by J. Taylor, at the...

    First edition of this charming pattern...

    £675

  16. MIGEON, Gaston.

    Les arts musulmans.

    Paris and Brussels, G. van Oest, 1926.

    First edition, published in the series...

    £85

  17. OPPENORD, Gilles-Marie.

    Album containing plates from the Grand...

    Paris, chez Huquier, [c. 1740].

    An interesting album containing plates...

    £2500

  18. PAPINI, Roberto.

    Le Arti d’Oggi: Architettura e Arti Decorative...

    Milan and Rome, Bestetti and Tumminelli, 1930.

    First edition of a thorough and extensively...

    £300

  19. ROBINSON, W.

    The Parks and Gardens of Paris, considered...

    London, John Murray, 1883.

    Third edition of an attractively illustrated...

    £60

  20. SCHÜBLER, Johann Jacob, et al.

    Designs for furniture, funerary monuments,...

    Augsburg, [c. 1710s–20s].

    An interesting sammelband containing...

    £3750