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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ROUQUET, Jean-André.
The present State of the Arts in England. ...
London, for J. Nourse, 1755.
First edition in English, published...
£19500
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FENTON, Roger.
Lichfield Cathedral, south transept portal...
1858.
A fine print of one of Fenton's most...
£12500
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[LOO, Pieter van, attributed.]
156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.
[Holland, c. 1760–80].
A truly stunning collection of over...
£100000
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[OXFORD UNIVERSITY.]
Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum...
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1761.
First edition, one of fifty copies on...
£10000
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HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.
[Missal for feast days.]
Madrid, 1827.
An extraordinary and enormous liturgical...
£9500
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THEOCRITUS et al.
Theocriti aliorumque poetarum Idyllia....
[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1579.
An outstanding volume uniting the Estienne...
£9000
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MERULA, Giorgio.
Enarrationes Satyrarum Juvenalis.
Treviso, Bartholomaeus Confalonerius,...
The first book printed by Bartolomeo...
£6500
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MEFFRET, Johann.
Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...
[Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]
A volume of sermons with early English...
£6500
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HELMAN, Isidore-Stanislas-Henri.
Faits mémorables des empereurs de la Chine,...
Paris, chez l’auteur … et chez M....
Two handsome engraved works by the French...
£6000
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MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.
Urbis Romae topographia.
Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.
First illustrated edition (third overall),...
£5500
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BIBLE.
Biblia cum concordantiis veteris et novi...
[(Colophon:) Lyons, Jean Marion, for Anton...
A handsomely printed Bible in a contemporary...
£5500
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[WALLPAPER.]
A substantial album of printed wallpaper...
France, 1923–24.
A delightful sample album of French...
£4750
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SPON, Jacob.
Voyage d’Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece,...
Lyons, Antoine Cellier, 1678.
Very rare first edition of ‘one of...
£4750
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ERNST, Max.
Une semaine de bonté ou les sept éléments...
Paris, Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934.
First edition, no. 706 of 800 copies...
£4500
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PESENTI, Giovanni Paolo.
Pellegrinaggio di Gierusalemme fatto, e...
Bergamo, Comin Ventura, 1615.
First edition of Pesenti’s account...
£4500
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[PRIMER.]
Preces privatae, in studiosorum gratia[m]...
London, William Seres, 1568.
Second edition of this rare ‘private’...
£4250
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NORMAND, Alfred Nicolas.
L’architecture des nations étrangères....
Paris, A. Morel, 1870.
First edition. This is a presentation...
£4000
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BORBONI, Domenico.
Architectura Dominici Borbonii celeberrimi...
[Bassano,] ‘ex typographio Remondiniano...
Only known edition of this very rare...
£3750
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[PFORZHEIMER, Carl H.]
The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English...
New York, Privately Printed [at the Morrill...
First edition, limited, numbered 17...
£3500
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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