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The Character of the Russians, and a Detailed History of Moscow.
LYALL, Robert.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00A nice example of an important work, finely coloured by hand and illustrated after drawings by Lavrov, showing Russian peasants and many atmospher...
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The Theatric Tourist;
[WINSTON, James].Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00Abbey copy with inscription. Abbey's copy of this rare work on the theatres of the United Kingdom in quintessential Georgian style. His inscription...
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Views in Italy.
[SOUVENIR ALBUM]Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00A sweet example of a Grand Tour souvenir album containing engravings of Pisa and the Vatican, and a small painting of the Gulf of Pozzuoli. The en...
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English Homes.
TIPPING, H. Avray.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00English Homes provides an unparalleled record of grand domestic architecture from the Norman invasion to the beginning of the Regency period (1066...
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A History of the English House
LLOYD, Nathaniel.Original price £85.00 - Original price £85.00Original price £0.00£85.00£85.00 - £85.00Current price £85.00A standard reference on the architecture and building of houses in England from the Normans to the early nineteenth century. Nathaniel Lloyd OBE (...
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Buck's Antiquities
BUCK, Samuel & Nathaniel.Original price £75,000.00 - Original price £75,000.00Original price £0.00£75,000.00£75,000.00 - £75,000.00Current price £75,000.00A handsome and complete set of this monumental collection of castles, abbeys, country houses, and city prospects, regarded as a crucial cultural t...
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Vitruvius Britannicus,
[ARCHITECTURE]. CAMPBELL, Colen; WOOLFE, [John] & GANDON, [James].Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00Finely illustrated with 390 engraved plates. the finest example of country house illustration in Great Britain, including views of Castle Howard, L...
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Scenery of Portugal and Spain.
VIVIAN, George.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £0.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00A sequel to Vivian's volume on Spain, this series of lithographs is largely devoted to Portugal, including views of Lisbon, Cintra, Setubal, Arrab...
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Scenery of Portugal and Spain.
VIVIAN, George.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00A sequel to Vivian's volume on Spain, this series of lithographs is largely devoted to Portugal, including views of Lisbon, Cintra, Setubal, Arrab...
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A Collection of Gloucestershire Antiquities.
LYSONS, Samuel.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00One of 12 deluxe copies. A handsome large paper copy of Lysons' work of the antiquities of Gloucestershire; one of only twelve deluxe copies with n...
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I dieci libri dell'architettura.
VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus; BARBARO, Daniele (translator); PALLADIO, Andrea (illustrator).Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00The most significant Italian edition of the treatise'. First edition of Daniele Barbaro's (1514-1570) translation and commentary. This important pu...
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Al-Haram Al-Ibrahami Al-Khalil
SUPREME MOSLEM COUNCIL.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00A guide to the fourth holiest site in Islam, sacred to both Muslims and Jews. Includes a geographical and historical review of Hebron and the Cave...
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Wren's City Churches.
MACKMURDO, A.H.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00'the first work of Art Nouveau which can be traced'. 'The first work of Art Nouveau which can be traced' (Pevsner).Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851-1...
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Splendor Magnificentissimae Urbis Venetiarum Clarissimus;
GRAEVIUS, Johann Georg.Original price £30,000.00 - Original price £30,000.00Original price £0.00£30,000.00£30,000.00 - £30,000.00Current price £30,000.00A 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.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00First 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).Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00From 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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Alt-Christliche Baudenkmale von Constantinopel vom V. bis XII. Jahrhundert.
SALZENBERG, Wilhelm.Original price £6,500.00Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £6,500.00Current price £3,900.00£3,900.00 - £3,900.00Current price £3,900.00An 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.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00Heinrich 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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