Gift Ideas

  1. TRAVERS, John.

    A Letter to the Editor of the Courier Newspaper,...

    London, Effingham Wilson, 1834.

    Second, expanded edition of this tract...

    £850

  2. KEATS, John.

    Endymion. A poetic romance … with engravings...

    [London,] The Golden Cockerel Press, [1947].

    No. 200 of 500 copies of the Golden...

    £1750

  3. FLOWER, Stanley Smyth.

    Album of 14 watercolours of India and Malaya.

    India and Malaya, October 1894 to August 1895.

    A charming album of vivid watercolour...

    £750

  4. HUGO, Victor.

    Notre-Dame de Paris. Par Victor Hugo. Troisième...

    Paris, Charles Gosselin, 1831.

    First edition, third issue, of Victor...

    £7500

  5. COLONNA, Fabio.

    Φυτοβασανος, sive Plantarum...

    Naples, Orazio Salviani, 1592.

    First edition, a landmark in botanical...

    £4000

  6. [BIBLE.]

    Erläuterte Bibel mit Fragen, das ist,...

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

    A German Bible with extensive apparatus,...

    £2750

  7. [DENS, Pierre, editor.]

    Tractatus selecti de sponsalibus et matrimonio....

    Louvain, Louis Joseph Urban, 1775.

    Uncommon first edition of this interesting...

    £800

  8. NERVAL, Gérard de.

    Lorely, souvenirs d’Allemagne. Paris,...

    Giraud et J. Dagneau, 1852.

    First edition, second issue, of a collection...

    £800

  9. ANACREON.

    Ανακρεοντος τηιου μελη...

    Parma, [Bodoni] ‘in aedibus Palatinis’,...

    Thick paper copy, apparently one of...

    £650

  10. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.

    Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington…

    London: Edward Moxon … 1852.

    First edition of Tennyson’s ode to...

    £100

  11. CHALKHILL, John.

    Thealma and Clearchus. A pastoral History...

    London, Printed for Benj. Tooke … 1683.

    First edition of Chalkhill’s unfinished...

    £1850

  12. ROTH, Henry.

    Call it Sleep.

    London, Michael Joseph, 1963.

    First UK edition of Roth’s precocious...

    £250

  13. [BECKFORD, William.]

    Vathek, conte arabe.

    Paris, Poinçot; Chatellerault, P. J....

    Extremely rare, the only traced copy,...

    £3750

  14. VARILLAS, [Antoine].

    La pratique de l’education des princes,...

    Amsterdam, H. Wetstein & H. Desbordes, 1686.

    A highly unusual pyrographic binding,...

    £750

  15. [DELAMARCHE, Alexandre, cartographer; Bernard COUDERT, lithographer.]

    ‘Atlas’.

    Paris, Legay, [c. 1889].

    An attractive set of large educational...

    £875

  16. MATURIN, Charles.

    Melmoth the Wanderer: a Tale … Edinburgh,...

    London, Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1820.

    First edition, with excellent provenance,...

    £7500

  17. [WYNNE, John Huddlestone.]

    The Child of Chance; or, the Adventures...

    London, T. Hookham, ‘1796’ [recte 1786].

    First edition of a very rare picaresque...

    £3500

  18. [TOMKIS, Thomas.]

    Lingua: or, the Combat of the Tongue, and...

    London, Nicholas Okes for Simon Waterson, 1617.

    Third edition, rare, of this allegorical...

    £3000

  19. ROHAN, Henri, Duke of; [Henry HUNT, translator].

    A Treatise of the Interest of the Princes...

    London, Richard Hodgkinson, 1641.

    First edition in England (and second...

    £1800

  20. [CHARLES II.]

    RIVET, Jean. ‘Le favory du Ciel ou Meditation...

    [Caussade en Quercy, 1664.]

    A fascinating manuscript meditation...

    £1850