Gift Ideas

  1. STEPNIAK, Sergey. 

    דאָס אינטערערדישע רוסלאַנד...

    New York, Maks N. Maisel, 1921. 

    Scarce first American edition in Yiddish...

    £150

  2. ROUQUET, Jean-André. 

    The present State of the Arts in England. ...

    London, for J. Nourse, 1755. 

    First edition in English, published in...

    £19500

  3. WALLER, Edmund. 

    Poems, &c. written by Mr. Ed. Waller...

    London, Printed by I. N. for Hu. Mosley...

    Second (but first licensed) edition of...

    £850

  4. [JUVENILE.] 

    Preliminary lessons on the history of England,...

    Taunton, J. Poole, 1821. 

    Later edition of this uncommon Taunton-printed...

    £135

  5. ELIOT, George.

    The Writings …

    Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin...

    The Large-Paper edition of Eliot’s complete...

    £2500

  6. HUGHES, Ted.

    T.S. Eliot: A Tribute by the Poet Laureate.

    [London,] ‘Privately Printed by [the...

    A privately printed tribute to T.S. Eliot,...

    £175

  7. PRIOR, Matthew.

    Poems on several Occasions.

    London: Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1709.

    First authorised edition, preceded by Curll’s...

    £400

  8. FIELDING, Henry.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling …

    Paris: Printed by Fr. Amb. Didot the eldest,...

    The first French edition in English of...

    £425

  9. HUGHES, John.

    Poems on several Occasions. With some select...

    London: Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts....

    First edition of the principal collection...

    £850

  10. [UNGER, Salomo Gottlob.]

    Geschichte des Oesterreich-Russischen und...

    Leipzig, Wilhelm Gottlob Sommer, 1792.

    First and only edition, extremely rare,...

    £1250

  11. [HALL STEVENSON, John.]

    Makarony Fables …

    London: ‘Printed for Circulation among...

    Limited edition, numbered 172 of 300 copies,...

    £100

  12. BLANCHARD, Edward Litt Leman.

    A Pipe of Tobacco: with Whiffs and Clouds...

    London: H. Beal … [1840s?].

    First edition, by the editor and play-...

    £125

  13. [EMBOSSED BINDING.] DE LA RUE, Thomas (binder). SHERIDAN, Louisa Henrietta.

    The Comic Offering; or Ladies’ Melange...

    London, Smith, Elder, and Co., 1832.

    An appropriately light-hearted embossed...

    £300

  14. MAGNER, D.

    The new System of Educating Horses, including...

    Philadelphia, Burk & M’Fetridge, 1881.

    Twelfth edition of a well illustrated manual...

    £65

  15. HERSHBERGER, H.R.

    The Horseman: A Work on Horsemanship, containing...

    New York, R. Craighead for Henry G. Langley,...

    First edition of a rare military manual...

    £450

  16. COX, John Roalfe.

    Horses in Accident and Disease: Notes and...

    Edinburgh, George Waterston & Sons for...

    First edition of an elegantly illustrated...

    £70

  17. COPPERTHWAITE, R.H.

    The Turf and the Racehorse, describing...

    London, Day & Son, 1865.

    First edition of a scarce account of mid-nineteenth-century...

    £160

  18. CHOPPIN, Henri.

    La cavalerie française … illustrée...

    Paris, Garnier brothers, 1893.

    First edition of a well illustrated history...

    £175

  19. BERKELEY, Grantley F., and John LEECH and G.H. JALLAND (illustrators).

    Reminiscences of a Huntsman … a new Edition...

    London and New York, R. & R. Clark for...

    Second edition, with John Leech’s original...

    £120

  20. BERENGER, Charles Random de.

    Helps and Hints how to protect Life and...

    London, J. & C. Adlard for T. Hurst ‘for...

    First edition, with advice on riding and...

    £180