Gift Ideas

  1. [PINNOCK, William].

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

    London, Printed by Bensley and Sons for...

    Second edition of this much-reprinted...

    £125

  2. BURNE-JONES, Edward.

    The Little Holland House Album … with...

    The Roxburghe Club, 2024

    The Little Holland House Album was compiled...

    £75

  3. [BURY, Charlotte, Lady.]

    The Exclusives. In three Volumes ...

    London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley...

    First edition of this celebrated society...

    £950

  4. [MAUNDER, Samuel.]

    [Engraved title: The Little Linguist, being...

    [(Engraved title:) London, Printed for...

    A delightful and scarce miniature guide...

    £350

  5. BREREWOOD, Edward. 

    Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...

    London, Printed [by Eliot’s Court Press]...

    First edition.  Brerewood, professor...

    £3000

  6. [LABOURS OF THE MONTHS &c.] 

    Januarius.  Februarius.  Merz.  April … 

    Nuremberg, Joh. Andreae Endterische Handlung,...

    A scarce popular print depicting the...

    £475

  7. MÄNDL, Kaspar.

    Christliche Sitten-Lehr und heylsame Anmuthungen...

    Augsburg, Matthias Wolff, 1737.

    A superb example of Rococo decorative...

    £6750

  8. PEACOCK, Thomas Love.

    Rhododaphne: or the Thessalian Spell. A Poem.

    London, T. Hookham, Jun., and Baldwin,...

    First edition of Peacock’s last and...

    £750

  9. [LINCOLN, Abraham, and Stephen DOUGLAS.]

    Political Debates between Hon. Abraham...

    Columbus, Follet, Foster, and Company, 1860.

    First edition, later issue, with a rule...

    £950

  10. STRICKLAND, Hugh Edwin, and A. 

    G. MELVILLE. The Dodo and its Kindred;...

    London, Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848.

    An extra-illustrated family copy of...

    £7500

  11. [ANTIPHONAL.]

    Very large historiated initial ‘H’...

    Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

    A very fine large initial painted in...

    £6750

  12. CHALKHILL, John.

    Thealma and Clearchus. A pastoral History...

    London, Printed for Benj. Tooke … 1683.

    First edition of Chalkhill’s unfinished...

    £1850

  13. [MANNING, Frederic.]

    The Middle Parts of Fortune. Somme and...

    Piazza Press, Issued to subscribers by...

    First, limited and unexpurgated edition...

    £750

  14. 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

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

    Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione...

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

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

    £100

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

    The House at Pooh Corner.

    London, Methuen & Co., 1928.

    First edition, first impression, of...

    £650

  17. [SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]

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

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

    Stated second edition but in fact a...

    £375

  18. BLANCHON, Jacques.

    Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...

    Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

    First edition of a very rare work of...

    £950

  19. JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus; Cornelius NEPOS.

    Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium...

    Venice, ‘in aedibus Aldi et Andreae...

    First Aldine edition of Justinus’...

    £1850

  20. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo. 

    Urbis Romae topographia. 

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544. 

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500