Biografia

The Private Life of Warren Hastings

Sir Charles Lawson · 1911 · Rooke Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London , Swan Sonnenschein and Co, 1911. Cloth. A biography of Warren Hastings, written by Sir Charles Lawson. The first Governer-General of Bengal and latterly a Privy Counsellor, Hastings was also noted for being found guilty of corruption and his subsequent impeachment. Con...

Sir John Vanbrugh: Architect and Dramatist

Sir John Vanbrugh; Laurence Whistler · 1938 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London , Cobden-Sanderson, 1938. First edition. Cloth. A biography on English architect and dramatist John Vanbrugh. First edition. Illustrated throughout, with fifteen plates of buildings designed by Vanbrugh. Collated, complete. Written by Laurence Whistler, a British poet a...

Dr. Quicksilver 1660-1742 He Life and Times of Thomas Dover

L. A. G. Strong · 1955 · Rooke Books

£22.99 (€27.56 | $30.38 | ¥4,852)

London , Andrew Melrose, 1955. First edition. Cloth. This first edition biographical work explores the life of Thomas Dover the London physician noted as the inventor of "Dover's Powder" for provoking sweating. Illustrated throughout, featuring a frontispiece of Dover as ...

William Cowper a Biography

James King · 1986 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.88 | $118.91 | ¥18,991)

Durham , Duke University Press, 1986. Cloth. A biography of the famous poet William Cowper. William Cowper (November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry b...

Edmund Gosse Some Memories

William Bellows · 1929 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, R Cobden-Sanderson, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of biographical memories by William Bellows, illustrated with several plates throughout. First edition. Bound with half title. This particular copy has been taken direct from the library...

Our Life in the Swiss Highlands

John Addington Symonds and his daughter Margaret · 1907 · Rooke Books

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907. Cloth. A book by the highly regarded poet, John Addington Symonds and his daughter discussing their experiences in the Swiss Highlands. Second edition. With coloured illustrations by J. Hardwick Lewis Written by John Addington Symonds, the...

Malthus and His Work

James Bonar · 1924 · Rooke Books

£55.99 (€67.12 | $73.98 | ¥11,816)

London , George Allen, 1924. Cloth. A biography of the cleric and scholar Robert Malthus by James Bonar. With a frontispiece of Malthus. Malthus became hugely influential, and controversial, in economic, political, social and scientific thought. Many pioneers of evolutionary b...

Bonnet and Shawl an Album

Philip Guedalla · 1928 · Rooke Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

New York; London, Crosby Gaige and Hodder and Son. 1928. First edition. Cloth. A limited edition biographical work by the writer and lawyer, Philip Guedalla. First edition. Limited edition. Number 207 of 571. A series of biographies of women. Gently humorous. Philip Guedalla (...

Memoirs of My Youth with the Wanderer and His Home

A. De Lamartine · 1851 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.78 | $244.45 | ¥39,040)

London, Simms and M'Intyre, 1851. Cloth. A volume featuring Lamartine's 'Memoirs of My Youth' bound with 'The Wanderer and his Home&apos. This volume features two works bound in one, those being 'Memoirs of my Youth' and 'The Wanderer an...

Vies Des Hommes Illustres de Plutarque

Alexis Pierron; Plutarch · 1861 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Paris, Charpentier, 1861. Leather. Three volumes of Plutarch's 'Lives of Famous Men.' Three volumes of Plutarch's Lives of Famous Men. Edited by and in the French of Alexis Pierron. Volumes I-III of the original four volumes. Plutarch's Lives is arguab...

Memoires Du Duc de Sully

Duc de Sully · 1822 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

Paris, Chez Etienne Ledoux, 1822. Leather. The memoirs of Maximilien de Bethune, Duc de Sully. The memoirs of Maximilien de Bethune, Duc de Sully. With a frontispiece to each volume. Complete in six volumes. In the original French. The Duc de Sully assisted Henry IV of France ...

Madame Swetchine: Sa Vie Et Ses Oeuvres

Comte de Falloux · 1860 · Rooke Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,753)

Paris, Auguste Vaton, 1860. Leather. This is a scarce third edition of this biographical work on Anne Sophie Swetchine. This is a scarce third edition of this biographical work on Anne Sophie Swetchine. Volume II only. Printed in French. Anne Sophie Swetchine, known as Madame ...

Reliquiae Wottonianae or a Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems, with Characters of Sundry Personages and Other Incomparable Pieces of Language and Art Also Additional Letters to Several Persons Not Before Printed

Sir Henry Wotton; Izaak Walton · 1685 · Rooke Books

£359.99 (€431.57 | $475.68 | ¥75,969)

London, B. Tooke and T. Sawbridge, 1685. Cloth. A nicely rebound copy of the fourth edition of Henry Wotton's 'Reliquiae Wottonianae&apos. The fourth edition of this work. A collection of poetry and letters by Henry Wotton, with Izaak Walton's 'Lives',...

Letters of Affaires, Love and Courtship Written to Several Persons of Honour and Quality by the Exquisite Pen of Monsieur de Voiture a Member of the Famous French Academy Established at Paris

Monsieur de Voiture; John Davies · 1657 · Rooke Books

£8,500.00 (€10,190.07 | $11,231.57 | ¥1,793,751)

London, T Dring and J Starkey, 1657. First edition. Leather. The First English edition of Vincent Voiture's letters. With a portrait frontispiece of Voiture. A very scarce work, last seen at auction in 1970. Vincent Voiture was a French poet and writer of prose. During hi...

Henry George Printer Bookseller Stationer and Bookbinder

James Moran · 1972 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Westerham, Westerham Press, 1972. First edition. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated first edition, featuring a facsimile of 'George's Westerham Journal' and an additional 1838 title. An excellent condition first edition of this biography of publisher and bookbinder...

The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography

Richard Jefferies · 1923 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Duckworth & Co. 1923 . Cloth. The first illustrated edition of the autobiography of Richard Jefferies, in the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Originally published in 1883, this new edition features illustrations by Ethel...

Temples and Topees

William Hale Harkness · 1936 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

New York, Privately Printed at the Derrydale Press, 1936 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce limited first edition of this privately printed collection of travel letters, richly illustrated with photographs, exploring temples and cultures across Asia by financier and traveller Wi...

The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thomas Medwin · 1847 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Thomas Medwin's controversial yet engaging biography on the colourful life of the iconic romantic poet. The first edition of The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an influential yet controversial b...

An Original Letter to Jacques Des Gachons from H Martin

H. Martin Fils · 1919 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Xertigny, Vosges, None, 1919 . First edition. Unbound. A delightful handwritten letter from a little-known poet to prominent writer and editor Jacques des Gachons, requesting that the latter read and review his volume of poems. Dated 27/12/1919, this is a very scarce handwritt...

Four Generations of a Literary Family - the Hazlitts in England, Ireland, and America in Two Volumes

W. Carew Hazlitt · 1897 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London and New York, George Redway, 1897. First edition. Cloth. A lovely 2 volume set, a first edition of Hazlitt's illustrated 1897 family and literary history. A lovely two volume first edition set, in original lime cloth, and decorated with gilt text and inscription de...