Biografia

The Personal Life of Queen Victoria

Sarah Tooley · 1897 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1897. Cloth. The second edition of Sarah Tooley's respected biography of Queen Victoria, offering an insightful portrait of the woman behind the icon for her Diamond Jubilee. The second edition of the Personal Life of Queen Victoria, written ...

Tributary Verses to the Memory of Robert Bloomfield, the Suffolk Poet

Bernard Barton, W.B. Clarke, W. Fletcher · 1823 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Woodbridge, B. Smith, 1823. Cloth. A very scarce little book that contains loving tributary verses to Robert Bloomfield, 'The Suffolk Poet&apos. A very scarce tribute to Robert Bloomfield, 'The Suffolk Poet', containing an extract from a newspaper obituary, an e...

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope; Edith Sitwell · 1930 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1930. Cloth. A limited edition of this critical study, re-evaluating the form and precision of Alexander Pope's poetry, signed by the author, Edith Sitwell. In the publisher's original yellow cloth, housed in a vibrant green paper cov...

The Life of Charles M. Doughty

D. G. Hogarth · 1928 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Oxford University Press, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this biography of British writer and explorer Charles Montagu Doughty. First edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, nine plates, and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. ...

A Time of Gifts

Patrick Leigh Fermor · 1987 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, John Murray , 1987 . Cloth. A handsome later edition in blue cloth with a gilt bird embossed, in the original, vibrant unclipped dust wrapper designed by John Craxton.  Book Club Associates 1987 edition in blue cloth with a gilt bird embossed, in the original unclipped...

Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

Patrick Leigh Fermor · 1958 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, John Murray, 1958. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Mani in the publisher's original red cloth binding, in the original dust wrapper designed by John Craxton, with twenty-six monochrome photographs by Fermor's wife, Joan Eyres Monsell. The first edi...

A Visit to Java, with an Account of the Founding of Singapore

W. Basil Worsfold · 1893 · Rooke Books

£310.00 (€371.64 | $409.62 | ¥65,419)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1893 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of W. Basil Worsfold's late 19th-century account of the Dutch East Indies and the island of Java. An uncommon first edition.Illustrated with fifteen plates, including a sketch map and...

The Pickerings of Barlby, York and Wetherby

P. Spencer Umfreville Pickering · 1916 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1916 . First edition. Leather. British chemist and horticulturist Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering's own copy of his very scarce genealogical study of his family, with his own annotations throughout. A very scarce first edition, in a sign...

Lives of Remarkable Youth of Both Sexes

None stated · 1830 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Colburn and Bentley, 1830. First edition. Cloth. The publisher's presentation, first edition copy of this collection of biographies on the lives of remarkable young people. The first edition. The publisher's presentation copy, inscribed to the front free endp...

The Life of Sir Richard Whittington, Knt. Four Times Lord Mayor of London, in the Reigns of Edward III, Richard II. And Henry V. Compiled from Authentic Documents; Containing Many Important Particulars Respecting That Illustrious Man, Never Before Published: Intended to Amuse, Instruct, and Stimulate the Rising Generation

Author of "Memoirs of George Barnwell · 1816 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones , 1816. Cloth. The second edition of this scarce biography of Sir Richard Whittington. Second edition. A scarce work.With an engraved portrait frontispiece. A pleasing biography of Sir Richard Whittington, an English merchant and ...

A Visit to Stanley&Apos;S Rear-Guard at Major Barttelot&Apos;S Camp on the Aruhwimi

J. R. Werner · 1889 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1889 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally bright example of the uncommon first edition of J. R. Werner's narrative of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition led by Henry Morton Stanley. An uncommon first edition.Illustrated ...

A Narrative of the Expedition to Algiers in the Year 1816

Mr. A. Salame · 1819 · Rooke Books

£485.00 (€581.43 | $640.86 | ¥102,349)

London, John Murray, 1819 . First edition. Leather. Illustrated throughout, this is a handsome example of the first edition of Abraham Salame's narrative of Lord Exmouth's expedition to end slavery on the Barbary Coast. The first edition of this work.Illustrated with...

The Young Ardizzone: An Autobiographical Fragment

Edward Ardizzone · 1970 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Studio Vista Limited, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition of this autobiographical work from British artist Edward Ardizzone. First edition. Illustrated throughout with colour highlights. An autobiographical account of the childhood of Edward Jeffrey I...

The "Pope" of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and His Friends 1813-1840

John Whishaw; Lady Seymour [editor] · 1906 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1906. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated collection of correspondence from English lawyer John Whishaw, edited by Lady Seymour. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight plates. Collated complete. A collection of...

The Life and Campaigns of Lieut. -Gen. U.S. Grant, from His Boyhood to the Surrender of Lee

Rev. P. C. Headley · 1866 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

New York, The Derby and Miller Publishing Co, 1866 . First edition. Cloth. The illustrated first edition of Rev. P. C. Headley's biography of the 18th president of the United States and leader of the Union Army, Ulysses S. Grant. The first edition.Illustrated with a portr...

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers

The Rev. William Hanna · 1851 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Edinburgh, Sutherland and Knox, 1851. Leather. Three volumes of this definitive biography of Thomas Chalmers, written by his son-in-law, William Hanna. Comprising the first three out of the four volumes published for this series (a fifth supplement volume was added containing ...

The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs

1833 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, Charles Knight , 1833-1836. First edition. Leather. Six volumes of this extensive biographical portrait series, uniformly bound in full calf and complete with all engraved plates. Comprising Vols I-VI, bound in three volumes. Lacking Vol VII. Uniformly bound in full bl...

Chances of Sports of Sorts

Colonel T. A. St Quintin · 1912 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1912. First edition. Cloth. A presentation first edition copy of T. A. Quintin's account of a life of sporting, detailing his experiences hunting and playing polo around the world, with an inscription and various correspon...

Histoire de Christophe Colomb Ou la Decouverte de L&Apos;Amerique

M. Deville · 1880 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Rouen, Megard, 1880 . First edition. Hardback. Beautifully bound in the publisher's decorative cartonnage binding, this is the very scarce first edition of Deville's biography of Christopher Columbus. In the original French.The very scarce first edition of this work ...

The Public and Domestic Life of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke

Peter Burke · 1854 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

London, Nathaniel Cooke, 1854. Leather. A smartly bound second edition of this biographical study of Anglo-Irish statesman Edmund Burke. Second edition. With a frontispiece and numerous in-text images. A detailed and comprehensive biographical study of the public and private l...