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  • Splendor Magnificentissimae Urbis Venetiarum Clarissimus;

    GRAEVIUS, Johann Georg.
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    A rare and lavishly illustrated work devoted entirely to the city of Venice, issued as part of the monumental Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiaru...

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  • L'Architecture et Art de Bien Bastir

    ALBERTI, Leon Battista.
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    First edition in French. The first edition in French of Leon Battista Alberti's (1404-1472) monumental treatise on the art of building, De re aedif...

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  • Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie exécuté en 1837... [with]

    DEMIDOFF, M. Anatole de; RAFFET, Auguste, DURAND, André (illustrators).
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    From the Rothschild Ferrières library. A fine set of Demidoff's most sought-after illustrated books bound for Baron James de Rothschild. The rich i...

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  • Arkhitektura SSSR [i] Strotel'stvo Moskvy.

    [ARCHITECTURE].
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    A collection of issues of the two famous Soviet architectural periodicals that together provide an insight into the unique marriage of the archite...

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  • Alt-Christliche Baudenkmale von Constantinopel vom V. bis XII. Jahrhundert.

    SALZENBERG, Wilhelm.
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    An excellent example of this celebrated second edition, limited to only a few copies, of this important work on christian architecture in Constant...

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  • Libro Primo[-Qvinto]. D'Architettvra, Di Sebastiano Serlio Bolognese,

    SERLIO, Sebastiano.
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    Heinrich Wölfflin's copy with large margins. The first quarto edition of Sebastiano Serlio's (1475-1554) Five Books of Architecture, one of the fir...

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  • Le Antichità Romane.

    PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista.
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    Piranesi's most important work - with Ducal provenance. Piranesi's most important work: more than 200 plates in a very early state. With Ducal prov...

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  • Vedute di Roma. [bound with]

    PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista.
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    The King of Sweden's copy. From the library of Gustav III, King of Sweden (1746-1792), and his Queen Sophia Magdalena of Denmark (1746-1813). A fin...

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  • Kiev. Ville Sainte de Russie.

    [UKRAINE]. LOUKOMSKI, G.K.
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    The deluxe edition - one of 50 copies . The scarce deluxe edition of this important work on Kyiv and the art of the Ukrainian capital simultaneousl...

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  • Paintings from a Jain 'Heaven and Hell' series.

    [JAINISM].
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    Hell and purgatory in Jainism, called Naraka, are realms of cosmology that are characterised by great suffering. There are seven realms of this un...

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  • Vitruvius Scoticus;

    ADAM, William.
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    A beautiful unsophisticated copy of the notoriously rare Vitruvius Scoticus, the paramount source for the history of classical architecture in Sco...

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  • Pair of Large Vases.

    PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista.
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    Best known for his representations of on the archaeological reconstructions of ruins and the documentation of contemporary Rome, Piranesi also mad...

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  • The book of books, 500 years of graphic innovation.

    LOMMEN, Mathieu (editor).
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    A history of book design. 'This visual history brings together an extraordinary collection of books to illustrate a canon of more than five hundred...

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  • Metropolitan Improvements;

    SHEPHERD, Thomas H.
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    The first edition of Thomas Shepherd's (1793–1864) illustrated topographical study of London, including the elusive plan of Regents Park which was...

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  • The Cathedral Church of St. Paul's in London. A section of the Cross Isle from North to South with a Prospect of the Choir and Dome

    [KIP, J.]
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    A pair - the interior & exterior of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. A pair of copper engravings, framed and glazed, overall size: 109cm by 87cm b...

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  • The Survey of London.

    BESANT, Sir Walter.
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    The complete ten-volume set of Besant's (1836-1901) illustrated history of London, comprising: Early London, Medieval London (vols I and II), Lond...

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  • Old and New London

    THORNBURY, Walter.
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    The complete six-volume set of Walter Thornbury's (1828-1876) narrative history of London, nicely illustrated and full of insightful reflections o...

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  • Marylebone and St. Pancras.

    CLINCH, George.
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    First edition. The first edition of George Clinch's illustrated history of Marylebone and St. Pancras, in its original late 19th-century red cloth ...

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  • London Past and Present

    WHEATLEY, Henry B.
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    Founder of the welfare state's copy. The first edition of Wheatley's historical survey of London, providing short informative profiles of London's ...

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  • London.

    KNIGHT, Charles.
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    A beautifully bound collection of essays on the history of London illustrated throughout with woodcut vignettes and full-page engravings of city l...

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  • The Grand Panorama of London from Thames.

    EVANS, Charles.
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    An attractive panorama of the northern embankment of the Thames extending from the Western Stone Wharf to St Katherine's Docks in the East. The or...

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  • Grand Architectural Plan of London.

    LEIGHTON, George C.; SANDEMAN, R. (after).
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    The first edition of Leighton's (1826-1895) continuous strip view of London from St. Margaret Church to Portland Place, with place notes in the fo...

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  • Metropolitan Improvements;

    SHEPHERD, Thomas H.
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    The second edition of Shepherd's (1793–1864) richly illustrated topographical study of London featuring 164 engraved plates offering architectural...

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  • Original Views of London as it is.

    SHOTTER BOYS, Thomas.
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    Fine binding. Facsimile reproduction of the 1842 edition Boys (1803-1874) learnt the art of lithography in Paris at the same time as Prout and Bonn...

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