Biografia

An Apology for the Life of Mr Bampfylde-Moore Carew

Mr Bampfylde-Moore Carew · 1768 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.48 | ¥54,849)

London, R Goadby W Owen et al. 1768 . Leather. An interesting biographical work on the King of Beggars. Bampfylde Moore Carew was an English rogue, vagabond and impostor. He was from a well-established Devonshire family and these memoirs demonstrate Carew's reputation for...

Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell and of His Sons, Richard and Henry

Oliver Cromwell · 1821 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. Leather. A collection of the memoirs of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England during the Interregnum. Second edition. Including a frontispiece to each volume, and several other portraits in the text. Bookseller's l...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D

James Boswell · 1867 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1867. Leather. A new edition of James Boswell's comprehensive biography of literary giant Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English write who made lasting contributions to English Literature as a poe...

Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson

Lucy Hutchinson · 1848 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.62 | ¥12,235)

London, Henry G Bohn, 1848. Leather. A seventh edition of this biography of Colonel Hutchinson. Including a life of Lucy Hutchinson written by herself. Colonel John Hutchinson was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1648-1653 and in 1660. He w...

Edwin Forrest: The Actor and the Man. Critical and Reminiscent

Gabriel Harrison · 1889 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.49 | $495.40 | ¥79,109)

Brooklyn, Not Stated, 1889. First edition. Leather. An extremely scarce first edition, signed by the author, of this fascinating biography of a nineteenth century American actor. 'I hereby certify that the Brooklyn Eagle Book Printing Department has printed only two hundr...

The Annual Biography and Obituary: 1835 and the Annual Biography and Obituary: 1836 Volumes XIX and XX

Anon · 1835 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.09 | ¥21,094)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green,, 1835-36. Leather. The scarce Annual Biography and Obituary for 1835 and 1836. The 1835 Volume bound in leather with gilt lettering. The 1836 Volume bound in half leather with gilt lettering and spine decoration. These works are memoi...

The Portrait of a Christian Gentleman a Memoir of Patrick Fraser Tytler Author of the History of Scotland

Rev. John W Burgon · 1859 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, John Murray, 1859. Cloth. A memoir of Patrick Fraser Tytler. Tytler was a Scottish advocate and historian. He is noted for his many essays and papers in Blackwood's Magazine as well as his major work the History of Scotland. Written by John W Burgon was an English...

Memoirs of Alessandro Tassoni Author of la Secchia Rapita or the Rape of the Bucket

Joseph Cooper and Samuel Walker · 1815 · Rooke Books

£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.42 | ¥84,383)

London , Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Co. 1815. First edition. Cloth. A biographical work on Alessandro Tassoni. With a frontispiece of Tassoni and plate to the start of the work. The first edition of this work. This work was written by Irish antiquarian and writer Joseph Co...

Sir John Vanbrugh: Architect and Dramatist

Sir John Vanbrugh, Laurence Whistler · 1938 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London , Cobden-Sanderson, 1938. First edition. Cloth. A biographical work on Sir John Vanbrugh, a seventeenth century architect and dramatist. This is a first edition. Illustrated throughout, with fifteen plates of buildings designed by Vanbrugh as well as plans. Collated, co...

The Glenbervie Journals

Walter Sichel [Editor] · 1910 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,436)

London , Constable & Company Ltd. 1910. First edition. Cloth. An attractive first edition of The Glenbervie Journals, edited and arranged by Walter Sichel. Illustrated, with a frontispiece and sixteen portraits. Walter Sichel (1855-1933) was an English biographer and lawyer, t...

Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life

Frances Eliza Kingsley (Ed) · 1891 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.41 | ¥10,126)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1891. Cloth. Two volumes featuring the letters and memories of Charles Kingsley, bound in a uniform cloth binding. An interesting biography of this Victorian writer and clergyman who is best known for his work. 'The Water Babies&apos. Edited by h...

Memoir of Norman Macleod

Donald Macleod · 1876 · Rooke Books

£78.00 (€93.49 | $103.04 | ¥16,455)

London , Dalby, Isbister and Co. 1876. First edition. Cloth. A history of the life of Norman Macleod, written by his brother. First edition. Including frontispieces to each volume, and illustrations in the text. With publisher's advertisements to the rear. Complete in two...

Lettres Portugaises Avec Les Reponses Lettres de Mlle Aisse Suivies de Celles de Montesquieu Et de Mme Du Deffand Au Chevalier D&Apos;Aydie, Etc

Mademoiselle Charlotte Aisse · 1694 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,436)

Paris, Bibliotheque-Chapentier, c1873. Cloth. The letters of Mademoiselle Charlotte Aisse. In French. With a portrait of Mlle. Aisse to frontispiece. Mademoiselle Charlotte Aisse (a corruption of Haide), (c.1694 – 13 March 1733), French letter-writer, was the daughter of a Ci...

La Vie Amoureuse de Francois Barbazanges

Marcelle Tinayre · 1904 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.46 | ¥14,765)

Paris , Calmann-Levy, 1904. Leather. A copy of 'La Vie Amoureuse de Francois Barbazanges' by Marcelle Tinayre. Marcelle Marguerite Suzanne Tinayre, born October 8, 1870 in Tulle, Corrèze, and died August 23, 1948 in Grossouvre, Cher, was a French woman of letters an...

Jane Austen and Her Times; Jane Austen: Her Life and Art; Jane Austen: Study for a Portrait; Talking of Jane Austen; Emma; Jane Austen and Southampton; More Talk of Jane Austen; Jane Austen: A Critical Bibliography; T&Apos;Other Miss Austen; Women in Profile: A Study in Silhouette.

G. E. Mitton; David Rhydderch; Beatrice Kean Seymour; Sheila Kaye-Smith and G. B. Stern; Gordon Glennon; R. A. Austen-Leigh; R. W. Chapman; Kathleen Freeman; F. Gordon Roe; · 1917 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London; Toronto; Melbourne; Sydney; Wellington; Oxford, Methuen & Co. Ltd.; Jonathan Cape; Michael Joseph Ltd.; Cassell and Company, Ltd.; Macmillan & Co. Ltd.; Spottiswoode, Ballantyn, 1917-1970. First edition. Cloth. London; Toronto; Melbourne; Sydney; Wellington; Oxford: Me...

Studies of D.H. Lawrence

Warren Roberts; H.M. Daleski; F.R. Leavis; Harry T. Moore [ed.]; Graham Hough · 1961 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

Cambridge; London, Cambridge University Press; Faber and Faber; Chatto & WIndus; Heinemann; Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd. 1961-1982. Cloth. A very smart five volume set of biographies and studies on English modernist novelist D.H. Lawrence. A five volume set of works on D.H. Law...

Dramatis Personae 1896-1902, Estrangement, the Death of Synge, the Bounty of Sweden

W. B. Yeats · 1936 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1936. First edition. Cloth. The scarcer true first edition of this interesting autobiographical collection from Irish poet and dramatist, W. B. Yeats, with the unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression. With the publisher'...

I Married Adventure

Osa Johnson · 1940 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London and Melbourne, Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. 1940. Cloth. Profusely illustrated autobiographical recount of the life of adventurers Osa and Martin Johnson. In publisher's original zebra-print cloth binding.With illustrated endpapers, a double-spread title page and eighty-t...

Works on Samuel Johnson

W. H. Craig; Various; John Ker Spittal; O.F. Christie; Robert Lynd; R.W. Postgate; Robert E. Kelley, O.M. Brack Jr. · 1895 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

London; New York; Iowa City, Sampson Low, Marston and Company; Charles Scribner's Sons; E.P. Dutton and Company; George H. Doran Company; Doubleday, Doran an, 1895-1971. First edition. Cloth. London; New York; Iowa City: Sampson Low, Marston and Company; Charles Scribner&...

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

Sir Walter Scott · 1837 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1837. First edition. Cloth. Complete first edition set of memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, with a frontispiece and facsimile handwriting. A smart complete first edition set of memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.In full brown c...