Gift Ideas

  1. [SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]

    Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of...

    Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for...

    Stated second edition but in fact a third...

    £375

  2. BLANCHON, Jacques.

    Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...

    Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

    First edition of a very rare work of sixteenth-century...

    £950

  3. JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus; Cornelius NEPOS.

    Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium...

    Venice, ‘in aedibus Aldi et Andreae...

    First Aldine edition of Justinus’ abridgement...

    £1850

  4. FAULKNER, William.

    A Fable.

    [New York,] Random House, [1954].

    Limited edition, no. 880 of 1000 copies...

    £1500

  5. [CUMBERLAND, Richard.]

    Arundel. By the author of the Observer.

    London, Printed for C. Dilly … 1789.

    First edition. Richard Cumberland (1732–1811)...

    £1500

  6. HORACE; James TATE, editor

    Horatius restitutus: or the books...

    Cambridge, J. Smith for J. & J.J. Deighton,...

    First edition of this attempt to arrange...

    £150

  7. GELLIUS, Aulus; [Johann Friedrich GRONOVIUS, editor].

    Noctes atticae: editio nova et prioribus...

    Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1651.

    Jansson’s piracy of Gronovius’s celebrated...

    £450

  8. DENNYS, Nicholas Belfield, editor.

    The Treaty Ports of China and Japan. A...

    Shortrede and Co., 1867.

    First edition, complete with all twenty-nine...

    £4750

  9. DIO CASSIUS.

    Dione historico delle guerre et fatti de...

    Venice, Niccolò Zoppino, March 1533.

    First edition of Dio Cassius’s Roman...

    £2500

  10. [POEMS ON DRINKING.]

    Raccolta di brindisi per tutte le occasioni;...

    Milan, Emilio Croci, 1875.

    First edition of this compact font of inspiration...

    £200

  11. LOCKE, John. 

    [An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding]. ...

    Amsterdam, Wolfgang, Waesbergi, Boom,...

    A substantial and extremely influential...

    £2850

  12. GISSING, George.

    The Unclassed, A Novel … in three Volumes.

    London, Chapman and Hall, 1884.

    First edition of Gissing’s second novel...

    £950

  13. [SURTEES, Robert Smith,] and John LEECH (illustrator).

    Handley Cross series.

    London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1899-1900.

    Limited ‘Master of Foxhounds’ edition,...

    £1200

  14. KOH, John.

    Dogs in Early Photography.

    London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2024.

    Throughout history, dogs have been a subject...

    £50

  15. [RENNEVILLE, Sophie de (?).]

    Contes a Aglaé, ou la jeune moraliste.

    Paris, Caillou, c.1820.

    Very uncommon edition, possibly the first,...

    £325

  16. YARRELL, William.

    A History of British Fishes … illustrated...

    London, Samuel Bentley for John van Voorst,...

    First collected editions, with an autograph...

    £750

  17. HORACE.

    Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera cum novo commentario...

    Paris, Didot, 1855.

    The deluxe issue of Didot’s Horace, a...

    £750

  18. EPICTETUS.

    Το του Επικτητου εγχειριδιον....

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    The first miniature Foulis edition of Epictetus...

    £650

  19. COBDEN-SANDERSON, Annie; Marianne TIDCOMBE, editor.

    The Prison Diary of Annie Cobden-Sanderson,...

    [Marlborough,] Libanus Press, 2017.

    The imprisonment of Annie Cobden-Sanderson,...

    £25

  20. ARISTOTLE.

    Αριστοτελους περι ποιητικης:...

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1780.

    Large-paper issue of the first Winstanley...

    £675