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The Complete Newgate Calendar: Volume I-V

J. L. Rayner and G. T. Crook; Captain Charles Johnson; Captain Alexander Smith; George Borrow; Andrew Knapp; William Baldwin; Camden Pelham · 1926 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, The Navarre Society Limited, 1926. Cloth. A complete twentieth-century illustrated edition, featuring an extensive range of influential crime stories originally published as The Newgate Calendar. Complete in five volumes. Uniformly bound in the publisher's origina...

Stemmata Botevilliana: Memorials of the Families of de Boteville, Thynne, and Botfield, in the Counties of Salop and Wilts. With an Appendix of Illustrative Documents

Beriah Botfield · 1858 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

Westminster , J. B. Nichols and Sons , 1858. First edition. Leather. One of 250 privately printed copies of this Shropshire and Wiltshire family history, with genealogical tables and plates. One of 250 copies privately printed.  In the publisher's original quarter morocco...

Early Verse by Rudyard Kipling 1879-1889 Kipling&Apos;S India Uncollected Sketches 1884-88

Rudyard Kipling; Andrew Rutherford [ed.]; Thomas Pinney [ed.] · 1986 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A very smart pair of titles on the literary ephemera of Rudyard Kipling, both with unclipped dust wrappers. An insightful pair of works collecting Kipling's miscellaneous observational and poetic works, published alongs...

8 Vols the Historical Works of William H. Prescott

William Prescott · 1839 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.78 | $1,182.35 | ¥188,806)

London, Richard Bentley, 1839-1847. Leather. A smart uniformly bound eight-volume set of Prescott"s major histories, illustrated with frontispieces, maps, and facsimile signatures, tracing Spain"s rise and conquests in Mexico and Peru. Uniformly bound in a contemporary full ca...

John Thelwall: A Pioneer of Democracy and Social Reform in England During the French Revolution

Charles Cestre · 1906 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Perth, Cowan & Co, 1906. First edition. Leather. The first edition of French academic Charles Cestre's very scarce biography of the life of radical British orator and reformer John Thelwall. The first edition of this very scarce biography, with this work being 'submi...

2 Vols the Eccentric Mirror: Reflecting a Faithful and Interesting Delineation of Male and Female Characters, Ancient and Modern

G. H. Wilson · 1806 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, James Cundee, 1806-1807. Leather. Two volumes of this curious illustrated Regency compendium of extraordinary characters, featuring figures deemed to have lived beyond the "ordinary laws of nature." In a contemporary calf binding, rebacked with later brown cloth. Endpa...

Something&Apos;S Burning: The Autobiography of Two Cooks

Fanny Cradock · 1960 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Putnam, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this insightful autobiography on TV cooks Fanny and Johnnie Cradock, illustrated, with dust wrapper. A very smart first edition autobiography of the influential television cooks Fanny and Johnnie Cradock, penned by...

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

[Thomas De Quincey] · 1823 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€587.33 | $647.32 | ¥103,369)

London, Taylor and Hessey, 1823 . Leather. A smart third edition copy of this influential autobiographical account of addiction by Thomas De Quincey. The third edition, originally published in 1821. In a half brown morocco binding. A signed binding by Sotheran. The work is an ...

The Murder of Lord Erroll

Rupert Furneaux · 1961 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Stevens & Sons, 1961. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a true crime investigation on the murder of an aristocrat in war-time Kenya, a sensationalised cold case. The first edition of The Murder of Lord Erroll, a true crime work on the famous cold case, written...

Palestine Memories 1917-1918-1925

Robert H. Goodsall · 1932 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Canterbury, Cross and Jackman, 1932 . Cloth. A smart copy of this richly illustrated cheap edition of Robert H. Goodsall"s memoir of wartime and Mandate-era Palestine, inscribed and signed by the author to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original blue cloth bi...

Dean Swift and His Writings

Gerald P. Moriarty · 1893 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Seeley & Co. Limited, 1893. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a revisionist biography on the renowned Anglo-Irish author, which paints Swift in a calculating light compared to contemporary biographers. The first edition of Dean Swift and His Writings, a compre...

Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole Earl of Orford

Horace Walpole · 1820 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

London, Rodwell and Martin, 1820. Leather. An uncommon collection of the private correspondence of Horace Walpole. First collected edition. Complete in four volumes. Horatio Walpole, also known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and po...

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

J. G. Lockhart · 1837 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

Boston; Philadelphia, Ostis, Broaders and Company; Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1837-1838. Cloth. An early American edition of Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by J. G. Lockhart. With a portrait of Scott to frontispiece to first volume, engraved by R. W. Dodson from...

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell; John Wilson Croker · 1831 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.80 | ¥158,218)

London, John Murray, 1831. Leather. A five volume set of James Boswell's biography of the life of Samuel Johnson, in a uniform leather binding. A beautifully bound five volume set of the famous biography 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' by James Boswell Samuel Johns...

Brougham and His Early Friends in Three Volumes

R. H. M. Buddle Atkinson and G. A. Jackson · 1908 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.09 | ¥21,094)

London, Privately Printed, Darling and Pead , 1908. First edition. Cloth. A set of Brougham and His Early Friends : Letters to James Loch 1798-1809. Collected and arranged by R. H. M. Buddle Atkinson and G. A. Jackson. Complete in three volumes. With notes and appendices. Firs...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. Volumes I - IV

James Boswell; Edmond Malone · 1824 · Rooke Books

£199.99 (€239.72 | $264.20 | ¥42,189)

London, James Christie, 1824. Paperback. An uncommon edition of 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' by Boswell, with copious notes and biographical illustrations by Edmond Malone. Dr Samuel Johnson, 1709 – 1784, was an English author. Beginning as a Grub Street journalist,...

Lives, Travels and Tales

Captain Basil Hall et al. · 1820 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, Edward Moxon, c1840. Leather. An eclectic assortment of biographies, travel memoirs and stories from the nineteenth century. Containing The Life of Petrarch by Mrs Dobson (no title page) Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson.. by His Widow Lucy [Lucy Hutchinson] (h...

Memoirs of Madame de Remusat 1802-1808

Paul De Remusat; Mrs Cashel Hoey (Translator); John Lillie (Translator) · 1880 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

New York, Appleton and Co. 1880. Leather. The memoirs of the french woman of letters Madame de Remusat, translated from the original french. The first volume of three only. Translated from the original French into English by Cashel Hoey and John Lillie. The original work was e...

Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, Esq F.R. S.

John Evelyn; Edited by William Bray · 1819 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.34 | ¥68,561)

London, Henry Colburn, 1819. Leather. A detailed edition of the life and memoirs of diarist John Evelyn. Second edition. 'Comprising his diary, from the year 1641 to 1705-6, and a selection of his familiar letters. To which is subjoined, the private correspondence between...

The Life of Sir Michael Foster, Knt. Sometime One of the Judges of the Court of King&Apos;S Bench and Recorder of Bristol

Michael Dodson · 1811 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London, J. Johnson and Co, 1811. First edition. Leather. A very scarce copy of 'The Life of Michael Foster' written by his Nephew Michael Dodson. First edition. With an engraved portrait of Foster to frontispiece, engraved by James Basire, from an original picture in...