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. [COLUMBUS.] QUARITCH, Bernard, and Michael KERNEY.

    The Spanish Letter of Columbus … A facsimile...

    [London,] Quaritch, 2006.

    Over the centuries, booksellers have contributed...

    £60

  2. COMBE, George.

    Phrenology applied to Painting and Sculpture.

    London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1855.

    First edition, scarce in commerce. George...

    £350

  3. COX, John Roalfe.

    Horses in Accident and Disease: Notes and...

    Edinburgh, George Waterston & Sons for...

    First edition of an elegantly illustrated...

    £70

  4. [CRIMEAN WAR.]

    Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....

    Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].

    First and only edition, rare, of this unusual...

    £375

  5. CROOKES, William, Sir.

    Autograph letter, signed, to Sir John Evans.

    London, 7 Kensington Park Gardens, 26 May 1892.

    The scientist Sir William Crookes writes...

    £250

  6. DAVY, Sir Humphry.

    Autograph letter, signed, to Charles Stuart,...

    ‘23 Grosvenor Street London’, 26 May 1821.

    An unpublished letter in which Davy discusses...

    £750

  7. DIODORUS Siculus.

    Bibliothecae historicae libri XV. Hoc est,...

    Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559.

    Important edition, the first to be overseen...

    £2500

  8. DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.

    Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...

    Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.

    A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...

    £450

  9. DODGSON, Campbell (editor).

    Woodcuts of the XV Century in the Department...

    London, British Museum, 1934 [– 1935].

    First edition, scarce, of Dodgson’s authoritative...

    £750

  10. DONI, Antonio Francesco.

    Disegno … partito in piu ragionamenti,...

    Venice, Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1549.

    First edition of an important art-theoretical...

    £1250

  11. [DOVES PRESS.] 

    Pervigilium Veneris. 

    Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...

    One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...

    £950

  12. DU BOS, Jean-Baptiste, Abbé.

    Reflexions critiques sur la poésie et...

    Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1740.

    Fourth edition, expanded and corrected,...

    £250

  13. EBERSOLT, Jean.

    Monuments d’architecture byzantine.

    Paris, Les Editions d’Art et d’Histoire,...

    First edition of this classic account of...

    £250

  14. [EMBROIDERED BINDING.]

    Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace...

    Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].

    A charming almanack for 1753 printed in...

    £400

  15. ERNST, Max.

    Une semaine de bonté ou les sept éléments...

    Paris, Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934.

    First edition, no. 706 of 800 copies on...

    £4500

  16. FARINGTON, Susan Maria (illustrator). 

    The 104th Psalm.  Illustrated by Susan...

    ...

    The Faringtons or Ffaringtons were an ancient...

    £650

  17. [FASCISM.]

    Ordinamento Corporativo dello Stato Fascista.

    Padua, Edizione di propaganda corporative,...

    Italian Fascism primarily followed the...

    £2500

  18. FREEMAN, Arthur.

    Julia Alpinula, Pseudo-Heroine of Helvetia:...

    London, The Author, 2015.

    Julia Alpinula is a legendary Swiss heroine,...

    £15

  19. FREEMAN, Arthur.

    Catullus Carmen 17.6 and Other Mysteries....

    London, The Author, 2020.

    This partly historical, partly philological...

    £15

  20. FREEMAN, Arthur.

    Bibliotheca Fictiva: A Collection of Books...

    London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2024.

    This fully revised and enlarged edition...

    £80