Gift Ideas

  1. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Science and Engineering of Water: An...

    Toronto, A.E. Publications, 2022.

    A lavishly illustrated catalogue, tracing...

    £75

  2. TRAVERS, John.

    A Letter to the Editor of the Courier Newspaper,...

    London, Effingham Wilson, 1834.

    Second, expanded edition of this tract...

    £850

  3. FLOWER, Stanley Smyth.

    Album of 14 watercolours of India and Malaya.

    India and Malaya, October 1894 to August 1895.

    A charming album of vivid watercolour views...

    £750

  4. HUGO, Victor.

    Notre-Dame de Paris. Par Victor Hugo. Troisième...

    Paris, Charles Gosselin, 1831.

    First edition, third issue, of Victor Hugo’s...

    £7500

  5. ANACREON.

    Ανακρεοντος τηιου μελη...

    Parma, [Bodoni] ‘in aedibus Palatinis’,...

    Thick paper copy, apparently one of 12...

    £650

  6. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.

    Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington…

    London: Edward Moxon … 1852.

    First edition of Tennyson’s ode to the...

    £100

  7. CHALKHILL, John.

    Thealma and Clearchus. A pastoral History...

    London, Printed for Benj. Tooke … 1683.

    First edition of Chalkhill’s unfinished...

    £1850

  8. ROTH, Henry.

    Call it Sleep.

    London, Michael Joseph, 1963.

    First UK edition of Roth’s precocious...

    £250

  9. VARILLAS, [Antoine].

    La pratique de l’education des princes,...

    Amsterdam, H. Wetstein & H. Desbordes, 1686.

    A highly unusual pyrographic binding, likely...

    £750

  10. 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 in...

    £1800

  11. PORTER, [Jane].

    Thaddeus of Warsaw. In four Volumes …...

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

    Fifth edition of Jane Porter’s famous...

    £500

  12. [PRAYERS.]

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

    London, Henry Mortlock, 1700.

    Unrecorded edition of a very popular collection...

    £1200

  13. SOPHOCLES; Ezra POUND, translator.

    Women of Trachis. A Version by Ezra Pound.

    London, Neville Spearman, [1956]. 

    First edition of Pound’s version of Sophocles’...

    £1000

  14. [FRASER, William Augustus, Sir.]

    Poems by the Knight of Morar.

    London, Whittingham and Wilkins, 1867. 

    First edition, privately printed, a presentation...

    £350

  15. MAUGHAM, William Somerset; Graham SUTHERLAND, illustrator.

    Cakes and Ale, or the Skeleton in the Cupboard....

    London, [Windmill Press for] William Heinemann,...

    No. 132 of 1000 copies, signed by both...

    £350

  16. [BYRON, George Gordon, Lord.]

    Edward FINDEN, illustrator. [Landscape...

    [London, John Murray, 1833–4.]

    Finden’s attractive engraved illustrations...

    £850

  17. [FIRST AID – RAILWAYS.] 

    Ministère des chemins de fer, postes et...

    Ghent, F.& R. Buyck, 1912. 

    First separate edition, seemingly unrecorded,...

    £195

  18. SAY, Jean-Baptiste.

    Olbie, ou Essai sur les moyens de réformer...

    Paris, Deterville and Treuttel & Wurtz,...

    Rare first edition of Say’s utopia, our...

    £2500

  19. [‘HYSON, Timothy’, pseud. Thomas LOWNDES].

    A Letter to Mr. Richard Twining, Tea Dealer,...

    London, [C. Roworth] for the author, 1827.

    Second edition of the Letter to Mr Richard...

    £250

  20. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500