Gift Ideas

  1. [SURTEES, Robert Smith,] and John LEECH (illustrator).

    Handley Cross series.

    London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1899-1900.

    Limited ‘Master of Foxhounds’ edition,...

    £1200

  2. [RENNEVILLE, Sophie de (?).]

    Contes a Aglaé, ou la jeune moraliste.

    Paris, Caillou, c.1820.

    Very uncommon edition, possibly the first,...

    £325

  3. YARRELL, William.

    A History of British Fishes … illustrated...

    London, Samuel Bentley for John van Voorst,...

    First collected editions, with an autograph...

    £750

  4. EPICTETUS.

    Το του Επικτητου εγχειριδιον....

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    The first miniature Foulis edition of Epictetus...

    £650

  5. COBDEN-SANDERSON, Annie; Marianne TIDCOMBE, editor.

    The Prison Diary of Annie Cobden-Sanderson,...

    [Marlborough,] Libanus Press, 2017.

    The imprisonment of Annie Cobden-Sanderson,...

    £25

  6. POPE, Alexander.

    Letters of Mr Alexander Pope, and several...

    London: Printed by J. Wright for J. Knapton...

    First folio edition, large paper issue,...

    £1500

  7. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. 

    In Memoriam. 

    London, Edward Moxon … 1850.

    First edition, first issue, with the misprints...

    £950

  8. BROUGHAM, Henry, first Baron Brougham and Vaux.

    Albert Lunel. A Novel ... In three Volumes...

    Clarke ... [1872].

    First edition, Sadleir’s ‘really scarce’...

    £450

  9. [GUARINI, Giovanni Battista.]

    Il Pastor Fido.

    ‘In Parigi, appresso Tomaso Iolly, 1706’.

    Scarce Parisian edition of Guarini’s...

    £175

  10. BRULL, Mariano, and Mathilde POMÈS, translator.

    Solo de Rosa. Poemas.

    Con dos rosas de Mariano y Portocarrero....

    First edition, no. 186 of 300 copies, printed...

    £650

  11. RUSH, John; Jacob F. SHEEK, editor.

    The Hand-Book to veterinary Homoeopathy,...

    New York & San Francisco, Boericke & Tafel,...

    Later American edition of a rare hand-book...

    £275

  12. PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, Juan de. 

    The History of the Conquest of China by...

    London, W. Godbid for M. Pitt, 1671. 

    First edition in English of Palafox's Historia...

    £1750

  13. Aristotle: From Antiquity to the Modern Era.

    Preface by Martin J. Gross. Essays by Benjamin...

    Lewes, D. Giles Ltd for the Martin J....

    Aristotle’s influence towers over western...

    £30

  14. POWYS, John Cowper.

    Autobiography.

    London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1934].

    First edition, signed on the half-title...

    £250

  15. LEWIS, Wyndham, and Anne Gladys LEWIS.

    Christmas card to the Bridsons.

    [1950s].

    ‘To Joyce [née Thirlaway] + Geoffrey...

    £50

  16. PRINCE, F[rank].

    T[empleton]. Soldiers Bathing and other Poems.

    London, The Fortune Press, [1954].

    First edition, Prince’s second collection,...

    £200

  17. RACHEWILTZ, Boris de.

    L’Elemento magico in Ezra Pound.

    Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro...

    First edition, no. 182 of 1000 copies,...

    £150

  18. MITCHISON, Naomi; Wyndham LEWIS, illustrator.

    Beyond this Limit …

    [London,] Jonathan Cape, [1935].

    First edition. This was Lewis’s only...

    £75

  19. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Science and Engineering of Water: An...

    Toronto, A.E. Publications, 2022.

    A finely bound deluxe copy, one of twenty...

    £675

  20. HOLLAR, Wenceslaus, attributed.

    [Portraits of celebrated Courtezans.]

    Nineteenth century?

    A famous series of portraits depicting...

    £1200