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H., P.

An impartial view of the two late Parliaments : their proceedings, and the late ministry, fully justify’d. Together, with the affairs of Convocation: wherein the irregularities of the Lower-House are expos’d, from their original to this present time, and a fair comparison offer’d at, between the late P[arliamen]ts and the last Session.

London, “printed and sold by J.Baker, at the Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row” 1711.

£160

Du Prey, Pierre de la Ruffinière (ed)

Architects books & libraries. A collection of essays published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name.

Kingston, Ontario, Agnes Etherington Art Centre 1995.

£12

Ussing, J(ohan) L(ouis)

Kong Attalos’ Stoa i Athen.

Kjobenhavn, Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri 1873 (offprint from publication by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters).

£75

Taylor, John (ed)

Marmor Sandvicense. Cum commentario et notis Ioannis Taylori LL.D. Collregii D.Ioannis Cant. Socii.

Cambridge, “Typis Academicis excudebat Ios.Bentham” 1743.

£240

Flaxman, John

Lectures on sculpture …. as delivered by him before the President and Members of the Royal Academy. With a brief memoir of the author.

London, John Murray 1829.

£250

Lucas, R(ichard) C(ockle)

Remarks on the Parthenon : being the result of studies and inquiries connected with the production of two models of that noble building (etc).

Salisbury, W.B.Brodie and Co. 1845.

£120

Willis, N(athaniel) P(arker)

Pencillings by the way. Second edition.

London, John Macrone 1836.

£195

Nisbet, Mary, Countess of Elgin

The letters of Mary Nisbet of Dirleton, Countess of Elgin. Arranged by Lieut.-Col.Nisbet Hamilton Grant.

London, John Murray 1926.

£95

Hamilton, J(ohn) Arnott

The church of Kaisariani in Attica : its history, architecture, and mural paintings. A study in Byzantine art.

Aberdeen, W.Jolly & Sons 1916.

£65

Westmacott, C.M.

British galleries of painting and sculpture, comprising a general historical and critical catalogue, with separate notices of every work of fine art in the principal collections … illustrated with engraved portraits and interior views (etc).

London, Sherwood, Jones, and Co 1824.

£240

Spon, Jacques

Recherches curieuses d’antiquité, contenues en plusieurs dissertations sur des medailles, bas-reliefs, statues, mosaiques, & inscriptions antques; enrichies d’un grand nombre de figure en taille douce.

Lyon, Thomas Amaulry 1683.

£685

(Cockerell, C.R.) Cockerell, Samuel Pepys (ed)

Travels in southern Europe and the Levant, 1810-1817. The journal of C.R. Cockerell, R.A.

London, Longman 1903.

£265

(Butterfield, William, Lukis, W.C., and others)

Specimens of ancient church plate ; sepulchral crosses ; &.

Oxford, J.H.Parker (and others) 1845 (but issued in parts 1843-5).

£180

Briseux, C.E.

Traité du beau essentiel dans les arts appliqué particulierement à l’architecture, et démontré phisiquement et par l’expérience. Avec un traité des proportions harmoniques … on y a joint les dessins de ces édifices et de plusieurs autres composés par l’auteur … les cinq ordres d’architecture … plusieurs essais de l’auteur (etc).

Paris, the author (and Chereau) 1752.

£3,000

(Martyn, Thomas)

The English connoisseur : containing an account of whatever is curious in painting, sculpture, & in the palaces and seats of the nobility and principal gentry of England, both in town and country.

London, “printed for L.Davis and C.Reymers” 1766.

£875

Le Pautre, Anthoine

Les oeuvres d’architecture.

Paris, Jombert (”pres les Augustins”) nd (late 1690s).

£2,950

(Lafond de Saint-Yenne, Etienne François)

L’ombre du grand Colbert, le Louvre, et la Ville de Paris, dialogue.

La Haye, 1749.

£795

Schultz, Robert Weir & Barnsley, Sidney Howard

The monastery of Saint Luke of Stiris, in Phocis, and the dependent monastery of Saint Nicolas in the Fields, near Skiprou, in Boeotia.

London, Macmillan & Co Limited for the Committee of the British School at Athens 1901.

£340

Félibien, Dom Michel

Histoire de l’abbaye royale de Saint-Denys en France, contenant la vie des abbez … avec la description de l’église & de tout ce qu’elle contient de remarquable.

Paris, Frederic Leonard 1706.

£1,890

Dillis, Georg von

Verzeichniss der Gemälde in der königlichen Pinakothek zu München.

München, 1838.

£240

(Edler von Weizenfeld, Johann Nepomuk)

Beschreibung der Churfürstlichen Bildergallerie in Schleisheim.

München, 1775.

£480

(Caristie, Auguste)

Notice sur l’état actuel de l’arc d’Orange et des théatres antiques d’Orange et d’Arles, sur les découvertes faites dans ces deux derniers édifices, et sur les mesures à prendre et les moyens à employer pour conserver ces précieux restes de constructions Romaines.

Paris, “Typographie de Firmin Didot Frères” 1839.

£295

(Dubreuil, Jean)

Perspective practical. Or, a plain and easie method of true and lively representing all things to the eye at a distance, by the exact rules of art … by a religious person of the Society of Jesus, a Parisian. Faithfully translated out of French, and illustrated with 150 copper cuts. Set forth in English by Robert Pricke for the lovers of art.

London, “printed for Robert Pricke, over-against Aldermary Church, in Bow-Lane; and are to be sold by S.Sprint, at the Bell, in Little-Britain” 1698 (but a reissue of the sheets of the first edition, 1672).

£685

(Hatton, Edward)

A new view of London ; or, an ample account of that city, in two volumes, or eight sections. Being a more particular description thereof than has hitherto been known to be published of any city in the world (etc).

London, printed for R.Chiswell (and others) 1708.

£480

Moelder, Charles de (draughtsman and engraver) (and other engravers)

(A composite volume of late seventeenth and early eighteenth century engravings of ornament)

(London), “sold by J.Nicholls in the Minories near Aldgate” nd (late seventeenth century) (the De Moelder engravings only)

£285

Postlethwayt, Malachy

Great Britain’s true system : wherein is clearly shewn … that an increase in the public debts and taxes must … prove the ruin of the monied, the trading and the landed interest … the necessity of raising the supplies to carry on the war, within the year (etc).

London, printed for A.Millar (and others) 1757.

£350

Shaw, Henry

Alphabets numerals and devices of the middle ages.

London, William Pickering 1845.

£520

Davillier, Baron Ch(arles)

Recherches sur l’orfévrerie en Espagne au moyen age et à la renaissance. Documents inédits tirés des archives Espagnoles.

Paris, A.Quantin 1879.

£195

(Londesborough Collection) Fairholt, Frederick W., and Wright, Thomas

Miscellanea graphica : representations of ancient, medieval, and renaissance remains in the possession of Lord Londesborough. Drawn, engraved, and described by Frederick W.Fairholt, F.S.A. … the historical introduction by Thomas Wright, M.A., F.S.A.

London, Chapman and Hall 1857.

£260

Baye, Baron J. de

The industrial arts of the Anglo-Saxons. Translated by T.B.Harbottle.

London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co 1893.

£95