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Architecture Rare The Bookshop
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Large folio (55.5 x 38.5 cm); title with aquatint vignette, list of plates, introduction and 30 hand-coloured aquatint plates by R. Havell, T. Fielding, F.C. Lewis and others after Dodwell and Pomardi, mounted on card with printed captions on slips to verso as issued, accompanying text leaves in English and French; contemporary red half morocco, spine in seven compartments, morocco label to second, others richly gilt within framed borders, raised bands, marbled sides, all edges gilt, a fine copy.
£25,000 -
New edition. 8vo, engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title page, 19 engraved plates, numerous wood engravings, contemporary tan morocco gilt, covers with Brighton College prize stamp, lightly rubbed, a very good copy.
£350 -
40 volumes, quarto, complete run of the first of 39 volumes plus the special atlas to accompany volumes 29 & 30, all first editions save the first two volumes which are later reprints, profusely illustrated with photographic illustrations and maps, original blue cloth gilt, some spines a little faded, overall an excellent run.
£2,750 -
First edition. 3 volumes, folio (66 x 52 cm), [viii]; [viii]; [viii] pp., with 200 lithographed plates, 130 in colour, 48 tinted (all mounted on tabs) some light scattered foxing throughout, text volume with 34 plates and 73 text illustrations; bound in contemporary brown morocco backed marbled boards, spine gilt lettered with raised bands; overall a very attractive example.
£25,000 -
First edition. 2 volumes, folio. limited edition to 500 copies. 172 large collotype plates with tissue guards including three folding panoramas. Original embroidered silk portfolio in cardboard boxes (worn with old repairs). Minor rubbing to edges of portfolio, but overall a very good copy. Separate volume of text in English and Japanese in original cream wrappers.
£26,000 -
Second edition. 2 volumes, folio (42 x 28 cm), viii, 1-712; [xii], 713-1410 pp., engraved allegorical headpiece and 124 engraved plates and plans (the 122 called for in Adams plus St Luke's Hospital and Trinity Alms Houses at page 1288), some folding, oversize corners folded at page 1304 and plate of Guy's Hospital, small ink stains page 893, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, neat repairs to joints, 2 labels renewed, a very attractive example.
£3,500 -
First and only edition. 4to (27 x 22 cm). Title +18 pp., Original brown paper wrappers stitched in brown cotton, subscription slip for Unedited Antiquities of Attica, dated 1816, mounted on upper cover.
£350 -
First edition. 2 volumes, 4to, folding engraved map and 66 engraved plates (2 hand-coloured, 6 double-page), illustrations in text, uncut in original grey boards, original paper labels, neat extensive restoration to spines, a very good set.
£3,000 -
First edition, 4to, pp. [4], list of plates, 159, 76 handcoloured aquatints including frontispiece, 5 folding, one with short split to fold, later maroon straight-grained morocco gilt, an excellent example.
£4,000 -
Landscape folio (33.5 x 46.3 cm), 30 albumen prints (average 21.5 x 26 cm., or the reverse), mounted recto only, most with manuscript titles to mounts, 'Marion & Co., 22 Soho Square, London', blindstamp to front free endpaper, contemporary dark green half morocco, pebbled cloth boards, title label in morocco to upper cover, red edges, metal clasp, some fading, spotting (mostly to mounts), rubbed and slightly bowed
£3,950