Gift Ideas

  1. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    De Officiis … libri tres, ex editione...

    London, T. Payne, 1791.

    First Payne edition, edited by Henry Homer...

    £450

  2. WEBER, Johann Adam.

    Discursus curiosi et fructuosi [ad praecipuas...

    [Salzburg, Johann Baptist Mayr, 1690.]

    Third Salzburg edition of Weber’s wide-ranging...

    £6000

  3. VELLEIUS PATERCULUS.

    Quae supersunt ex historiae Romanae voluminibus...

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1752.

    First and only Foulis Press edition, unusually...

    £425

  4. STATIUS, P. Papinius; John CAREY, editor.

    Opera, sedula recensione accurata [cover: Recensuit...

    London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin,...

    An attractive copy, uncut in the publisher’s...

    £120

  5. SCOTT, Sir Walter.

    The Lady of the Lake … with all his Introductions...

    Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1851.

    An attractive Scottish 'Mauchline ware'...

    £750

  6. [PRAYERS.] 

    Récueil de plusieurs prieres.   

    Vienna, ‘chez Georg Müllner libraire...

    Very rare and charming early nineteenth-century...

    £450

  7. [COMMON PRAYER.]

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

    London & Glasgow, Collins’ Clear-Type...

    A George V Common Prayer and hymnal, uniformly...

    £275

  8. [COMMON PRAYER.] 

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

    London, Millar Ritchie for J. Good and...

    A splendid copy of the Good and Harding...

    £1850

  9. [GOSPELS.] Charles HURÉ, translator.

    Le nouveau testament de notre-seigneur...

    Paris, L. Roulland, 1712.

    An attractive early Jansenist binding,...

    £950

  10. ANDREWS, Mark.

    The Science and Engineering of Water. An...

    Toronto, AE Publications, 2024.

    An extensively illustrated catalogue of...

    £85

  11. [PLAYING CARDS.]

    Complete Deck of 52 Playing Cards.

    London, Bancks Brothers, successors to...

    An extremely well-preserved complete deck...

    £200

  12. [SOPHOCLES.]

    Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum...

    Oxford, University Press, 1832.

    First Oxford edition of the Sophocles of...

    £200

  13. PLINY the Younger. 

    Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae...

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    A handsome Foulis Press pocket Pliny. The...

    £850

  14. TERENCE.

    Les comedies … avec la traduction et...

    Rotterdam, Gaspar Fritsch, 1717.

    A fine edition of Anne Dacier’s French...

    £850

  15. [PINNOCK, William].

    A catechism of the history of France, containing...

    London, Printed by Bensley and Sons for...

    Second edition of this much-reprinted guide...

    £125

  16. BURNE-JONES, Edward.

    The Little Holland House Album … with...

    The Roxburghe Club, 2024

    The Little Holland House Album was compiled...

    £75

  17. [BURY, Charlotte, Lady.]

    The Exclusives. In three Volumes ...

    London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley...

    First edition of this celebrated society...

    £950

  18. [ANTIPHONAL.]

    Very large historiated initial ‘H’...

    Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

    A very fine large initial painted in a...

    £6750

  19. SILIUS ITALICUS, C.; John CAREY, editor.

    Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione...

    London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin,...

    First and only ‘Regent’s Classics’...

    £100

  20. MILNE, A. A.; E. H. SHEPARD, illustrator.

    The House at Pooh Corner.

    London, Methuen & Co., 1928.

    First edition, first impression, of A. A. Milne’s...

    £650