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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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  1. [PSALMS.]

    Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François,...

    Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise...

    New edition of the metrical Psalms of the...

    £950

  2. [PSALMS.]

    Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti,...

    Antwerp, [(colophon:) Jan Verwithagen...

    A collection of verse paraphrases of the...

    £975

  3. [PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich.]

    Iubileinyi Al’bom v pamiat’ stoletiia...

    St Petersburg, A.F. Marx, 1899.

    First edition of an album in celebration...

    £1500

  4. [QUARITCH.]

    Guillaume Postel (1510–1581).

    Quaritch, 2006.

    A catalogue of a collection of the works...

    £60

  5. QUARITCH, Bernard Alexander Christian, editor.

    Contributions towards a Dictionary of English...

    London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 1969.

    A facsimile reprint of Quaritch’s series...

    £25

  6. RAM RAZ. 

    Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús...

    London, John William Parker for the Royal...

    First edition, scarce on the market,...

    £975

  7. [RAYNAL, Guillaume-Thomas, Abbé;] Johann Adam HILLER, translator.

    Anecdoten zur Lebensgeschichte berühmter...

    Leipzig, Lankisch, 1762.

    First edition in German of this collection...

    £250

  8. REFELL, A. 

    Trugbilder: Eine Anleitung Erscheinungen,...

    Stuttgart, Rieger, 1865. 

    First German edition, rare, of this fascinating...

    £1250

  9. RICCI, Giovanni, and Ercolano PORTA.

    Storia della missione francescana e del...

    Bologna, Stabilimenti tipografici riuniti,...

    First and only edition of this history...

    £750

  10. ROBERTS, Henry.

    The dwellings of the labouring classes,...

    London, Society for Improving the Condition...

    First edition of one of the most important...

    £250

  11. ROUQUET, Jean-André. 

    The present State of the Arts in England. ...

    London, for J. Nourse, 1755. 

    First edition in English, published in...

    £19500

  12. [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

  13. SASSOON, Siegfried; Paul NASH, illustrator. 

    Nativity. 

    London, Faber & Gwyer, 1927. 

    First edition of this striking collaboration...

    £175

  14. SAULCY, Louis Félicien, Caignart de.

    Note sur une inscription punique découverte...

    [Paris], Imprimerie Royale, 1843.

    Rare offprint from the Journal Asiatique...

    £250

  15. SCHÜBLER, Johann Jacob, et al.

    Designs for furniture, funerary monuments,...

    Augsburg, [c. 1710s–20s].

    An interesting sammelband containing over...

    £3750

  16. [SHANGHAI.]

    Shanghai of To-day. A Souvenir Album of...

    Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Kelly...

    Third edition, revised and enlarged (first...

    £1250

  17. SHENSTONE, William.

    The Works, in Verse and Prose… in three...

    London: Printed for J. Dodsley … 1777.

    Fifth edition of the Works (1764),...

    £325

  18. [SMITH, John William.] 

    A Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and...

    London, Letts, Son & Co, [1870s-90s]. 

    A manuscript book catalogue employing a...

    £300

  19. [SOCIETY OF JESUS.] 

    Les découvertes d’un bibliophile réduites...

    Strasbourg, L.F.  Le Roux, [1843]. 

    First edition of this scathing response...

    £375

  20. SPON, Jacob.

    Voyage d’Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece,...

    Lyons, Antoine Cellier, 1678.

    Very rare first edition of ‘one of the...

    £4750