Catalogues & Lists

This is the first list that our firm has issued since the onset of the COVID epidemic in the early spring of 2020, and we have thought it appropriate to demonstrate that even in these demanding times it is still possible to offer a good range of early editions of some of the most celebrated architectural treatises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, together with a selection of other rare, interesting or simply useful titles of more recent date. It … […]

We issued our first catalogue in October 1987, just over thirty-two years ago, and this catalogue, issued in the early spring of 2020, is the seventy-fifth that we have issued. All of these have been compiled on the same principles and designed and printed in the same format, and they have, we believe, set as good a standard in terms of content and of the reliability of the information provided as has been achieved by any antiquarian bookseller operating in … […]

We offer here a good representative selection from our accumulated stock of books on modern movement architecture, chiefly focused on the design work and career achievements of architects prominent in the 1920s and 1930s, but including some titles relating to more recent architects working in modernist idioms.

Including books on Francisco De Hollanda. We offer in this list a wide-ranging selection of books on the art and architecture of Southern Europe and of Latin America, centering round a small group of books from the library of the late John Bury (1917-2017), who was particularly interested in the art and architecture of Portugal and Spain, and of their colonial territories in Central America and South America. One of Bury’s specialist areas of knowledge was the life and artistic … […]

As is customary with our catalogues, we offer here a selection of interesting and sought-after publications on architecture and the fine arts, ranging from important seventeenth century editions of treatises by Serlio (item 109) and Scamozzi (item101), to a set of the Frank Lloyd Wright issues of the periodical Wendingen (item 128), and to the late Gavin Stamp’s copies of a number of monographs on European architects of the interwar period in the multilingual Masters of Architecture series (items 39, … […]

The books offered here represent the last of four selections from the working library formed by the late Gavin Stamp (1948-2017), architectural historian, architectural journalist, and fearless champion of the conservation of Britain’s built architectural heritage. The books that we are offering do not represent the totality of Stamp’s working library, for other titles were retained by his widow or given in his memory to friends, and we did not purchase a number of architectural titles that were of slight … […]

The books offered here represent the third of four selections from the working library formed by the late Gavin Stamp (1948-2017), architectural historian, architectural journalist and fearless champion of the conservation of Britain’s built architectural heritage. A final list will offer his books on British architectural history from the time of Wren and Hawksmoor onwards. The books that we are offering do not represent the totality of Stamp’s working library, for other titles were retained by his widow or given … […]

The books that we offer in the present catalogue include an unusual number that are of more than ordinary significance and value. A good proportion of these derive from a collection of books on architecture and related subjects puttogether in the years after the 1939-45 war by George Anthony Atkinson OBEARIBA (1915-2015), a long-term employee of the UK Government’s Building Research Establishment at Garston, Watford, Hertfordshire, retiring as the BRE’sChief Architect in 1977 and still remembered for his notable contributions … […]

The books offered here represent the second of four intended selections from the working library formed by the late Gavin Stamp (1948-2017), architectural historian, architectural journalist, and fearless champion of the conservation of Britain’s built architectural heritage. A third list will offer his books on Victorian architecture, and a final list will offer his books on British architectural history from the time of Wren and Hawksmoor onwards. The books that we are offering do not represent the totality of Stamp’s … […]