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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[ANTIQUARIAN]
Architectural Antiquities from the Sussex Coast.
[Sussex], July 21st – 10th August 1837.
An interesting and charming antiquarian...
£950
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BOLZANI, A. M.
Wegweiser zum Seidenbau für Nord-Deutschland...
Berlin, Vereinsbuchhandlung, 1831.
First edition. Bolzani, originally from...
£275
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CASAL, Ugo Alfonso.
A small archive of letters, photographs,...
[Japan and California, 1930–1955.]
A fascinating archive relating to the extensive...
£975
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[COLOGNE.]
Hotel de Belle Vue à Deutz vis-à-vis...
Cologne, c. 1850
A ambitious lithograph advertisement for...
£250
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DOLLMAN, Francis C.
Examples of antient pulpits existing in...
First edition of this scholarly study of...
£85
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[DRESS HABITS.]
Considerazioni d’una dama ad una sua...
[S.l.,] Impresso dal Curti del fu Giacomo,...
Extremely rare set of six pious reflections...
£350
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DREYFUS, John.
Aspects of French Eighteenth Century Typography. ...
Cambridge, The Roxburghe Club, 1982.
A history of French type design in the...
£120
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FOUNTAINE, Andrew.
Catalogue of the celebrated Fountaine collection...
[London], 1884
First day only of the Majolica sale of...
£25
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GARGIULO, Raffaele.
Cenni sulla maniera di rinvenire i vasi...
Naples, Tipografia Virgilio, 1843.
Second, revised and enlarged edition...
£275
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[LABOURS OF THE MONTHS &c.]
Januarius. Februarius. Merz. April …
Nuremberg, Joh. Andreae Endterische Handlung,...
A scarce popular print depicting the...
£475
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‘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
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MIDDLETON, Charles.
Designs for Gates and Rails suitable to...
London, Published by J. Taylor, at the...
First edition of this charming pattern...
£675
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[OPTICAL PRINT.]
‘No. 5. Morgan’s improved protean...
London, Published by W. Morgan, [c. 1837].
A remarkable metamorphic or ‘protean’...
£675
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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
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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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SHENSTONE, William.
The Works, in Verse and Prose… in three...
London: Printed for J. Dodsley … 1777.
Fifth edition of the Works (1764),...
£325
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SOWERBY, J[ohn] G[eorge], and Thomas CRANE, illustrators. [Eliza KEARY.]
At Home.
London and Belfast, Marcus Ward & Co.,...
Original maquette for this charming...
£500
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[STRASBOURG.]
Souscription patriotique de la part du...
[S.l., s.n., 1789?.]
Rare first edition of this entertaining...
£165
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TOMS, William.
Thirty-six new original and practical designs...
Bath, W. Evans, [c. 1830].
A fine and rare furniture pattern book...
£650