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. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500

  2. SPON, Jacob.

    Voyage d’Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece,...

    Lyons, Antoine Cellier, 1678.

    Very rare first edition of ‘one of the...

    £4750

  3. BORBONI, Domenico.

    Architectura Dominici Borbonii celeberrimi...

    [Bassano,] ‘ex typographio Remondiniano...

    Only known edition of this very rare collection...

    £3750

  4. SCHÜBLER, Johann Jacob, et al.

    Designs for furniture, funerary monuments,...

    Augsburg, [c. 1710s–20s].

    An interesting sammelband containing over...

    £3750

  5. CARDONNEL, Adam de.

    Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …

    London: Printed for the Author, and sold...

    First edition, the very rare issue with...

    £975

  6. [TAYLOR, John.]

    The Column called the Monument, described,...

    Bryan … for Samuel Arnott, Keeper of...

    Third edition (first 1787) of this guidebook...

    £350

  7. [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

  8. STANCOVICH, Pietro.

    Dello anfiteatro di Pola, dei gradi marmorei...

    Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1822.

    First edition, uncut in the original wrappers,...

    £275

  9. RAM RAZ. 

    Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús...

    London, John William Parker for the Royal...

    First edition, scarce on the market,...

    £975

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. ROBERTS, Henry.

    The dwellings of the labouring classes,...

    London, Society for Improving the Condition...

    First edition of one of the most important...

    £250

  13. [COLOGNE.]

    Hôtel de Belle Vue à Deutz vis-à-vis...

    [Cologne, c. 1880.]

    An ambitious lithographic advertisement...

    £250

  14. [UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD.]

    Subscription list for repairs to the College...

    [Oxford, c. 1860].

    A printed appeal from University College,...

    £50

  15. NORMAND, Alfred Nicolas.

    L’architecture des nations étrangères....

    Paris, A. Morel, 1870.

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

    £4000

  16. ANDERSEN, Hendrik Christian.

    ...

    Paris, 1913.

    First French editions of both parts of...

    £2250

  17. LABORDE, Ernest.

    Vieilles maisons boutiques & paysages de...

    Paris, Jules Meynial, 1918 [1919].

    First edition, very rare: two series of...

    £1950

  18. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    The Caliph’s Design. Architects! Where...

    London, The Egoist Ltd., 1919.

    First edition, a pamphlet of art criticism,...

    £400

  19. TALBOT RICE, David.

    Notice on some religious buildings in the...

    Brussels, Secrétariat de la Revue, 1930.

    An offprint from Byzantion. The...

    £65

  20. 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