Gift Ideas

  1. [BYRON, George Gordon, Lord.]

    Edward FINDEN, illustrator. [Landscape...

    [London, John Murray, 1833–4.]

    Finden’s attractive engraved illustrations...

    £850

  2. [FIRST AID – RAILWAYS.] 

    Ministère des chemins de fer, postes et...

    Ghent, F.& R. Buyck, 1912. 

    First separate edition, seemingly unrecorded,...

    £195

  3. 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

  4. [‘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

  5. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500

  6. PYNCHON, Thomas.

    Gravity’s Rainbow.

    New York, The Viking Press, [1973].

    First edition of Pynchon’s magnum...

    £900

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

    L’Andrometrie, ou examen philosophique...

    Paris, chez Brunet, 1753.

    First editions of two scarce works by the...

    £2500

  8. GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.

    Stella. Ein Schauspiel für Liebende in...

    Berlin, August Mylius, 1776.

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

    £1800

  9. HAWTREY, George Procter.

    Caramella. A Story of the Lotus Eaters...

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

    First edition of this utopian novel exploring...

    £250

  10. RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator.

    Some British Ballads.

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

    First trade edition, illustrated by Rackham,...

    £500

  11. POMPONIO LETO, Giulio.

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

    Basel, [Johann Oporinus, 1544].

    Second edition of Leto’s influential...

    £450

  12. FLEMING, Ian.

    The Man with the golden Gun.

    London, Jonathan Cape, 1965.

    First edition, first impression, of the...

    £650

  13. FLEMING, Ian.

    You only live twice.

    London, Jonathan Cape, 1964.

    First edition, first impression, first...

    £850

  14. HEBER, Reginald, and Nicolas BARKER (editor).

    A Letter from India.

    The Roxburghe Club, 2020.

    'I do not expect that with fair prospects...

    £100

  15. [CALLIGRAPHIC SCORES.]

    Two anonymous manuscript scores.

    London, 1820s.

    Two charming productions, sent as anonymous...

    £850

  16. [PSALMS.]

    Les Pseaumes de David, mis en rime Françoise,...

    ‘Se vendent à Charenton, par Antoine...

    Charenton-printed French Psalms in a remarkable...

    £2750

  17. [LITURGY.] Girolamo GIOVANNINI, editor.

    Officium hebdomadae sanctae, juxta formam...

    Venice, ‘ex typographia Balleoniana’, 1742.

    Very rare small-format edition of the Offices...

    £275

  18. SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Caius.

    [De XII Caesarum vitis. De Illustribus...

    Paris, Typographia Regia, 1644.

    An attractive, illustrated pocket Suetonius....

    £350

  19. MAGNON, Jean. 

    Les heures du Chrestien, divisées en trois...

    Paris, se vendent chez l’autheur …...

    First edition of this handsomely illustrated...

    £650

  20. MEREDITH, George.

    Modern Love, and Poems of the English Roadside,...

    London, Chapman & Hall, 1862.

    First edition of a daring and innovative...

    £450