Biografia

AN INNKEEPER'S DIARY

FOTHERGILL John · 1931 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

Chatto & WIndus, 1931 1st edn 1st printing signed by author on title page. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (spine chipped at headcap and boards lightly marked - in protective cover), no dustwrapper. Pp. x, 294, illus with b&w plates and folding facsimile of the 'Height ...

JANE WELSH CARLYLE AND HER VICTORIAN WORLD A Story of Love Work Friendship and Marriage

CHAMBERLAIN Kathy · 2017 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Duckworth Overlook, 2017. 9780715651650 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (near Fine, not price clipped). Pp. 398, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions).

SIR JOSEPH BANKS 18th Century Explorer Botanist and Entrepreneur

LYTE Charles · 1980 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Sydney: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1980. 9780589502249 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered maroon cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover). Pp. 248, illus with coloured and b&w plates (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper).

FOR WANT OF THE GOLDEN CITY

SITWELL Sacheverell · 1973 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Thames and Hudson, 1973 1st edn signed and inscribed by author on title page. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth, top edge blue, pictorial endpapers (near Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 464 (no other inscriptions).

PRETTY YOUNG REBEL The Life of Flora Macdonald

FRASER Flora · 2022 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Bloomsbury, 2022. 9781408879825 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original red lettered cream cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (near Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xxxi + 285, illus with coloured and b&w plates (no inscriptions).

A PECULIARLY ENGLISH GENIUS OR A WILTSHIRE TAOIST A Biography of Richard Jefferies Volume I The Early Years 1848-1867

ROSSABI Andrew · 2017 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Foulsham: Petton Books, 2017 1st edn signed by author on title page. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (Fine), no dustwrapper. Pp. xx + 799, with b&w illus in text (no other inscriptions).

5 Vols the Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson Volumes III-VII

Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson; Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas [Ed.] · 1845 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.68 | $310.45 | ¥49,575)

London, Henry Colburn, 1845-1846 . Leather. The first edition of the concluding five volumes of Nelson's extensive correspondence, spanning the Battle of the Nile through to his final months and death at Trafalgar. In contemporary quarter calf over cloth boards, with remn...

Escape: A Book of Escapes of All Kinds

[ed. by Francis Yeats-Brown] · 1937 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937. Cloth. An anthology of daring escapes across modern history, stretching from Charles II to a British spy in Lenin's Russia. An early edition of Escape: A Book of Escapes of All Kinds, arranged and edited with introductions by British off...

Europe in the Looking-Glass: Reflections of a Motor Drive from Grimsby to Athens

Robert Byron · 1926 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this engaging travelogue of three friends driving through Europe during the interwar period. The first edition.  In the publisher's original red cloth binding.  A travelogue of thr...

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott

J G Lockhart · 1837 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1837. Leather. A first edition of this biography of Sir Walter Scott. First Edition, complete in seven volumes. With a frontispiece and folding facsimile plate of handwriting to volume I. Publisher's catalogues to the front and rear of most volum...

Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son Philip Stanhope.

Eugenia Stanhope · 1774 · Rooke Books

£900.00 (€1,078.78 | $1,188.95 | ¥189,861)

London, J Dodsley, 1774. First edition. Leather. A second edition collection of letters from the Earl of Chesterfield This collection of letters, provides a wealth of information of the lives of the upper-class in the eighteenth century. The letters are mostly instructive, det...

Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility, and the Public Collections of the Country with Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions

Edmund Lodge, Esq. F.S.A · 1756 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

London , The London Printing and Publishing Company, c1869. Cloth. An elaborate work, being an illustrated collection of portraits with biographical and historical memoirs written by Edmund Lodge. With two-hundred and forty black and white engravings with decorative borders, e...

Obituaries from the Times in Three Volumes

Frank C. Roberts · 1975 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.92 | ¥24,260)

London , Newspaper Archive Developments Limited, 1975-1979. Cloth. A set of contemporary dictionaries and reference works; being reprints of the obituaries which appeared in the The Times, from the years 1951 through to 1975. An impressive source for students and researchers o...

Ecclesiastical Biography: Or Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the History of Religion in England; from the Commencement of the Reformation to the Revolution; Selected and Illustrated with Notes

Christopher Wordsworth · 1839 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London, J. G. and F. Rivington, 1839. Leather. A set of the ecclesiastical biographies of Christopher Wordsworth. Containing volumes I, II and IV of the 1839 third edition. In Ecclesiastical Biographies, selected lives were presented in chronological order so as to illustrate ...

Churchill by His Contemporaries

Charles Eade · 1953 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

London, Hutchinson, 1953. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biography of Winston Churchill. A first edition of this account of Winston Churchill by his contemporaries, including President Eisenhower, Lord Altrincham and George Bernard Shaw. Featuring numerous pho...

Jane Austen and Her World

Marghanita Laski · 1975 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.01 | ¥5,272)

London, Thames and Hudson, 1975. Cloth. An attractive copy of this critical biography of Jane Austen. A revised edition of this comprehensive guide to Jane Austen's life and times. A nice clean copy illustrated with numerous plates throughout. "A scholarly and immensely r...

My Young Years

Arthur Rubinstein · 1973 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1973. Paperback. A proof copy of Arthur Rubinstein's My Young Years. A Polish American classical pianist, Arthur Rubinstein here recounts his rise to fame and his struggle with musical talent. In a paper proof binding. Externally, sound with creasin...

Collections and Recollections

George W E Russell · 1898 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz , 1898. Leather. Volumes I and II of this memoir by George W.E. Russell, in very attractive leather Mackenzie signed binding. A Tauchnitz edition of the notable work, the volume consists of the diaries of the Liberal politician and memoirist, who wa...

The Royal Wanderer or the Secret Memoirs of Caroline the Whole Founded on Recent Facts an Authentic and Hitherto Unpublished Account of Court Cabals and Royal Travels

Edward Barron · 1820 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, H Rowe, 1820. Leather. A biographical work on Caroline of Brunswick. Illustrated throughout, with eleven full page plates. This work is advertised as the secret memoirs of Caroline, founded on facts. On the approach to her death Caroline ensured that all of her own let...

Memoirs of the Life and Gospel Labours of Samuel Fothergill

George Crosfield; Samuel Fothergill; John Fothergill · 1844 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

New York , Collins, Brother and Co. 1844. Leather. A memoir of a Quaker minister who travelled to American colonies. With an engraved frontispiece. This work contains the memoirs of Samuel Fothergill in addition to a selection of his correspondence. His correspondence is of no...