Rare Books, Prints and Manuscripts

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

A very good copy of the third edition of the Barbaro translation of Vitruvius with his commentary.

First edition of Vasari's analysis of the iconography of his own paintings for the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.

William Shakespeare' 'Comedie' The Merry Wives of Windsor extracted from the Second Folio of 1632.

A sammelband of three of Furttenbach's architectural treatises, each a production of beautiful engraved plates and distinctive mise-en-page.

A superb union of two rare works - almost certainly for presentation - on the Villa Pamphilia with the plates very finely coloured by a contemporary hand and heightened with gum arabic and gold and silver.

The first edition of Thomas Otway's 'Venice Preserv'd'.

The first edition of William Congreve's comedy Love for Love.

A good complete copy of the first edition of Sir John Vanbrugh's comedy.

First edition of Palladio's treatise in English.

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

An exceptional discrete collection - and a remarkable survival from the early eighteenth-century - of groundplans, elevations and documents, the proposal by Hawksmoor, Campbell and James for Queen Anne's North Pavilion at Greenwich.

First edition of Le Roy's ground breaking work on Greek architecture and remains.

A wonderful unsophisticated set of de Fiennes' very scarce engraved plates of trees.

A very good copy of Baker's work on rifles with the plates with fine colouring by hand.

Braun's privately printed work on the Codrus Cup.

An extraordinary personal Victorian album of intricate original collages likely produced in Ireland.

An exceptional album of original material by Richard Cockle Lucas including a large number of his outstanding nature prints.

George Jerrold's The Life of George Cruikshank, the enlarged and expanded edition, with a large amount of additional material.

Subscriber's copy of this rare photographic work on the extensive public works undertaken in Napoleon III's France.