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. FREEMAN, Arthur.

    Historical Forgery in Romanophobe Britain:...

    London, 2021.

    A new and particular account of the anti-Catholic...

    £20

  2. FREEMAN, Arthur, and Janet ING FREEMAN.

    Courtship, Slander, and Treason: Studies...

    London, 2019.

    Courtship, Slander, and Treason...

    £55

  3. GANF, Iulii Abramovich, and P. PISKUNOV, editor.

    Да здравствует конституция...

    Moscow, Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo...

    Typically Soviet poster illustrated by...

    £700

  4. GARGIULO, Raffaele.

    Cenni sulla maniera di rinvenire i vasi...

    Naples, Tipografia Virgilio, 1843.

    Second, revised and enlarged edition (first...

    £275

  5. GAWSWORTH, John.

    Apes, Japes and Hitlerism, a Study and...

    London, Unicorn Press, [1932].

    First edition.

    £50

  6. GRÜNEISEN, [Karl].

    Niclaus Manuel: Leben und Werke eines Malers...

    Stuttgart & Tübingen, J.G. Cotta, 1837.

    First and only edition of the first separate...

    £120

  7. HALL, Trevor H.

    The Winder sale of old conjuring books.

    Leeds, W. S. Maney & Son Ltd., 1975.

    First edition, number 52 of 250 copies,...

    £35

  8. HAMILTON, ‘Eliza’ [Elizabeth].

    Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo...

    London, J. Crowder for G. & J. Robinson, 1801.

    Second edition of Hamilton’s first separately...

    £575

  9. HARRIS, James.

    Three Treatises the first concerning Art...

    London, John Nourse and Paul Vaillant, 1765.

    Presentation copies, inscribed ‘From...

    £600

  10. [HERALDRY.]

    Manuscripts relating to Low Countries nobility.

    [Low Countries, mid-seventeenth century?]

    A fine set of manuscripts relating to Low...

    £1750

  11. HIBBERD, James Shirley.

    The Garden Oracle and floricultural Year...

    London, Gardener’s Magazine Office, 1882.

    Edited by James Shirley Hibberd (1825–1890),...

    £100

  12. HOLBEIN, Hans; Wenceslaus HOLLAR, engraver; [Francis DOUCE, editor].

    The Dance of Death, from the original Designs...

    [McMillan] for J. Coxhead, 1816.

    An attractive early nineteenth-century...

    £375

  13. HOSSCHIUS, Sidronius.

    Sidronii Hosschii e Societate Iesu elegiarum...

    Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

    First collected edition of the neo-Latin...

    £600

  14. 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

  15. HURTADO, Eugenio, scribe.

    [Missal for feast days.]

    Madrid, 1827.

    An extraordinary and enormous liturgical...

    £9500

  16. JACOBSON, Ken.

    Odalisques & Arabesques: Orientalist Photography...

    [London], Quaritch, 2007.

    Profusely illustrated, this is the most...

    £60

  17. KECHT, Johann Sigismund.

    Der verbesserte praktische Weinbau in Gärten...

    Berlin, [Trowitzsch and Son for] the author,...

    Third, expanded edition (first 1813) of...

    £450

  18. LABORDE, Ernest.

    Vieilles maisons boutiques & paysages de...

    Paris, Jules Meynial, 1918 [1919].

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

    £1950

  19. LA SERRE, Jean-Puget de.

    Grab-Statt der weltlichen Ergötzlichkeiten,...

    Regensburg, Johann Conrad Peetz und Bader,...

    First edition in German of Tombeau des...

    £375

  20. LEVEY, Michael.

    The later Italian Pictures in the Collection...

    Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991.

    Revised second edition of Levey’s catalogue...

    £475