Rare Books, Prints, Multiples

A large and complete copy of the 'Como Vitruvius' from the library of Baroque architect Domenico Martinelli, the first edition of Vitruvius in the vernacular and one of the most beautiful productions of the treatise.

The first edition of Durer's treatise on perspective and the uses of mathematical geometry in art.

The first edition of Jean Cousin's scarce work on perspective.

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

The scarce definitive and complete edition of Guarino Guarini's innovative practical and theoretical treatise.

An excellent unsophisticated copy of the notoriously rare Vitruvius Scoticus.

Rare first edition of one of the greatest and most beautiful 18th century books on architecture.

The first edition of Isaac Ware's practical and comprehensive manual of architecture.

The striking plates of Schloss Freudenhain and its gardens - including the early example of the 'Gloriette à l'Americaine' (American Gazebo) - drawn by the daughter of the 'Maitre de Dessin de l'Academie de Passau'.

A magnificent copy of the large paper proof issue of Blake's illustrations for The Grave in contemporary black morocco by 'Beast' Smith.

The rare complete suite of hand-coloured engravings of dandies ('Incroyables') and their female counterparts ('Merveilleuses').

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

Thornton's didactic Virgil with illustration by William Blake and bound in red morocco.

William Blake's Illustrations for the Book of Job, the scarcest issue on French paper, bound in red morocco.

One of the scarcest fashion and caricature suites with superb coloured plates.

A charming and well executed series of watercolours for 'Scene Populari di Napoli'.

A very fine example of the large paper issue of Owen Jones' influential publication.

Extremely rare unrestored copy - including the 'Notice to the Reader' - of William Fox Talbot's first photographically illustrated publication in book form; published in 1845, Sun Pictures in Scotland, was issued between parts IV and V of Talbot's seminal The Pencil of Nature...

'Monument de Ninive', the foundation work of Assyriology and the basis for the collection in the Louvre.