Biografia

The King&Apos;S Son; or, a Memoir of Billy Bray

Frederick William Bourne · 1871 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Bible Christian Book-Room, 1871. Cloth. A scarce early edition of Frederick Bourne's widely popular biography on the uncovnential preacher Billy Bray, the second edition of this work. The second edition of this work, scarce to find this work in an early edition.Fr...

The Timeless Quest: Stephen Haggard

Christopher Hassall · 1948 · Rooke Books

£54.00 (€64.74 | $71.35 | ¥11,396)

London, Arthur Barker, [1948]. Cloth. A lovely copy of Stephen Haggard's illustrated biography by Christopher Hassall, with the unclipped dustwrapper. Undated. Dated from Jisc [1948]A fascinating biography of Stephen Haggard by Christopher Hassall. Haggard was a noted ac...

Notes of a Son and Brother

Henry James · 1914 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Macmillan & Co. LTD, 1914. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of this illustrated autobiography by Henry James. The first edition of this work, first printing. A fascinating autobiography by Henry James, one of the greatest novelists in the English langu...

Jean-Baptiste Charcot

Various · 1936 · Rooke Books

£500.00 (€599.42 | $660.68 | ¥105,515)

Paris, Bulletin Officiel du Yacht Club de France, 1936. First edition. Paperback. The first limited edition of this touching memorial for Jean-Baptiste Charcot, an illustrated work in the original French. The first edition of this work.A limited edition work, limited to nine-h...

Alfred the Great

Thomas Hughes · 1873 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1873. Leather. A signed copy of this historical work by the author known for 'Tom Brown's School Days&apos. A signed copy, in a full morocco binding.  With the author's inscription 'Sybil Irene Cutler with the best wishes of her G...

Portraits of Eminent Conservatives and Statesman

Henry Thomas Ryall · 1836 · Rooke Books

£400.00 (€479.53 | $528.54 | ¥84,412)

London, George Virtue, 1836-46. Leather. A complete collection of Henry Thomas Ryall"s engraved portraits of eminent politicians in the nineteenth century, illustrated throughout with seventy-one engraved portraits. Complete in two volumes.Volume I illustrated with thirty-five...

Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Knt. Late Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Commons Pleas, and One of His Majesty&Apos;S Most Honourable Privy Council: With Some Original Letters

John Eardley Wilmot · 1802 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.60 | $1,585.63 | ¥253,235)

London, T Cadell, Jun, and W. Davies, 1802. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this enlightening biography of the judge John Eardley Wilmot, written by his son, with a frontispiece portrait of Wilmot. The first edition of this work. An interesting memoir of the Engli...

Collingwood

W. Clark Russell · 1891 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Methuen and Co, 1891. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated biography about Lord Nelson's partner Cuthbert Collingwood, written by the naval writer William Clark Russell. The first edition of this work. An uncommon work not mentioned by Wolff. This work is an inter...

Memoirs of Angelus Politianus, Actius Sincerus Sannazarius, Petrus Bembus, Hieronymus Fracastorius, Marcus Antonius Flaminius, and the Amalthei: Translation from Their Poetical Works: And Notes & Observations Concerning Other Literary Characters of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.

Rev. W. Parr Greswell · 1801 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

Manchester, Cadell and Davies, 1801. Leather. A first edition volume of Rev. W. Parr Greswell featuring a collection of biographical works of poets from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. First edition. With biographical works on several 15th and 16th century poets, thos...

Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Thomas Moore · 1826 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826. Leather. Two volumes bound into one of Thomas Moore's interesting biography on the Irish poet and playwright Richard Sheridan. Complete as two volumes bound into one. Richard Sheridan was a satirist and poet, as well as...

Seven Letters of John Evelyn Written between the Tears 1665 & 1703 Now Printed from the Original Copies Together with a Facsimile

John Evelyn · 1914 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Oxford, Horace Hart, 1914. Cloth. A wonderful copy of this limited edition work, featuring seven letters written by John Evelyn. An incredibly scarce work, with only fifty copies printed. Includes a facsimile of John Evelyn's letter addressed to Mrs. Evelyn. John Evelyn w...

2 Vols Pylades and Corinna; or, Memoirs of the Lives, Amours, and Writings of Richard Gwinnett, Esq. And Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas

Richard Gwinnett; Elizabeth Thomas · 1732 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, E. Curll, 1732-1736 . Leather. An appealing mixed-edition set of Gwinnett and Elizabeth Thomas"s sixteen-year courtship correspondence, combining the expanded 2nd edition of the first volume with the 1st edition of the continuation and Gwinnett"s Christmas Gambol. In a...

6 Vols the Works of Thomas Secker

Thomas Secker; Beilby Porteus · 1811 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London, F. C. and J. Rivington; et al. 1811. Leather. The new edition of this six-volume collection of the sermons and ecclesiastical writings of Archbishop Thomas Secker, with Beilby Porteus's important biographical memoir. Uniformly bound in contemporary marbled calf. ...

A Parcel of Time: A First World War Childhood

Richard Kennedy · 1977 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Andoversford, Gloucestershire, Whittington Press, 1977. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a sentimental dive into a book illustrator's childhood during the First World War, with lovely ink illustrations throughout. The first edition of A Parcel of Time: A Parcel ...

Robert Louis Stevenson&Apos;S Edinburgh Days

E. Blantyre Simpson · 1913 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. Cloth. The charming third edition of an illustrated literary biography on the early years of Robert Louis Stevenson in Edinburgh. The third edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's Edinburgh Days, a tour of the prolific author's youth spe...

The Landscape Annual for 1834: The Tourist in France

Thomas Roscoe · 1834 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Jennings and Chaplin, 1834 . First edition. Leather. An exceptional first edition of this fascinating travelogue from the early 19th century exploring France, illustrated with engraved plates by J. D. Harding. The first edition of this work, the Landscape Annual for 18...

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Jung Chang · 1991 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, HarperCollins, 1991. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a fascinating history of three women in the first half of China's turbulent twentieth century, including the Chinese Civil War, the Russian Occupation of Manchuria and the Cultural Revolution. The fir...

Ancestral Voices and Caves of Ice

James Lees-Milne · 1975 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.67 | $376.59 | ¥60,143)

London, Chatto & Windus; Chatto & Windus, The Hogarth Press, 1975-1983. First edition. Cloth. The first editions of the first and third works within Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries, offering both valuable insight into the National Trust and Milne's charming personali...

Tales of the Peerage and the Peasantry

Lady Dacre · 1835 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, Richard Bentley, 1835. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition, from copac, of Lady Dacre's Tales of the Peers and the Peasantry. Edited by Lady Dacre, Barbarina Brand, the publication is thought to have been written by Arabella Jane Sullivan, Lady Dacre&apos...

Notes from a Diary 1851-1901

The Right Hon Sir Mountstuart E Grant Duff · 1897 · Rooke Books

£1,100.00 (€1,318.72 | $1,453.50 | ¥232,133)

London, John Murray, 1897-1907. Cloth. The complete works of Sir Mountstuart E Grant Duff. Comprising of: Notes From A Diary 1851-1872, 2vols (1897) Notes from a Diary 1873-1881, 2vols (1898) Notes from a Diary 1881-1886, 2vols (1899) Notes From a Diary 1886-1888, 2vols (1900)...