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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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  1. MERULA, Giorgio.

    Enarrationes Satyrarum Juvenalis.

    Treviso, Bartholomaeus Confalonerius,...

    The first book printed by Bartolomeo...

    £6500

  2. MEFFRET, Johann.

    Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...

    [Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

    A volume of sermons with early English...

    £6500

  3. BIBLE.

    Biblia cum concordantiis veteris et novi...

    [(Colophon:) Lyons, Jean Marion, for Anton...

    A handsomely printed Bible in a contemporary...

    £5500

  4. LUCAN.

    Pharsalia cum annotationibus in margine...

    Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1528.

    An uncommon edition of Lucan’s poem...

    £2500

  5. LIVY; [Pedro DE LA VEGA, translator].

    Todas las decadas de Tito Livio paduano,...

    [(Colophon:) Cologne [i.e. Antwerp?],...

    A handsome copy of Livy’s History...

    £3500

  6. STRABO.

    Strabonis geographicorum lib. XVII ......

    Basel, Johann Walder, 1539.

    Second edition of Strabo’s masterful...

    £2500

  7. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500

  8. DONI, Antonio Francesco.

    Disegno … partito in piu ragionamenti,...

    Venice, Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1549.

    First edition of an important art-theoretical...

    £1250

  9. CARTARI, Vincenzo.

    Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de...

    Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1556.

    First edition of Cartari’s influential...

    £800

  10. DIODORUS Siculus.

    Bibliothecae historicae libri XV. Hoc est,...

    Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559.

    Important edition, the first to be overseen...

    £2500

  11. [PSALMS.]

    Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti,...

    Antwerp, [(colophon:) Jan Verwithagen...

    A collection of verse paraphrases of...

    £975

  12. PIGHIUS, Stephanus Vinandus.

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

    Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1568.

    First edition of Pighius’s two treatises...

    £450

  13. [PRIMER.]

    Preces privatae, in studiosorum gratia[m]...

    London, William Seres, 1568.

    Second edition of this rare ‘private’...

    £4250

  14. THEOCRITUS et al.

    Theocriti aliorumque poetarum Idyllia....

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1579.

    An outstanding volume uniting the Estienne...

    £9000

  15. CHALMERS, David.

    Histoire abbregee de tous les roys de France,...

    Paris, Jean Fevrier, 1579.

    First edition of Chalmer’s historical...

    £950

  16. PLINY the Elder.

    Historiae mundi libri XXXVII, cum castigationibus...

    Frankfurt, Claude de Marne and heirs of...

    First Frankfurt edition of Pliny’s...

    £1400

  17. DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.

    Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...

    Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.

    A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...

    £450

  18. PESENTI, Giovanni Paolo.

    Pellegrinaggio di Gierusalemme fatto, e...

    Bergamo, Comin Ventura, 1615.

    First edition of Pesenti’s account...

    £4500

  19. PERUCCI, Francesco.

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

    Verona, Francesco Rossi, 1639.

    First edition of Perucci’s account...

    £975

  20. [HERALDRY.]

    Manuscripts relating to Low Countries nobility.

    [Low Countries, mid-seventeenth century?]

    A fine set of manuscripts relating to...

    £1750