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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ROUQUET, Jean-André.
The present State of the Arts in England. ...
London, for J. Nourse, 1755.
First edition in English, published...
£19500
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FENTON, Roger.
Lichfield Cathedral, south transept portal...
1858.
A fine print of one of Fenton's most...
£12500
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[LOO, Pieter van, (attributed).]
156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and...
[Holland, c. 1760–80].
A truly stunning collection of over...
£110000
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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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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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MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.
Urbis Romae topographia.
Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.
First illustrated edition (third overall),...
£5500
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SPON, Jacob.
Voyage d’Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece,...
Lyons, Antoine Cellier, 1678.
Very rare first edition of ‘one of...
£4750
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[PONTIFICAL.]
Pontificale Romanum Clementis VIII. primum,...
Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...
An attractive Plantin-Moretus Pontifical,...
£4500
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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...
£4500
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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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SCHÜBLER, Johann Jacob, et al.
Designs for furniture, funerary monuments,...
Augsburg, [c. 1710s–20s].
An interesting sammelband containing...
£3750
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[PFORZHEIMER, Carl H.]
The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English...
New York, Privately Printed [at the Morrill...
First edition, limited, numbered 17...
£3500
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VIAS, Balthasar de.
In clarissimum virum Nicolaum Claudium...
Marseille, Claude Garcin, 1642.
Uncommon first edition of Balthasar...
£3250
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[FASCISM.]
Ordinamento Corporativo dello Stato Fascista.
Padua, Edizione di propaganda corporative,...
Italian Fascism primarily followed the...
£2500
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STRABO.
Strabonis geographicorum lib. XVII ......
Basel, Johann Walder, 1539.
Second edition of Strabo’s masterful...
£2500
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DIODORUS Siculus.
Bibliothecae historicae libri XV. Hoc est,...
Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559.
Important edition, the first to be overseen...
£2500
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PORTA, Giambattista della.
De humana physiognomonia … libri IIII;...
Hanau, Wilhelm Antonius for [Frankfurt,]...
The second Latin edition and the first...
£2500
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ALBUM
of watercolours and pencil drawings including...
England, mid-eighteenth century?
An attractive sketchbook, seemingly...
£2250
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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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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...
£2000