Gift Ideas

  1. 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

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

    Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione...

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

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

    £100

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

    The House at Pooh Corner.

    London, Methuen & Co., 1928.

    First edition, first impression, of...

    £650

  4. [SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]

    Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of...

    Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for...

    Stated second edition but in fact a...

    £375

  5. BLANCHON, Jacques.

    Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...

    Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

    First edition of a very rare work of...

    £950

  6. JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus; Cornelius NEPOS.

    Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium...

    Venice, ‘in aedibus Aldi et Andreae...

    First Aldine edition of Justinus’...

    £1850

  7. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo. 

    Urbis Romae topographia. 

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544. 

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500

  8. [BIBLE.]

    Erläuterte Bibel mit Fragen, das ist,...

    Altdorf, Joh. Adam Hessel for Ernst Friderich...

    A German Bible with extensive apparatus,...

    £2750

  9. FAULKNER, William.

    A Fable.

    [New York,] Random House, [1954].

    Limited edition, no. 880 of 1000 copies...

    £1500

  10. FAULKNER, William.

    Absalom, Absalom!

    New York, Random House, 1936.

    First edition, the special limited issue,...

    £4500

  11. SHAKESPEARE, William; Richard Grant WHITE, editor.

    The Works of William Shakespeare. The Plays...

    Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1893.

    An attractive Boston-printed edition...

    £500

  12. [BIBLE.]

    The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament...

    [Cambridge,] Printed by Roger Daniel,...

    A seemingly unrecorded Cambridge-printed...

    £3750

  13. [GOSPELS.] Charles HURÉ, translator.

    Le nouveau testament de notre-seigneur...

    Paris, L. Roulland, 1712.

    An attractive early Jansenist binding,...

    £950

  14. [PSALMS.]

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

    ‘Se vendent à Charenton, par Antoine...

    Charenton-printed French Psalms in a...

    £2750

  15. [COMMON PRAYER.]

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

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

    A George V Common Prayer and hymnal,...

    £275

  16. [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

  17. [ALKEN, Henry.]

    The Beauties & Defects in the Figure of...

    Boston, Carter & Hendee, 1830.

    First American edition, the second and...

    £1600

  18. [CUMBERLAND, Richard.]

    Arundel. By the author of the Observer.

    London, Printed for C. Dilly … 1789.

    First edition. Richard Cumberland...

    £1500

  19. GALIER, W.H.

    A visit to Blestland.

    London, George Robertson & Co., 1896.

    First edition of this novel of utopian...

    £280

  20. HORACE; James TATE, editor

    Horatius restitutus: or the books...

    Cambridge, J. Smith for J. & J.J. Deighton,...

    First edition of this attempt to arrange...

    £150