Antiquarian Books

First edition in English of Alberti's De Re Ædificatoria, together with his other works De Pictura and Della Statua.

First expanded edition of Annan's photographic masterpiece, containing 50 photogravure plates, with this one of only 100 copies specially printed for the Corporation of Glasgow.

A very fine copy - with the plates coloured by hand - in a contemporary binding of this scarce and comprehensive work.

Banvard's massive panorama - on three miles of canvas as indicated by the title (see above) - was a considerable undertaking and one which 'had he [Banvard] been aware, when he commenced the undertaking, of the vast amount of labor [sic] it required, he would have shrunk from the task in dismay ...

First edition of Bartoli's account of the mission of the Jesuit Ridolfo Aquaviva to the Court of the Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great in 1580.

A rare unsophisticated set of views of the Thames by Baynes showing Trench's proposed embankment.

First edition in a handsome binding.

A large copy of Beyer's rare work on the statuary of Schönbrunn Palace.

First edition of Bodoni's magnificent celebratory festival book produced the year after his appointment to the Stamperia Reale.

First edition, large paper copy in folio, uncut and in the original publisher's binding.

First edition of the magnificent copper plate engravings from Boydell's Shakespeare, long regarded as the most beautiful illustrations of Shakespeare's plays.

A rare collection of Braquehais' photographs of Paris in the aftermath of the Prussian siege and during the Commune.

A rare copy of Brooke's outstanding colour views of great aristocratic English gardens.

Second editions of three of Brookshaw's works to promote the art of drawing.

First edition of a very scarce work.

Cañes' rare and important Spanish-Arabic grammar - the first to use Arabic types.

Rare publication on one of Canova's most important commissions, that for the tomb of the Habsburg Archduchess Maria Christina.

A very fine copy of the best edition of Chippendale's seminal work on furniture and cabinet-making.

First edition of Decker's Architectura Civilis, a highpoint of German Baroque architectural design.

Decker’s rare suite of engravings - unsophisticated in a contemporary binding - illustrating the battles of the War of the Spanish Succession.