Gift Ideas

  1. [HUGHES, Langston.]

    American Mission Association Race Relations...

    [n.d. but 1950s?].

    £100

  2. [POUND.] 

    Ezra Pound at Seventy.

    [New York, New Directions, 1955.] 

    A small celebratory booklet printing tributes...

    £30

  3. [POUND.]

    FROBENIUS, Leo. Il Liuto di Gassire. Legenda...

    Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro...

    First edition, translated into Italian...

    £100

  4. POUND, Ezra, and Ernest FENELLOSA.

    Introduzione ai Nô, con un drama in un...

    Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro...

    Third edition, translations of Pound’s...

    £30

  5. [I CHING.]

    WILHELM, Richard, and Cary F. BAYNES,...

    London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974.

    Third edition, reprinted, in a striking...

    £1950

  6. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Science and Engineering of Materials:...

    Toronto, AE Publications, 2023.

    An extraordinary survey of four centuries...

    £75

  7. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Science and Engineering of Water: An...

    Toronto, A.E. Publications, 2022.

    A lavishly illustrated catalogue, tracing...

    £75

  8. [LITURGY.]

    L’Office de la Semaine Sainte, selon...

    Paris, par la Compagnie des libraires...

    Uncommon edition of the offices for Holy...

    £1250

  9. TRAVERS, John.

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

    London, Effingham Wilson, 1834.

    Second, expanded edition of this tract...

    £850

  10. 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

  11. HUGO, Victor.

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

    Paris, Charles Gosselin, 1831.

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

    £7500

  12. COLONNA, Fabio.

    Φυτοβασανος, sive Plantarum...

    Naples, Orazio Salviani, 1592.

    First edition, a landmark in botanical...

    £4000

  13. NERVAL, Gérard de.

    Lorely, souvenirs d’Allemagne. Paris,...

    Giraud et J. Dagneau, 1852.

    First edition, second issue, of a collection...

    £800

  14. ANACREON.

    Ανακρεοντος τηιου μελη...

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

    Thick paper copy, apparently one of 12...

    £650

  15. 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

  16. CHALKHILL, John.

    Thealma and Clearchus. A pastoral History...

    London, Printed for Benj. Tooke … 1683.

    First edition of Chalkhill’s unfinished...

    £1850

  17. ROTH, Henry.

    Call it Sleep.

    London, Michael Joseph, 1963.

    First UK edition of Roth’s precocious...

    £250

  18. [BECKFORD, William.]

    Vathek, conte arabe.

    Paris, Poinçot; Chatellerault, P. J....

    Extremely rare, the only traced copy, of...

    £3750

  19. VARILLAS, [Antoine].

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

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

    A highly unusual pyrographic binding, likely...

    £750

  20. MATURIN, Charles.

    Melmoth the Wanderer: a Tale … Edinburgh,...

    London, Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1820.

    First edition, with excellent provenance,...

    £7500