Gift Ideas

  1. ZUKOFSKY, Louis.

    Some Time. Short Poems …

    Stuttgart, Jonathan Williams, 1956.

    First edition, one of 300 copies, inscribed...

    £500

  2. YARRELL, William.

    A History of British Fishes … illustrated...

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

    First collected editions, with an autograph...

    £750

  3. WILSON, David (editor).

    A Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, &c....

    [Edinburgh:] Sold by the Editor at his...

    Second(?), expanded edition of this collection...

    £500

  4. WILLIAMS, William Carlos.

    Paterson [Books 1, 2, 3 & 4].

    Norfolk, New Classics, [1951]. [with:]

    First collected edition of Books One...

    £1250

  5. WALLIS, William.

    The Western Gentleman’s Farrier, containing...

    Troy (OH), John T. Tullis, 1838.

    Second edition of an American work on farriery,...

    £250

  6. WALLER, Edmund. 

    Poems, &c. written by Mr. Ed. Waller...

    London, Printed by I. N. for Hu. Mosley...

    Second (but first licensed) edition of...

    £850

  7. VISSCHER, Nicolaes [I]. 

    ...

    Amsterdam, Nicolaus [I] Visscher, 1659. 

    First and only edition of this rare...

    £3750

  8. VARILLAS, [Antoine].

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

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

    A highly unusual pyrographic binding, likely...

    £750

  9. VALERIANI MOLINARI, Luigi.

    Discorsi concernenti la pubblica economia...

    Bologna, Masi, 1809.

    First edition of Valeriani’s (1758–1828)...

    £750

  10. VALENTINE, James (photographer).

    Album of Scottish views, mainly of Stirling...

    Circa 1870s.

    A handsome example of a topographical view...

    £600

  11. [UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD.]

    Subscription list for repairs to the College...

    [Oxford, c. 1860].

    A printed appeal from University College,...

    £50

  12. [UNGER, Salomo Gottlob.]

    Geschichte des Oesterreich-Russischen und...

    Leipzig, Wilhelm Gottlob Sommer, 1792.

    First and only edition, extremely rare,...

    £1250

  13. THACKERAY, William Makepeace. 

    The Virginians, a tale of the last century. 

    London, Bradbury & Evans, November 1857...

    First edition in the original monthly parts...

    £600

  14. TERENCE Afer, Publius. 

    Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati commentariis...

    Paris, Robert Estienne, 1529. 

    First folio edition of Terence’s comedies...

    £1500

  15. TERENCE.

    Les comedies … avec la traduction et...

    Rotterdam, Gaspar Fritsch, 1717.

    A fine edition of Anne Dacier’s French...

    £850

  16. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. 

    In Memoriam. 

    London, Edward Moxon … 1850.

    First edition, first issue, with the misprints...

    £950

  17. 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

  18. TACITUS. 

    C. Cornelius Tacitus, cum optimis exemplaribus...

    Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevir, 1678. 

    A remarkably fresh set of the third and...

    £275

  19. SWIFT, Jonathan. 

    A Tale of a Tub … to which is added,...

    London, C. Bathurst, 1751. 

    A scarce later edition of Swift’s classic...

    £175

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

    Handley Cross series.

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

    Limited ‘Master of Foxhounds’ edition,...

    £1200