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. AURIGNAC, Sara Thérèse d’.

    Cahier de dessins.

    [Villiers-en-Bière], c. 1896.

    An album of fin-de-siècle sketches...

    £875

  2. [BODONI.] 

    D. Francesco Giacinto Rovero Cavaliere...

    Saluzzo, Giovandomenico Bodoni, [December...

    Very rare survival, apparently unrecorded,...

    £1250

  3. BRADLEY Gertrude M., illustrator.

    An archive of drawings for Just Forty...

    [c. 1897].

    Fifty-eight delightful preliminary pencil...

    £850

  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. [FASCISM.]

    Ordinamento Corporativo dello Stato Fascista.

    Padua, Edizione di propaganda corporative,...

    Italian Fascism primarily followed the...

    £2500

  9. GANF, Iulii Abramovich, and P. PISKUNOV, editor.

    Да здравствует конституция...

    Moscow, Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo...

    Typically Soviet poster illustrated...

    £700

  10. [NATIONAL SOCIALISM] [OCCUPIED FRANCE]

    Finis les mauvais jours! Papa gagne de...

    [Paris], Office de Répartition de l´Affichage,...

    Rare, encouraging the voluntary relocation...

    £350

  11. [PARIS UPRISING.]

    Votez toujours. Je ferai le reste [Always...

    Paris, Comite d'initiative pour un movement...

    First edition. A striking image...

    £550

  12. PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE.

    Which? Have you a reason or only an excuse...

    London, The Abbey Press, 1915.

    A forthright call to the men of London,...

    £250

  13. PIECK, Henri C.

    10 Dagen Die De Wereld Deden Wankelen.

    Amsterdam, Skovino, 1927.

    A rare lithograph of Pieck’s dramatic...

    £300

  14. [POSTCARDS.] ‘PSH’.

    Twenty-nine manuscript postcards.

    London, 1912–c. 1920?.

    A rare, personal, and comic snapshot...

    £375

  15. [RALEIGH, Henry Patrick].

    Must children die and mothers plead in...

    New York, Sakett & Wilhelms Corp., [1918].

    This poster was produced to for the sale...

    £400