Gift Ideas
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RUSH, John; Jacob F. SHEEK, editor.
The Hand-Book to veterinary Homoeopathy,...
New York & San Francisco, Boericke & Tafel,...
Later American edition of a rare hand-book...
£275
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PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, Juan de.
The History of the Conquest of China by...
London, W. Godbid for M. Pitt, 1671.
First edition in English of Palafox's Historia...
£1750
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Aristotle: From Antiquity to the Modern Era.
Preface by Martin J. Gross. Essays by Benjamin...
Lewes, D. Giles Ltd for the Martin J....
Aristotle’s influence towers over western...
£30
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POWYS, John Cowper.
Autobiography.
London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1934].
First edition, signed on the half-title...
£250
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LEWIS, Wyndham, and Anne Gladys LEWIS.
Christmas card to the Bridsons.
[1950s].
‘To Joyce [née Thirlaway] + Geoffrey...
£50
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PRINCE, F[rank].
T[empleton]. Soldiers Bathing and other Poems.
London, The Fortune Press, [1954].
First edition, Prince’s second collection,...
£200
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RACHEWILTZ, Boris de.
L’Elemento magico in Ezra Pound.
Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro...
First edition, no. 182 of 1000 copies,...
£150
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ANDREWS, Mark E.
The Science and Engineering of Water: An...
Toronto, A.E. Publications, 2022.
A finely bound deluxe copy, one of twenty...
£675
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HOLLAR, Wenceslaus, attributed.
[Portraits of celebrated Courtezans.]
Nineteenth century?
A famous series of portraits depicting...
£1200
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STEPHENSON BLAKE.
A Book of Types – SL1.
Sheffield & London, [1956].
Two beautiful type specimen books from...
£85
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POPE, Alexander.
The Dunciad. With Notes variorum, and the...
London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver … 1729.
‘Second’ octavo edition, revised. This...
£450
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NELSON, John.
An Extract of John Nelson’s Journal,...
Bristol, E. Farley & Co., 1767.
Rare first edition, printed in Bristol,...
£600
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[STANHOPE, Hester Lucy, Lady.] [MERYON, Charles Lewis, editor.]
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as...
London, [Frederick Shoberl for] Henry...
First edition, the entertaining memoirs...
£650
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[GREENE, Asa.]
The Perils of Pearl Street, including a...
New York, Betts & Anstice and Peter Hill, 1834.
First edition of a very early Wall Street...
£2750
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NIEUHOF, Jean, and Jean LE CARPENTIER (translator).
L’ambassade de la compagnie orientale...
Leiden, Jacob de Meurs, 1665.
Lavishly illustrated first French edition...
£3500
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SPENCER, Eleanor P.
The Sobieski Hours: A Manuscript in the...
London, [Rampant Lion Press for] Academic...
Limited edition, dedicated and presented...
£475
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CESAROTTI, Melchiorre, librettist.
Adria consolata festa teatrale nel solenne...
Venice, Vincenzo Rizzi, [1803].
First edition, very rare, of this libretto...
£275
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NIXON, Howard M.
Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...
London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...
First edition, one of three hundred copies,...
£875
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FREEMAN, Arthur.
Catullus Carmen 17.6 and Other Mysteries....
London, The Author, 2020.
This partly historical, partly philological...
£15
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WALLIS, William.
The Western Gentleman’s Farrier, containing...
Troy (OH), John T. Tullis, 1838.
Second edition of an American work on farriery,...
£250