Biografia

A Warning to Youth. The Life and Death of Thomas Savage

Anonymous · 1734 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)

London, John Marshall, 1734. Leather. A very scarce cautionary tale for children, discussing the twice-executed murderer Thomas Savage. A very scarce work.The twenty-second edition.ESTC citation number N35387.With six in-text illustrations.Three pages of adverts to the rear. A...

Lives of the Italian Painters, Michel Angelo & Raffeallo

Richard Duppa; Quatremere de Quincy · 1846 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

London, David Bogue, 1846 . Leather. The first edition of this collection of two studies of the lives and art of Michel Angelo and Raphaello. First edition of Lives of the Italian Painters in Sotheran half calf binding and marbled boards. Michel Angelo, by Richard Duppa, and R...

Dare to Be a Daniel

Tony Benn · 2004 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)

London, Hutchinson, 2004 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of Tony Benn's autobiography, signed by the author. First edition, first impression of Dare To Be a Daniel by Tony Benn in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust w...

James Hannington First Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa: A History of His Life and Work

E. C. Dawson · 1887 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Seeley & Co. 1887. First edition. Cloth. Early edition of this biography of James Hannington by E. C. Dawson. Early edition of this work. Biographical study of the life and work of James Hannington, the first Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, from 1847 to 1885. Writ...

An Authentic Account of the Trial of Marshal Ney, Duke of Elchingen, Prince of Moskwa

None · 1834 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.70 | $343.55 | ¥54,868)

Glasgow, William Stuart, 1834. Cloth. A scarce translated account of the trial of Marshal Ney with a memoir of his life. Scarce work. Translated from the French. A memoir of Michel Ney, Duke of Elchingen, Prince of the Moskva, with a detailed account of his trial. A French mil...

Everybody&Apos;S Pepys the Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660-1669

Samuel Pepys; O. F. Morshead [ed.] · 1926 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London , G. Bell and Sons, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A smart and richly illustrated abridged edition of the diary of Samuel Pepys. A first edition of this abridged version which is edited by O. F. Morshead of Everybody's Pepys The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660-1669, with i...

Baskerville&Apos;S Punches

Philip Gaskell · 1953 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Cambridge , [Cambridge University Press], 1953. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce pamphlet concerned with the life of John Baskerville by Philip Gaskell. The first and only edition of this work, a very scarce volume. Pamphlet containing a short biography of the life of J...

The Life of William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester

Robert Lowth · 1759 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, A. Millar, R. and J. Dodsley, 1759. Leather. The scarce second edition of Robert Lowth's account of the life of fourteenth century Bishop William of Wykeham. The scarce corrected second edition of this work, published the year after the first. Illustrated with a f...

Abstracts of Chancery Proceedings Relating to the Family of Desborough

1923 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London , Mitchell Hughes & Clarke , 1923. Cloth. A scarce volume of Abstracts of Chancery Proceedings Relating to the Family of Desborough. A scarce volume containing Abstracts of Chancery Proceedings Relating to the Family of Desborough. With a letter from A. W. Hughes of the...

John Ray: A Bibliography

Geoffrey Keynes · 1951 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Faber and Faber, 1951. First edition. Cloth. A limited first edition of Geoffrey Keynes bibliography of the works of John Ray. Illustrated throughout. First edition. Limited to 650 copies. Illustrated throughout with 4 collotypes and 16 reproductions of title pages. Co...

William Blake Essays in Honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes

William Blake; Sir Geoffrey Keynes; Morton D. Paley; Michael Phillips [editors] · 1973 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

Oxford, At the Clarendon Press , 1973. First edition. Cloth. A smart and bright first edition copy of this selection of essays on the poet William Blake written by scholar Sir Geoffrey Keynes. This volume gathers a selection of essays by Geoffrey Keynes that view William Blake...

A Sketch of My Life

Thomas Mann; H. T. Lowe-Porter (trans.) · 1961 · Rooke Books

£64.00 (€76.73 | $84.57 | ¥13,506)

London, Secker & Warburg, 1961 . Cloth. The first UK translated edition of this autobiography and memoir by Thomas Mann. First UK edition of A Sketch of My Life by Thomas Mann in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Translated from the German...

Memoirs of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia

Miss Benger · 1825 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

London , Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green , 1825. First edition. Leather. A lovely complete two volume set of this fascinating memoir of the Winter Queen. A first edition of this work. A complete two volume set, in in the first edition. This fascinating biography wa...

Dyott&Apos;S Diary 1781-1845 a Selection from the Journal of William Dyott, Sometime General in the British Army and Aide-de-Camp to His Majesty King George III.

R. W. Jeffery [ed] · 1907 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Archibald Constable and Company, 1907. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of the fascinating diary of General William Dyott, in two volumes. A first edition two volume set of this work in the publisher's original cloth bindings. 5 plates to Volume I,...

Te Rauparaha

Patricia Burns · 1980 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Australia, Reed, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A superior first edition copy of Patricia Burns' study on the Maori rangatira Te Rauparaha, complete with illustrations. The first edition of this uncommon work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated throughout.In ...

Natural Reflections; or, Gleanings Abroad and at Home

Henry Barnet Gascoigne · 1806 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.45 | $627.65 | ¥100,239)

London, Printed for G Wilkie, and J Robinson, 1806. First edition. Cloth. Henry Barnet Gascoigne's book of meditations on his service at sea, a very scarce first edition copy. The first edition of this work. Containing a series of reflections on the author's life at ...

The Letters of Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe; George Harris Healey (Ed.) · 1969 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1969. Cloth. An early edition of this collection of letters from Daniel Defoe, the English writer and spy. A scarce second edition. Reprinted from corrected sheets of the first edition. In the publisher's cloth binding with the original, clipp...

English Men of Letters: Milton; Hawthorne; Southey; Lamb

John Morley [ed.] · 1879 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1879-82. Leather. Four volumes of biographies in John Morley's 'English Men of Letters' series in uniform H. Wood signed bindings. A collection of four volumes from the 'English Men of Letters' series of biographies edited by ...

Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton Esq. Of Halston Shropshire

Nimrod [Charles James Apperley] · 1900 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London , Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1900. Cloth. A smart re-print of the memoirs of John Mytton with colour illustrations throughout. This is a facsimile reprint of the Second (Enlarged) edition Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, published in 1937.The memoirs ...

The Pictorial Edition of the Life and Discoveries of David Livingstone

J. Ewing Ritchie · 1879 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London and Edinburgh, A. Fullerton and Co. c.1879 . Leather. The pictorial edition of this biography of David Livingstone with illustrations in half calf binding. The Life and Discoveries of David Livingstone by J. Ewing Ritchie in half calf binding. With colour plates and mon...