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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[HERALDRY.]
Manuscripts relating to Low Countries nobility.
[Low Countries, mid-seventeenth century?]
A fine set of manuscripts relating to Low...
£1750
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HOLBEIN, Hans; Wenceslaus HOLLAR, engraver; [Francis DOUCE, editor].
The Dance of Death, from the original Designs...
[McMillan] for J. Coxhead, 1816.
An attractive early nineteenth-century...
£375
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LA SERRE, Jean-Puget de.
Grab-Statt der weltlichen Ergötzlichkeiten,...
Regensburg, Johann Conrad Peetz und Bader,...
First edition in German of Tombeau des...
£375
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LEMASSON, Albert.
Two pencil and watercolour sketches for...
[Saint-Mars-du-Désert, c. 1942.]
An attractive pair of sketches for Lemasson’s...
£375
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
Wyndham Lewis the Artist.
From ‘Blast’ to Burlington House’...
First edition, first issue.
£125
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[LOO, Pieter van, attributed.]
156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.
[Holland, c. 1760–80].
A truly stunning collection of over 150...
£100000
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MACDIARMID, Hugh.
Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone 1933 …
Edinburgh, K.D. Duval, [1963].
First edition.
£25
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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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NORMAND, Alfred Nicolas.
L’architecture des nations étrangères....
Paris, A. Morel, 1870.
First edition. This is a presentation copy,...
£4000
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PETRINI, Giovanni.
Sixteen copper engravings depicting scenes...
[Rome, late eighteenth century.]
An attractive volume containing sixteen...
£1750
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PLUTARCH; John Moyr SMITH, illustrator.
An Argive Hero … with Illustrations designed...
London, Arthur H. Moxon, 1877.
Scarce first and only edition of John Moyr...
£950
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POUND, Ezra.
Gaudier-Brzeska, a Memoir …
[London,] The Marvell Press, [1960].
Revised edition, inscribed by Dorothy Pound...
£250
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POUND, Ezra; Mary de RACHEWILTZ, translator.
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, con un manifesto...
Galleria Apollinaire Milano [Milan, All’insegna...
First edition thus, no. 123 of 500 copies,...
£75
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SASSOON, Siegfried; Paul NASH, illustrator.
Nativity.
London, Faber & Gwyer, 1927.
First edition of this striking collaboration...
£175
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SYMONS, Arthur, editor.
The Savoy.
London, Leonard Smithers, 1896.
First edition of this outstanding, though...
£3000
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‘TELL’, pseud. [i.e. Jacob EPSTEIN].
A rude Book.
Hartford, Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1926.
First edition, one of 500 copies printed...
£350
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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,...
£1650
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VOLOSHIN, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich.
O Repine [On Repin] …
Moscow, “Ole-Lukoie”, 1913.
First edition thus: three pieces written...
£450
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[WALLPAPER.]
A substantial album of printed wallpaper...
France, 1923–24.
A delightful sample album of French wallpapers...
£3500
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[WANG Gai 王概, WANG Shi 王蓍, and WANG Nie 王臬.]
[芥子園畫譜 Jieziyuan huapu; ‘The...
[China], s.n., (prefaces:) Qianlong renyin...
A handsome set comprising the third and...
£10000