Gift Ideas

  1. VARILLAS, [Antoine].

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

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

    A highly unusually decorated binding,...

    £750

  2. OATES, Russel [or Russell].

    ‘Specimens of Writing by Russel Oates,...

    Leeds, 1825.

    A pair of calligraphic dictation books...

    £850

  3. ANDREWS, Mark.

    The Science and Engineering of Water. An...

    Toronto, AE Publications, 2024.

    An extensively illustrated catalogue...

    £85

  4. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Science and Engineering of Water: An...

    Toronto, A.E. Publications, 2022.

    A lavishly illustrated catalogue, tracing...

    £85

  5. [PLAYING CARDS.]

    Complete Deck of 52 Playing Cards.

    London, Bancks Brothers, successors to...

    An extremely well-preserved complete...

    £200

  6. [SOPHOCLES.]

    Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum...

    Oxford, University Press, 1832.

    First Oxford edition of the Sophocles...

    £200

  7. VELLEIUS PATERCULUS.

    Quae supersunt ex historiae Romanae voluminibus...

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1752.

    First and only Foulis Press edition,...

    £425

  8. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Science and Engineering of Materials:...

    Toronto, AE Publications, 2023.

    An extraordinary survey of four centuries...

    £85

  9. PLINY the Younger. 

    Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae...

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    A handsome Foulis Press pocket Pliny....

    £850

  10. TIBULLUS.

    Albius Tibullus, eques Romanus; et in eum...

    Padua, Giuseppe Comino, 1749.

    An important edition of Tibullus’...

    £250

  11. TERENCE.

    Les comedies … avec la traduction et...

    Rotterdam, Gaspar Fritsch, 1717.

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

    £850

  12. TIBULLUS. James GRAINGER, translator.

    A Poetical Translation of the Elegies of...

    With the original Text, and Notes critical...

    First edition of this translation,...

    £300

  13. OVID.

    P. Ovidii Nasonis operum …

    Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevir, 1629.

    First Elzevir edition, newly edited...

    £500

  14. SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Caius.

    [De XII Caesarum vitis. De Illustribus...

    Paris, Typographia Regia, 1644.

    An attractive, illustrated pocket Suetonius....

    £350

  15. [PINNOCK, William].

    A catechism of the history of France, containing...

    London, Printed by Bensley and Sons for...

    Second edition of this much-reprinted...

    £125

  16. BURNE-JONES, Edward.

    The Little Holland House Album … with...

    The Roxburghe Club, 2024

    The Little Holland House Album was compiled...

    £75

  17. [BURY, Charlotte, Lady.]

    The Exclusives. In three Volumes ...

    London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley...

    First edition of this celebrated society...

    £950

  18. [MAUNDER, Samuel.]

    [Engraved title: The Little Linguist, being...

    [(Engraved title:) London, Printed for...

    A delightful and scarce miniature guide...

    £350

  19. BREREWOOD, Edward. 

    Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...

    London, Printed [by Eliot’s Court Press]...

    First edition.  Brerewood, professor...

    £3000

  20. [LABOURS OF THE MONTHS &c.] 

    Januarius.  Februarius.  Merz.  April … 

    Nuremberg, Joh. Andreae Endterische Handlung,...

    A scarce popular print depicting the...

    £475