Produced by the Commission sent to Beijing by the Imperial University of Tokyo shortly after the Boxer Rebellion to investigate the layout and dec...

Finely illustrated with 390 engraved plates. the finest example of country house illustration in Great Britain, including views of Castle Howard, L...

A sequel to Vivian's volume on Spain, this series of lithographs is largely devoted to Portugal, including views of Lisbon, Cintra, Setubal, Arrab...

A sequel to Vivian's volume on Spain, this series of lithographs is largely devoted to Portugal, including views of Lisbon, Cintra, Setubal, Arrab...

One 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...

'the most significant Italian edition of the treatise'. First edition of Daniele Barbaro's (1514-1570) translation and commentary. This important p...

A 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...

'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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

Garden Chinoiserie comes West. Le Rouge's expansive and virtually unobtainable publication on gardens in the Anglo-Chinese manner.The most impressi...

The finest pictorial record of the architecture of Florence in the 18th century. A complete set of the finest pictorial record of the historical ar...

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