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. NIXON, Howard M. 

    Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...

    London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...

    First edition, one of three hundred copies,...

    £875

  2. [NIXON, Richard.]

    [ZEPHYRUS IMAGE, Edward DORN]. Three anti-President...

    [San Francisco, c. 1972–1973].

    A striking set of handbills urging the...

    £200

  3. NORMAND, Alfred Nicolas.

    L’architecture des nations étrangères....

    Paris, A. Morel, 1870.

    First edition. This is a presentation copy,...

    £4000

  4. [ORPHIC POEMS.] ESCHENBACH, Andreas Christian, editor.

    Ορφεως αργοναυτικα υμνοι...

    Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1689.

    First Eschenbach edition, presenting the...

    £325

  5. OSTROWSKA, Wanda; Viola G. GARVIN.

    London’s Glory.

    London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1945.

    First edition, a poignant collection of...

    £75

  6. [OXFORD UNIVERSITY.]

    Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum...

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1761.

    First edition, one of fifty copies on large...

    £9500

  7. [PAPER TRADE.] 

    Arrest du conseil d’état du roi, portant...

    [Besançon?, 1772?] 

    A seemingly unrecorded issue of this decree...

    £175

  8. 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

  9. PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE.

    Which? Have you a reason or only an excuse...

    London, The Abbey Press, 1915.

    A forthright call to the men of London,...

    £250

  10. PAYNE, Anthony.

    Richard Hakluyt. A guide to his books and...

    [London], Quaritch, 2008.

    In this guide various approaches to Hakluyt’s...

    £20

  11. PEARSON, David.

    Bookbindings: an illustrated History.

    Oxford, Bodleian Library Publishing, 2026.

    Richly illustrated throughout, this book...

    £50

  12. PERUCCI, Francesco.

    Pompe funebri di tutte le nationi del mondo,...

    Verona, Francesco Rossi, 1639.

    First edition of Perucci’s account of...

    £975

  13. PETRINI, Giovanni.

    Sixteen copper engravings depicting scenes...

    [Rome, late eighteenth century.]

    An attractive volume containing sixteen...

    £1750

  14. PIGHIUS, Stephanus Vinandus.

    Themis dea, seu de lege divina … Mythologia...

    Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1568.

    First edition of Pighius’s two treatises...

    £450

  15. PITOU, Louis-Ange.

    L’Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons, ou...

    Paris, [Beraud for] L.A. Pitou, 31 August...

    First and only surviving edition of this...

    £650

  16. PORTA, Giambattista della.

    De humana physiognomonia … libri IIII;...

    Hanau, Wilhelm Antonius for [Frankfurt,]...

    The second Latin edition and the first...

    £2500

  17. [PORTUGAL.]

    Centro dei Comunisti. Lotta di classe e...

    Rome, 26 September 1975.


    An historical overview of the Portuguese...

    £100

  18. [PORTUGAL.]

    O povo está com o MFA. Dinamização cultural,...

    Comissão dinamizadora central, [Lisbon, 1974].

    Two rare pieces of ephemera on the Portuguese...

    £200

  19. POUND, Ezra.

    Gaudier-Brzeska, a Memoir …

    [London,] The Marvell Press, [1960].

    Revised edition, inscribed by Dorothy Pound...

    £250

  20. 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