Gift Ideas

  1. [GEORGE VI.]

    The Form and Order of the Service that...

    London, Novello & Company, 1937.

    A handsome copy of the Coronation service,...

    £275

  2. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.

    Enoch Arden, etc. …

    London, [Bradbury & Evans for] Edward...

    First edition, an association copy belonging...

    £175

  3. WETZELL, Madame.

    Les Matinées de la poupée, ou récréations...

    Paris, J. Langlumé, [1844?].

    First and only edition, very rare, of...

    £275

  4. GURNEY, Edmund, Frederic W.H. MYERS, and Frank PODMORE.

    Phantasms of the Living …

    London, Society for Psychical Research,...

    First edition, second issue as usual,...

    £800

  5. ALEXANDER, William, attributed.

    The Costume of the Russian Empire, illustrated...

    London, ‘printed for William Miller...

    A later reprint of a handsome costume...

    £950

  6. [GUARINI, Giovanni Battista.]

    Il Pastor Fido.

    ‘In Parigi, appresso Tomaso Iolly, 1706’.

    Scarce Parisian edition of Guarini’s...

    £175

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

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

    [Marlborough,] Libanus Press, 2017.

    The imprisonment of Annie Cobden-Sanderson,...

    £25

  8. KAEMPFER, Engelbert, and Johann Gaspar SCHEUCHZER, translator.

    The History of Japan, giving an Account...

    London, for the translator, 1727.

    First edition, first issue, of the German...

    £7500

  9. WALTON, Izaak, and James THORPE, illustrator.

    Complete Angler or contemplative man’s...

    London & Edinburgh, T.N. Foulis, [1925].

    A very attractive illustrated edition...

    £500

  10. BRULL, Mariano, and Mathilde POMÈS, translator.

    Solo de Rosa. Poemas.

    Con dos rosas de Mariano y Portocarrero....

    First edition, no. 186 of 300 copies,...

    £650

  11. RUSH, John; Jacob F. SHEEK, editor.

    The Hand-Book to veterinary Homoeopathy,...

    New York & San Francisco, Boericke & Tafel,...

    Later American edition of a rare hand-book...

    £275

  12. YARRELL, William.

    A History of British Fishes … illustrated...

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

    First collected editions, with an autograph...

    £750

  13. ASCHAM, Roger.

    A Report and Discourse … of the Affaires...

    London, Printed by John Daye … [1570?].

    First edition. Ascham’s account...

    £2000

  14. PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, Juan de. 

    The History of the Conquest of China by...

    London, W. Godbid for M. Pitt, 1671. 

    First edition in English of Palafox's...

    £1750

  15. DENNYS, Nicholas Belfield (editor).

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

    Shortrede and Co., 1867.

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

    £4750

  16. [DELAMARCHE, Alexandre, cartographer; Bernard COUDERT, lithographer.]

    ‘Atlas’.

    Paris, Legay, [c. 1889].

    An attractive set of large educational...

    £875

  17. Aristotle: From Antiquity to the Modern Era.

    Preface by Martin J. Gross. Essays by Benjamin...

    Lewes, D. Giles Ltd for the Martin J....

    Aristotle’s influence towers over western...

    £30

  18. POWYS, John Cowper.

    Autobiography.

    London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1934].

    First edition, signed on the half-title...

    £250

  19. POUND, Ezra, and Noel STOCK, translators.

    Love Poems of ancient Egypt.

    [New York, New Directions, 1962].

    First edition.

    £75

  20. LEWIS, Wyndham, and Anne Gladys LEWIS.

    Christmas card to the Bridsons.

    [1950s].

    ‘To Joyce [née Thirlaway] + Geoffrey...

    £50