Skip to content
AUTHENTICITY GUARANTEED | EXPERT ADVICE
AUTHENTICITY GUARANTEED

Gifts Under £1500

Elevate your giving with a gift that not only leaves a lasting impression but also stands as a testament to literary treasure.  
  • Journal of a voyage to Australia

    SCORESBY, William, Reverend.
    Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00
    Original price £0.00
    £950.00
    £950.00 - £950.00
    Current price £950.00

    William Scoresby junior, the great Arctic explorer, was actively engaged on scientific research into magnetism and published several papers on the...

    View full details
    Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00
    Original price £0.00
    £950.00
    £950.00 - £950.00
    Current price £950.00
  • Air and Rain.

    SMITH, Robert Angus.
    Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00
    Original price £0.00
    £450.00
    £450.00 - £450.00
    Current price £450.00

    The beginning of air quality monitoring. First and only edition of the first book on the results of air quality monitoring, a pioneering work in th...

    View full details
    Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00
    Original price £0.00
    £450.00
    £450.00 - £450.00
    Current price £450.00
  • Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbeltiere: Die Zauneidechse. Lacerta agilis.

    SCHMID, Bastian.
    Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00
    Original price £0.00
    £850.00
    £850.00 - £850.00
    Current price £850.00

    Uncommon, early 20th-century anatomical relief of the European lizard species Lacerta agilis (the sand lizard). The publisher's archive copy, in e...

    View full details
    Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00
    Original price £0.00
    £850.00
    £850.00 - £850.00
    Current price £850.00
  • Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbeltiere: Rana esculenta. Wasserfrosch.

    SCHMID, Bastian.
    Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00
    Original price £0.00
    £850.00
    £850.00 - £850.00
    Current price £850.00

    Uncommon, early 20th-century anatomical relief plaque of the European frog species Rana esculenta (the common European water frog, or green frog)....

    View full details
    Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00
    Original price £0.00
    £850.00
    £850.00 - £850.00
    Current price £850.00
  • The Organization and Cell-Lineage of the Ascidian Egg.

    CONKLIN, Edwin G.
    Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00
    Original price £0.00
    £450.00
    £450.00 - £450.00
    Current price £450.00

    A milestone in embryology. First edition, first printing of a foundational work in our understanding of how fertilised eggs develop cell-by-cell. T...

    View full details
    Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00
    Original price £0.00
    £450.00
    £450.00 - £450.00
    Current price £450.00
  • Southern Arabia.

    BENT, Mabel & James Theodore.
    Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00
    Original price £0.00
    £1,500.00
    £1,500.00 - £1,500.00
    Current price £1,500.00

    The Bents travelled in Southern Arabia during seven journeys in 1893-1897. The book is divided into sections on Southern Arabia, Maskat, the Hadhr...

    View full details
    Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00
    Original price £0.00
    £1,500.00
    £1,500.00 - £1,500.00
    Current price £1,500.00
  • Recherches sur la Constitution des Spectra d'Émission des Éléments Chimiques.

    RYDBERG, J.R.
    Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00
    Original price £0.00
    £850.00
    £850.00 - £850.00
    Current price £850.00

    The precursor to bohr's quantum theory. First edition of this significant work that lays out the empirical formulae governing the frequencies of at...

    View full details
    Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00
    Original price £0.00
    £850.00
    £850.00 - £850.00
    Current price £850.00
  • Die Chemische Abscheidung der bei Spaltung des Urans entstehenden Elemente und Atomarten.

    HAHN, Otto & STRASSMAN, Fritz.
    Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00
    Original price £0.00
    £750.00
    £750.00 - £750.00
    Current price £750.00

    The true offprint of the final paper on the discovery of nuclear fission. The true offprint, in the orange wrappers, of the third of Hahn and Stras...

    View full details
    Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00
    Original price £0.00
    £750.00
    £750.00 - £750.00
    Current price £750.00
  • Über das Zerplatzen des Urankernes durch langsame Neutronen.

    HAHN, Otto & STRASSMAN, Fritz.
    Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00
    Original price £0.00
    £1,250.00
    £1,250.00 - £1,250.00
    Current price £1,250.00

    The discovery of nuclear fission. The Abhandlungen offprint of the first of Hahn and Strassman's 'three fundamental papers on nuclear fission, cont...

    View full details
    Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00
    Original price £0.00
    £1,250.00
    £1,250.00 - £1,250.00
    Current price £1,250.00
  • The Fundamental Properties of the Galactic System.

    [SANDAGE, Allan] [VYSSTOSKY] Williams, Emma T. R., et al.
    Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00
    Original price £0.00
    £450.00
    £450.00 - £450.00
    Current price £450.00

    Women in cosmology, from the library of a nobel prize winner. First edition of this collection of eight cosmology papers from the New York Academy ...

    View full details
    Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00
    Original price £0.00
    £450.00
    £450.00 - £450.00
    Current price £450.00
  • Topographical Botany.

    WATSON, Hewett Cottrell.
    Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00
    Original price £0.00
    £400.00
    £400.00 - £400.00
    Current price £400.00

    Inspiration for darwin's origin of species. First edition, presentation set inscribed by the author on each title, 'Mary Edmonds from the Author, H...

    View full details
    Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00
    Original price £0.00
    £400.00
    £400.00 - £400.00
    Current price £400.00
  • Britain and Atomic Energy 1939-1945

    GOWING, Margaret.
    Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00
    Original price £0.00
    £500.00
    £500.00 - £500.00
    Current price £500.00

    The first authoritative account of british nuclear research and policy. First editions, possible second impression of the first volume, which has n...

    View full details
    Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00
    Original price £0.00
    £500.00
    £500.00 - £500.00
    Current price £500.00
  • The Prevention of Malaria.

    ROSS, Ronald, et al.
    Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00
    Original price £0.00
    £500.00
    £500.00 - £500.00
    Current price £500.00

    Preventing malaria by understanding its transmission. First edition of this comprehensive work on the epidemiology of malaria by the doctor who ide...

    View full details
    Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00
    Original price £0.00
    £500.00
    £500.00 - £500.00
    Current price £500.00
  • The Dinosaur Artist.

    WILLIAMS, Paige.
    Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00
    Original price £0.00
    £150.00
    £150.00 - £150.00
    Current price £150.00

    Inscribed by the author. First edition, inscribed by the author on the title, 'Paige Williams, Tucson Book Festival, March 2, 2019'.This best-selli...

    View full details
    Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00
    Original price £0.00
    £150.00
    £150.00 - £150.00
    Current price £150.00
  • Praktikum der Gewebepflege oder Explanation Besonders der Gewebezüchtung.

    ERDMANN, Rhoda.
    Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00
    Original price £0.00
    £450.00
    £450.00 - £450.00
    Current price £450.00

    Early work on tissue culture by a pioneering female cell biologist. First edition of 'the first German textbook that provided detailed instructions...

    View full details
    Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00
    Original price £0.00
    £450.00
    £450.00 - £450.00
    Current price £450.00
  • An Alphabet.

    NICHOLSON, William.
    Original price £1,200.00 - Original price £1,200.00
    Original price £0.00
    £1,200.00
    £1,200.00 - £1,200.00
    Current price £1,200.00

    Nicholson had been working with Heinemann since the mid-1890s. As well as designing their windmill device, Nicholson created a number of books for...

    View full details
    Original price £1,200.00 - Original price £1,200.00
    Original price £0.00
    £1,200.00
    £1,200.00 - £1,200.00
    Current price £1,200.00
  • The Caretaker.

    PINTER, Harold.
    Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00
    Original price £0.00
    £200.00
    £200.00 - £200.00
    Current price £200.00

    True first edition, preceding the Methuen hardback edition of the same year. Pinter's first commercial success, first performed at the Arts Theatr...

    View full details
    Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00
    Original price £0.00
    £200.00
    £200.00 - £200.00
    Current price £200.00
  • Chips with Everything.

    WESKER, Arnold.
    Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00
    Original price £0.00
    £125.00
    £125.00 - £125.00
    Current price £125.00

    First edition of a major English Stage Company play. 'A drama of striking power, intensity and conviction' (New York Post).First edition, first im...

    View full details
    Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00
    Original price £0.00
    £125.00
    £125.00 - £125.00
    Current price £125.00
  • The Doomsday Book.

    MACLAREN-ROSS, J.
    Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00
    Original price £0.00
    £150.00
    £150.00 - £150.00
    Current price £150.00

    First edition of one of the scarcest Maclaren-Ross titles.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's red cloth, silver...

    View full details
    Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00
    Original price £0.00
    £150.00
    £150.00 - £150.00
    Current price £150.00
  • The Dark.

    MCGAHERN, John.
    Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00
    Original price £0.00
    £250.00
    £250.00 - £250.00
    Current price £250.00

    The author's scarce second novel, banned in Ireland by the Censorship Board for obscenity in 1965.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked i...

    View full details
    Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00
    Original price £0.00
    £250.00
    £250.00 - £250.00
    Current price £250.00
  • Shame.

    RUSHDIE, Salman.
    Original price £85.00 - Original price £85.00
    Original price £0.00
    £85.00
    £85.00 - £85.00
    Current price £85.00

    The author's third novel and the second in his series of books dealing with Islam and the countries of the East, beginning with Midnight's Childre...

    View full details
    Original price £85.00 - Original price £85.00
    Original price £0.00
    £85.00
    £85.00 - £85.00
    Current price £85.00
  • The Laird of Abbotsford:

    WILSON, A.N.
    Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00
    Original price £0.00
    £125.00
    £125.00 - £125.00
    Current price £125.00

    Signed by the author. First edition of this biography of Sir Walter Scott, signed by the author in black ink on the title page.First edition, first...

    View full details
    Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00
    Original price £0.00
    £125.00
    £125.00 - £125.00
    Current price £125.00
  • The Time of the Crack.

    TENNANT, Emma.
    Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00
    Original price £0.00
    £125.00
    £125.00 - £125.00
    Current price £125.00

    The author's second book and first Science Fiction novel. Preceded by her earlier novel, The Colour of Rain (1964), published under the pseudonym ...

    View full details
    Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00
    Original price £0.00
    £125.00
    £125.00 - £125.00
    Current price £125.00
  • The Ever-Interesting Topic.

    [HOFF, Harry Summerfield] COOPER, William (pseud).
    Original price £85.00 - Original price £85.00
    Original price £0.00
    £85.00
    £85.00 - £85.00
    Current price £85.00

    First edition of this satirical novel set in a boys school.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's blue cloth, gilt...

    View full details
    Original price £85.00 - Original price £85.00
    Original price £0.00
    £85.00
    £85.00 - £85.00
    Current price £85.00

You've viewed  of 3896 items

Your cart is empty

Continue shopping

Basket