Gift Ideas

  1. KOH, John.

    Dogs in Early Photography.

    London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2024.

    Throughout history, dogs have been a subject...

    £50

  2. JUVENAL, Decimus Junius, and Aulus Persius FLACCUS.

    Satyrae.

    London, J. Brindley, 1744.

    First Brindley edition, edited by the...

    £650

  3. HORACE.

    Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera cum novo commentario...

    Paris, Didot, 1855.

    The deluxe issue of Didot’s Horace,...

    £750

  4. HORACE; James TATE, editor

    Horatius restitutus: or the books...

    Smith for J. & J.J. Deighton, 1832. 

    First edition of this attempt to arrange...

    £150

  5. EPICTETUS.

    Το του Επικτητου εγχειριδιον....

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    The first miniature Foulis edition of...

    £650

  6. [GRICK, Friedrich.] 

    Fortalitium scientiae, das ist: die unfehlbare,...

    [Nuremberg,] 1617. 

    First edition of this provocative tract...

    £2850

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

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

    [Marlborough,] Libanus Press, 2017.

    The imprisonment of Annie Cobden-Sanderson,...

    £25

  8. ARISTOTLE.

    Αριστοτελους περι ποιητικης:...

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1780.

    Large-paper issue of the first Winstanley...

    £675

  9. [ALTAR CARDS.]

    Two altar cards with Latin text and images...

    ‘A Paris, chez I. Baudemont’, second...

    Two seemingly unrecorded hand-coloured...

    £2750

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

    Handley Cross series.

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

    Limited ‘Master of Foxhounds’ edition,...

    £1200

  11. POPE, Alexander.

    Letters of Mr Alexander Pope, and several...

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

    First folio edition, large paper issue,...

    £1500

  12. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. 

    In Memoriam. 

    London, Edward Moxon … 1850.

    First edition, first issue, with the...

    £950

  13. [DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre-Samuel, and Konrad Engelbert OELSNER.]

    Notice sur la vie et les écrits de M....

    [Paris,] Smith [for the authors], 1813.

    First edition, one of 500 copies, of...

    £500

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

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

    Clarke ... [1872].

    First edition, Sadleir’s ‘really...

    £450

  15. THOMAS, Dylan.

    Under Milk Wood. A Play for Voices …

    London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1954.

    First edition, first impression, our...

    £1500

  16. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.

    Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington…

    London: Edward Moxon … 1852.

    First edition of Tennyson's ode to the...

    £100

  17. CHURCHILL, Winston S.

    A History of the English-Speaking Peoples,...

    London, Cassel & Company Ltd, [1956; –...

    First editions, with dust-jackets, of...

    £200

  18. CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer; F. RHODES, editor; Angus McNEILL, illustrator.

    The River War: An Historical Account of...

    [London, Spottiswoode & Co. for] London,...

    First edition of Churchill’s second...

    £2500

  19. [BUXTON, Thomas Fowell, Sir.] Charles BUXTON, editor.

    Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet,...

    London, [Spottiswoode & Shaw for] John...

    First edition of this memoir of Sir...

    £185

  20. HICKES, George, Runólfur JÓNSSON, and Edward BERNARD.

    Institutiones grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae...

    Oxford, ‘e theatro Sheldoniano … typis...

    First edition of a foundational work...

    £1200