Gift Ideas

  1. VISSCHER, Nicolaes [I]. 

    ...

    Amsterdam, Nicolaus [I] Visscher, 1659. 

    First and only edition of this rare...

    £3750

  2. ASCHAM, Roger.

    A Report and Discourse … of the Affaires...

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

    First edition. Ascham’s account of his...

    £2000

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

    Satyrae.

    London, J. Brindley, 1744.

    First Brindley edition, edited by the Irish...

    £650

  4. WEBER, Johann Adam.

    Discursus curiosi et fructuosi [ad praecipuas...

    [Salzburg, Johann Baptist Mayr, 1690.]

    Third Salzburg edition of Weber’s wide-ranging...

    £6000

  5. STATIUS, P. Papinius; John CAREY, editor.

    Opera, sedula recensione accurata [cover: Recensuit...

    London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin,...

    An attractive copy, uncut in the publisher’s...

    £120

  6. SCOTT, Sir Walter.

    The Lady of the Lake … with all his Introductions...

    Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1851.

    An attractive Scottish 'Mauchline ware'...

    £750

  7. [PRAYERS.] 

    Récueil de plusieurs prieres.   

    Vienna, ‘chez Georg Müllner libraire...

    Very rare and charming early nineteenth-century...

    £450

  8. [COMMON PRAYER.] 

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

    London, Millar Ritchie for J. Good and...

    A splendid copy of the Good and Harding...

    £1850

  9. [GOSPELS.] Charles HURÉ, translator.

    Le nouveau testament de notre-seigneur...

    Paris, L. Roulland, 1712.

    An attractive early Jansenist binding,...

    £950

  10. [PLAYING CARDS.]

    Complete Deck of 52 Playing Cards.

    London, Bancks Brothers, successors to...

    An extremely well-preserved complete deck...

    £200

  11. [SOPHOCLES.]

    Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum...

    Oxford, University Press, 1832.

    First Oxford edition of the Sophocles of...

    £200

  12. PLINY the Younger. 

    Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae...

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    A handsome Foulis Press pocket Pliny. The...

    £850

  13. TERENCE.

    Les comedies … avec la traduction et...

    Rotterdam, Gaspar Fritsch, 1717.

    A fine edition of Anne Dacier’s French...

    £850

  14. [PINNOCK, William].

    A catechism of the history of France, containing...

    London, Printed by Bensley and Sons for...

    Second edition of this much-reprinted guide...

    £125

  15. BURNE-JONES, Edward.

    The Little Holland House Album … with...

    The Roxburghe Club, 2024

    The Little Holland House Album was compiled...

    £75

  16. [BURY, Charlotte, Lady.]

    The Exclusives. In three Volumes ...

    London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley...

    First edition of this celebrated society...

    £950

  17. [ANTIPHONAL.]

    Very large historiated initial ‘H’...

    Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

    A very fine large initial painted in a...

    £6750

  18. SILIUS ITALICUS, C.; John CAREY, editor.

    Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione...

    London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin,...

    First and only ‘Regent’s Classics’...

    £100

  19. MILNE, A. A.; E. H. SHEPARD, illustrator.

    The House at Pooh Corner.

    London, Methuen & Co., 1928.

    First edition, first impression, of A. A. Milne’s...

    £650

  20. [SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]

    Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of...

    Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for...

    Stated second edition but in fact a third...

    £375