Gift Ideas
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FERDOWSĪ.
Shāhnāmah.
Tehran, Amir Kabir, AH 1350 [AD 1971].
A lavishly produced edition of the Shāhnāmah...
£4000
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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
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BARKER, Nicolas.
At First, All Went Well… & Other Brief Lives.
London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2019.
This book brings together eighty obituaries...
£40
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[FRASER, William Augustus, Sir.]
Poems by the Knight of Morar.
London, Whittingham and Wilkins, 1867.
First edition, privately printed, a...
£350
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MAUGHAM, William Somerset; Graham SUTHERLAND, illustrator.
Cakes and Ale, or the Skeleton in the Cupboard....
London, [Windmill Press for] William Heinemann,...
No. 132 of 1000 copies, signed by both...
£350
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[GREVENSTUK Brothers.]
Hand-coloured parchment key labels, with...
Amsterdam, [c. 1875–1900].
A rare and curious survival: some seventy...
£1200
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ANDERSEN, Hans Christian; Mary HOWITT, translator.
The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy. From...
London: Richard Bentley … 1845
First edition in English of Andersen’s...
£550
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[BYRON, George Gordon, Lord.]
Edward FINDEN, illustrator. [Landscape...
[London, John Murray, 1833–4.]
Finden’s attractive engraved illustrations...
£850
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[FIRST AID – RAILWAYS.]
Ministère des chemins de fer, postes et...
Ghent, F.& R. Buyck, 1912.
First separate edition, seemingly unrecorded,...
£195
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SAY, Jean-Baptiste.
Olbie, ou Essai sur les moyens de réformer...
Paris, Deterville and Treuttel & Wurtz,...
Rare first edition of Say’s utopia,...
£2500
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[‘HYSON, Timothy’, pseud. Thomas LOWNDES].
A Letter to Mr. Richard Twining, Tea Dealer,...
London, [C. Roworth] for the author, 1827.
Second edition of the Letter to Mr...
£250
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[SAVOY-CARIGNAN, Maria Vittoria Francesca, Princess of.]
Recueil de prières et de pratiques très...
[Paris, Imprimerie Royale], 1735.
First and only edition of this rare...
£2750
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MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.
Urbis Romae topographia.
Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.
First illustrated edition (third overall),...
£5500
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PYNCHON, Thomas.
Gravity’s Rainbow.
New York, The Viking Press, [1973].
First edition of Pynchon’s magnum...
£900
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[BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.]
L’Andrometrie, ou examen philosophique...
Paris, chez Brunet, 1753.
First editions of two scarce works by...
£2500
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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.
Stella. Ein Schauspiel für Liebende in...
Berlin, August Mylius, 1776.
First edition, scarce, of Goethe’s...
£1800
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HAWTREY, George Procter.
Caramella. A Story of the Lotus Eaters...
Bristol, J. W. Arrowsmith; London, Simpkin,...
First edition of this utopian novel...
£250
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PAPINI, Roberto.
Le Arti d’Oggi: Architettura e Arti Decorative...
Milan and Rome, Bestetti and Tumminelli, 1930.
First edition of a thorough and extensively...
£300
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ATWOOD, Margaret.
The Handmaid’s Tale.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1986.
First American edition of Atwood’s...
£300
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RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator.
Some British Ballads.
London, Constable & Co. Ltd., [1919].
First trade edition, illustrated by...
£500