Thomas, John

Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus

John Flaxman; Thomas Piroli · 1795 · Rooke Books

£1,700.00 (€2,031.71 | $2,268.26 | ¥360,204)

London, Not Identified, 1795. First edition. Leather. An excellent and scarce, first edition of these illustrations by leading figure in European Neoclassicism, John Flaxman. These illustrations were commissioned by Lady Spencer, as noted to the title page 'The original D...

Douglas: A Tragedy; Agis: A Tragedy; Cleone. A Tragedy; Oroonoko, a Tragedy

John Home; Robert Dodsley; Thomas Southern · 1757 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€418.29 | $466.99 | ¥74,160)

London, A. Millar; R. and J. Dodsley; C. Bathurst, 1757-1759 . First edition. Leather. A wonderful collection of four mid-18th century tragedies, including three first editions. With examples of works from John Home, Robert Dodsley and Thomas Southern. Handsomely bound in full...

Painting Popularly Explained

Thomas John Gullick; John Timbs · 1864 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.46 | $92.06 | ¥14,620)

London, Lockwood & Co, 1864. Leather. Handsomely bound in a full prize binding, this is the second edition of Timbs and Gullick's study of the art of painting. A second, revised edition of 'Painting Popularly Explained&apos. Thomas John Gullick and John Timbs give e...

Patrick O&Apos;Brian

Nikolai Tolstoy; Dean King; John B. Hattendorf; Anne Chotzinoff Grossman; Lisa Grossman Thomas; Patrick O'Brian · 1996 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.56 | $120.08 | ¥19,070)

New York; London, W.W. Norton & Company; Henry Holt and Company; William Collins, 1996-2019. Cloth. A very smart three volume set of works on the subject of Patrick O'Brian and his Aubrey-Maturin novels. A set of three volumes.Each on the subject of Patrick O'Brian a...

Liber Albus: The White Book of the City of London

John Carpenter; Richard Whitington; Henry Thomas Riley [trans.] · 1861 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.41 | $160.11 | ¥25,426)

London, Richard Griffin and Company, 1861 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Henry Thomas Riley's important translation of this monumental study of English Common Law in the publisher's original binding.  The first English edition translated by Henry Thoma...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray; John Moultrie [ed.] · 1863 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.17 | $62.71 | ¥9,959)

London, Charles Griffin and Company, 1863 . Leather. A pleasing copy of the Eton edition of the poetical works of Thomas Gray, in full morocco, with fifteen monochrome illustrations. The illustrated Eton edition of the poetical works of Thomas Gray, in full morocco. Undated a...

Paradise Lost

John Milton; Thomas Newton · 1770 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€472.07 | $527.04 | ¥83,694)

London, J. Beecroft; W. Strahan; J. and F. Rivington; et al, 1770. Leather. Milton's influential blank verse poem 'Paradise Lost', illustrated with lovely detailed engraved plates for each book of the poem. Complete in two volumes.Illustrated with a frontispiece...

The Poetical Works of J. Langhorne, and, the Poetical Works of Thomas Warton

John Langhorne; Thomas Warton · 1798 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.68 | $86.73 | ¥13,772)

London, C. Cooke, 1798-1800. Leather. A volume of two pocket-sized poetical anthologies by eminent eighteenth century poets, John Langhorne, and Thomas Warton. Two volumes of poetical anthologies bound in one volume, both part of 'Cooke's Pocket Edition' Library...

Family Classical Library Collection

Thomas Leland; William Rose; Rev. William Beloe; Philip Francis; John Langhorne; William Langhorne; Charles Badham; C. A. Elton; F. Fawkes; Viscount Royston · 1830 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.32 | $186.80 | ¥29,664)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley; A. J. Valpy, 1830-1833. Cloth. Nine smart volumes from the Family Classical Library. Nine volumes. Family Classical Library or English translations of the most valuable Greek and Latin Classics. This set contains: The Orations of Demo...

Paradise Regain&Apos;D. Poem, in Four Books. To Which Is Added Samson Agonistes: And Poems Upon Several Occasions

John Milton; Thomas Newton · 1773 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€292.81 | $326.90 | ¥51,912)

London, J. Beecroft; W. Strahan; J. and F. Rivington; et al, 1773. Leather. A Georgian edition of John Milton's sequel to 'Paradise Lost', a biblical blank verse poem illustrated with a frontispiece and plates. Complete in two volumes.An eighteenth century editi...

Victorian Maps of England: The County and City Maps of Thomas Moule

Thomas Moule; John Lee · 2018 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.85 | $40.03 | ¥6,357)

London, Batsford, 2018. Hardback. A very smart copy of this collection of the maps of Thomas Moule, in colour. Illustrated with fifty-two colour maps of the counties and cities of England, with additional colour images. A collection of the maps of Thomas Moule, an English anti...

Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems

Elijah Fenton; Sir John Denham; Lord Halifax; Lord Orrery; John Dryden; Thomas Otway et al · 1708 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€268.90 | $300.21 | ¥47,674)

London, Bernard Lintott, 1708 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this very scarce early eighteenth century collection of poems, edited by Elijah Fenton. The very scarce first edition of this work, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece by Michael van der Gucht.A...

An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England from the Conquest to the Reformatio

Thomas Rickman; John Henry Parker [ed.] · 1881 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.12 | $130.76 | ¥20,765)

London, Parker and Co, 1881 . Cloth. The seventh edition of this illustrated chronological guide to the history of architecture in England by Thomas Rickman, an important work in the Gothic Revival movement. The seventh edition of this fascinating work, which established a chr...

On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God As Manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man; on the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man; Animal and Vegetable Physiology Considered with Reference to Natural Theology; on the Wisdom and Goodness of God As Manifested in the Creation of Animals and in Their History, Habits, and Instincts

Thomas Chalmers; John Kidd; Peter Mark Roget; William Kirby · 1834 · Rooke Books

£985.00 (€1,177.20 | $1,314.26 | ¥208,706)

London, William Pickering, 1834-1835. Fine Binding. An attractive set comprising four nineteenth century treatises on natural theology. Treatise I, II, V and VII of the Bridgewater Treatises. With over four hundred in-text illustrations to the fifth treatise by Peter Mark Roge...

The Bristol Charities, Being the Report of the Commissioners for Enquiring Concerning Charities in England and Wales, So Far As Related to Charitable Institutions in Bristol

Thomas John Manchee · 1831 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.54 | $126.76 | ¥20,129)

Bristol, T. J. Manchee, 1831. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this scarce two volume set reporting on Bristol charities in the early 19th century. The first edition of this work in a half calf binding. Bookplate to the front paste down of Volume II. A report for the...

A Vertebrate Fauna of Sutherland, Caithness and West Cromarty

John Alexander Harvie-Browne; Thomas E. Buckley · 1887 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.05 | $260.18 | ¥41,317)

Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1887. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work cataloguing the animals inhabiting mainland Scotland's northernmost region Naturalists John Alexander Harvie-Brown and Thomas Buckley provide a comprehensive catalogue of the animals found ...

The Harper&Apos;S Son and the Duke&Apos;S Daughter; a Grand Melo-Dramatic Romance Interspersed with Songs, Duets, and Chorusses

Thomas John Dibdin · 1810 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.78 | $60.04 | ¥9,535)

London, Printed by J. Hartnell, 1810. First edition. Disbound. Very scarce first edition of this melodramatic romance by Thomas J Dibdin. The first edition of this work. A very scarce melodramatic romance by Thomas J Dibdin, English dramatist and songwriter, author of 'Th...

Cambridge: Described and Illustrated

Thomas Dinham Atkinson; John Willis Clark · 1897 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.07 | $198.81 | ¥31,571)

London, Macmillan and Company , 1897. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this work concerning the historical town and university of Cambridge. The first edition of this work, looking at the historic university city of Cambridge. With notes on its early history from its...

A Narrative of Memorable Events in Paris

Thomas Richard Underwood; John Britton (Ed) · 1828 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€286.83 | $320.23 | ¥50,852)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition copy of Thomas Underwood's historical narrative, which details life in Paris when it was occupied by the Allied Armies in 1814. First Edition. Bound in half-morocco on mar...

Nollekens and His Times; Comprehending a Life of That Celebrated Sculptor

John Thomas Smith · 1828 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.37 | $173.46 | ¥27,545)

London, Henry Colburn, 1828. First edition. Leather. A candid biography of this British scultor, complete in two volumes bound in contemporary leather. This biography has been described as being 'perhaps the most candid biography ever published in the English language&apo...