Gift Ideas

  1. SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Caius.

    [De XII Caesarum vitis. De Illustribus...

    Paris, Typographia Regia, 1644.

    An attractive, illustrated pocket Suetonius....

    £350

  2. [PSALMS.]

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

    ‘Se vendent à Charenton, par Antoine...

    Charenton-printed French Psalms in a...

    £2750

  3. MAGNON, Jean. 

    Les heures du Chrestien, divisées en trois...

    Paris, se vendent chez l’autheur …...

    First edition of this handsomely illustrated...

    £650

  4. RILKE, Rainer Maria. 

    Les Fenêtres.  Dix poèmes de Rainer...

    Paris, Officina Sanctandreana, 1927. 

    First edition of a series of ten poems...

    £450

  5. MEREDITH, George.

    Modern Love, and Poems of the English Roadside,...

    London, Chapman & Hall, 1862.

    First edition of a daring and innovative...

    £450

  6. [DICKSON, William, photographer.]

    Ambrotype of two young men holding hands.

    [Glasgow, 1860s.]

    A very attractive ambrotype double portrait...

    £450

  7. BREREWOOD, Edward. 

    Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages,...

    London, Printed [by Eliot’s Court Press]...

    First edition.  Brerewood, professor...

    £3000

  8. [LABOURS OF THE MONTHS &c.] 

    Januarius.  Februarius.  Merz.  April … 

    Nuremberg, Joh. Andreae Endterische Handlung,...

    A scarce popular print depicting the...

    £475

  9. VISSCHER, Nicolaes [I]. 

    ...

    Amsterdam, Nicolaus [I] Visscher, 1659. 

    First and only edition of this rare...

    £3750

  10. ASCHAM, Roger.

    A Report and Discourse … of the Affaires...

    London, Printed by John Daye … [1570?].

    First edition. Ascham’s account...

    £2000

  11. BRIDGES, Robert.

    Eros and Psyche, a Poem in XII Measures...

    [Gregynog], The Gregynog Press, 1935.

    One of 300 copies, one of the most beautiful...

    £1500

  12. KEATS, John.

    Endymion. A Poetic Romance … with Engravings...

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

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

    £1750

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

    Institutiones grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae...

    Oxford, ‘e theatro Sheldoniano … typis...

    First edition of a foundational work...

    £1200

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

    Satyrae.

    London, J. Brindley, 1744.

    First Brindley edition, edited by the...

    £650

  15. ANACREON.

    [Odaria.] Ανακρεοντος τηιου...

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

    Thick paper copy, apparently one of...

    £650

  16. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    De Officiis … libri tres, ex editione...

    London, T. Payne, 1791.

    First Payne edition, edited by Henry...

    £450

  17. WEBER, Johann Adam.

    Discursus curiosi et fructuosi [ad praecipuas...

    [Salzburg, Johann Baptist Mayr, 1690.]

    Third Salzburg edition of Weber’s...

    £6000

  18. VELLEIUS PATERCULUS.

    Quae supersunt ex historiae Romanae voluminibus...

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1752.

    First and only Foulis Press edition,...

    £425

  19. VARILLAS, [Antoine].

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

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

    A highly unusually decorated binding,...

    £750

  20. 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