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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BELLARMINO, Roberto.
De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis liber unus....
Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy, 1658.
An uncut copy of Bellarmino’s bibliography...
£1250
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[BENDISCIOLI, Faustino.]
Quadro ossia saggio epilogato del Sistema...
Milan, Stamperia [dei Patrioti d’Italia]...
An impassioned tract attacking the claims...
£200
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[BIBLE.]
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and...
Oxford, T. Wright and W. Gill, 1769.
First quarto edition of the Oxford ‘standard’...
£5250
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BLANQUI, Jérôme Adolphe, l’Ainé.
Histoire de l’économie politique en...
Paris, Guillaumin, 1837.
First edition of ‘the first major history...
£125
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[BOLOGNA.]
Delle oggetti di belle arti nel famoso...
Bologna, ‘nella stamperia di San Tommaso...
First edition of this detailed description...
£275
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BORBONI, Domenico.
Architectura Dominici Borbonii celeberrimi...
[Bassano,] ‘ex typographio Remondiniano...
Only known edition of this very rare collection...
£3750
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[BRISTOL.]
The Bristol Contest, being a Collection...
Bristol, ‘sold by the Printing-Office...
Extremely rare first edition of this Bristol-printed...
£650
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[BRITISH LIBRARY.]
The Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue.
[London,] British Library, 1983.
First and only microfiche edition of ESTC,...
£175
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BURNE-JONES, Edward.
The Little Holland House Album … with...
The Roxburghe Club, 2024
The Little Holland House Album was compiled...
£75
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BURY, Stephen.
Artists’ books: the book as a work of...
London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2015.
The history of artists’ involvement with...
£60
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CAPPONI, Alessandro Gregorio, Marchese.
Catalogo della Libreria Capponi o sia de’...
Rome, Bernabò & Lazzarini, 1747
First and only edition of the catalogue...
£900
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CAPRA, Alessandro.
Geometria famigliare, et instruttione pratica...
Cremona, Gio[vanni] Pietro Zanni, 1671.
An exceedingly rare extract from the first...
£575
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CARDONNEL, Adam de.
Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …
London: Printed for the Author, and sold...
First edition, the very rare issue with...
£975
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CARTARI, Vincenzo.
Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de...
Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1556.
First edition of Cartari’s influential...
£800
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CARTER, John, and Graham POLLARD.
The Firm of Charles Ottley, Landon & Co.:...
London, Rupert Hart-Davis, and New York,...
First edition of Carter and Pollard’s...
£12
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CELLINI, Benvenuto.
Vita di Benvenuto Cellini orefice e scultore...
‘Cologne’ [i.e. Florence],...
The counterfeit edition of Benvenuto Cellini’s...
£675
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CHALMERS, David.
Histoire abbregee de tous les roys de France,...
Paris, Jean Fevrier, 1579.
First edition of Chalmer’s historical...
£950
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CHEESMAN, Thomas.
No. I. Six Heads Drawn and Engraved, by...
[London,] T. Cheesman, No. 40 Oxford...
First and only edition, extremely rare,...
£850
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[CHRISTIE’S – FOUNTAINE.]
Catalogue of the celebrated Fountaine Collection...
London, [William Clowes & Sons for] Christie,...
An early photographically illustrated auction...
£650
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[COLOGNE.]
Hôtel de Belle Vue à Deutz vis-à-vis...
[Cologne, c. 1880.]
An ambitious lithographic advertisement...
£250