A Selection of Rare Books 2013

First illustrated edition of the works of Virgil, Grüninger's masterpiece, and one of the greatest German woodcut series of the Renaissance.

A large copy of the first edition of Dürer's geometrical treatise on perspective and the uses of mathematical geometry in art.

Rare first editions of both parts of Jacques Androuet du Cerceau's work on the ancient palaces of France.

The complete set of Andreani's chiaroscuro woodcuts after Mantegna's painted cycle The Triumphs of Caesar.

First edition of this folkloric collection and masterpiece of German Baroque printing.

Steingruber's imaginitive Architectonisches Alphabet, one of the most extraordinary architectural treatises ever conceived or printed.

A fine copy of the first issue of the first edition of the designs of the Adam brothers in a contemporary binding.

A beautifully annotated copy with a large amount of additional illustration and correction by hand.

An early issue of the plates with no watermark later than 1795 in contemporary green morocco.

An oustanding set of Ackermann's publications, the Botfield set with his arms, in contemporary burgundy morocco.

First edition of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage in a beautiful contemporary binding.

Poet John Drinkwater's copy of the first edition of three of Coleridge's most important poems.

A deluxe copy of Nash's important work bound in contemporary morocco for presentation by King George IV.

A fine complete copy of La Caricature bound with a very rare complete set of La Lithographie Mensuelle.

First edition of the coloured issue of Kingsborough's magnum opus, the greatest illustrated work on Mexican antiquities.

The Beaufoy-Atabey copies of Layard's publications detailing his first and second excavations in Mesopotamia.

A complete set of the presentation issue of the catalogue of the Great Exhibition and the Reports of the Juries illustrated with original calotype photographs and bound in presentation red morocco.

The magnificent Scotland Delineated in the extremely rare hand-coloured state.

Complete copy of Trémaux's Parallèle des Edifices with eight original photographs.

An exceptional copy presented to Phillipe Burty and annotated by Henri Vever; the last vignette in the preface has been 'touched' by the artist.