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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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 the...
£4750
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NORMAND, Alfred Nicolas.
L’architecture des nations étrangères....
Paris, A. Morel, 1870.
First edition. This is a presentation copy,...
£4000
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BORBONI, Domenico.
Architectura Dominici Borbonii celeberrimi...
[Bassano,] ‘ex typographio Remondiniano...
Only known edition of this very rare collection...
£3750
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SCHÜBLER, Johann Jacob, et al.
Designs for furniture, funerary monuments,...
Augsburg, [c. 1710s–20s].
An interesting sammelband containing over...
£3750
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PARKER, Thomas Netherton.
Leaves out of the Book of a Country Gentleman.
Oswestry, W. Price, London, Longman &...
First and only edition of this very rare...
£1950
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CARDONNEL, Adam de.
Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …
London: Printed for the Author, and sold...
First edition, the very rare issue with...
£975
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RAM RAZ.
Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús...
London, John William Parker for the Royal...
First edition, scarce on the market,...
£975
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YAMAZAKI Kane’ichirō 山崎 鋆一郎.
满洲の展望 [Manshū no tenbō, i.e....
Dalian, Kane’ichirō Yamazaki for Kinjirō...
A highly illustrated photobook on Manchuria...
£650
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[ROUSSEAU, Pierre.]
Considérations sur le théatre de l’opéra. ...
[Paris,] de l’imprimerie de Rignoux, [1822].
Very rare proposal for a new opera house...
£475
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
The Caliph’s Design. Architects! Where...
London, The Egoist Ltd., 1919.
First edition, a pamphlet of art criticism,...
£400
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[TAYLOR, John.]
The Column called the Monument, described,...
Bryan … for Samuel Arnott, Keeper of...
Third edition (first 1787) of this guidebook...
£350
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山下 富吉 YAMASHITA Takayoshi.
青島寫真帖 Souvenir Tsingtao.
Tsingtao, Showa 16, [1941].
A Japanese souvenir of Tsingtao (Qingdao)...
£300
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STANCOVICH, Pietro.
Dello anfiteatro di Pola, dei gradi marmorei...
Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1822.
First edition, uncut in the original wrappers,...
£275
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EBERSOLT, Jean.
Monuments d’architecture byzantine.
Paris, Les Editions d’Art et d’Histoire,...
First edition of this classic account of...
£250
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ROBERTS, Henry.
The dwellings of the labouring classes,...
London, Society for Improving the Condition...
First edition of one of the most important...
£250
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[COLOGNE.]
Hôtel de Belle Vue à Deutz vis-à-vis...
[Cologne, c. 1880.]
An ambitious lithographic advertisement...
£250
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HOWITT, William.
The rural and domestic life of Germany:...
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,...
A fine copy of the first edition of Howitt’s...
£100
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OSTROWSKA, Wanda; Viola G. GARVIN.
London’s Glory.
London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1945.
First edition, a poignant collection of...
£75