Gift Ideas

  1. DIO CASSIUS.

    Dione historico delle guerre et fatti de...

    Venice, Niccolò Zoppino, March 1533.

    First edition of Dio Cassius’s Roman...

    £2500

  2. [POEMS ON DRINKING.]

    Raccolta di brindisi per tutte le occasioni;...

    Milan, Emilio Croci, 1875.

    First edition of this compact font of...

    £200

  3. LOCKE, John. 

    [An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding]. ...

    Amsterdam, Wolfgang, Waesbergi, Boom,...

    A substantial and extremely influential...

    £2850

  4. GISSING, George.

    The Unclassed, A Novel … in three Volumes.

    London, Chapman and Hall, 1884.

    First edition of Gissing’s second...

    £950

  5. HORACE; James TATE, editor

    Horatius restitutus: or the books...

    Cambridge, J. Smith for J. & J.J. Deighton,...

    First edition of this attempt to arrange...

    £150

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

    Handley Cross series.

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

    Limited ‘Master of Foxhounds’ edition,...

    £1200

  7. KOH, John.

    Dogs in Early Photography.

    London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2024.

    Throughout history, dogs have been a subject...

    £50

  8. JUVENAL, Decimus Junius, and Aulus Persius FLACCUS.

    Satyrae.

    London, J. Brindley, 1744.

    First Brindley edition, edited by the...

    £650

  9. [RENNEVILLE, Sophie de (?).]

    Contes a Aglaé, ou la jeune moraliste.

    Paris, Caillou, c.1820.

    Very uncommon edition, possibly the...

    £325

  10. ANACREON.

    [Odaria.] Ανακρεοντος τηιου...

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

    Thick paper copy, apparently one of...

    £650

  11. YARRELL, William.

    A History of British Fishes … illustrated...

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

    First collected editions, with an autograph...

    £750

  12. [ALTAR CARDS.]

    Two altar cards with Latin text and images...

    ‘A Paris, chez I. Baudemont’, second...

    Two seemingly unrecorded hand-coloured...

    £2750

  13. HORACE.

    Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera cum novo commentario...

    Paris, Didot, 1855.

    The deluxe issue of Didot’s Horace,...

    £750

  14. EPICTETUS.

    Το του Επικτητου εγχειριδιον....

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    The first miniature Foulis edition of...

    £650

  15. COBDEN-SANDERSON, Annie; Marianne TIDCOMBE, editor.

    The Prison Diary of Annie Cobden-Sanderson,...

    [Marlborough,] Libanus Press, 2017.

    The imprisonment of Annie Cobden-Sanderson,...

    £25

  16. ARISTOTLE.

    Αριστοτελους περι ποιητικης:...

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1780.

    Large-paper issue of the first Winstanley...

    £675

  17. POPE, Alexander.

    Letters of Mr Alexander Pope, and several...

    London: Printed by J. Wright for J. Knapton...

    First folio edition, large paper issue,...

    £1500

  18. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. 

    In Memoriam. 

    London, Edward Moxon … 1850.

    First edition, first issue, with the...

    £950

  19. [DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre-Samuel, and Konrad Engelbert OELSNER.]

    Notice sur la vie et les écrits de M....

    [Paris,] Smith [for the authors], 1813.

    First edition, one of 500 copies, of...

    £500

  20. BROUGHAM, Henry, first Baron Brougham and Vaux.

    Albert Lunel. A Novel ... In three Volumes...

    Clarke ... [1872].

    First edition, Sadleir’s ‘really...

    £450