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. [AGRICULTURE.] BEIJING MUNICIPAL BUREAU FOR AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY.

    农业机械安全生产挂图 [Nongye...

    [Beijing], China Agriculture Press for...

    Very rare complete set of posters promoting...

    £1750

  2. ALAI, Beatrice.

    Le miniature Italiane del Kupferstichkabinett...

    Florence, Edizioni Polistampa, 2019.

    From the presentation leaf: ‘Bernard...

    £75

  3. [ALMANACK.]

    Calendarium Tyrnaviense ad annum Jesu Chris[ti]...

    [Tyrnau (Trnava), 1731.]

    A remarkable almanack binding of part-printed,...

    £1850

  4. [ALMANACK.]

    L’Esprit des chansonniers, extrain [sic?]...

    Paris, Le Fuel, [1826?].

    A very rare enamelled metal binding...

    £2750

  5. [ALMANACK.]

    Les étrennes à la rose, ou le rosier...

    Paris, Janet, [1804?].

    A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush...

    £2500

  6. [ALMANACK.]

    Étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et...

    Paris, Claude-Jacques-Charles [Durand]...

    A very rare Parisian almanack for 1775,...

    £1500

  7. [ALMANACK.]

    London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1785.

    [London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers,...

    A very attractive miniature London Almanack...

    £950

  8. [ALMANACK.]

    étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses...

    Paris, [Jean-François-Hubert] Guillot, 1790.

    Very rare almanack for 1790, in a handsome...

    £1950

  9. [ALMANACK.]

    Les perfidies supposées ou les médisances...

    Paris, Janet, ‘Successeur du Sr Jubert’,...

    A seemingly unrecorded almanack for...

    £1450

  10. ANDERSEN, Hendrik Christian.

    ...

    Paris, 1913.

    First French editions of both parts...

    £2250

  11. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Science and Engineering of Materials:...

    Toronto, A.E Publications, 2023.

    One of twenty-five finely bound numbered...

    £950

  12. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Science and Engineering of Water: An...

    Toronto, A.E. Publications, 2022.

    A finely bound deluxe copy, one of twenty...

    £675

  13. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Science and Engineering of Water: An...

    Toronto, A.E. Publications, 2022.

    A lavishly illustrated catalogue, tracing...

    £75

  14. Aristotle: From Antiquity to the Modern Era.

    Preface by Martin J. Gross. Essays by Benjamin...

    Lewes, D. Giles Ltd for the Martin J....

    Aristotle’s influence towers over western...

    £30

  15. [ART EDUCATION.]

    Der kleine Maler.

    [Germany, mid-nineteenth century.]

    A delightful suite of plates intended...

    £450

  16. AURIGNAC, Sara Thérèse d’.

    Cahier de dessins.

    [Villiers-en-Bière], c. 1896.

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

    £875

  17. BARKER, Nicolas.

    Bibliotheca Lindesiana. The Lives and Collections...

    The Roxburghe Club, 1977.

    The Bibliotheca Lindesiana was perhaps...

    £50

  18. BARKER, Nicolas, and David QUENTIN.

    The Library of Thomas Tresham and Thomas...

    The Roxburghe Club, 2006.

    Sir Thomas Tresham (1543–1605) remains...

    £95

  19. BARKER, Nicolas, ed.

    The Pirie Library. A Short-Title Catalogue...

    London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2019.

    The library of Robert S Pirie, ‘one of...

    £25

  20. [BASKERVILLE PRESS.]

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

    Third and final edition of Baskerville’s...

    £1200