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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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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HARRIS, James.
Three Treatises the first concerning Art...
London, John Nourse and Paul Vaillant, 1765.
Presentation copies, inscribed ‘From...
£600
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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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KÖSTER, Christian.
Zerstreute Gedanken-Blätter über Kunst....
Heidelberg, Christian Friedrich Winter,...
First editions, very rare, of Köster’s...
£175
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LEMASSON, Albert.
Two pencil and watercolour sketches for...
[Saint-Mars-du-Désert, c. 1942.]
An attractive pair of sketches for Lemasson’s...
£375
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
Wyndham Lewis the Artist.
From ‘Blast’ to Burlington House’...
First edition, first issue.
£125
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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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MACDIARMID, Hugh.
Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone 1933 …
Edinburgh, K.D. Duval, [1963].
First edition.
£25
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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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NORMAND, Alfred Nicolas.
L’architecture des nations étrangères....
Paris, A. Morel, 1870.
First edition. This is a presentation copy,...
£4000
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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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PLUTARCH; John Moyr SMITH, illustrator.
An Argive Hero … with Illustrations designed...
London, Arthur H. Moxon, 1877.
Scarce first and only edition of John Moyr...
£950
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POUND, Ezra.
Gaudier-Brzeska, a Memoir …
[London,] The Marvell Press, [1960].
Revised edition, inscribed by Dorothy Pound...
£250
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POUND, Ezra; Mary de RACHEWILTZ, translator.
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, con un manifesto...
Galleria Apollinaire Milano [Milan, All’insegna...
First edition thus, no. 123 of 500 copies,...
£75
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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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[ROSSETTIS.] [PERIODICAL EXTRACTS.]
A collection of thirty items, mostly articles...
1860s to 1880s.
A characteristic tract volume assembled...
£1800
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ROSSETTI, William Michael.
[Speech at Venice] ‘Sezione IV. – N.1’
[Venice, 1895].
Very rare, possibly a unique survival –...
£1000
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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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SYMONS, Arthur, editor.
The Savoy.
London, Leonard Smithers, 1896.
First edition of this outstanding, though...
£3000
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‘TELL’, pseud. [i.e. Jacob EPSTEIN].
A rude Book.
Hartford, Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1926.
First edition, one of 500 copies printed...
£350