Gift Ideas

  1. MYERS, Robin, Andrew BURNETT, and Renae SATTERLEY.

    ‘I do not eat the bread of idleness’:...

    The Garendon Press, 2023.

    This volume brings together revised versions...

    £45

  2. WAPPEROM, Jacobus Joannes. 

    Gezangen door J.J. Wapperom. 

    The Hague, 1805. 

    Very rare collection of songs by the...

    £675

  3. [WESLEY, John (editor).]

    Excerpta ex Ovidio, Virgilio, Horatio,...

    Bristol, typis F. Farley, 1749.

    First edition of one of the textbooks...

    £1100

  4. FARINGTON, Susan Maria (illustrator).

    The 104th Psalm. Illustrated by Susan Maria...

    Lithographed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son,...

    The Faringtons or Ffaringtons were an ancient...

    £975

  5. ALLOM, Thomas and George Newenham WRIGHT.

    China in a series of views, displaying...

    London, Peter Jackson, late Fisher, Son,...

    Later edition of this handsome work...

    £1250

  6. DENNYS, Nicholas Belfield (editor).

    The Treaty Ports of China and Japan. A...

    Shortrede and Co., 1867.

    First edition, complete with all twenty-nine...

    £5750

  7. [ENGELBRECHT, Martin.]

    Eine Englische Bäurin. Une paisane Angloise....

    Augsburg, Martin Engelbrecht, [c. 1740?].

    A wonderful engraving by the Augsburg...

    £3500

  8. REFELL, A. 

    Trugbilder: Eine Anleitung Erscheinungen,...

    Stuttgart, Rieger, 1865. 

    First German edition, rare, of this...

    £1250

  9. [HOLBEIN, Hans, the Younger.] Christian von MECHEL (engraver).

    Le Triomphe de la Mort, gravé d’après...

    Paris, Simon Raçon, ‘1780’ [i.e. 1854].

    Rare nineteenth-century reprint of Mechel’s...

    £850

  10. [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

  11. [COOK, James, and Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de la PÉROUSE.]

    Tableau des decouvertes du Capne. Cook,...

    S. Sauveur, l’an 7 de la République...

    A splendid hand-coloured engraving depicting...

    £1500

  12. [CHIARI, Pietro (attributed)].

    L’Americana ramminga cioè Memorie di...

    Venice, Angelo Pasinelli, 1763.

    First edition, rare, of ‘the first...

    £3750

  13. [BERINGTON, Simon, adapted by Jean-Baptiste DUPUY-DEMPORTES.] 

    Memoires de Gaudence de Luques, prisonnier...

    Amsterdam and Leipzig, Arkstée & Merkus,...

    Second edition of this much expanded...

    £500

  14. MARINIS, Dominico de. 

    Dissertatio philosophico-medica de re monstrosa...

    Rome, typis Iacobi Mascardi ... sumptibus...

    First edition of this scarce dissertation...

    £1850

  15. [LABOURS OF THE MONTHS &c.] 

    Januarius.  Februarius.  Merz.  April … 

    Nuremberg, Joh. Andreae Endterische Handlung,...

    A scarce popular print depicting the...

    £475

  16. [JAMIESON, John.] 

    Congal and Fenella; A Tale in Two Parts. 

    London, C. Dilly, 1791. 

    First and only edition of Jamieson’s...

    £250

  17. ORIBASIUS. 

    Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis …...

    Paris, Simon de Colines, 1533. 

    First edition of this commentary on...

    £1750

  18. SHELDRAKE, Timothy.

    The Causes of Heat and Cold in the several...

    London, printed for and sold by the author...

    First edition, rare on the market, of...

    £1275

  19. TERENCE Afer, Publius. 

    Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati commentariis...

    Paris, Robert Estienne, 1529. 

    First folio edition of Terence’s comedies...

    £1500

  20. [MONTIGNY, Alfred de.] 

    Les stratagèmes des échecs, ou collection...

    [Strasbourg, Jean-André Fischer for]...

    First edition of this charming pocket-sized...

    £950