101 Rare Books

A sammelband incorporating fine and extensively illustrated editions of the Classical military text of Vegetius with that of the Renaissance theoretician Valturius.

The second edition of Vasari's famous 'Vite' but the first complete edition with much new material and the first to be illustrated.

An exceptional set of Mariette, from the library of Hippolyte Destailleur, the great collector of architectural and design books whose first library became the foundation of the 'Kunstbibliothek'.

An exceptional extant corpus of the Neapolitan Coccagna engravings.

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

The first edition of Samuel Johnson's magnum opus, his great dictionary of the English language.

An exceptional unsophisticated copy of Büsching's extensive work of geography, entirely uncut and broché in original wrappers.

A complete copy of Le Rouge's expansive and virtually unobtainable publication on gardens in the Anglo-Chinese manner, uncut and retaining all deckle edges.

First edition and early issue in contemporary red morocco of Saint-Non's famous compilation.

First and only edition of Prestel's profoundly ambitious print series reproducing Old Master drawings in original size and with accurate colour.

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

A complete set of the Museo Pio-Clementina with the additional volume Il Museo Chiaramonti.

First edition of Repton's first book on landscape gardening with an original watercolour with overslip of the Duke of Portland's Welbeck Abbey.

A very fine set of the first edition of Goya's greatest series of engravings, printed before the scratch on plate 45 in warm sepia tones on thick laid paper and bound in contemporary Spanish mottled calf.

A beautiful copy - bound by Tessier and with the plates in-plano - of the first Paris edition of Piranesi's final and rare work.

A large paper copy, likely Rossi-Melocchi's own, of his accomplished work on the technical assessment of shade in architecture and geometry, bound with the original watercolours for the work.

Privately printed first edition which James Christie had circulated to 'a learned few'; this copy inscribed by Christie on initial blank in sepia ink: 'To / W[ilia]m.

This beautiful and rare collection of prints after the work of George Morland was collected by Francis Blagdon and published by Edward Orme.

First edition, an early issue bound from the parts, with two of the original part wrappers.

Ploos van Amstel's rare and mysterious engravings, from the edition limited to 100 sets published by subscription.