Biografia

Noguchi

Gustav Eckstein · 1931 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

New York; London, Harper & Brothers Publisher's , 1931. Cloth. A first edition biography of pioneering Japanese bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi, written by physician and author Gustav Eckstein. In the publisher's original dark cloth binding. First edition.Illustrated ...

The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke: With a Memoir

Rupert Brooke · 1918 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1918. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, second impression of this collection of the works of English war poet Rupert Brooke, with a memoir. First edition, second impression. With a portrait frontispiece and one portrait plate. Collate...

4vols the Diary of Ralph Thoresby & Letters of Eminent Men Addressed to Ralph Thoresby

Ralph Thoresby; Joseph Hunter · 1830 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830-1832. First edition. Leather. A handsomely bound first edition four-volume set of Ralph Thoresby"s Diary and Letters of Eminent Men, detailing the life and correspondence of the distinguished Leeds antiquary and Fellow of the Roy...

Select Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley; Richard Garnett [editor] · 1884 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. 1884. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of the letters of English writer and Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. With a portrait frontispiece. A select collection of the letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an English writer consider...

The Memoirs of the Celebrated Dwarf Joseph Boruwlaski, a Polish Gentleman

Joseph Boruwlaski · 1792 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.84 | $1,314.75 | ¥209,974)

Birmingham , J. Thompson, 1792. First edition. Leather. Józef BoruwÃÂ-‚aski's very scarce memoir, detailing his life as a musician and dwarf employed by the court, bound in modern crushed half morocco. The second edition, revised and corrected, and translated from ...

Winston S. Churchill

Randolph S. Churchill; Martin Gilbert · 1966 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Heinemann, 1966-1983. First edition. Cloth. A five-volume collection of first editions of the official multi-volume biography of Winston Churchill, in original cloth and dust wrappers, richly illustrated with plates throughout. First editions.In the publisher's or...

Travels in the East, Including a Journey in the Holy Land

Alphonse de Lamartine · 1839 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

Edinburgh, William and Robert Chambers, 1839 . First edition. Leather. A wonderful example of the first English translation of Alphonse de Lamartine's tour of the Levant in the early 1830s. The first English language translation of Alphonse de Lamartine's 1835 work &...

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

George Otto Trevelyan · 1876 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co , 1876. First edition. Leather. The first editions, complete in two volumes, of Trevelyan"s Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, chronicling Macaulay"s literary and political career, elegantly bound in full tree calf. In the full tree calf binding...

The Hypochondriack Being the Seventy Essays by the Celebrated Biographer, James Boswell, Appearing in the London Magazine, from November, 1777, to August, 1783, and Here First Reprinted.

James Boswell; Margery Bailey [Editor] · 1928 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

California, Stanford University Press, 1928 . Cloth. The first edition, two-volume set of The Hypochondriack, collecting Boswell"s seventy essays from The London Magazine, reprinted in book form for the first time, housed in the original slipcase. In the publisher's origi...

Essay on Lord Clive

Lord Macaulay [Thomas Babington Macaulay] · 1885 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London and Edinburgh, W. & R. Chambers, 1885. Cloth. A smart copy of this essay from English historian Thomas Babington Macaulay on Robert Clive, also known as Clive of India. Later edition. A detailed essay on the life and work of Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, the first Brit...

Theodor Fontane

Mario Krammer · 1922 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Berlin, Otto v. Holten, 1922. First edition. Hardback. A limited edition copy of this biographical study of German novelist and poet Theodor Fontane. German. First edition. Limited to one thousand five hundred copies, of which this is number one hundred and twenty-nine. A deta...

Peter Pond: Fur Trader & Explorer

Henry R. Wagner · 1955 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A very smart limited edition of this commentary on the life of American explorer Peter Pond, with folding maps. First edition. Limited to five hundred copies. Includes a card folder containing three folding maps. ...

The Vicar of Nibbleswicke; My Year

Roald Dahl · 1991 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Century; Jonathan Cape , 1991-1993. First edition. Hardback. A delightful pair of first edition Roald Dahl books, including his autobiography 'My Year', and children's story 'The Vicar of Nibbleswicke&apos. The first editions, first impressions of t...

A Collection of Biographies of Great Women from the Library of Carmen Callil

Various · 1984 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Andre Deutsch; Chatto & Windus; Granta Books, 1984-2013. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of seven biographies of great women, from the library of Australian publisher Carmen Callil. Seven volumes. First edition, first impression. From the library of Carmen Cal...

Bad Faith

Carmen Callil · 2006 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First edition. Hardback. The author's own copy of this insightful biography on Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, with her notes throughout. An advance first edition copy, the author's own copy, with her corrections throughout the text. Mos...

The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian

Colonel Henry Yule · 1875 · Rooke Books

£990.00 (€1,186.84 | $1,308.15 | ¥208,919)

London, John Murray, 1875. Leather. The beautifully illustrated second edition of Colonel Henry Yule's discussion of the travels of Marco Polo, richly illustrated throughout and with folding plates and maps. The second edition of this work, first published in 1871.Complet...

The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais

Sir John Everett Millais; John Guille Millais · 1899 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, Methuen & Co, 1899. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated biography on the life of Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir John Everett Millais. The first edition.Complete in two volumes.A biography detailing the life alongside the letters of Sir John Everett ...

La Vie de Pasteur

Rene Vallery-Radot · 1907 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1907. Leather. A smartly bound eleventh edition of this biography of Louis Pasteur by his son-in-law, in the original French. French. Eleventh edition. With a portrait frontispiece. The biography of Louis Pasteur, a French scientist, che...

Lives of the English Saints

William Lockhart; Father Faber; Rev. John Canon Walker; Richard Dean Church; Canon Oakley et al. · 1844 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)

London, James Toovey, 1844-1845 . First edition. Vellum. A smart half vellum set featuring the biographies of fourteen English saints, bound in five volumes. With all but two works present in the first edition. All fourteen volumes of this work, bound in five half vellum volum...

Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi: A Life Full of Holes; without Stopping: An Autobiography; Points in Time; Days: Tangier Journal 1987-1989

Paul Bowles · 1964 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

New York, Grove Press, Inc; G. P. Putnam's Sons; The Ecco Press, 1964-1991. First edition. Cloth. A lovely set of fiction and non-fiction works from American expatriate of Tangier, Paul Bowles. The first edition, first printings of these works. All complete with the publ...