Gift Ideas
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HALE, Matthew, Sir.
Contemplations moral and divine, in two Parts.
London, D. Brown, J. Walthoe, J. Sprint,...
An early eighteenth-century edition...
£450
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GRAY, [Thomas].
Poems by Mr. Gray.
Dublin, William Sleater, 1775.
An attractive Dublin edition of Gray’s...
£125
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POPE, Alexander.
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with...
London, ‘printed under the direction...
A good set of Pope’s works, printed...
£175
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POPE, Alexander.
An Essay on Man, in four Epistles to Henry...
London: Printed for Robert Jennings …...
A very fine edition, one of two hundred...
£450
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[JAMES II.]
His Majesties gracious Declaration to all...
[Colophon:] London, Printed by Charles...
A major document in the history of free...
£650
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CORNELIUS NEPOS.
Cornelii Nepotis vitae excellentium imperatorum,...
Amsterdam, J. Wetstein, 1745.
An uncommon pocket edition of Cornelius...
£125
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SENECA, Lucius Annaeus.
L. Annaei Senecae Cordubensis tragoediae...
Milan, Pandolfo Malatesta, 1617.
An extremely rare pocket-sized Jesuit...
£650
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WHITE MARIO, Jessie.
Sepolcri inglesi a Roma.
Rome, Tipografia Barbera, 1879.
First edition, extremely rare, of this...
£400
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JUSTI, Johann Heinrich Gottlob von.
Staatswirtschaft oder systematische Abhandlung...
Leipzig, Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, 1755.
First edition of this fundamental work...
£2750
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[GREATTI, Giuseppe.]
L’educazione: Poemetto in ottava rima.
Padua, 1796.
Only edition of this poem on the theme...
£650
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CELALEDDIN, Mahmud (calligrapher).
[A muraqqa or calligraphic album.]
Cairo, Ministry of Public Education, 1309...
Unrecorded album of lithographed examples...
£2200
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[JUVENILE.]
Preliminary lessons on the history of England,...
Taunton, J. Poole, 1821.
Later edition of this uncommon Taunton-printed...
£135
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MYERS, Robin, Michael HARRIS, and Giles MANDELBROTE (eds).
Lives in Book History: Changing Contours...
Leicester, Garendon Press, 2022.
‘This volume has grown out of one event...
£35
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ELIOT, George.
The Writings …
Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin...
The Large-Paper edition of Eliot’s complete...
£2500
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[MONTAGU, Mary Wortley (attr.), and PUISSIEUX, Madeline de (translator).]
La femme n’est pas inferieure a l’homme,...
‘A Londres’, 1750.
First French translation, uncommon,...
£685
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[CITTADELLA, Cesare.]
Catalogo istorico de’ pittori e scultori...
Ferrara, per Francesco Pomatelli, 1782-83.
First edition of the most important...
£2850
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[THUMB BIBLE.]
History of the Bible.
Lansingburgh (NY), William Disturnell, 1820.
First edition of this charming illustrated...
£475
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PIRON, Alexis.
Oeuvres badines …
Paris, chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1797.
Scarce illustrated edition of the ‘frolicsome...
£975
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HUGHES, Ted.
T.S. Eliot: A Tribute by the Poet Laureate.
[London,] ‘Privately Printed by [the...
A privately printed tribute to T.S....
£175
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GALIER, W.H.
A visit to Blestland.
London, George Robertson & co., 1896.
First edition of this novel of utopian...
£280