Gift Ideas

  1. NELSON, John.

    An Extract of John Nelson’s Journal,...

    Bristol, E. Farley & Co., 1767.

    Rare first edition, printed in Bristol,...

    £600

  2. CASSANDRE, A.M.

    Dubonnet.

    Copenhagen, Axel Andreasen & Sønner, c., 1956.

    A fine example of Cassandre’s now iconic...

    £750

  3. [DRYDEN, John.]

    The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition....

    London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1682.

    First edition, second issue, adding two...

    £750

  4. [STANHOPE, Hester Lucy, Lady.] [MERYON, Charles Lewis, editor.]

    Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as...

    London, [Frederick Shoberl for] Henry...

    First edition, the entertaining memoirs...

    £650

  5. [HERVEY, Elizabeth.]

    The Mourtray Family. A Novel …

    London: Printed by Millar Ritchie …...

    First edition of the penultimate novel...

    £2500

  6. [GREENE, Asa.]

    The Perils of Pearl Street, including a...

    New York, Betts & Anstice and Peter Hill, 1834.

    First edition of a very early Wall Street...

    £2750

  7. BRADLEY Gertrude M., illustrator.

    An archive of drawings for Just Forty...

    [c. 1897].

    Fifty-eight delightful preliminary pencil...

    £850

  8. NIEUHOF, Jean, and Jean LE CARPENTIER (translator). 

    L’ambassade de la compagnie orientale...

    Leiden, Jacob de Meurs, 1665. 

    Lavishly illustrated first French edition...

    £3500

  9. VERLAINE, Paul, and Léon LEBÈGUE (illustrator).

    Fêtes gallantes.

    Paris, F. Ferroud for the Librairie des...

    Limited edition on vélin teinté d’Arches,...

    £750

  10. MIRANDULA (or MIRANDOLA), Ottaviano. 

    Illustrium poetarum flores. 

    Antwerp, Joannes Bellerus, 1563. 

    A remarkable copy, with numerous and eloquent...

    £1950

  11. SPENCER, Eleanor P. 

    The Sobieski Hours: A Manuscript in the...

    London, [Rampant Lion Press for] Academic...

    Limited edition, dedicated and presented...

    £475

  12. CESAROTTI, Melchiorre, librettist.

    Adria consolata festa teatrale nel solenne...

    Venice, Vincenzo Rizzi, [1803].

    First edition, very rare, of this libretto...

    £275

  13. NIXON, Howard M. 

    Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...

    London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...

    First edition, one of three hundred copies,...

    £875

  14. FREEMAN, Arthur.

    Catullus Carmen 17.6 and Other Mysteries....

    London, The Author, 2020.

    This partly historical, partly philological...

    £15

  15. FREEMAN, Arthur.

    Bibliotheca Fictiva: A Collection of Books...

    London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2024.

    This fully revised and enlarged edition...

    £80

  16. WALLIS, William.

    The Western Gentleman’s Farrier, containing...

    Troy (OH), John T. Tullis, 1838.

    Second edition of an American work on farriery,...

    £250

  17. SMITH, Albert Richard.

    The Story of Mont Blanc …

    London, David Bogue, 1853.

    First edition of Smith’s famous book...

    £1275

  18. CARDONNEL, Adam de.

    Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …

    London: Printed for the Author, and sold...

    First edition, the very rare issue with...

    £975

  19. ANSELMI, Giorgio, the younger

    Georgii Anselmi nepotis Epigrammaton libri...

    Venice, Maffeo Pasini, September 1528. 

    The definitive edition of the epigrams...

    £875

  20. KOLLÁR, Jan. 

    Díla básnická … we dwau djljch [‘A...

    Buda, no publisher, but ‘with the types...

    First collected edition of Jan Kollár’s...

    £1750