Gift Ideas
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ORWELL, George.
Nineteen Eighty-Four. A Novel.
London, Secker & Warburg, 1949.
First edition of a byword-novel, Orwell’s...
£1750
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WHITMAN, Walt, and Antonio FRASCONI (illustrator).
A Whitman Portrait.
[New York, Spiral Press, 1960.]
First edition, comprising extracts...
£250
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PARKER, Dorothy.
Not so deep as a Well: The collected Poems...
New York, Viking Press, 1 December 1936.
Limited first edition, numbered 410...
£500
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HUMPHREYS, H.
Noel. The Genera and Species of British...
London, [Bradbury & Evans for] Paul Jerrard...
First edition of these handsome illustrations...
£250
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DU TEMPLE, Louis.
Du Scaphandre, et de son emploi a bord...
Paris, widow Bouchard-Huzard for Arthus...
First and only edition of this work...
£750
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[HERALDRY.]
Album of embossed heraldic letterheads.
[Likely Cambridge, late nineteenth century?]
An intriguing collection of embossed...
£250
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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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POGÁNY, Willy (illustrator).
Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales, collected...
London, [Ballantyne Press for] George...
First edition of this attractive collection...
£450
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[JUVENILE.]
A Token of Remembrance from a Mother to...
London, William Darton, 58, Holborn Hill, 1822.
First edition of this collection of...
£350
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[BURNEY, Frances, Madame d’Arblay.]
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth. By the...
London: Printed for T. Payne ... and T....
First edition. The subscribers’...
£1600
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[JUVENILE.]
[Library for Youth, or Book-Case of Knowledge,...
London: Printed for John Wallis … by...
A fine complete set of Wallis’s ‘Library...
£4750
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SUETONIUS, and Isaac CASAUBON (editor).
C. Suetoni Tranquilli De XII. Caesaribus...
Geneva, Etienne Gamonet, 1605.
Second edition of Casaubon’s Suetonius....
£375
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RAMSAY, Allan.
The Gentle Shepherd, a Scotch Pastoral...
London: Printed for the Author, by T....
First edition of this parallel-text...
£600
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DREVES, [Johann Friedrich Peter,] and [Friedrich Gottlob] HAYNE [and Johann Stephan CAPIEUX (engraver)].
Choix de plantes d’Europe, décrites...
Leipzig, Voss et compagnie, 1802.
First edition in French, the Plesch...
£3500
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[NOBBES, Robert.]
The compleat Troller, or, the Art of Trolling,...
London, T. James for Thomas Helder, 1682.
First edition of ‘the earliest major...
£1450
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[JOHNSTONE, Charles.]
Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea,...
London, T. Becket, 1760.
First edition. Chrysal’s...
£600
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WOOLRYCH, Humphry W.
Memoirs of the Life of Judge Jeffreys,...
London, A.J. Valpy for Henry Colburn, 1827.
First edition of a favourable biography...
£145
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FUHRMANN, Ernst.
China. Erster Teil: Das Land der Mitte.
Hagen, Folkwang-Verlag, 1921.
First edition of two of the most celebrated...
£175
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REID, Thomas.
Essays on the powers of the human mind;...
[Edinburgh, W. Aitchison for] London,...
A beautiful set of this small format...
£750
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MORRIS, William.
Gothic Architecture: A Lecture for the...
(Colophon:) London, Kelmscott Press at...
A splendid copy of the first edition...
£1000