Gift Ideas

  1. [DELAMARCHE, Alexandre, cartographer; Bernard COUDERT, lithographer.]

    ‘Atlas’.

    Paris, Legay, [c. 1889].

    An attractive set of large educational...

    £875

  2. MATURIN, Charles.

    Melmoth the Wanderer: a Tale … Edinburgh,...

    London, Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1820.

    First edition, with excellent provenance,...

    £7500

  3. [WYNNE, John Huddlestone.]

    The Child of Chance; or, the Adventures...

    London, T. Hookham, ‘1796’ [recte 1786].

    First edition of a very rare picaresque...

    £3500

  4. WIELAND, Christoph Martin; William SOTHEBY, translator.

    Oberon, a Poem …

    London, Cadell and Davies, Edwards, Faulder,...

    First octavo edition of Sotheby’s...

    £500

  5. [TOMKIS, Thomas.]

    Lingua: or, the Combat of the Tongue, and...

    London, Nicholas Okes for Simon Waterson, 1617.

    Third edition, rare, of this allegorical...

    £3000

  6. ROHAN, Henri, Duke of; [Henry HUNT, translator].

    A Treatise of the Interest of the Princes...

    London, Richard Hodgkinson, 1641.

    First edition in England (and second...

    £1800

  7. [CHARLES II.]

    RIVET, Jean. ‘Le favory du Ciel ou Meditation...

    [Caussade en Quercy, 1664.]

    A fascinating manuscript meditation...

    £1850

  8. PRIOR, Matthew.

    The Poetical Works … now first collected,...

    Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley [and five...

    A handsome copy of this collected edition...

    £500

  9. PORTER, [Jane].

    Thaddeus of Warsaw. In four Volumes …...

    London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809.

    Fifth edition of Jane Porter’s famous...

    £500

  10. PORTER, [Jane].

    Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks,...

    London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.

    First edition, uncommon, of a collection...

    £600

  11. [PRAYERS.]

    The New-Years-Gift, complete: in six Parts....

    London, Henry Mortlock, 1700.

    Unrecorded edition of a very popular...

    £1200

  12. KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.

    Travels from Berlin, through Switzerland,...

    London, Richard Phillips, 1804.

    First edition in English, quickly...

    £500

  13. KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.

    The Guardian Angel. From the German …...

    London, J. Wright for Vernor and Hood,...

    First edition in English (and the first...

    £650

  14. KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.

    The Constant Lover, or William and Jeanette:...

    London, John Bell, 1799.

    First edition in English, rare,...

    £1600

  15. KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.

    The most remarkable Year in the Life of...

    London, Richard Phillips, 1802.

    First edition in English of Kotzebue’s...

    £500

  16. IRWIN, Eyles.

    The Triumph of Innocence; an Ode. Written...

    London, W. Bulmer for G. Nicol, 1796.

    First and only edition, very rare,...

    £800

  17. SOPHOCLES; Ezra POUND, translator.

    Women of Trachis. A Version by Ezra Pound.

    London, Neville Spearman, [1956]. 

    First edition of Pound’s version of...

    £1000

  18. KEATS, John.

    Endymion. A poetic romance … with engravings...

    [London,] The Golden Cockerel Press, [1947].

    No. 200 of 500 copies of the Golden...

    £1750

  19. FERDOWSĪ.

    Shāhnāmah.

    Tehran, Amir Kabir, AH 1350 [AD 1971].

    A lavishly produced edition of the Shāhnāmah...

    £4000

  20. BRIDGES, Robert.

    Eros and Psyche, a Poem in XII Measures...

    [Gregynog], The Gregynog Press, 1935.

    One of 300 copies, one of the most beautiful...

    £1500