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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POUND Omar S. and Philip GROVER.
Wyndham Lewis a Descriptive Bibliography...
Folkestone, Dawson / Archon Books, [1978].
First edition. Bridson’s checklist appears...
£50
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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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PRIOR, Matthew.
Poems on several Occasions.
London, printed for Jacob Tonson and John...
First edition, a subscriber’s copy on...
£5000
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[PSALMS.]
Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François,...
Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise...
New edition of the metrical Psalms of the...
£950
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[PSALMS.]
Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti,...
Antwerp, [(colophon:) Jan Verwithagen...
A collection of verse paraphrases of the...
£975
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[PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich.]
Iubileinyi Al’bom v pamiat’ stoletiia...
St Petersburg, A.F. Marx, 1899.
First edition of an album in celebration...
£1500
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[QUARITCH.]
Guillaume Postel (1510–1581).
Quaritch, 2006.
A catalogue of a collection of the works...
£60
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QUARITCH, Bernard Alexander Christian, editor.
Contributions towards a Dictionary of English...
London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 1969.
A facsimile reprint of Quaritch’s series...
£25
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RAM RAZ.
Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús...
London, John William Parker for the Royal...
First edition, scarce on the market,...
£975
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[RAYNAL, Guillaume-Thomas, Abbé;] Johann Adam HILLER, translator.
Anecdoten zur Lebensgeschichte berühmter...
Leipzig, Lankisch, 1762.
First edition in German of this collection...
£250
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REFELL, A.
Trugbilder: Eine Anleitung Erscheinungen,...
Stuttgart, Rieger, 1865.
First German edition, rare, of this fascinating...
£1250
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RICCI, Giovanni, and Ercolano PORTA.
Storia della missione francescana e del...
Bologna, Stabilimenti tipografici riuniti,...
First and only edition of this history...
£750
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ROBERTS, Henry.
The dwellings of the labouring classes,...
London, Society for Improving the Condition...
First edition of one of the most important...
£250
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ROLLIN, Charles.
The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians,...
Durham, G. Walker, [c. 1824].
First and only Durham edition of Rollin’s...
£250
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[ROUSSEAU, Pierre.]
Considérations sur le théatre de l’opéra. ...
[Paris,] de l’imprimerie de Rignoux, [1822].
Very rare proposal for a new opera house...
£475
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SASSOON, Siegfried; Paul NASH, illustrator.
Nativity.
London, Faber & Gwyer, 1927.
First edition of this striking collaboration...
£175
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SAUBERT, Johann.
Miracula Augustanae Confessionis, [engraved...
[Nuremberg,] Wolffgang Endter, 1631.
First editions of three works of Lutheran...
£2850
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SAULCY, Louis Félicien, Caignart de.
Note sur une inscription punique découverte...
[Paris], Imprimerie Royale, 1843.
Rare offprint from the Journal Asiatique...
£250
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SCHÜBLER, Johann Jacob, et al.
Designs for furniture, funerary monuments,...
Augsburg, [c. 1710s–20s].
An interesting sammelband containing over...
£3750
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[SHANGHAI.]
Shanghai of To-day. A Souvenir Album of...
Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Kelly...
Third edition, revised and enlarged (first...
£1250