Biografia

The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley · 1891 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Ward, Lock & Co. 1891. Leather. An illustrated fourth edition of this biographical work on the life and correspondence of English educator Thomas Arnold. The fourth edition of this work in a half calf binding with gilt detailing to the spine and marbled end papers and ...

Davies the Ocean: Railway King and Coal Tycoon

Herbert Williams · 1991 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1991. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this rags-to-riches biography of David Davies, the first Welsh millionaire. First edition. Illustrated throughout. The life of David Davies, a Welsh industrialist and Liberal politici...

Pepita

Vita Sackville-West · 1937 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)

London, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1937 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of English writer and garden designer Vita Sackville-West's fascinating biography on her grandmother and mother. The first edition, first impression of Vita Sackville-W...

A Small Boy and Others

Henry James · 1913 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1913 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of novelist Henry James's autobiography of his early life and childhood. The first UK edition, first issue of this work, published the month after the US first edition.Illustrated with a frontispi...

Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Thomas Moore · 1825 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. Leather. A complete two volume set of the second edition of the memoirs of Anglo-Irish writer, Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Complete in two volumes. Second edition. Volume one is illustrated with a portrait frontispiece...

The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett with Memoirs of His Life and Writings

Tobias Smollett; Robert Anderson · 1820 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.62 | $429.44 | ¥68,585)

Edinburgh, Stirling and Slade , 1820. Leather. A six volume collection of the works of Tobias Smollett, with a memoir of his life, smartly bound in full calf. A well presented collection in full calf binding. This set consists of six volumes, presenting the works of Tobias Smo...

The Works of Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne · 1843 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

London, J. J. Chidley, 1843. Leather. A scarce edition of this collection of the works of novelist Laurence Sterne, with a biographical sketch of the author. Scarce edition. With portrait frontispiece. The works of Laurence Sterne, an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric. ...

Boswell&Apos;S Note Book 1776-1777

James Boswell · 1925 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London , Humphrey Milford, 1925. First edition. Cloth. A smart volume of Boswell's notebook, uncommon in the dust wrapper. This volume contains the note book of James Boswell with the recording of particulars of Johnson's early life. Boswell is most known for his bio...

The Story of Doctor Johnson and a Popular Sketch of Dr Johnson&Apos;S Life and Works

S. C. Roberts; Rev. H.M. Lockock · 1927 · Rooke Books

£36.00 (€43.16 | $47.57 | ¥7,597)

Cambridge; Litchfield, At the University Press; The Johnson's Head, 1927-1955. Cloth. Two interesting volumes on writer Dr Samuel Johnson. Two volumes on the writer and critic Samuel Johnson, or Doctor Johnson. Johnson made lasting contributions to English writing as a po...

Oscar Wilde a Study of the Man and His Work

R. Thurston Hopkins · 1913 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London , Lynwood & Co, 1913. Cloth. A fascinating biography of one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era. A second, revised edition. An interesting study of one of the most popular playwright and writer of the 1890s, Oscar Wilde. This work offers an outline of the l...

Life of James Green Doctor of Divinity Rector and Dean of Maritzburg, Natal, from February, 1849, to January, 1906

A. Theodore Wirgman · 1909 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1909. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition biography on Dean of Maritzburg, James Green, an illustrated work written by Theodore Wirgman. The first edition of this scarce work.Complete in two volumes.An insightful biography on the life ...

Les Dernieres Annees de Louis XV (1768-1774)

Imbert de Saint-Amand · 1891 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Paris, E Dentu Editeur, 1891. Hardback. The fourth edition of this biographical sketch of late life and career of Louis XV by Imbert de Saint-Amand. The fourth edition of this work. In the original French. By Imbert de Saint-Amand. Complete with half title.Concerned with the l...

Livre de Souvenirs de Maso Di Bartolommeo Dit Masaccio

Charles Yriarte · 1894 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Paris, J Rothschild , 1894. First edition. Paperback. The scarce limited edition of this collection of French memoirs from Maso di Bartolomeo, written by Charles Yriarte. Limited edition of one hundred copies on Japon paper, this number thirteen. Scarce in commerce. In the ori...

Vita Del Proposto Lodovico Antonio Muratori

Giovanni Francesco Soli Muratori · 1756 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

Venezia, Giambatista Pasquali, 1756. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this brilliant biography on the noted scholar and historian Ludovico Antonio Muratori, in the original Italian. The first edition.In the original Italian.A biography of Ludovico Antonio Muratori,...

Lettres de Madame de Sã©Vignã© (Volumes I - V, VIII-IX, XII)

Madame de Sevigne; Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain · 1823 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Paris, Dalibon, 1823. First edition. Leather. A first edition of the witty and vivid letters of French aristocrat Madame de Sévigné. Illustrated with portraits by Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain. Eight of twelve volumes from a first edition set of Madame de Sévigné's ...

A Narrative of the Last Illness of the Right Honourable the Earl of Orford from May 1744, to the Day of His Decease, March the Eighteenth Following

John Ranby · 1745 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London , John and Paul Knapton, 1745. First edition. Disbound. A first edition copy of this account of the illness of Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford. A first edition copy. This volume is a detailed account of the last illness of the Earl of Orford from May 1744, to the day of ...

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse 1864-1929

Ernest Barker · 1929 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Humphrey Milford, 1929. Paperback. A scarce obituary for the sociologist Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, as arranged by the British Academy. Scarce work. An obituary for Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, an English liberal political theorist and sociologist considered a leading vo...

Souvenirs D&Apos;Un Vieillard, la Derniere Etape

Émile Souvestre; Eugène Lesbazeilles · 1868 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

Paris, Michel Levy Freres, Libraires Editeurs, 1868. Leather. The memoirs of the French lawyer, journalist and writer Émile Souvestre, with a note on his life by Eugène Lesbazeilles. The new edition of this work in a half calf binding. Émile Souvestre's Memories of an Old...

Ralph Thoresby the Topographer; His Town and Times

DH Atkinson · 1885 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Leeds, Walker and Laycock, 1885. First edition. Hardback. The first limited edition of important topographer Ralph Thoresby's biography in two volumes. The first limited edition. No. two hundred and seventy six of five hundred copies printed for sale. Complete in two volu...

P.G. Wodehouse: Man and Myth

Barry Phelps · 1992 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Constable, 1992. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biographical work on P. G. Wodehouse. First edition. Illustrated with sixteen plates of black and white photographs. Collated complete. A biographical work on Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, an English au...