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. [COLOGNE.]

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

    Cologne, c. 1850

    A ambitious lithograph advertisement for...

    £250

  4. DALI, Salvador.

    Alpes: French Railways.

    France, Draeger for SNCF, 1970.

    A gorgeous and colourful surrealist...

    £250

  5. DALI, Salvador.

    Normandie. French Railways.

    France, Draeger for SNCF, 1970.

    Mont Saint-Michel meets stone circles,...

    £200

  6. DALI, Salvador.

    Roussillon. French Railways.

    France, Draeger for SNCF, 1970.

    Further butterfly-interspersed surrealism...

    £250

  7. DALI, Salvador.

    Alsace. French Railways.

    France, Draeger for SNCF, 1970.

    A striking monochrome image of the Temple...

    £250

  8. DOLLMAN, Francis C.

    Examples of antient pulpits existing in...

    First edition of this scholarly study of...

    £85

  9. FALDA, Giovanni Battista.

    Li giardini di Roma con le loro piante,...

    Rome, Gio. Giacomo de Rossi, [early eighteenth...

    A later impression of these magnificent...

    £5000

  10. FOUNTAINE, Andrew.

    Catalogue of the celebrated Fountaine collection...

    [London], 1884

    First day only of the Majolica sale of...

    £25

  11. ‘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

  12. MIDDLETON, Charles.

    Designs for Gates and Rails suitable to...

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

    First edition of this charming pattern...

    £675

  13. MIGEON, Gaston.

    Les arts musulmans.

    Paris and Brussels, G. van Oest, 1926.

    First edition, published in the series...

    £85

  14. OPPENORD, Gilles-Marie.

    Album containing plates from the Grand...

    Paris, chez Huquier, [c. 1740].

    An interesting album containing plates...

    £2500

  15. [PLUCHE, Noël-Antoine,] and Samuel HUMPHREYS (translator).

    Spectacle de la nature, or Nature display’d,...

    London, R. Franklin, C. Hitch & L. Hawes,...

    Scarce ‘eighth edition’ of Pluche’s...

    £360

  16. ROBINSON, W.

    The Parks and Gardens of Paris, considered...

    London, John Murray, 1883.

    Third edition of an attractively illustrated...

    £60

  17. SHENSTONE, William.

    The Works, in Verse and Prose… in three...

    London: Printed for J. Dodsley … 1777.

    Fifth edition of the Works (1764),...

    £325

  18. [STRASBOURG.]

    Souscription patriotique de la part du...

    [S.l., s.n., 1789?.]

    Rare first edition of this entertaining...

    £165