Gift Ideas

  1. PORTER, [Jane].

    Thaddeus of Warsaw. In four Volumes …...

    London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809.

    Fifth edition of Jane Porter’s famous...

    £500

  2. PORTER, [Jane].

    Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks,...

    London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.

    First edition, uncommon, of a collection...

    £600

  3. [PRAYERS.]

    The New-Years-Gift, complete: in six Parts....

    London, Henry Mortlock, 1700.

    Unrecorded edition of a very popular collection...

    £1200

  4. KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.

    Travels from Berlin, through Switzerland,...

    London, Richard Phillips, 1804.

    First edition in English, quickly translated...

    £500

  5. KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.

    The most remarkable Year in the Life of...

    London, Richard Phillips, 1802.

    First edition in English of Kotzebue’s...

    £500

  6. SOPHOCLES; Ezra POUND, translator.

    Women of Trachis. A Version by Ezra Pound.

    London, Neville Spearman, [1956]. 

    First edition of Pound’s version of Sophocles’...

    £1000

  7. FERDOWSĪ.

    Shāhnāmah.

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

    A lavishly produced edition of the Shāhnāmah...

    £4000

  8. [FRASER, William Augustus, Sir.]

    Poems by the Knight of Morar.

    London, Whittingham and Wilkins, 1867. 

    First edition, privately printed, a presentation...

    £350

  9. 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

  10. [GREVENSTUK Brothers.]

    Hand-coloured parchment key labels, with...

    Amsterdam, [c. 1875–1900].

    A rare and curious survival: some seventy...

    £1200

  11. [BYRON, George Gordon, Lord.]

    Edward FINDEN, illustrator. [Landscape...

    [London, John Murray, 1833–4.]

    Finden’s attractive engraved illustrations...

    £850

  12. [FIRST AID – RAILWAYS.] 

    Ministère des chemins de fer, postes et...

    Ghent, F.& R. Buyck, 1912. 

    First separate edition, seemingly unrecorded,...

    £195

  13. SAY, Jean-Baptiste.

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

    Paris, Deterville and Treuttel & Wurtz,...

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

    £2500

  14. [‘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 Richard...

    £250

  15. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500

  16. PYNCHON, Thomas.

    Gravity’s Rainbow.

    New York, The Viking Press, [1973].

    First edition of Pynchon’s magnum...

    £900

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

    L’Andrometrie, ou examen philosophique...

    Paris, chez Brunet, 1753.

    First editions of two scarce works by the...

    £2500

  18. GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.

    Stella. Ein Schauspiel für Liebende in...

    Berlin, August Mylius, 1776.

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

    £1800

  19. HAWTREY, George Procter.

    Caramella. A Story of the Lotus Eaters...

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

    First edition of this utopian novel exploring...

    £250

  20. RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator.

    Some British Ballads.

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

    First trade edition, illustrated by Rackham,...

    £500