Gift Ideas

  1. [FIRST AID – RAILWAYS.] 

    Ministère des chemins de fer, postes et...

    Ghent, F.& R. Buyck, 1912. 

    First separate edition, seemingly unrecorded,...

    £195

  2. 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

  3. [‘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

  4. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500

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

    L’Andrometrie, ou examen philosophique...

    Paris, chez Brunet, 1753.

    First editions of two scarce works by the...

    £2500

  6. GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.

    Stella. Ein Schauspiel für Liebende in...

    Berlin, August Mylius, 1776.

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

    £1800

  7. HAWTREY, George Procter.

    Caramella. A Story of the Lotus Eaters...

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

    First edition of this utopian novel exploring...

    £250

  8. RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator.

    Some British Ballads.

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

    First trade edition, illustrated by Rackham,...

    £500

  9. POMPONIO LETO, Giulio.

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

    Basel, [Johann Oporinus, 1544].

    Second edition of Leto’s influential...

    £450

  10. FLEMING, Ian.

    The Man with the golden Gun.

    London, Jonathan Cape, 1965.

    First edition, first impression, of the...

    £650

  11. FLEMING, Ian.

    You only live twice.

    London, Jonathan Cape, 1964.

    First edition, first impression, first...

    £850

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

    A Letter from India.

    The Roxburghe Club, 2020.

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

    £100

  13. [CALLIGRAPHIC SCORES.]

    Two anonymous manuscript scores.

    London, 1820s.

    Two charming productions, sent as anonymous...

    £850

  14. [PSALMS.]

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

    ‘Se vendent à Charenton, par Antoine...

    Charenton-printed French Psalms in a remarkable...

    £2750

  15. [LITURGY.] Girolamo GIOVANNINI, editor.

    Officium hebdomadae sanctae, juxta formam...

    Venice, ‘ex typographia Balleoniana’, 1742.

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

    £275

  16. MAGNON, Jean. 

    Les heures du Chrestien, divisées en trois...

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

    First edition of this handsomely illustrated...

    £650

  17. MEREDITH, George.

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

    London, Chapman & Hall, 1862.

    First edition of a daring and innovative...

    £450

  18. [DICKSON, William, photographer.]

    Ambrotype of two young men holding hands.

    [Glasgow, 1860s.]

    A very attractive ambrotype double portrait...

    £450

  19. BREREWOOD, Edward. 

    Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...

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

    First edition.  Brerewood, professor of...

    £3000

  20. [LABOURS OF THE MONTHS &c.] 

    Januarius.  Februarius.  Merz.  April … 

    Nuremberg, Joh. Andreae Endterische Handlung,...

    A scarce popular print depicting the labours...

    £475