Gift Ideas

  1. 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

  2. GELLIUS, Aulus; [Johann Friedrich GRONOVIUS, editor].

    Noctes atticae: editio nova et prioribus...

    Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1651.

    Jansson’s piracy of Gronovius’s celebrated...

    £450

  3. DENNYS, Nicholas Belfield, editor.

    The Treaty Ports of China and Japan. A...

    Shortrede and Co., 1867.

    First edition, complete with all twenty-nine...

    £4750

  4. [POEMS ON DRINKING.]

    Raccolta di brindisi per tutte le occasioni;...

    Milan, Emilio Croci, 1875.

    First edition of this compact font of inspiration...

    £200

  5. LOCKE, John. 

    [An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding]. ...

    Amsterdam, Wolfgang, Waesbergi, Boom,...

    A substantial and extremely influential...

    £2850

  6. GISSING, George.

    The Unclassed, A Novel … in three Volumes.

    London, Chapman and Hall, 1884.

    First edition of Gissing’s second novel...

    £950

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

    Handley Cross series.

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

    Limited ‘Master of Foxhounds’ edition,...

    £1200

  8. KOH, John.

    Dogs in Early Photography.

    London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2024.

    Throughout history, dogs have been a subject...

    £50

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

    Contes a Aglaé, ou la jeune moraliste.

    Paris, Caillou, c.1820.

    Very uncommon edition, possibly the first,...

    £325

  10. YARRELL, William.

    A History of British Fishes … illustrated...

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

    First collected editions, with an autograph...

    £750

  11. HORACE.

    Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera cum novo commentario...

    Paris, Didot, 1855.

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

    £750

  12. EPICTETUS.

    Το του Επικτητου εγχειριδιον....

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

    The first miniature Foulis edition of Epictetus...

    £650

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

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

    [Marlborough,] Libanus Press, 2017.

    The imprisonment of Annie Cobden-Sanderson,...

    £25

  14. POPE, Alexander.

    Letters of Mr Alexander Pope, and several...

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

    First folio edition, large paper issue,...

    £1500

  15. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. 

    In Memoriam. 

    London, Edward Moxon … 1850.

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

    £950

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

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

    Clarke ... [1872].

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

    £450

  17. CHURCHILL, Winston S.

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

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

    First editions, with dust-jackets, of Churchill’s...

    £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 book,...

    £2500

  19. WETZELL, Madame.

    Les Matinées de la poupée, ou récréations...

    Paris, J. Langlumé, [1844?].

    First and only edition, very rare, of a...

    £275

  20. [GUARINI, Giovanni Battista.]

    Il Pastor Fido.

    ‘In Parigi, appresso Tomaso Iolly, 1706’.

    Scarce Parisian edition of Guarini’s...

    £175