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. GARGIULO, Raffaele.

    Cenni sulla maniera di rinvenire i vasi...

    Naples, Tipografia Virgilio, 1843.

    Second, revised and enlarged edition (first...

    £275

  2. GAWSWORTH, John.

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

    London, Unicorn Press, [1932].

    First edition.

    £50

  3. GRÜNEISEN, [Karl].

    Niclaus Manuel: Leben und Werke eines Malers...

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

    First and only edition of the first separate...

    £120

  4. 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

  5. HARRIS, James.

    Three Treatises the first concerning Art...

    London, John Nourse and Paul Vaillant, 1765.

    Presentation copies, inscribed ‘From...

    £600

  6. [HERALDRY.]

    Manuscripts relating to Low Countries nobility.

    [Low Countries, mid-seventeenth century?]

    A fine set of manuscripts relating to Low...

    £1750

  7. HIBBERD, James Shirley.

    The Garden Oracle and floricultural Year...

    London, Gardener’s Magazine Office, 1882.

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

    £100

  8. 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

  9. HOSSCHIUS, Sidronius.

    Sidronii Hosschii e Societate Iesu elegiarum...

    Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

    First collected edition of the neo-Latin...

    £600

  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. JACOBSON, Ken.

    Odalisques & Arabesques: Orientalist Photography...

    [London], Quaritch, 2007.

    Profusely illustrated, this is the most...

    £60

  12. KECHT, Johann Sigismund.

    Der verbesserte praktische Weinbau in Gärten...

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

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

    £450

  13. LABORDE, Ernest.

    Vieilles maisons boutiques & paysages de...

    Paris, Jules Meynial, 1918 [1919].

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

    £1950

  14. LA SERRE, Jean-Puget de.

    Grab-Statt der weltlichen Ergötzlichkeiten,...

    Regensburg, Johann Conrad Peetz und Bader,...

    First edition in German of Tombeau des...

    £375

  15. LEWIS, Wyndham.

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

    London, The Egoist Ltd., 1919.

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

    £400

  16. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    Wyndham Lewis the Artist.

    From ‘Blast’ to Burlington House’...

    First edition, first issue.

    £125

  17. [LEWIS, Wyndham.]

    Agenda. Wyndham Lewis Special Issue.

    [London, Poets and Painters Press (William...

    A triple issue of Agenda devoted...

    £75

  18. [LOO, Pieter van, attributed.]

    156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.

    [Holland, c. 1760–80].

    A truly stunning collection of over 150...

    £100000

  19. LUCAN.

    Pharsalia cum annotationibus in margine...

    Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1528.

    An uncommon edition of Lucan’s poem on...

    £2500

  20. MACDIARMID, Hugh.

    Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone 1933 …

    Edinburgh, K.D. Duval, [1963].

    First edition.

    £25