Gift Ideas

  1. [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

  2. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500

  3. PYNCHON, Thomas.

    Gravity’s Rainbow.

    New York, The Viking Press, [1973].

    First edition of Pynchon’s magnum...

    £900

  4. [GREVENSTUK Brothers.]

    Hand-coloured parchment key labels, with...

    Amsterdam, [c. 1875–1900].

    A rare and curious survival: some seventy...

    £1200

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

    L’Andrometrie, ou examen philosophique...

    Paris, chez Brunet, 1753.

    First editions of two scarce works by...

    £2500

  6. FERDOWSĪ.

    Shāhnāmah.

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

    A lavishly-produced edition of the Shāhnāmah...

    £4000

  7. GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.

    Stella. Ein Schauspiel für Liebende in...

    Berlin, August Mylius, 1776.

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

    £1800

  8. MOSZKOWSKI, Alexander.

    [H.J. STENNING, translator.]  The Isles...

    London, George Routledge & sons, 1924.

    First English edition of Alexander Moszkowski’s...

    £230

  9. HAWTREY, George Procter.

    Caramella. A Story of the Lotus Eaters...

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

    First edition of this utopian novel...

    £250

  10. 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

  11. ATWOOD, Margaret.

    The Handmaid’s Tale.

    Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1986.

    First American edition of Atwood’s...

    £300

  12. RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator.

    Some British Ballads.

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

    First trade edition, illustrated by...

    £500

  13. POMPONIO LETO, Giulio.

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

    Basel, [Johann Oporinus, 1544].

    Second edition of Leto’s influential...

    £450

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

    ‘Atlas’.

    Paris, Legay, [c. 1889].

    An attractive set of large educational...

    £875

  15. SYMONS, Arthur, editor.

    The Savoy.

    London, Leonard Smithers, 1896.

    First edition of this outstanding, though...

    £3000

  16. [HAMILTON, Joseph.]

    Some short and useful Reflections upon...

    Dublin, for the Author, by C. Bentham, 1823.

    First edition, scarce, of this Dublin-printed...

    £600

  17. MALORY, Thomas, Sir; Sir William Russell FLINT, illustrator.

    Le Morte Darthur, the History of King Arthur...

    [Edinburgh, R. & R. Clark for] London,...

    Scarce reprint of the Riccardi Press...

    £2000

  18. FLEMING, Ian.

    The Man with the golden Gun.

    London, Jonathan Cape, 1965.

    First edition, first impression, of...

    £650

  19. FLEMING, Ian.

    The Spy who loved me.

    London, Jonathan Cape, 1962.

    First edition, first impression, of...

    £1250

  20. FLEMING, Ian.

    You only live twice.

    London, Jonathan Cape, 1964.

    First edition, first impression, first...

    £850