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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MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.
Urbis Romae topographia.
Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.
First illustrated edition (third overall),...
£5500
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DONI, Antonio Francesco.
Disegno … partito in piu ragionamenti,...
Venice, Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1549.
First edition of an important art-theoretical...
£1250
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CARTARI, Vincenzo.
Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de...
Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1556.
First edition of Cartari’s influential...
£800
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[HERALDRY.]
Manuscripts relating to Low Countries nobility.
[Low Countries, mid-seventeenth century?]
A fine set of manuscripts relating to Low...
£1750
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[LOO, Pieter van, attributed.]
156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.
[Holland, c. 1760–80].
A truly stunning collection of over 150...
£100000
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[WANG Gai 王概, WANG Shi 王蓍, and WANG Nie 王臬.]
[芥子園畫譜 Jieziyuan huapu; ‘The...
[China], s.n., (prefaces:) Qianlong renyin...
A handsome set comprising the third and...
£10000
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DU BOS, Jean-Baptiste, Abbé.
Reflexions critiques sur la poésie et...
Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1740.
Fourth edition, expanded and corrected,...
£250
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PETRINI, Giovanni.
Sixteen copper engravings depicting scenes...
[Rome, late eighteenth century.]
An attractive volume containing sixteen...
£1750
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HARRIS, James.
Three Treatises the first concerning Art...
London, John Nourse and Paul Vaillant, 1765.
Presentation copies, inscribed ‘From...
£600
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BARLOW, [Francis].
Barlow’s Birds and Beasts, in sixty-seven...
London, Carington Bowles, [John Bowles,...
An extremely rare edition of this drawing-book...
£8500
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RIDINGER, Johann Elias.
[A Book of Stags.] Six engravings of deer...
[London,] Robert Sayer, [1770s?].
A rare and attractive drawing-book, likely...
£600
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[DAMILLANO, Giovanni Francesco.]
Racconto storico con nuove addizioni dello...
Turin, nella stamperia reale, 1790.
Much expanded second edition (first 1775)...
£650
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CELLINI, Benvenuto.
Vita di Benvenuto Cellini orefice e scultore...
‘Cologne’ [i.e. Florence],...
The counterfeit edition of Benvenuto Cellini’s...
£675
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CHEESMAN, Thomas.
No. I. Six Heads Drawn and Engraved, by...
[London,] T. Cheesman, No. 40 Oxford...
First and only edition, extremely rare,...
£850
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WOOD, John.
Portfolio of the artist’s work.
London, 1821–1847.
A collection of finished preparatory drawings,...
£2500
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[BOLOGNA.]
Delle oggetti di belle arti nel famoso...
Bologna, ‘nella stamperia di San Tommaso...
First edition of this detailed description...
£275
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KÖSTER, Christian.
Zerstreute Gedanken-Blätter über Kunst....
Heidelberg, Christian Friedrich Winter,...
First editions, very rare, of Köster’s...
£175
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GRÜNEISEN, [Karl].
Niclaus Manuel: Leben und Werke eines Malers...
Stuttgart & Tübingen, J.G. Cotta, 1837.
First and only edition of the first separate...
£120
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GARGIULO, Raffaele.
Cenni sulla maniera di rinvenire i vasi...
Naples, Tipografia Virgilio, 1843.
Second, revised and enlarged edition (first...
£275
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COMBE, George.
Phrenology applied to Painting and Sculpture.
London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1855.
First edition, scarce in commerce. George...
£350