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. HUGO, Victor.

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

    Paris, Charles Gosselin, 1831.

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

    £7500

  3. 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

  4. CHALKHILL, John.

    Thealma and Clearchus. A pastoral History...

    London, Printed for Benj. Tooke … 1683.

    First edition of Chalkhill’s unfinished...

    £1850

  5. ROTH, Henry.

    Call it Sleep.

    London, Michael Joseph, 1963.

    First UK edition of Roth’s precocious...

    £250

  6. VARILLAS, [Antoine].

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

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

    A highly unusual pyrographic binding, likely...

    £750

  7. 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

  8. PORTER, [Jane].

    Thaddeus of Warsaw. In four Volumes …...

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

    Fifth edition of Jane Porter’s famous...

    £500

  9. [PRAYERS.]

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

    London, Henry Mortlock, 1700.

    Unrecorded edition of a very popular collection...

    £1200

  10. 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

  11. [FRASER, William Augustus, Sir.]

    Poems by the Knight of Morar.

    London, Whittingham and Wilkins, 1867. 

    First edition, privately printed, a presentation...

    £350

  12. 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

  13. [FIRST AID – RAILWAYS.] 

    Ministère des chemins de fer, postes et...

    Ghent, F.& R. Buyck, 1912. 

    First separate edition, seemingly unrecorded,...

    £195

  14. 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

  15. [‘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

  16. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500

  17. HAWTREY, George Procter.

    Caramella. A Story of the Lotus Eaters...

    Bristol, J. W. Arrowsmith; London, Simpkin,...

    First edition of this utopian novel exploring...

    £250

  18. RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator.

    Some British Ballads.

    London, Constable & Co. Ltd., [1919].

    First trade edition, illustrated by Rackham,...

    £500

  19. POMPONIO LETO, Giulio.

    In omnia quae quidem extant, P. Vergilii...

    Basel, [Johann Oporinus, 1544].

    Second edition of Leto’s influential...

    £450

  20. FLEMING, Ian.

    The Man with the golden Gun.

    London, Jonathan Cape, 1965.

    First edition, first impression, of the...

    £650