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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[AGRICULTURE.] BEIJING MUNICIPAL BUREAU FOR AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY.
农业机械安全生产挂图 [Nongye jixie anquan shengchan...
[Beijing], China Agriculture Press for Xinhua Bookshop, [late 1970s].
Very rare complete set of posters promoting the modernisation of agriculture at the outset of China’s economic reform.
£1750
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[BENDISCIOLI, Faustino.]
Quadro ossia saggio epilogato del Sistema di liberta’ proclamato dai Francesi.
Milan, Stamperia [dei Patrioti d’Italia] di Strada Nuova, [1799].
An impassioned tract attacking the claims of a new life of liberty promoted in Europe after the French Revolution, very rarely to be found in any of the three editions published in the same year.
£200
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[MARKOVIC AFFAIR.]
Oui aux barbouzes … Fifty-fifty?
[Paris], Imprimerie Speciale Sorbonne, [c. 1969].
Two rare posters printed back-to-back on the same sheet, an excellent illustration of the widespread political upheaval of the late years of the 1960s.
£500
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[METEOROLOGY.] ZHAO Jingdong 赵静东, illustrator.
氣象知䛊掛图（供小型展览） [Qixiang zhishi guatu (gong xiaoxing...
Tianjin, Tianjin Municipal Press for the Popularisation of Science via Visual Materials, [1965].
An apparently unrecorded set of posters from mid-1960s China instructing peasants in basic meteorology.
£2000
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[NIXON, Richard.]
[ZEPHYRUS IMAGE, Edward DORN]. Three anti-President Nixon items, two calling for impeachment.
[San Francisco, c. 1972–1973].
A striking set of handbills urging the impeachment of President Nixon, by the Zephyrus Image press.
£200
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OSTROWSKA, Wanda; Viola G. GARVIN.
London’s Glory.
London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1945.
First edition, a poignant collection of paintings of war-torn London by the Polish artist-in-exile Wanda Ostrowska, accompanied by extracts from her own writings and narrative by Viola Garvin, our copy with an inscription from Charles B. Cochran, impresario and theatrical producer known for popularising...
£75
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[PORTUGAL.]
Centro dei Comunisti. Lotta di classe e potere politico in Portogallo (Quaderni Comunisti).
Rome, 26 September 1975.
An historical overview of the Portuguese ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 25 April 1974 and its aftermath, including a reproduction of João Abel Manta’s famous poster showing Vasco Gonçalves, Portugal’s prime minister, with his arms around a member of the MFA (Movimento das Forças Armadas)...£100
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[PORTUGAL.]
O povo está com o MFA. Dinamização cultural, acção cívica.
Comissão dinamizadora central, [Lisbon, 1974].
Two rare pieces of ephemera on the Portuguese ‘Carnation Revolution’ of April 1974.
£200