Gift Ideas

  1. [FRASER, William Augustus, Sir.]

    Poems by the Knight of Morar.

    London, Whittingham and Wilkins, 1867. 

    First edition, privately printed, a...

    £350

  2. MAUGHAM, William Somerset; Graham SUTHERLAND, illustrator.

    Cakes and Ale, or the Skeleton in the Cupboard....

    London, [Windmill Press for] William Heinemann,...

    No. 132 of 1000 copies, signed by both...

    £350

  3. [GREVENSTUK Brothers.]

    Hand-coloured parchment key labels, with...

    Amsterdam, [c. 1875–1900].

    A rare and curious survival: some seventy...

    £1200

  4. ANDERSEN, Hans Christian; Mary HOWITT, translator.

    The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy. From...

    London: Richard Bentley … 1845

    First edition in English of Andersen’s...

    £550

  5. [BYRON, George Gordon, Lord.]

    Edward FINDEN, illustrator. [Landscape...

    [London, John Murray, 1833–4.]

    Finden’s attractive engraved illustrations...

    £850

  6. [FIRST AID – RAILWAYS.] 

    Ministère des chemins de fer, postes et...

    Ghent, F.& R. Buyck, 1912. 

    First separate edition, seemingly unrecorded,...

    £195

  7. MOSZKOWSKI, Alexander; [H.J. STENNING, translator]. 

    The Isles of Wisdom. 

    London, George Routledge & Sons, 1924.

    First English edition of Alexander Moszkowski’s...

    £250

  8. SAY, Jean-Baptiste.

    Olbie, ou Essai sur les moyens de réformer...

    Paris, Deterville and Treuttel & Wurtz,...

    Rare first edition of Say’s utopia,...

    £2500

  9. [‘HYSON, Timothy’, pseud. Thomas LOWNDES].

    A Letter to Mr. Richard Twining, Tea Dealer,...

    London, [C. Roworth] for the author, 1827.

    Second edition of the Letter to Mr...

    £250

  10. [SAVOY-CARIGNAN, Maria Vittoria Francesca, Princess of.]

    Recueil de prières et de pratiques très...

    [Paris, Imprimerie Royale], 1735.

    First and only edition of this rare...

    £2750

  11. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500

  12. PYNCHON, Thomas.

    Gravity’s Rainbow.

    New York, The Viking Press, [1973].

    First edition of Pynchon’s magnum...

    £900

  13. [BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.]

    L’Andrometrie, ou examen philosophique...

    Paris, chez Brunet, 1753.

    First editions of two scarce works by...

    £2500

  14. FERDOWSĪ.

    Shāhnāmah.

    Tehran, Amir Kabir, AH 1350 [AD 1971].

    A lavishly-produced edition of the Shāhnāmah...

    £4000

  15. GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.

    Stella. Ein Schauspiel für Liebende in...

    Berlin, August Mylius, 1776.

    First edition, scarce, of Goethe’s...

    £1800

  16. HAWTREY, George Procter.

    Caramella. A Story of the Lotus Eaters...

    Bristol, J. W. Arrowsmith; London, Simpkin,...

    First edition of this utopian novel...

    £250

  17. PAPINI, Roberto.

    Le Arti d’Oggi: Architettura e Arti Decorative...

    Milan and Rome, Bestetti and Tumminelli, 1930.

    First edition of a thorough and extensively...

    £300

  18. ATWOOD, Margaret.

    The Handmaid’s Tale.

    Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1986.

    First American edition of Atwood’s...

    £300

  19. RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator.

    Some British Ballads.

    London, Constable & Co. Ltd., [1919].

    First trade edition, illustrated by...

    £500

  20. POMPONIO LETO, Giulio.

    In omnia quae quidem extant, P. Vergilii...

    Basel, [Johann Oporinus, 1544].

    Second edition of Leto’s influential...

    £450