Art & Architecture

Rare Art Books at Forum Auctions

Rare Art books to feature regularly in our auctions include: artist monographs, catalogues raisonnés and livres d'artistes on or by artists ranging from Auerbach to Zoffany, often in extremely limited editions; antiquarian books on antiquities & archaeology; rare colour plate books on costume & fashion; important works on horology & numismatics, and trade catalogues from the 18th, 19th & 20th centuries. 

Rare Architecture & Design Books at Forum Auctions

Rare books on Architecture include important works by and on the prominent and ground-breaking architects and landscape designers from antiquity through to the modern era. This includes valuable and rare works by leading lights such as Vitruvius, Robert Adam, Palladio, Inigo Jones, Piranesi, Zocchi, John Nash and Humphrey Repton, with incredible, sometimes literally fantastical etched, engraved or aquatint plates, through to photographically illustrated books by modern architectural pioneers such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Architecture books at Forum Auctions are often complemented by works on design and the decorative arts, including rare books on ceramics, glassware, Chinese porcelain, Shaker furniture and the Bauhaus movement, to name but a few.