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. DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.

    Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...

    Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.

    A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...

    £450

  2. [BASKERVILLE PRESS.]

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

    Third and final edition of Baskerville’s...

    £1200

  3. NIXON, Howard M. 

    Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...

    London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...

    First edition, one of three hundred copies,...

    £875

  4. [WALLPAPER BINDING.]

    ‘Chassereau des Biens et Rentes deves...

    Hainaut, 1750–1773.

    A manuscript account book compiled by Joseph...

    £3500

  5. [ALMANACK.]

    Étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et...

    Paris, Claude-Jacques-Charles [Durand]...

    A very rare Parisian almanack for 1775,...

    £1500

  6. [EMBROIDERED BINDING.]

    Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace...

    Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].

    A charming almanack for 1753 printed in...

    £400

  7. CHALMERS, David.

    Histoire abbregee de tous les roys de France,...

    Paris, Jean Fevrier, 1579.

    First edition of Chalmer’s historical...

    £950

  8. [ALMANACK.]

    Les étrennes à la rose, ou le rosier...

    Paris, Janet, [1804?].

    A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush...

    £2500

  9. [CRIMEAN WAR.]

    Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....

    Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].

    First and only edition, rare, of this unusual...

    £375

  10. [ALMANACK.]

    Les perfidies supposées ou les médisances...

    Paris, Janet, ‘Successeur du Sr...

    A seemingly unrecorded almanack for 1800,...

    £1450

  11. [ALMANACK.]

    L’Esprit des chansonniers, extrain [sic?]...

    Paris, Le Fuel, [1826?].

    A very rare enamelled metal binding with...

    £2750

  12. [PSALMS.]

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

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

    New edition of the metrical Psalms of the...

    £950

  13. ZACHARIÄ, Just Friedrich Wilhelm.

    Les quatre parties du jour, poëme traduit...

    Paris, J. B. G. Musier fils, 1769.

    First edition in French of this proto-Romantic...

    £1500

  14. MYERS, Robin, Michael HARRIS, and Giles MANDELBROTE (eds).

    Lives in Book History: Changing Contours...

    Leicester, Garendon Press, 2022.

    ‘This volume has grown out of one event...

    £35

  15. [ALMANACK.]

    London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1785.

    [London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers,...

    A very attractive miniature London Almanack...

    £950

  16. PITOU, Louis-Ange.

    L’Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons, ou...

    Paris, [Beraud for] L.A. Pitou, 31 August...

    First and only surviving edition of this...

    £650

  17. LUCAN.

    Pharsalia cum annotationibus in margine...

    Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1528.

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

    £2500

  18. [PRIMER.]

    Preces privatae, in studiosorum gratia[m]...

    London, William Seres, 1568.

    Second edition of this rare ‘private’...

    £4250

  19. [PSALMS.]

    Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti,...

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

    A collection of verse paraphrases of the...

    £975

  20. MEFFRET, Johann.

    Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...

    [Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

    A volume of sermons with early English...

    £6500